3/1/2023 0 Comments L.a. guns members![]() ![]() MELODY LANE: So I ’s not that easy, for a new line-up, to write an album in this way: scattered about the country… Steve Riley got calls from managements to agents and then GOLDEN ROBOT RECORDS offered us a deal through our manager Eric Baker and they put stuff together…And then they called me and said “ We wanna do a full length record”…We all put the material, we all submitted songs, for two or three months we picked the songs we wanted, I did some pre-production here in my home studio, we did as much homework as we could … And all of a sudden the phone started ringing. KURT FROHLICH: It was great fun, a cool show and we all went home. The next day we kinda went through the set a couple of times, maybe twice, and then we just showed up at the M3 Festival… So I put the guitar down and just sang and they could really hear me sing and they thought it was great. The first day we went through the songs and they wanted to see what kind of guitar player I was and we played through the songs musically and they said: “Ok we are not worried about your guitar playing”…I normally play rhythm guitar. KURT FROHLICH: Yes it started just as one show of 45 minutes, ten songs. MELODY LANE: And it was just for ‘one show’ right… M3 Festival? You know…It wasn’t just the drummer, you know what I mean… What pushed me to accept was thinking about a few things like: I ’ve always been a huge fan of L.A.GUNS… they didn’t want to go on tour full time (because I didn’t want to tour full time, I didn’t wanna get in a van and go away for three months)…I loved their songs… and then the fact that KELLY NICKELS was on board, that was the ‘deal closing’ for me the fact that he’s got in. He checked me out online and talked to other musicians I ‘d worked with in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, I think he did his homework on me and checked a lot of YouTube videos…And you know, Phil Lewis’ voice is very different from mine, and I sing like me, but Steve said “We want you to be you!”. KURT FROHLICH: I was in Las Vegas and I got a text message from my friend Jason (Jason Green, manager of Las Vegas band The Sin City Sinners which included Todd Kerns from Slash’s band and Brent Muscat), he said that L.A.GUNS were looking for a singer and if I could be interested in…But at the time…I didn’t know I was writing music and playing full time as a musician but then… Steve Riley gave me a call. MELODY LANE: The most obvious question: how did you get the job as L.A.GUNS singer? ![]() In the end we are all intertwined…It’s a small town… TODD had did a few gigs with us in THE UNDERGROUND REBELS for a while till he started doing the SIN CITY SINNERS and then He got in SLASH’s band. TAIME DOWN was not interested in because he had his things going, so BRENT asked me to join the band and I got TODD KERNS on board playing guitar. He tried, but not all the original members said yes. KURT FROHLICH: Yes, BRENT was putting together a FASTER PUSSYCAT anniversary tour. MELODY LANE: …And BRENT MUSCAT ,guitarist of the legendary sleaze band FASTER PUSSYCAT, was in THE UNDERGROUND REBELS with you right? And you fronted FASTER PUSSYCAT back in 2006/07? Working out here, and I’ m getting established here in Florida so THE UNDERGROUND REBELS hasn’t been doing anything for the last four or five years. In the last years I moved to Orlando area but the other guys remained in Vegas. Then we got a management deal which moved us to Las Vegas in 1999 and we changed the name of the band in THE UNDERGROUND REBELS. KURT FROHLICH: In the beginning I was in a band called THE LOVING DEAD and at the time we were based in Vancouver, Canada. MELODY LANE: Hi Kurt…just to start: can you tell us anything about the beginning of your career? ![]()
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