“Tracii and I are getting along really well now. Who knows what’s gonna happen? Lewis is optimistic. Now, after fifteen years apart, the duo is back together. Guns and Lewis would occasionally hook up again (notably for 2002’s excellent Waking the Dead album), but it never lasted. Guns on the circuit (original singer Paul Black even joined up with Guns again around 2007, but that didn’t last long). ![]() At one regrettable point a few years ago, and sadly predictably, there were two versions of L.A. Albums were released with one or the other missing. The albums dropped in quality as in-fighting took over, the climax being 1994’s Vicious Circle album, an attempt to stay in favor by hardening the sound, hampered by members dropping out and falling in again like tiles in the game “Guess Who.”Īnd so it was for the next twenty years. Guns (and just about every other leather-and-spandex-clad hair band on the Sunset Strip and beyond) began to wane. scene, thanks in part to mega-MTV hit “The Ballad of Jayne.” But then, as the 1990s kicked in and brought grunge with it, the popularity of the L.A. The sophomore effort, 1989’s Cocked & Loaded, cemented the band’s standing as one of the big players in the L.A. The band put out a self-titled debut album that went gold, and major-league success beckoned. ![]() In 1987, the band recruited singer Phil Lewis from British hard-rock group Girl. When guitarist Tracii Guns left the fledgling Guns and Roses in ’85, he re-formed L.A. The band formed in 1983 amid the riotous Hollywood sleazy hard-rock scene, and one year later merged with another band, Hollywood Rose, to form Guns N’ Roses. Kelly is featured on the following LA Guns releases: LA Guns, Cocked & Loaded, Hollywood Vampires, Live Vampires (EP), Cuts (EP), Vicious Circle, Hollywood-a-Go-Go (best of), Hollywood Rehearsal, Greatest Hits & Black Beauties/The Very Best Of, A Night On The Strip/Live Ammo, Cocked & Re-Loaded/Rip & Tear, Ultimate LA Guns/Golden Bullets, Winning Combinations (with Cinderella), 20th Century Masters, Love Peace & Geese (home video), & One More Reason (home video), Hollywood Raw, & The Very Best of LA Guns.The history of the L.A. Kelly Nickels is married to Kelly Cunningham, who is the mother of actress Emma Roberts. He has made a few guest appearances at some southern California LA Guns shows since departing the band but shows no interest in being in the band. Kelly remained in the band until mid-2000, when he left the band and music again, basically for forever. In early 1999, he recorded the Greatest Hits & Black Beauties album with LA Guns and in the fall of that year reunited with the band for the reunion tour. For a few years after LA Guns, he worked in computer graphics. Kelly then basically left the music scene. In 1997, he recorded a few cover songs for the Hollywood Rehearsal album with Mick and Phil. Kelly also replaced Sean Beavan in Burning Retna (with Mick Cripps) in 1994-95 for a short time. Kelly had remained in the new LA Guns with Chris Van Dahl & Johnny Crypt, but left the band before their initial tour in early 1996. ![]() On the "Vicious Circle" album, he sang on the song "Nothing Better to Do" as well as singing a cover of Judas Priest's "Breaking the Law" at a few live concerts. Kelly remained in LA Guns for their successful years, and left the band shortly after Mick and Phil. Kelly joined LA Guns when Phil Lewis had been hired to replace Paul Black and Mick Cripps had switched to guitar. Kelly was in Faster Pussycat right before they got signed to Elektra Records, and had left the band for L.A. After Sweet Pain disbanded, he joined Faster Pussycat. He was also in bands called Virgin Steele and Angels in Vain in the mid-1980's. He started out in a band called Sweet Pain in New York, and released one album with them in 1985. Kelly Nickels (born Henri Perret, 1962) is a hard rock bass guitar player.
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