One day I was sitting with a band at Ernie's, a Mexican restaurant in North Hollywood, a major record business hang-out, going over a record deal contract. I was advising them not to sign a 7 record deal, but to keep the deal as short as possible. Suddenly, a very VERY enthusiastic person popped over the seat from the booth next to us exclaiming, "Don't do it!! Don't do it man!! Do not sign a 7 record deal!! You will get fucked I promise!!!" It was Tracii, reinforcing what I was advising the band.
Been a fan of LA Guns from the debut album & have seen them quite a few times over the years. Always a great show. Met the band a few years back when they did a meet & greet after the show which was just a spontaneous thing on the behalf of the band as it hadn't been advertised in anyway & got some stuff signed that i just happened to luckily have in my car. Just turned 50 myself 3 days ago so being a product of the 80s i'm loving the star shaped guitar. Definitely on my to get list even tho i can hardly play. Happy Birthday Tracii.
Good to hear Tracii Guns acknowledging the influence of Hanoi Rocks. I can remember Phil Lewis (LA Guns vocalist) fronting Girl (also featuring Phil Collen on guitar) and getting a barrage of bottles at the Reading Festival in 1980 for having the kind of image and playing the kind of rock that would go down an absolute storm in LA just a few years later.
I remember Hanoi Rocks turning up in a very small northern UK town, It was like Martians had landed. Seeing Andy getting changed in the toilets is an image that will never leave me Hanoi at hacienda was the loudest band I've ever experienced
That was a great interview and chat Lee...Tracii is the coolest guy, I follow him and Phil on IG and I sent Tracii a pic of a boat that someone had named "Rip and Tear" and he actually wrote me back and we had a laugh over it...awesome guy and it meant alot to me because I have been a fan of L.A.Guns since the 80's!
Excellent interview from both sides. Fun and informative and didn't come across like one of those 'sales pitch' type chats. I actually met Tracii a few years ago and he is exactly like that...easy going and down to Earth. Also the most underrated guitarist on the planet!
What a great interview. I’m sure I’m not the only 49 yr old to get a warm and fuzzy feeling of nostalgia when Tracii was talking about that LA Guns, Motley, GnR period of the mid 80’s
A constant beacon for Rock and Roll guitar/guitarists. Melodic, speed, phrasing, intonation and tone and vibe. Very fortunate to have met him up close, in the Netherlands and USA. Rock on Tracii!
I bought the Gunstar. This is without any reservations the best playing guitar I have ever owned!!! I did change it yet, it's still stock. I had the pickups turned upside down. This makes the outside pups hot when you go to single coil mode. I followed Tracy's idea on moving the front strap button to a different place to make the guitar play without neck dive. I have the action sooo low with 8gaudge strings. I also had it wired so the knob right under the bridge pup is the bridge pup. It helps alot! Kramer has always been a easy fast guitar for players! This is My third Kramer. The only guitar I've owned that came close to Kramer's playability was a Charvel model 4. This is the best guitar I've ever owned!! Well worth every penny. Get one. You can play it sitting too. It tucks right into your body. You can set these up for such low action it's amazing. Get a Gunstar! Thanks to Tracy for going with Kramer! Really!!
Tracii is truly one of the most personable, down-to-earth 80's guitarists - a very select few in that bunch for sure. Love the look of that new Kramer Gunstar... but though all that talk about his gear, no one ever mentioned that Tracii is a user and endorser of the HEADRUSH pedalboard. I was hoping that it would at least be mentioned if he made any alterations to his Headrush Signature Rig Pack specifically to use the Kramer Gunstar in a live situation.
Great interview. Thought that Lee conducted the interview really well. Tracii comes across as a nice normal guy with interesting stories ...and LA Guns...
He held and caressed the guitar the whole time,Captain excellent.That tells me more,the way he holds that axe impresses me more.Made me interested in him..
Some of the things Tracii said about Les Pauls and low-output pickups put me in mind of a mod I recently did on a cheaply-acquired Ibanez RG220B. I was able to obtain a set of Epiphone Alnico Classic humbuckers and wire them into the RG. Once I plugged it in, I was rewarded with a sound very much like that of an Epi Les Paul that featured both the pickups and a Floyd Rose Special. I'd played one in Guitar Center, but couldn't buy it, so I'm very pleased now to have a guitar that captures that sound well. Both axes played well also, but I just may prefer my RG because I gave it a fret job and I set it up myself FOR myself. I HIGHLY recommend to every guitarist that they learn basic setup techniques and practices, and that they acquire the tools to perform this work. Not only does one cure an unhealthy fear of guitars, but one learns that while tone IS in the hands, it's also in the guitar's setup. Small variances can mean big changes in the guitar's tone and/or feel. One can set up a guitar with TONE in mind! It's MUCH more subtle than setting up for the FEEL of a guitar, because smaller changes are involved. Once one begins to get used to the practice, though, one arrives at a position allowing one to make one's guitars TRULY UNIQUE! THAT'S how ones personalizes guitars!😎❤️️🎸‼️
I think live music will do well when something close to normal happens. I feel the C19 thing has put more value on people over 'accumulating things' nothing is more about 'people' then the feeling of a celebration of being alive that live music easily promotes. Musical instruments are a tool to communicate without the need to understand it's language. I think we will soon see the value of music and put it back into schools with an importance as high as science and math.
Interesting to hear from the man who is the other half of the name Guns n’ Roses, along with Axl, even if he didn’t stay in that band for fame and fortune.
Oh, I get it, it was a joke, since the Yardbirds. I'm 64 and if I would of played with the Yardbirds, I would of been Like 7 years old at the time. Of course the Yardbirds are still going with one original member. Someday maybe, heirloom groups will not have any original members. Musicians don't live forever, except in our hearts.
Interesting guy. I never got onto the whole LA / 'hair rock' kind of deal but I did like Guns and Roses I guess. I was more into the bands out on the margins..punk into post-punk stuff. I like the darker stuff too like grindcore, black metal, speed metal..those genres. I liked that spoof they did of that whole scene on 'Metalocalypse' where 'pickled the drummer' had his past exposed as a member of 'snakes and barrels' ..very funny, especially what happened to them at the reunion concert LOL. czcams.com/video/qFOrPlA6IxU/video.html
Apart from my wife, Danish women don't marry assholes. Seems a really likeable guy. Kind of envy him being new to Denmark - my first couple of years here were awesome. Then it becomes routine, like anything else.
Bless him. He seems like a really nice guy. One of the coolest guitarists you'll ever hear.
One of the most underrated rock bands ever.
One day I was sitting with a band at Ernie's, a Mexican restaurant in North Hollywood, a major record business hang-out, going over a record deal contract. I was advising them not to sign a 7 record deal, but to keep the deal as short as possible. Suddenly, a very VERY enthusiastic person popped over the seat from the booth next to us exclaiming, "Don't do it!! Don't do it man!! Do not sign a 7 record deal!! You will get fucked I promise!!!" It was Tracii, reinforcing what I was advising the band.
@Konservative Kirby IV why not ??
@Konservative Kirby IV He is not bullshiting! I was sitting with Traci that afternoon, I drive the Kenworth that hauls their equipment.
Been a fan of LA Guns from the debut album & have seen them quite a few times over the years. Always a great show. Met the band a few years back when they did a meet & greet after the show which was just a spontaneous thing on the behalf of the band as it hadn't been advertised in anyway & got some stuff signed that i just happened to luckily have in my car. Just turned 50 myself 3 days ago so being a product of the 80s i'm loving the star shaped guitar. Definitely on my to get list even tho i can hardly play. Happy Birthday Tracii.
I've seen LA Guns at least 30 times. Mostly in small venues. Traci has always been approachable and super cool to everyone.
27- here! 😅
Good to hear Tracii Guns acknowledging the influence of Hanoi Rocks. I can remember Phil Lewis (LA Guns vocalist) fronting Girl (also featuring Phil Collen on guitar) and getting a barrage of bottles at the Reading Festival in 1980 for having the kind of image and playing the kind of rock that would go down an absolute storm in LA just a few years later.
I remember Hanoi Rocks turning up in a very small northern UK town, It was like Martians had landed. Seeing Andy getting changed in the toilets is an image that will never leave me
Hanoi at hacienda was the loudest band I've ever experienced
That was a great interview and chat Lee...Tracii is the coolest guy, I follow him and Phil on IG and I sent Tracii a pic of a boat that someone had named "Rip and Tear" and he actually wrote me back and we had a laugh over it...awesome guy and it meant alot to me because I have been a fan of L.A.Guns since the 80's!
Excellent interview from both sides. Fun and informative and didn't come across like one of those 'sales pitch' type chats. I actually met Tracii a few years ago and he is exactly like that...easy going and down to Earth. Also the most underrated guitarist on the planet!
What a great interview. I’m sure I’m not the only 49 yr old to get a warm and fuzzy feeling of nostalgia when Tracii was talking about that LA Guns, Motley, GnR period of the mid 80’s
A constant beacon for Rock and Roll guitar/guitarists. Melodic, speed, phrasing, intonation and tone and vibe. Very fortunate to have met him up close, in the Netherlands and USA. Rock on Tracii!
Tracii is one of the best guitar players to ever touch the strings!
I bought the Gunstar. This is without any reservations the best playing guitar I have ever owned!!! I did change it yet, it's still stock. I had the pickups turned upside down. This makes the outside pups hot when you go to single coil mode. I followed Tracy's idea on moving the front strap button to a different place to make the guitar play without neck dive. I have the action sooo low with 8gaudge strings. I also had it wired so the knob right under the bridge pup is the bridge pup. It helps alot! Kramer has always been a easy fast guitar for players! This is My third Kramer. The only guitar I've owned that came close to Kramer's playability was a Charvel model 4. This is the best guitar I've ever owned!! Well worth every penny. Get one. You can play it sitting too. It tucks right into your body. You can set these up for such low action it's amazing. Get a Gunstar! Thanks to Tracy for going with Kramer! Really!!
Thanks for this guys! Tracii is a total legend ❤️
Great interview. i would love to see The Captain Meets Ginger Wildheart, probably the hardest working musician in the country.
Met him around 2000. What a super nice guy.
Met Tracii in 2014 at Vamp'd Vegas. I agree - super nice guy!
Great guitarist and a great guy 👍. Rock on Tracii
Hopefully we can get a sound like for L.A Guns if they bring it back this week coming
From LA Guns to Brides of Destruction and everything in between, what a great guitar player.... Cheers.
That was a great interview! Tracii seems like a pretty cool dude.
i know it is kinda randomly asking but does anyone know a good site to watch newly released series online ?
@Fletcher Giovanni lately I have been using FlixZone. Just google for it :)
@Amir Darwin Yup, have been watching on Flixzone for years myself =)
@Amir Darwin thank you, I went there and it seems like a nice service =) Appreciate it!
@Fletcher Giovanni No problem :)
Your the man Lee. Love these interviews. Hope to see you at NAMM 2022
Man what a cool human being, super down to earth and personable, cheers guys!
living legend❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰🥰
Tracii seems like a really cool guy, great interview
I love Cocked And Loaded. Never mind the 'sleaze', that's just a great rock album.
6 minutes in, already a great interview.
GNR was the only LA band I really liked, but learning about the scene from one of the founders is cool.
Tracii is truly one of the most personable, down-to-earth 80's guitarists - a very select few in that bunch for sure. Love the look of that new Kramer Gunstar... but though all that talk about his gear, no one ever mentioned that Tracii is a user and endorser of the HEADRUSH pedalboard. I was hoping that it would at least be mentioned if he made any alterations to his Headrush Signature Rig Pack specifically to use the Kramer Gunstar in a live situation.
Good stuff, and as a guitarist, the more JPerry & JPage DNA, the better..!
My main takeaway from this: how much would a zoom lesson from Tracii Guns cost?! That sounds pretty awesome!
ikr !!
Saw LA Guns open for ACDC on the Razors edge tour Old Orchard Beach Maine 7/14/91. My second concert
That Kramer is super sweet... I can't wait for the Tracy Guns Signature Gibson Les Paul, I would be glad to drop the bank on that...
This was cool Tracii is a cool dude!
great stuff, he seems like a really nice guy
Great interview. Thought that Lee conducted the interview really well. Tracii comes across as a nice normal guy with interesting stories ...and LA Guns...
Awesome I love Tracci Guns
Great guitar player and really interesting interview! Love it!!
I was just a couple years behind as well Captain! Happy Birthday Tracii!!
Great ! What a lovely chap !
He held and caressed the guitar the whole time,Captain excellent.That tells me more,the way he holds that axe impresses me more.Made me interested in him..
Some of the things Tracii said about Les Pauls and low-output pickups put me in mind of a mod I recently did on a cheaply-acquired Ibanez RG220B. I was able to obtain a set of Epiphone Alnico Classic humbuckers and wire them into the RG. Once I plugged it in, I was rewarded with a sound very much like that of an Epi Les Paul that featured both the pickups and a Floyd Rose Special. I'd played one in Guitar Center, but couldn't buy it, so I'm very pleased now to have a guitar that captures that sound well. Both axes played well also, but I just may prefer my RG because I gave it a fret job and I set it up myself FOR myself. I HIGHLY recommend to every guitarist that they learn basic setup techniques and practices, and that they acquire the tools to perform this work. Not only does one cure an unhealthy fear of guitars, but one learns that while tone IS in the hands, it's also in the guitar's setup. Small variances can mean big changes in the guitar's tone and/or feel. One can set up a guitar with TONE in mind! It's MUCH more subtle than setting up for the FEEL of a guitar, because smaller changes are involved. Once one begins to get used to the practice, though, one arrives at a position allowing one to make one's guitars TRULY UNIQUE! THAT'S how ones personalizes guitars!😎❤️️🎸‼️
Tracii Guns is a killer guitarist.
😊 So good, thanks!
I miss the bride's of destruction but tracii is the man 🤟
Tracii!!!
I love how andertons are still going
WE NEED TO GO BACK!
Great stuff! :)
my favorite guitar player ever
My guitar hero
My favorite player since the release of "Cocked and Loaded"! Be nice to him Danish Pete! :) Greetings from dutch Rene!
I love my Guns! ❤
What a superb bloke!
I think live music will do well when something close to normal happens. I feel the C19 thing has put more value on people over 'accumulating things' nothing is more about 'people' then the feeling of a celebration of being alive that live music easily promotes. Musical instruments are a tool to communicate without the need to understand it's language. I think we will soon see the value of music and put it back into schools with an importance as high as science and math.
Interesting to hear from the man who is the other half of the name Guns n’ Roses, along with Axl, even if he didn’t stay in that band for fame and fortune.
"You know" x 10^100000! Still great interview...
When you know, you know you know.
The Captain Meets......Guy Pratt
I haven't watched a single second of this, but I'll bet the opening gambit will be "So, what was it like growing up in the
When are you going to do The Captain Meets Toyah and Robert?
The Captain Meets John Robson, certified Yorkshire-man.
Let’s have a Captain meets Mike Bradley!!!
sir is it possible to deliver your products in india
Oh, I get it, it was a joke, since the Yardbirds. I'm 64 and if I would of played with the Yardbirds, I would of been Like 7 years old at the time. Of course the Yardbirds are still going with one original member. Someday maybe, heirloom groups will not have any original members. Musicians don't live forever, except in our hearts.
"you know"
So Gibson is fine with him doing a Kramer signature model as well? That is interesting
Kramer is owned by Gibson
Brian may!!!
< and one of the greatest pedalshops is in copenhagen! >
Considering population size, Denmark and Sweden are sitting on a very large percentage of the specialist guitar market.
One of the most accurately rated bands of all time.
I could smell that scene from where I lived
haha!
Interesting guy. I never got onto the whole LA / 'hair rock' kind of deal but I did like Guns and Roses I guess. I was more into the bands out on the margins..punk into post-punk stuff. I like the darker stuff too like grindcore, black metal, speed metal..those genres. I liked that spoof they did of that whole scene on 'Metalocalypse' where 'pickled the drummer' had his past exposed as a member of 'snakes and barrels' ..very funny, especially what happened to them at the reunion concert LOL. czcams.com/video/qFOrPlA6IxU/video.html
Doesn't he try to pay bandmates in used gear?
HAHAHA! Those stories are so funny... "Oh, I didn't pay? Well, I left a guitar there; you can keep it."
First
Where is Slash??? 😂
Apart from my wife, Danish women don't marry assholes. Seems a really likeable guy. Kind of envy him being new to Denmark - my first couple of years here were awesome. Then it becomes routine, like anything else.
I don’t want a Tracii Guns Star I want a Tracii Guns Les Paul 🤦🏻♂️
Could you make an nterview with John Frusciante? Please.
Signature guitar "so cool". Really?
He says "you know" all the time, couldnt watch.......you know?
How come these millionaire musicians in America can't afford decent sound quality fo their interviews???
Someone needs to take this guy’s hair dye away...
Great interview. Lot's of good info. Saw him live in Hull and absolutely killed it.