Guns, they’re just ripping people off now’, but you’re going to have your haters no matter what! Of course we love Deep Purple though! The song The Flood is Just the Fault of the Rain, we wanted to get some of the vibe of House of the Rising Sun – The Animals version of the House of the Rising Sun – we wanted to capture that theatre of the mind, something that takes you to a different place. I guess some people would think ‘oh those L.A. I mean, there’s certainly a shout-out on Speed, we nicked one of their song titles, Highway Star, it’s very much a homage – a bit cheeky I suppose – but the line really sticks out. Yeah, there’s definitely a bit of that in there. So, did you have any particular influences for this record? There’s that little nod to Deep Purple in Speed, but then you’ve got a little bit of Judas Priest and Iron Maiden in some of the songs there as well. Wow, that’s a really amazing experience to have had. I was pinching myself, I couldn’t believe it, it was such an amazing moment for me. I remember sitting in a full theatre, and I didn’t know when the song was gonna come into the movie, and it just slid in, and it’s the coolest part of the film. Over the Edgeis in Point Break, that old Patrick Swayze movie, and there was just something mind-blowing about sitting in a movie theatre in that time watching the movie. You know, Over the Edge, just the way it started. It’s one of my proudest moments, when that came out. I can definitely see how some of the slower songs on Hollywood Vampires have progressed into The Missing Peace. It was gonna be a lot more serious, and that is very much the vibe of this new record, I think. I think we started to get our depth during Cocked & Loaded, and by Hollywood Vampireswe’d started to write songs like Magdalaine, it was apparent we weren’t just gonna be a fast cars, girls and drugs band. The Missing Peace is a very broad spectrum of music, it’s got those three-minute balls to the wall songs – Speed, Sticky Fingers, Baby Gotta Fever– and then it’s got these musical epics, like The Missing Peace and Gave It All Away, it’s really broad, and I thought Hollywood Vampires was a broad record too. It just naturally comes that way, really. We don’t want to be a one-dimensional band (no offence to one-dimensional bands), and they’re great at it, but it’s not our thing. We always go out of our way to make every song that we do a little bit different. They all had the same vibe, but they’re not the same. It’s definitely worth checking out though, so for me, I see The Missing Peace as being an extension of that record, or even Waking the Dead, which is the last record Tracii and I did together before this current release, about 16 years ago. You say it could be between Cocked & Loadedand Hollywood Vampires because you know those records, but we released another record after Hollywood Vampires, called Vicious Circle, which is an amazing record, but it didn’t do that well, because the band had pretty much split up by the time it was released. I just suppose that when you get me and Tracii in the same room together, we pick up where we left off. How did you manage to capture that vibe 30 years on? We didn’t set out to do that, it’s just the way it turned out. The Missing Peace sounds like it’d fit somewhere in between Cocked & Loaded and Hollywood Vampires. Hi Phil, it’s great to be able to chat with you today. Sarah Sykes caught up with Phil recently for a chat about the Tour and other stuff. After a nearly 15-year break, Philip Lewis and Tracii Guns are back together for another chapter in their partnership that began in 1986, 4 years after Tracii formed L.A. Cocked and Loaded contained the hit single “Ballad of Jayne” that went to #33 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and #25 on the Mainstream Rock charts. Gun s and 1990’s Cocked and Loaded, both of which were certified Gold. The “classic lineup” of Guns, former Girl singer Phil Lewis, drummer Steve Riley, guitar player Mick Cripps and bassist Kelly Nickels have sold 6.5 million records, including 1988’s L.A. GUNS was formed in 1982 by guitar player Tracii Guns and, then unknown singer, Axl Rose on lead vocals. Project Description Interview with PHIL LEWIS of L.A.
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