![]() It’s like, wow! You just pull the faders up and it doesn’t need to be mixed, everything fits. ![]() I used the same room mics for the guitars that we used for the drums. But I managed to get 95% of the guitar done in the same room where we recorded drums, which adds a certain kind of togetherness. Where on the last album, we went to pretty nice studios to do the drums, and then everything was done in my studio after that. We went to a really nice studio – Big Bad Sound LA – to record drums, to record all the instruments. I don’t wanna fuck with the system the system works. Once again, Tracii is producing the album. I just started sending him demos and he was like, ‘Holy Shit!’ I was like, ‘Jesus Christ, let’s just do this.’” And the potential release date? “We’re looking at March through Frontiers Music.” Me and Phil, we have a co-writer, this guy Mitch Davis. I didn’t sit down and say, ‘ok, got to write an album now.’ It was like, ‘we’re supposed to start writing soon…’ Then all this really, really cool stuff came out. We weren’t going to do one this quick, we were going to wait about another six months from this point, but we had a break and I was home, and I wrote all the music really quickly not intentionally. It’s nice to hear now – today – how much people are still listening to The Missing Peace. “And, people have a short attention span. New material is always welcome, but why such a rush? Why not tour on The Missing Peace more? “Because we toured so much before The Missing Peace,” answers Tracii. Wasn’t Tomorrow Great is coming out really quickly as the previous studio album, The Missing Peace, was released in October 2017, and the live album, Made In Milan, was just released in March 2018. “It was recorded just me, Johnny (Martin – bass), and Shane (Fitzgibbon – drums),” confirms the six-stringer. Tracii handles all of the guitar parts on Wasn’t Tomorrow Great lead and rhythm. I think that’s still in order, cause you’re looking at the world – Wasn’t Tomorrow Great – when you dream, it’s always about something that’s going to happen. Phil’s wife was coming up with this concept for the globe hanging in space, but it was the L.A. “Yeah, we were thinking about calling the album Gravity’s In Control. When it comes to artwork, that title lends itself to so many different possibilities. The album’s going to be called Wasn’t Tomorrow Great.” There’s ‘The Devil You Know’, ‘Loaded Bomb’, ‘Boom’, ‘Rage’ – we have some with one-word titles and some with all these words in the title. We have a song that is like The Cult – Sonic Temple, it’s called ‘Gone Honey’ – that’s a really cool, different kind of thing. There’s something close to a ballad it’s a murder ballad, ‘One More Season In Hell’. Wait, no, no, it’s 13 songs all original, no covers. The songs are done, he’s got five in the bag, so he’s got to do seven more.” We’re looking at a twelve-track album then? “I think it’s going to be eleven with a bonus track. All the lyrics are written, all the melodies. “Just waiting for Phil to finish (his vocals). ![]() That next album is nearly complete, with all the music in the can. I think we managed to raise the bar a little bit with the one that’s going to be out next.” It’s got to be good, it’s got to be something. People are paying attention to me all of a sudden, which they really didn’t for years. ![]() Last month Tracii took to Instagram saying he was about to record “what has to be the best guitar work I have ever done.” Reflecting upon that posting, Tracii admits, “That’s where the stress lies. Having Adam, even at rehearsal before the shows, it was like, ‘oh, that’s solid!’ I’m always trying to improve things that don’t need to be improved. But I guess in the end, that’s not really what L.A. ![]() I just thought it would be really cool to have this kind of shredder guitar player on the other side make a spectacle of it. “Adam’s been in the band forever (from 2001 – 2007). “We had (guitar) pics made that just say Stage Right on them we never know who’s coming or going on that side of the stage,” jokes Tracii. Then Johnny Monaco (Enuff Z’nuff) joined the band for a very brief stint, and now Adam Hamilton – who played bass on LAG albums Waking The Dead, and Tales From The Strip – is the new rhythm guitarist. In March of 2018, guitarist Michael Grant (who had been with the group since 2013) and LAG parted ways. Guns guitarist Tracii Guns – who recently reunited with vocalist Phil Lewis – invited BraveWords scribe Aaron Small on board the band’s tour bus for an exclusive chat about all things LAG.įirst matter of discussion was the recent L.A. Prior to headlining The Rockpile in Toronto, Ontario, L.A. ![]()
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