City Newspaper Archives - 4/2007
ROCK: L.A. Guns (4/12 & 4/14)
Published by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni on Apr 10, 2007
If you didn't get your fill of the Sunset Strip in the late '80s, you're in luck now that so many of the bands that made the place infamous are back to take us on another troll down memory lane. That those memories are encrusted with overdoses, STDs, and general filth are precisely why fans should rejoice. There is, after all, something to be said for sticking to your, um, guns. L.A. Guns' convoluted personnel history intersects Guns N' Roses, Faster Pussycat, and Love/Hate. The band has even strangely managed to replicate itself, with two separate groups performing under the name. The one that appears here features longtime key members Phil Lewis and Steve Riley (and not the band's original namesake, Tracii Guns, who now presides over the rival camp). Lewis says L.A. Guns were always "a lot more experimental" and punk-leaning than their Sunset Strip peers, but if you liked ‘em the first time around, you pretty much know what to expect already.
L.A. Guns, with The Veins and Hounds Of Hell, play Thursday, April 12, at FUUL , 37 Niagara Street, Canandaigua, 394-3933, at 8 p.m., $25. L.A. Guns play a second show with The Veins and Bludwulf Saturday, April 14, at Water Street Music Hall, 204 North Water Street, 325-5600, at 8 p.m., $15, all ages. The band will also make an in-store appearance Saturday, April 14, at the House Of Guitars, 645 Titus Avenue, 544-3500, at 2 p.m., free.
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L.A. Guns play April 12 at FUUL and April 14 at Water Street.
