The Missing Peace

The saga of L.A. GUNS is far too exhaustive and contentious to recount within an album review. Most fans don't need much beyond a bullet-point recount that Tracii Guns started the band and once had Axl Rose in his arsenal before history altered the pair's mutual courses. While L.A. GUNS never came within the commercial reach of GUNS N' ROSES, the band certainly made its own strides in the late 1980s as seedy, hard-driving champions of hump rock. "The Ballad of Jayne" was the band's sanitized ...