![]() ![]() “It’s something that I’ve faced off for a number of years. “So I don’t know how you weigh one against the other,” he added. But the fact of it is he brought the biggest song in that we’re recognized for - ‘The Ballad Of Jayne’. But he’s a prolific songwriter he contributed so much to the songwriting in the early years, as I did too. He actually wrote ‘Crawl’ too, the new single. He wrote that, and he wrote a number of other songs. “And so the deal is that most of our publishing starts off with ‘The Ballad Of Jayne’ that’s pretty much our big heavyweight in our publishing. GUNS had was written by Kelly Nickels he wrote ‘The Ballad Of Jayne’,” Steve said. GUNS and you talk about the singer and guitar player, the fact of it is that the biggest song L.A. GUNS and how it affects people’s perception of the two versions of the band. So that confusion has already been there.” Riley also talked about the fact that Lewis and Guns are the most recognizable members of L.A. ![]() GUNS while Phil and I were working and recording with Andy Johns and doing four albums with Andy Johns and a live album. The confusion thing, it was already there - it was already happening because Tracii started that confusion back in 2006, I believe, 2005, after he did BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION and a couple of other projects. It’s just a matter of people leaving the band. “I never intended to stop working in L.A. So I was already tempered to it, and I already knew that when he originally did that back in the 2000s that he created confusion immediately, and I believe that’s when Phil went off on him for a number of years in the press, on Eddie Trunk‘s TV show, he went off on Tracii non-stop he didn’t like him and he didn’t like what he was doing by creating the confusion. And when two people own the mark and the name, then you can do that, and I never contested Tracii doing that, even though Phil was with me for those 15 years while was out of the band. If you remember correctly, Tracii quit in 2002 and Phil Lewis and I had carried on the band for, like, 15 years on our own, doing four albums - maybe five I think it was four - we continued on, and there was Tracii taking out another L.A. He responded: “No, not at all, because I was already tempered to it. During a recent appearance on “The Classic Metal Show”, Riley was asked if he was concerned about creating confusion in the marketplace by starting another version of L.A. GUNS‘ “classic” incarnation) and guitarist Scott Griffin (who played bass for the band from 2007 until 2009, and then again from 2011 to 2014). The drummer is joined in the group by Orlando, Florida-based guitarist/vocalist Kurt Frohlich, bassist Kelly Nickels (a member of L.A. GUNS made its live debut in May 2019 at the M3 Rock Festival. GUNS is not to be confused with the band led by guitarist Tracii Guns and vocalist Phil Lewis, which issued two well-received albums, “The Missing Peace” and “The Devil You Know”, plus the live release “Made In Milan”, under the L.A. The track is taken from the band’s first album, “Renegades”, which will arrive later this year via Golden Robot Records. GUNS has released its second single, “Well Oiled Machine”. ![]()
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