![]() “The Flood Is The Fault Of The Rain” is a great rock song. This is purely catchy heavy rock with incredible guitar, vocals, and a very catchy supporting backing vocal chorus. “Don’t Bring A Knife To A Gun Fight” blows my mind. Grooving rocker that kind of gives you a vibe like “Some Lie 4 Love” or “Kiss My love Goodbye” off Hollywood Vampires. With a grooving guitar beat, a different verse, and a different vocal approach in the lead up to the chorus by Phil that makes you think, “Holy shit, he can still belt it out!” This one has a great vibe. “Kill Or Die” is where the album picks up again for me. “Baby’s Got A Fever” is a more sleazy rocker in the style of “Hollywood And Vine” off the Hollywood Forever album. But, if you hear it, you know what I mean. It sounds a bit like “Crystal Eyes” off the Hollywood Vampires album but not like it at all. “Sticky Fingers” is a solid song but is one I tend to skip. ![]() The guitar takes an incredible tone during the solo that has a unique feel and the chorus just seems to fit better at the end of the song moreso than at the beginning. But, as the song goes on, it gets heavier. “A Drop Of Bleach” follows and is a more alternative sounding musically. Maybe a 21st century “No Mercy” from the self-titled album? A very Deep Purple feel with a lyric even borrowed from “Highway Star.” This one has a lot of raw grit to it. And, it still is one of the best things on the record. This was the first song they put out there from a live performance in England. ![]() “It’s All the Same To Me” is the opener and sounds like classic Guns N’ Roses meets classic L.A. This is a much more rich album when it comes to content both musically and lyrically. Because, that feeling faded fairly quickly when you started to feel like some of the songs on the album were either incomplete or light on content. Guns fans’ spot and fill them with that strange “this is what I wanted” feeling like that album did. And, this is that result. So, here we are! The Missing Peace is the name of the new album and unlike Hollywood Forever, this one might not immediately hit L.A. It was clear Phil and Tracii would work together again. The two finally came together at a show in late 2015 and by the end of 2016, Phil had quit the Steve Riley version of L.A. The latter was not at all in my interest base. He also did other bands such as a band with Rikki Rockett called Devil City Angels and a proggy album called League Of Gentlemen or something like that. Guns with various singers including someone he went to school with, Jizzy Pearl who sang for the band on the Shrinking Violet album in 1999, and even a woman who I won’t name both because I don’t know her name and because she was not worth mentioning. Meanwhile, Tracii went on to release a demo quality album with Nikki Sixx called Brides Of Destruction. There’d be a song where Phil would let loose on vocals and you’d get a proggy guitar solo that did not fit or there would be a sleazy rocker that would just feel forced. Though there were a few initially good tracks, the overall release felt incomplete at times and the musical differences between the band members became more evident. Hollywood Forever, on the other hand, had less by way of moments of greatness. In fact, my three page review of Tales From The Strip for Sleaze Roxx ended up printed, in full, in Stacey Blades‘ autobiography with no personal credit given to me whatsoever. The first one was a solid release and had moments of greatness. Those records did not have Tracii on them. Guns name with the name co-owner Steve Riley releasing two original albums, 2005’s Tales From The Strip and 2012’s Hollywood Forever. Since Waking The Dead, Phil continued with the L.A. Do I really want to go into all of that? Maybe a little. But, it was upon the release of that album that the shit hit the fan with this band and it split like an atom into two parts. This is the first time the two have put out a new album together since 2002’s Waking The Deadalbum which, in my humble opinion, is one of the most spirited and inspired albums by a veteran band I’ve ever heard. The current form of the band has two important parts consisting of singer Phil Lewis and founding member / guitarist Tracii Guns. ![]() From autographed posters on the wall to multiple concert t-shirts, I am a major fan of this band and have been a fan of almost all its forms over the years. Guns are one of my favorite bands of all time. ![]()
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