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The Missing Peace is the eleventh studio album by American hard rock band L.A. Guns.. Released on October 13, 2017, through Frontiers Records, [1] it can be considered a reunion recording, as it is the first album of new material featuring both lead guitarist Tracii Guns and lead singer Phil Lewis in 15 years.
Rips the Covers Off, some copies of which are titled Rips Off the Covers, is an album by Phil Lewis' version of L.A. Guns, their first with guitarist Stacey Blades.. The studio portion of the album (songs 1-11) consists of cover songs with guitarist Stacey Blades, though songs 12 and 13 are live versions of "Revolution" and "Don't Look at Me That Way", with guitarists Keri Kelli and Brent Muscat.
The classic lineup of Lewis, Guns, Cripps, Nickels and Riley reunited in 1999 to record Cocked & Re-Loaded, a new version of the group's second album. [ 9 ] 2001's Man in the Moon featured Mark "Muddy Stardust" Dutton on bass, [ 10 ] and 2002's Waking the Dead was recorded by a four-piece lineup of Lewis, Guns, Riley and Adam Hamilton , after ...
In January 2020, Guns and Lewis sued Riley over the use of the L.A. Guns name. [111] On April 23, 2021, they settled this dispute in court with Guns and Lewis retaining the L.A. Guns name, while Riley was made to change his versions to Riley's L.A. Guns. Riley's L.A. Guns released their first single, called "Crawl", on April 20, 2020. [112]
Tracii Guns stated that after the success of the previous album The Missing Peace they decided to continue with the same metal sound, saying that he drew influence from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, while also sticking to the band's roots and influences from the 1960s and 1970s. [3]
By May, Guns had been replaced in Guns N' Roses by Slash, at which point he returned to L.A. Guns. [4] In 1987, L.A. Guns signed a record deal with PolyGram and introduced new members in lead vocalist Phil Lewis (formerly of Girl and Tormé ) and bassist Kelly Nickels (formerly of Faster Pussycat ), with Cripps moving over to guitar.
The new lineup consists of Phil Lewis, Tracii Guns, Michael Grant, Johnny Martin, and Shane Fitzgibbon. They released a new album together called "The Missing Peace" on 13 October 2017. As of March 2018, Michael Grant left L.A. Guns. [6] Lewis is a contributor to the 80s metal music website "Metal Sludge", under the online handle "Al Snug". [7]
In the summer of 2016, Guns teamed up with Phil Lewis for the first time in 14 years for a handful of shows under the name "L.A. Guns' Phil Lewis + Tracii Guns". [32] Under the "L.A. Guns" name, Guns and Lewis released a new album The Missing Peace on October 13, 2017.