I feel somewhat incomplete having finally owned and gotten to listen to this album almost 10 years after it came out. Guns fan should easilly be able to get into. That being said, there are six gems of great songs here that any rock n' roll and especially L.A. Supposedly though, this was just supposed to be a hold-over to tease the fans with until a full on studio LP was made, but those plans were scrapped when Ralph left the band. The only reason why I gave this album 4 stars is because I feel this line-up had the time and potential to create a full-on album rather than just an EP. Tracii Guns and Steve Riley rounded out the remainder of the line-up. Ralph Saenz, of the Van Halen cover band Atomic Punks, was brought in to sing for about a year and Johnny Crypt was on bass guitar, who was in the band roughly 4 years. It is an LP - 6 great songs, by a short-lived but still great footnote line-up in the L.A. Guns fans that don't even know this album existed. Each has something great and unique to offer, if you stop and listen to the actual songs rather than just write off a release because "so and so isn't singing." American Hardcore, Shrinking Violet, and now this release), and also some of the more mediocre releases that the Phil line-up did (ie. Guns vast history and own and have appreciated just about every release they have put out, including several of the non-Phil Lewis fronted line-ups (ie. I have followed just about every chapter of the L.A. A few examples I describe can include Motley Crue's 'S/T' (1994), Aerosmith's 'Rock In A Hard Place' (1982), Foreigner's 'Unusual Heat' (1991), Accept's 'Eat The Heat' (1989), and this EP album - L.A. The songs from these kind of albums, despite some being gold nuggets and probably crowd pleasers, you usually never hear live, and the band(s) seem to want to "forget" these chapters of their history as if they never existed. This is one of those little gem albums put out by a handful of still great bands that often gets lost between the cracks, and into obscurity.
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