Favored Nations Entertainment is proud to announce the September 27th CD release of 'Acoustic Gypsy Live' by L.A. Guns.
Consisting of Tracii Guns, guitar; Danny Nordahl, bass; Chad Steward, drums; Love/Hate's Jizzy Pearl, vocals, Teddy 'Zig Zag' Andreadis, keyboards, Muddy Stardust; guitar and back-up vocals; and Doni Gray, percussion, the disc was produced, mixed and mastered by Grammy winner Neil Citron. This is the first acoustic album by the acclaimed Los Angeles band in their 29-year history, recorded at The Hotel Cafe in Hollywood. L.A. Guns will embark on a national tour in September to support the CD.
The band who lit up Hollywood like a surprise M-80 in a garbage can with their raw radical rowdy ways earned themselves legendary status on the Sunset Strip. When Jason Kramer and Jason Rothberg suggested they do an acoustic record, Tracii was "terrified, as I hadn't played live acoustically for more than an hour since my Bancroft Junior High School guitar ensemble when I was 13 years old. I gathered up the guys I trust the most musically to help make this as great as possible. After listening back to this performance, I am not so scared to perform acoustically anymore."
What makes 'Acoustic Gypsy Live' so startling is its nuanced attention-to-detail - a musical awareness that L.A. Guns, who never diluted the manic hysteria of their songs one iota in their previous records, relishes in on Acoustic Gypsy Live.
With a gorgeous lead guitar solo by Tracii, the CD's opener, "Crystal Eyes," hits a bulls-eye with its beauty and clarity-of-vision. Stark, dramatic, simplistically pristine, the inherent harmonic structure of the song itself reaches that part of the soul where honesty is a given, not a constructed artifice. The song cruises to completion to set the scene for the kind of album that no one--including the band itself--even knew was in them. Vocalist Jizzy still works up the growl, as evidenced on "One Way Ticket."
'Acoustic Gypsy Live' Track Listing:
01) Crystal Eyes
02) One Way Ticket
03) Decide
04) Dreamtime
05) Electric Gypsy
06) It's Over Now
07) Never Enough
08) Over The Edge
09) Little Soldier
10) Sex Action
11) These Arms Of Mine
12) Love Hurts
13) The Ballad Of Jayne
14) Rip And Tear
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