Tracii Guns of L.A. Guns fame has unveiled a new band: Blackbird Angels. The group’s debut album, Solsorte, arrives September 8th, and the lead single “Shut Up (You Know I Love You)” can be heard now.
Guns formed the band alongside Todd Kerns, who is best known for his work with Slash and Myles Kennedy. Given the musical lineage of Guns and Kerns, “Shut Up (You Know I Love You)” hits the expected sweet spot of melodic hard rock with a hint of ’80s glam metal. For fans of L.A. Guns, it’s required listening.
“Todd and I have wanted to make a record for about 10 years now and we finally did it and it’s everything I hoped for,” Guns said via a press announcement. “With the addition of [drummer] Adam Hamilton, it’s pure magic. For live performances, Johnny Martin will play bass and Sam Bam Koltun will play guitar.
Guns formed the band alongside Todd Kerns, who is best known for his work with Slash and Myles Kennedy. Given the musical lineage of Guns and Kerns, “Shut Up (You Know I Love You)” hits the expected sweet spot of melodic hard rock with a hint of ’80s glam metal. For fans of L.A. Guns, it’s required listening.
“Todd and I have wanted to make a record for about 10 years now and we finally did it and it’s everything I hoped for,” Guns said via a press announcement. “With the addition of [drummer] Adam Hamilton, it’s pure magic. For live performances, Johnny Martin will play bass and Sam Bam Koltun will play guitar.
- 7/17/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Rock’n’roll musicians have a habit of thinking of themselves like secular gods, but the truth is they’re not infallible. No matter how successful a band may or may not have been in the past, there’s never any guarantee their next record will live up to the heights they’ve previously scaled. Sometimes, everything that once went right just all goes wrong.
There are often extenuating circumstances, of course. Band members may leave due to death, drugs or just good old-fashioned “musical differences”, or an ambitious new direction may turn out to be more like a swerve into oncoming traffic.
Whatever the cause, the fact remains that just because an album has the name of a classic band slapped across the cover, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the album itself will be a classic.
Featuring the likes of The Doors, The Clash and Duran Duran, here...
There are often extenuating circumstances, of course. Band members may leave due to death, drugs or just good old-fashioned “musical differences”, or an ambitious new direction may turn out to be more like a swerve into oncoming traffic.
Whatever the cause, the fact remains that just because an album has the name of a classic band slapped across the cover, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the album itself will be a classic.
Featuring the likes of The Doors, The Clash and Duran Duran, here...
- 4/22/2023
- by Kevin E G Perry
- The Independent - Music
Rock’n’roll musicians have a habit of thinking of themselves like secular gods, but the truth is they’re not infallible. No matter how successful a band may or may not have been in the past, there’s never any guarantee their next record will live up to the heights they’ve previously scaled. Sometimes, everything that once went right just all goes wrong.
There are often extenuating circumstances, of course. Band members may leave due to death, drugs or just good old-fashioned “musical differences”, or an ambitious new direction may turn out to be more like a swerve into oncoming traffic.
Whatever the cause, the fact remains that just because an album has the name of a classic band slapped across the cover, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the album itself will be a classic.
Featuring the likes of The Doors, The Clash and Duran Duran, here...
There are often extenuating circumstances, of course. Band members may leave due to death, drugs or just good old-fashioned “musical differences”, or an ambitious new direction may turn out to be more like a swerve into oncoming traffic.
Whatever the cause, the fact remains that just because an album has the name of a classic band slapped across the cover, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the album itself will be a classic.
Featuring the likes of The Doors, The Clash and Duran Duran, here...
- 4/20/2023
- by Kevin E G Perry
- The Independent - Music
Rock’n’roll musicians have a habit of thinking of themselves like secular gods, but the truth is they’re not infallible. No matter how successful a band may or may not have been in the past, there’s never any guarantee their next record will live up to the heights they’ve previously scaled. Sometimes, everything that once went right just all goes wrong.
There are often extenuating circumstances, of course. Band members may leave due to death, drugs or just good old-fashioned “musical differences”, or an ambitious new direction may turn out to be more like a swerve into oncoming traffic.
Whatever the cause, the fact remains that just because an album has the name of a classic band slapped across the cover, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the album itself will be a classic.
Featuring the likes of The Doors, The Clash and Duran Duran, here...
There are often extenuating circumstances, of course. Band members may leave due to death, drugs or just good old-fashioned “musical differences”, or an ambitious new direction may turn out to be more like a swerve into oncoming traffic.
Whatever the cause, the fact remains that just because an album has the name of a classic band slapped across the cover, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the album itself will be a classic.
Featuring the likes of The Doors, The Clash and Duran Duran, here...
- 4/19/2023
- by Kevin E G Perry
- The Independent - Music
Rock’n’roll musicians have a habit of thinking of themselves like secular gods, but the truth is they’re not infallible. No matter how successful a band may or may not have been in the past, there’s never any guarantee their next record will live up to the heights they’ve previously scaled. Sometimes, everything that once went right just all goes wrong.
There are often extenuating circumstances, of course. Band members may leave due to death, drugs or just good old-fashioned “musical differences”, or an ambitious new direction may turn out to be more like a swerve into oncoming traffic.
Whatever the cause, the fact remains that just because an album has the name of a classic band slapped across the cover, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the album itself will be a classic.
Featuring the likes of The Doors, The Clash and Duran Duran, here...
There are often extenuating circumstances, of course. Band members may leave due to death, drugs or just good old-fashioned “musical differences”, or an ambitious new direction may turn out to be more like a swerve into oncoming traffic.
Whatever the cause, the fact remains that just because an album has the name of a classic band slapped across the cover, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the album itself will be a classic.
Featuring the likes of The Doors, The Clash and Duran Duran, here...
- 12/10/2022
- by Kevin E G Perry
- The Independent - Music
Rock’n’roll musicians have a habit of thinking of themselves like secular gods, but the truth is they’re not infallible. No matter how successful a band may or may not have been in the past, there’s never any guarantee their next record will live up to the heights they’ve previously scaled. Sometimes, everything that once went right just all goes wrong.
There are often extenuating circumstances, of course. Band members may leave due to death, drugs or just good old-fashioned “musical differences”, or an ambitious new direction may turn out to be more like a swerve into oncoming traffic.
Whatever the cause, the fact remains that just because an album has the name of a classic band slapped across the cover, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the album itself will be a classic.
Featuring the likes of The Doors, The Clash and Duran Duran, here...
There are often extenuating circumstances, of course. Band members may leave due to death, drugs or just good old-fashioned “musical differences”, or an ambitious new direction may turn out to be more like a swerve into oncoming traffic.
Whatever the cause, the fact remains that just because an album has the name of a classic band slapped across the cover, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the album itself will be a classic.
Featuring the likes of The Doors, The Clash and Duran Duran, here...
- 8/19/2022
- by Kevin E G Perry
- The Independent - Music
Like a comet, Randy Rhoads only blazed through the sonic atmosphere for a short time, but musicologists, guitar geeks, and fans continue to study the lingering tail of each of his solos. Tragically killed in a plane crash on March 19, 1982 at the age of 25, his work is most clearly captured on studio recordings as the lead guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne. The new documentary Randy Rhoads: Reflections of a Guitar Icon continues the star gaze, and director Andre Relis (Nwa & Eazy-e: Kings of Compton) examines the influence with academic glee. Rhoads was, at heart, heavy metal’s most transparent guitar teacher.
As the documentary makes clear, Rhoads was still giving lessons when he got the gig with Black Sabbath’s former singer, who hired the young string-master after hearing only a few warmup arpeggios on a practice amp. Rhoads grew up in his mother Dee’s music school, and when he surpassed his guitar teachers,...
As the documentary makes clear, Rhoads was still giving lessons when he got the gig with Black Sabbath’s former singer, who hired the young string-master after hearing only a few warmup arpeggios on a practice amp. Rhoads grew up in his mother Dee’s music school, and when he surpassed his guitar teachers,...
- 5/6/2022
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
New Video Alert – Sunbomb – “Better End” New Metal Project Featuring Two Legendary Musicians, Tracii Guns & Michael Sweet Debut Album, “Evil And Divine” Out May 14, 2021 Sunbomb is the highly anticipated new musical alliance between two steadfast warriors of the U.S. hard rock/metal scene, Tracii Guns (L.A. Guns) and Michael Sweet (Stryper). …
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- 4/24/2021
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
Guns N’ Roses did not arrive fully formed on L.A.’s Sunset Strip, howling “Sweet Child o’ Mine” with all the might and charisma that made the song a hit in 1988. They only achieved the proper cocktail of sensitivity and machismo after the five musicians in Gn’R’s classic lineup found each other in the mid-Eighties. Long before any of them had even dreamt of the songs on Appetite for Destruction, Indiana natives Axl Rose and guitarist Izzy Stradlin were cutting their teeth in the bands Axl, Hollywood Rose,...
- 3/8/2021
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Sunset Society, a horror film in theaters July 6th from Cleopatra Entertainment. Directed by Phoebe Dollar and Rolfe Kanefsky, the film stars Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, Steve-o, Ron Jeremy, L.A. Guns’ Tracii Guns, and Guns N’ Roses’ Dizzy Reed. The original motion picture soundtrack for Sunset Society features music from Lemmy, Stephen Pearcy (Ratt), Jurgen …
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- 7/2/2018
- by Horrornews.net
- Horror News
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With a revolving door approach to membership from the very beginning (founding member and namesake Tracii Guns didn’t even make it onto the band’s first studio album, nor did bassist Ole Beich), lawsuits, wild drug-fueled lifestyles, and conflicts between bandmates, Guns N’ Roses are simultaneously one of the biggest bands from the late 80s/early 90s, and one of the most frustrating. As a result, despite selling millions of albums, the band’s output was sporadic at best.
Further complicating matters was the fact that the band often spent years working on songs. Tracks like Don’t Cry and November Rain, for example, were started in the mid-80s, but not released until early in the next decade, and other tracks followed the same path to release.
After the implosion of multiple line-ups of the band (the founding line-up, the Appetite for Destruction line-up, and the Use...
With a revolving door approach to membership from the very beginning (founding member and namesake Tracii Guns didn’t even make it onto the band’s first studio album, nor did bassist Ole Beich), lawsuits, wild drug-fueled lifestyles, and conflicts between bandmates, Guns N’ Roses are simultaneously one of the biggest bands from the late 80s/early 90s, and one of the most frustrating. As a result, despite selling millions of albums, the band’s output was sporadic at best.
Further complicating matters was the fact that the band often spent years working on songs. Tracks like Don’t Cry and November Rain, for example, were started in the mid-80s, but not released until early in the next decade, and other tracks followed the same path to release.
After the implosion of multiple line-ups of the band (the founding line-up, the Appetite for Destruction line-up, and the Use...
- 11/23/2014
- by Jay Anderson
- Obsessed with Film
Best known as the replacement guitarist for Guns N’ Roses founding member Izzy Stradlin; Gilby Clarke joined “the most dangerous band in the world” in May 1991 – just ten days shy of a sold out performance in New York’s Madison Square Garden. A talented guitarist in his own right he toured with the band for the entirety of their mammoth ‘Use Your Illusion’ World Tour as well as contributing his talents to Guns N’ Roses 1993 album ‘The Spaghetti Incident’
In 1994 Clarke launched his own solo album through Virgin Records entitled ‘Pawnshop Guitars’, arguably getting such big label interest for his first solo record because of the exposure earned in Gnr, which also came to an abrupt end in the same year when he was fired from the band. Guns N’ Roses suffered their own internal, and well documented, implosions while Clarke remained on good terms with Slash and Duff McKagan,...
In 1994 Clarke launched his own solo album through Virgin Records entitled ‘Pawnshop Guitars’, arguably getting such big label interest for his first solo record because of the exposure earned in Gnr, which also came to an abrupt end in the same year when he was fired from the band. Guns N’ Roses suffered their own internal, and well documented, implosions while Clarke remained on good terms with Slash and Duff McKagan,...
- 11/18/2013
- by Wayne Madden
- Obsessed with Film
Veteran music engineer and producer Andy Johns died in Los Angeles over the weekend. He was 61.
During his illustrious career, Johns -- whose brother and nephew, respectively, are fellow producers Glyn Johns and Ethan Johns -- worked on such classic albums as Led Zeppelin's "II," the Rolling Stones' "Sticky Fingers" and Joni Mitchell's "Shadows and Light," Variety.com reports.
According to CNN, Johns was hospitalized late last month. The cause of his death is still unknown.
Born in Surrey, England, Johns began his decades-long career as a tape operator at the famed Olympic Studios in London, where he worked on sessions for the Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Axis: Bold as Love."
"In those days you could go into one studio and Joe Cocker was working, and then you're working with Jimi Hendrix in Studio One, or down the corridor Eric Clapton is doing something," Johns once said of his early Olympic Studios days,...
During his illustrious career, Johns -- whose brother and nephew, respectively, are fellow producers Glyn Johns and Ethan Johns -- worked on such classic albums as Led Zeppelin's "II," the Rolling Stones' "Sticky Fingers" and Joni Mitchell's "Shadows and Light," Variety.com reports.
According to CNN, Johns was hospitalized late last month. The cause of his death is still unknown.
Born in Surrey, England, Johns began his decades-long career as a tape operator at the famed Olympic Studios in London, where he worked on sessions for the Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Axis: Bold as Love."
"In those days you could go into one studio and Joe Cocker was working, and then you're working with Jimi Hendrix in Studio One, or down the corridor Eric Clapton is doing something," Johns once said of his early Olympic Studios days,...
- 4/9/2013
- by Dominique Mosbergen
- Huffington Post
Whitesnake drummer Brian Tichy’s mind works at the speed of his drum sticks; his answers fly out almost in a constant unbroken stream. I got the distinct impression that everything he does is with 100 percent commitment or none. This was backed up by Tichy fending off a barrage of text messages from Whitesnake’s tour manager because he was running late for a band dinner so that he could finish our interview.
This man lives and breathes and talks rock and it’s impossible not to get taken in by his infectious energy and enthusiasm for being the drummer in one of his all-time favorite bands.
Geeks of Doom: The first thing I want to ask: officially is it Brian with one ‘i’ or two?
Brian Tichy: [laughs] It’s one. But I accidentally wrote two in an email and I looked at it… I just thought it was...
This man lives and breathes and talks rock and it’s impossible not to get taken in by his infectious energy and enthusiasm for being the drummer in one of his all-time favorite bands.
Geeks of Doom: The first thing I want to ask: officially is it Brian with one ‘i’ or two?
Brian Tichy: [laughs] It’s one. But I accidentally wrote two in an email and I looked at it… I just thought it was...
- 5/31/2011
- by Obi-Dan
- Geeks of Doom
Axl Rose has waged war against former Guns N' Roses manager Irving Azoff, accusing him of attempting to sabotage the rocker's career after he refused to reunite with the band's original members. Azoff, the CEO of management firm Front Line, originally filed suit against Rose in March, claiming the singer reneged on an oral agreement giving him 15 per cent of his earnings from a big money concert tour - a deal said to be worth $2 million.
But Rose has fired back at Azoff, accusing the music mogul of failing to properly promote the band's 2008 album "Chinese Democracy" in an alleged bid to force him to reform the original Guns N' Roses line-up. In legal papers filed in a Los Angeles court on Monday, May 17, the frontman also takes aim at his one-time manager for allegedly lying about a possible joint tour with fellow rock legends Van Halen and mishandling Guns N' Roses' tour dates,...
But Rose has fired back at Azoff, accusing the music mogul of failing to properly promote the band's 2008 album "Chinese Democracy" in an alleged bid to force him to reform the original Guns N' Roses line-up. In legal papers filed in a Los Angeles court on Monday, May 17, the frontman also takes aim at his one-time manager for allegedly lying about a possible joint tour with fellow rock legends Van Halen and mishandling Guns N' Roses' tour dates,...
- 5/19/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
It’s a relatively quiet week for new releases. There’s Regina Spektor’s follow-up to her breakout, a new album from the Mars Volta and the latest from Pete Yorn. But today also sees the release of A Casual Affair: The Best of Tonic.
This begs the question: Huh?
For anybody who didn’t come of age in the Clinton years, Tonic had a big radio hit in 1996 with a tune called “If You Could Only See.” After that, they basically fell off the map (save for a few appearances on various soundtracks to the “American Pie” movies). The set contains that single plus a bunch of other songs that never quite got there. Even if you allow that “You Wanted More” and “Open Up Your Eyes” were “hits,” that’s still only three tunes on a 15-track album. Three songs is an Ep, not a $15 album.
But this...
This begs the question: Huh?
For anybody who didn’t come of age in the Clinton years, Tonic had a big radio hit in 1996 with a tune called “If You Could Only See.” After that, they basically fell off the map (save for a few appearances on various soundtracks to the “American Pie” movies). The set contains that single plus a bunch of other songs that never quite got there. Even if you allow that “You Wanted More” and “Open Up Your Eyes” were “hits,” that’s still only three tunes on a 15-track album. Three songs is an Ep, not a $15 album.
But this...
- 6/23/2009
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
According to antiMusic, former members of Guns N' Roses have created a new supergroup. Named Guns of Destruction, the group will reportedly feature Steven Adler, Tracii Guns, as well as Chip Z'Nuff of Enuff Z'nuff.
Furthermore, the new band will make their first live appearance which will likely have some very special guest stars. The show will be held on November 19 at Hollywood's Key Club but none of the guest performers has been announced.
Previously, Eric Dover of Slash's Snakepit was rumored to be involved in the band's upcoming performance but the gossip had been turned down. "Tracii had called me to ask about doing a few cover gigs, but I'm not joining a supergroup. They're all great guys, but Sextus is my focus," Eric explained in a statement.
Furthermore, the new band will make their first live appearance which will likely have some very special guest stars. The show will be held on November 19 at Hollywood's Key Club but none of the guest performers has been announced.
Previously, Eric Dover of Slash's Snakepit was rumored to be involved in the band's upcoming performance but the gossip had been turned down. "Tracii had called me to ask about doing a few cover gigs, but I'm not joining a supergroup. They're all great guys, but Sextus is my focus," Eric explained in a statement.
- 10/9/2008
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
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