#L.a. guns hollywood rehearsal series#

Kelly and I don’t want to do 250 club shows. We’re going to be doing a different schedule of dates now. We’ll be on the Saturday show and we are definitely doing to do that, we’re looking forward to that big time. Oh yeah, we’re on it, it’s in September and we’re going to be on that show. If everything still goes off without a hitch are you still going to be a part of the lineup? We’ll do “Crawl” and maybe the next single that we’ll release in June and then the whole album will come out in July, Renegades and that way we can go out in August and do a set that will include two of the new songs.Ībsolutely, Steven and you are currently scheduled to return to M3 again this year. That’s cool with us because it’s stuff that we wrote and we recorded and we’re still proud of all of that stuff so with the M3 show we knew that that was going to be a show of older material and we tried to pepper the set with some deep cuts like doing “Wild Obsession” and letting Kelly do “Nothing Better To Do” so we tried to change it up so it wasn’t the ordinary set we would normally do and now when we go out this year when it does happen, we should have been out by now and done about a dozen shows, but when it does start up in August, our revised schedule has us starting back up in August hopefully because of the pandemic, we will do a couple songs off Renegades. When we go out, no matter what we do, the fans want to hear three quarters of the set, maybe more, of the songs that they know and if you’re lucky enough you can pepper it with some new material, a couple of songs you’ve just recorded but you’ve got to do a certain amount of the old material that everybody loves. Once we knew that, we knew that the M3 show was going to be a show where, even though we hadn’t recorded anything yet together but we had a bunch of material, we hadn’t recorded it or rehearsed any of it, so we knew that it was going to be basically us going out and playing all the classic material and really, ya know bro, that’s what classic bands do right now. to play with us in a rehearsal studio he was the very first guy we checked out and he was the guy we wanted to play with. Somebody had suggested him, a friend from Vegas, and said, “You have to check this guy out!” and when he flew out to L.A. We didn’t have to go through the long process about auditioning a lot of singers, we were really fortunate, the first guy that we checked out was Kurt Frohlich. He had played bass with us but he’s a great lead guitar player and we knew that and we told Scotty, “Why don’t you jump on and play guitar with us.” and he was totally gassed about doing that. and then once we did that we started thinking about who we could get to play with us and Scotty Griffin was kind of a no-brainer. Yeah, ya know, because Kelly had gotten with me in 2017 and we started writing and exchanging ideas of songs because he’s in New York and I’m in L.A.

#L.a. guns hollywood rehearsal series#

Was the plan to do a one-off or small series until the snowball effect you previously mentioned?

Was that the initial basic plan? Let me get together with my mates and of course Kurt (Frohlich) and play these songs that we had such a hand in creating. Talk about when it came to that show and the lead up, Steven. We went over so well at that show that that’s why a lot of good things came about from it so that was just a gas, doing that show last year.

wanted to handle us and they brought us over to Golden Robot Records and got us a nice agency to book us so a lot of stuff came from doing that M3 show. That show was a really great experience because once we did that show stuff really started snowballing for us. It was great, awesome being back with Kelly Nickels because he’s my battery mate and the other half of the rhythm section that I played with for so long and he’s one of my best friends so it’s just awesome having him back with me. Guns, your version of the band, you had your first show at M3 last year, I was able to see that as well, so thank you for playing that show for us and how did that feel for you? It’s always a pleasure going to Baltimore, it’s a killer town. Guns because you would play Fish Head Cantina quite a bit. Thanks for having me on.Ībsolutely, I’m stationed near Baltimore so I’ve been able to see you a lot with variations of L.A.

Charred Walls Of The Damned's Richard Christyįirst off, Steven, thank you very much for making some time for me.