3/16/2023 0 Comments L.a. guns speed![]() ![]() After hanging out with Izzy, and band members coming and going, Tracii finally asked Axl, who had played with Izzy in Hollywood Rose, to sing in L.A. Guns, which happened after going to see the band Shire, which featured Izzy Stradlin on bass, at the Roosevelt Hotel. Tracii goes on to talk about the formation of L.A. The blues is the discipline that goes into creating metal.” That’s where I started picking up on the basic rock ‘n’ roll blues sound. ![]() “If I’m gonna learn ‘Stranglehold’ that means I’ve gotta learn the other three sides of that double album. “If I didn’t get exposed to that I may have never gotten exposed to that as part of my style,” Tracii says. He was really tight, really nasty, a cool kinda distortion.” He also talks about how he got his sound and his style by listening to Ted Nugent’s “Stranglehold” at age 13, as well as the other tracks on the Double Live Gonzo! album, which was blues-oriented rock ‘n’ roll. Tracii talks about when he first saw Motley Crue’s Mick Mars, who had such an impact on him. We had enough friends that played drums and bass and we had a little band.” “The first Def Leppard and Iron Maiden records came out, and beyond Van Halen and Ozzy and Sabbath we were really into Aerosmith and Zeppelin and it was all about learning all those riffs. “By the time we were 13 or 14 we could really play. Tracii met Slash when he was 12 and the two started learning guitar together. ’ I was like, ‘Oh! There’s more of this.’ It was like a horror movie for your ears.” “The imagery on the cover was just, like, all these skeletons in a community, and the first song was ‘Iron Man. And I was so drawn to that.” Shortly after, Tracii heard a Black Sabbath greatest hits album. I kinda pictured these dark figures in a really cloudy overcast environment being very moist and depressing. Everything sounded scary and dark and damp. The theremin coming in on the ‘Whole Lotta Love’ solo, that riff, the way Jimmy used reverb…everything had plate reverb on it. From that point on it was all about, ‘Mom, play me something like that!’ Led Zeppelin II was all I ever listened to until I was seven years old. “The imagery, the sound, it completely captivated me when I was five-and-a-half years old. His mom told him, “That’s the guy making that noise on the record.” I saw that picture, and I’d never seen anything like it in my life,” Tracii says. Tracii saw Jimmy Page, decked out in his dragon suit, on the cover of CREEM magazine. On the way to the airport, they stopped by a newsstand. “I remember thinking, I have to recreate that noise right now!” ![]() “It was overwhelming audio fear,” he recalls. He remembers being a young boy and sitting in the back of his mother’s boyfriend’s car in 1971 and hearing Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” for the first time. In this exclusive interview with Rock Scene, Tracii Guns looks back on his early experiences with music. ![]()
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