Johnny and Shane, they’ve been playing music all of their lives. He was waving his arms afterwards, but yeah, he’s that good.
It came to the guitar solo, which is incredibly fast at normal speed, but Tracii had to play it at double speed for the video. We had to do a video for ‘Killing Machine’ (from October 1994’s Vicious Circle) and the director wanted it in slow motion, which meant that we had to play it quite fast. “Tracii might say that he’s a better guitar player, but it’s hard for me to tell because he’s always been on eleven. It’s like brand new to me, to my ears.”Īlmost 30 years separate the respective issues of The Devil You Know and Cocked & Loaded, and so sonically speaking, one would argue that with the benefit of experience, Phil and Tracii have improved through the years. Apart from me and Tracii, I can’t really compare it sonically with anything from the back catalogue. I’m not knocking the guys and their ability, because for the songs they played on they were perfectly adequate, but this is a very, very different machine. Shane and Johnny, not to put too fine a point on it, are essentially better players than the guys in the original line-up. “People have said that it’s reminiscent of Cocked & Loaded (August 1989), and if that’s the case, then I’m alright with that,” Phil shares. The Devil You Know has drawn comparisons with earlier L.A.
It’s a fun record nonetheless, and one that we’re all incredibly proud of.” There’s such gifted players in the band, you couldn’t call them punk (laughs). I’m alright with the punk rock sound, but we’re definitely not a punk rock band. That, and the fact that we were on tour when we were putting it together made for a more raw… Some people say a more punk rock kind of sound. I do know that the starting line for The Devil You Know was completely equal, though. “How far back those ideas went, I don’t know, because I wasn’t around at the time. “I think that a lot of the ideas on The Missing Peace were ideas that Tracii, Shane (Fitzgibbon, drums) and Johnny (Martin, bass) had knocking around before I joined, before the reunion,” the frontman remarks. The rawness of The Devil You Know surfaced as a result of the circumstances in which the effort was created. This is a lot more raw in the way that it sounds and the way that it was created.” The Missing Peace had strings and embellishments. It’s basically the same template as The Missing Peace, but this one is a bit more stripped down. It’s essentially the same team, the same format. I do the vocals in New York I do the vocals with Mitch Davis, who collaborates at writing lyrics, and is a great engineer.
When it’s all done and recorded, and nice and sounding good, I’ll come in. “When we have half a dozen of these sketches, we go into the studio and record them properly. If it’s got wings, then it’s gonna fly (laughs). He’ll play something he might play it at soundcheck, or he might incorporate it into a jam during the set. He’s always plugged into an amp or whatever and records through GarageBand on his computer, so it’s kind of a comfortable process. Tracii’s always playing, anyway he’s always got a guitar around his neck. “We do our best to be creative in that time. “Sitting down on a tour bus all day waiting to play, it can be a bit of a challenge,” reckons Phil Lewis, vocalist of L.A. Rough ideas inaugurated the process, initiated by guitarist Tracii Guns. Guns authored much of 12th full-length studio album The Devil You Know – issued in March 2019 – while on tour during the promotional cycle for October 2017 predecessor The Missing Peace. Los Angeles, California-based hard rock outfit L.A. Guns (l-r): Shane Fitzgibbon, Tracii Guns, Phil Lewis, Ace Von Johnson and Johnny Martin
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