![]() Riley and Nickels have recruited former Ratt bassist Scott Griffin on lead six-string duties with vocalist / rhythm guitarist Kurt Frolich completing the quartet that have brought forward this tempting morsel. The current lineup features drummer Steve Riley and bassist Kelly Nickels both of whom played alongside Tracii Guns, Mick Cripps and Phil Lewis in what is widely considered the ‘classic’ Guns quintet. There is, however, life in this rock n’ roll dog as ‘Renegades’, the 13 th studio release from the Guns, ably demonstrates. Since then the band has been dogged by numerous changes to the lineup and even two versions performing and recording under the LA Guns name for a period of time. ![]() The Guns’ initial releases – 88’s eponymous debut, 89’s ‘Cocked & Loaded’ and ‘Hollywood Vampires’ two years later – achieved a relative degree of success but always in the shadow of the aforementioned more princes less kings perhaps. Oft-considered amongst Hollywood rock royalty, riotous sleaze insurgents LA Guns came spitting and snarling out of that infamous Sunset Strip scene of the mid 80s that also bore Guns n’ Roses, Motley Crue, Poison, Ratt et al.
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