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Wednesday, 21 April 2004
L.A. GUNS @TAILSPIN 4/17/04
Mood:
 caffeinated
It waz a packed house at Tailspin,a small bar in Las Vegas,filled wall to wall with longhairz & Kelly Bundys.A trip back to a better time when hair waz big and pants were tight,an morals were loose.Course all of us are in our late 30's & 40's now,but scattered amongts the crowd were twenty-somethingz,there to get a glimps of one of the 80's sleaziest bandz-L.A.Guns.
After a rousing opening set by Las Vegas band-The Underground Rebels(formerly known az Jet,Taste,The Limey Bar Stewards & The Loving Dead)the crowd waz growing impatient waiting for the Guns to rip and tear us apart.Amongst the crowd waz Jizzy Pearl(Love/Hate,Ratt,Suki Jones etc.etc.etc)And motormouth Kevin Dubrow of Quiet Riot,making thier precence known,hoping to grab a little of the cock rock girlies in the mass of hair & leather jackets.
The Guns finally hit the small stage in a flury of noise,treating us with thier classics,layin' down some groovy covers and slammin' us with the more recent toonz.Phil Lewis still haz that cool voice,and tho the Las Vegas crowdz are alwayz kinda reserved and laid back,he did his best to to rile up the gang.The only other original member of the band waz drummer Steve Riley,who kept those nifty signiture LA Guns beats goin',while new guitarist Stacey Blades(he he-get it?)did a find job filling Tracii Guns leather boots.
Soon,they'll have a new album out of covers,which they played alot of and which sound really good and still stamped with that unique sound.Looking forward to it.
I alwayz like these Hollywood Vampires,one of the few that stood out for me,with thier sleazy black leather motive and jet black hair.
But without Tracii-thier namesake-shouldn't they now be called L.A.Blades?
Tracii will be back,how much ya wanna bet,az soon az Nikki steps back into Motley Crue and out of The Brides Of Destruction.
With L.A.Guns,itz,oh baby-never enough!!
Ragz Rates It A:7.25
Posted by ragzdandelion
at 9:17 PM PDT
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