I STILL LIKE THIS SONG
Monday, September 21st, 2009 at 3:30pm by Axl RosenbergWe make fun of L.A. Guns quite a bit, mostly because, well, they’re really worth making fun of. For one thing, they’re one of those bands where there’s actually two different versions of the band touring around, claiming to be “L.A. Guns;” the version that doesn’t feature founding guitarist/namesake Tracii Guns hired a dude named – no shit – Stacey Blades as their guitarist. Plus, Tracii is the “Guns” in “Guns N’ Roses,” but quit the band before they got signed, and has spent most of his career trying to prove that he could have been Slash, if given the shot. And they’re one of those bands that claims they were never hair metal even though there’s really no other way to categorize them. So, yeah, they’re pretty silly.
They’re also one of the better hair metal bands of their era, even if they never made it that big in the scheme of things. On Friday night during some drunken rambling about Kix and Love/Hate and whatever other wussy bands crossed our Peroni-soaked brains, a friend and I started reminiscing about the song “Over the Edge” from Hollywood Vampires. I don’t know how the song holds up in the whole pantheon of songs that were cool when you were a kid but aren’t cool anymore, but I still have fun listening to it from time to time.
All I could find for a embedded video was this rip from the Point Break soundtrack. Since Swayze just died, I figured, y’know, fuck it.
-AR
One of my favorite songs from that soundtrack. Totally not ashamed of having dug this band back in the day, seeing, as you said, they were one of the better choices from that scene and era. That being the case, I whip it out from time to time, as well. (Did I mention that somewhere else on here?) And Patrick Swayze was totally hot in that movie, way hotter than in “Dirty Dancing.”
Other standouts from that soundtrack:
IF 6 WAS 9, JIMI F’ING HENDRIX
I Want You, Concrete Blonde
7 and 7 Is, Jesus Lizard
I could have sworn there was also a RHCP song on there that totally made me want to learn to surf so I could rip to it, but then the delusions ARE getting worse with my advancing age.
I consider my pickings from that era to have been my own personal “heavy metal training wheels.” Oh yeah, and when I was little my older sisters and their friends drug me to my first concert: RATT, with Kix (or was it Kixx?) and Great White opening up. I was in the 4th grade, standing on the chair arm rests (assigned seating), horns held high and doing windmills. I didn’t fall. Not even once. \m/\m/
IN POINT BREAK HE SHOWED US HOW TO LIVE LIFE ONE WAVE AT A TIME.
IN ROAD HOUSE HE SHOWED US HOW TO KICK ASS.
AND IN GHOST AND DIRTY DANCING HE SHOWED US WHAT LOVE WAS ALL ABOUT.
RIP PATRICK SWAYZE, A TRUE AMERICAN HERO.
WOW!
LA Guns shouldn’t be allowed to tour around the country until they get this shit cleared up. When going to a concert no one really knows which act their going to get.
Geez…… i was a big fan of the hair metal of that time and I always thought that LA guns sucked big time, even at their prime… their debut was a decent release with Sex Action and Electric Gypsy being the highlights..
But then they released ” The ballad of who gives a fuck ” and I totally lost interest in the band..