Feeling inspired and excited like they did when they first started out, but with many years of wisdom and experience under their belts, and most importantly, a renewed and stronger creative and personal relationship, Guns, Lewis, and L.A. What’s important to know and understand is that the driving force of all those classic L.A. The story of how we got from the band’s powerful early years to a fourth new studio album in the relatively short time that Guns and Lewis have reunited has already been well documented, so no need to rehash it. But despite having many songs to back up that image, the band could also write powerful ballads (see the smash hit, “ The Ballad Of Jayne” for Exhibit A of this argument) that showed there were some serious songwriting chops in the band. Guns never looked like the pretty poster boys that so many of their peers did, but more the band that you would be terrified to bump into in an alley as they would likely be carrying switchblades and ready for a fight. ‘Black Diamonds’ shows no signs of this renaissance slowing down… Guns in 2017, a rekindling of the band’s creative energy has been continuing unabated over the course of, now, four studio albums. Since core members Tracii and Phil reunited under the banner of L.A. GUNS, led by Tracii Guns and Phil Lewis, have always delivered solid rock ‘n roll to their fans. Guns covered Check My Brain, Merry Xmas Everybody, There Aint No Sanity Clause, The Bills - Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You and other songs. Guns originally did Check My Brain, Merry Xmas Everybody, There Aint No Sanity Clause, The Bills - Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You and other songs. Since their self-titled debut in 1988 to their widely praised recent suite of “comeback” albums, L.A. Guns covered Check My Brain, Merry Xmas Everybody, There Aint No Sanity Clause, The Bills - Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You and other songs. This makes for a potent and highly listenable cocktail of an album in ‘ Black Diamonds’. GUNS songs such as Sex Action, Never Enough, Electric Gypsy, The Ballad Of Jayne, and countless more in. The band doesn’t shy away from flexing their hard rock influences as they always have, but also incorporate more introspective acoustic tracks reflective of their classic rock influences from the ’70s. Their writing partnership spawned classic L.A. Written and recorded over the course of 2022, ‘Black Diamonds‘ sees Tracii Guns, Phil Lewis and company continuing on the same successful and inspiring sonic journey that they’ve been taking on their most recent albums, ‘Checkered Past‘, ‘The Devil You Know’, and ‘The Missing Peace‘. The last three post reunion albums (The Missing Peace, The Devil You Know, and Checkered Past) have all managed to be musically diverse records that individually stand on their own while still retaining the bands trademark swagger and attitude, Black Diamonds is no different.
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