★★★★★
It's hard to imagine a raucous group like L.A. Guns doing an acoustic record but the title of this album is a little misleading. True, the arrangements are stripped down, but most songs feature a full band. Singer Jizzy Pearl, who quit the band shortly after this recording was made, sounds good throughout and with his rasp toned down on "Crystal Eyes," during the slightly schmaltzy "Dreamtime" and on "Electric Gypsy" where he channels Robert Plant...
- www.antimusic.com
2011-12-12
★★★★★
"It's rare that the 'bonus material' on a reissue like this becomes 'the main event.' It sure didn't happen on the recent reissue of the Rolling Stones 'Exile On Main St.,' but, brother, does it ever happen here." Tracii Guns always stood out among the glam guitar gods strutting the Sunset Strip in the 1980s. With his Jimmy Page-inspired riffing and solos, he helped L.A...
- www.metalunderground.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
I guess that we all know who LA Guns are and, to a point, their in-depth history. If you don't, then you should head on over to Wikipedia and get your fix, because there isn't much need for me to drivel on about it prior to the review. So basically, what do we have here? The 'deluxe', pretty packaging re-issue comes with something particularly special and unique, in the form of 5 'bonus live' tracks...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Despite a lot of utter musical tripe in the '80s (New Romantic bands, synthesizer-based pop music), it was actually an exciting time for rock and metal fans in the UK and US. After the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal had spawned the likes of Iron Maiden, there was the thrash and speed metal scene from San Francisco that began to literally turn heads, while in parallel, 'hair-metal' got people gyrating to the sounds of Hollywood...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
With hair-metal nostalgia spraying Aqua Net fumes across the land via a Poison/ Cinderella tour, it seems a fine time for the return of L.A. Guns, the Hollywood rock crew formed by ex?GN'R guitarist Tracii Guns. Their Cocked & Loaded yielded a 1989 hit, "The Ballad of Jayne," but at that time the appetite for L.A. pop-metal was so high, even Faster Pussycat cracked the Top 40...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Tracii Guns is perhaps the Pete Best of the LA music scene. After starting the primeval line-up of Guns N' Roses in 1985, he left the band before Axl and co. took Sunset Stripand the worldby storm. The band he formed after leaving, LA Guns, sold a few million albums, but Tracii is certainly entitled to mull over what might have been.
The original line-up of LA Guns was in truth, quite underrated, but when their label interfered excessively on 1991's Hollywood Vampires, the band splinter...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
On Man in the Moon, a reunited and revitalized core L.A. Guns lineup spice up their '80s West Coast sleaze rock with some pop and modern rock elements. With the mostly original lineup (Phil Lewis on vocals, Tracii Guns on guitar, Steve Riley on drums, Mick Cripps on keyboards, and bassist Muddy) getting back together in the studio for the first time in over half a decade, L.A. Guns were probably hoping to relive the glory days of Cocked and Loaded...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Recorded appropriately enough on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, Live! A Night on the Strip commemorates an October 7, 1999, performance by LA Guns at the Key Club on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, right in the heart of what was glam rock central during the group's late-'80s heyday...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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