''Vicious Circle'' is the fourth album by the American
hard rock
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band
L.A. Guns
L.A. Guns is an American glam metal band from Los Angeles, formed in 1983. The lineup currently consists of Tracii Guns (lead guitar), Phil Lewis (lead vocals), Ace Von Johnson (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Johnny Martin (bass, backing vo ...
. The first single was "Long Time Dead".
The band supported the album with a North American tour.
Production
Michael "Bones" Gersema drums on several songs.
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I'd Love to Change the World
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" is a cover of the
Ten Years After song.
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Critical reception
The '' Chicago Tribune'' stated that the band "hasn't wandered a bit from the glam metal they helped popularize in the late '80s—a raunchy sound that makes the true headbanger cringe," but conceded that the album "also features some danceable tunes."[ The '']Calgary Herald
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History
''The ...
'' determined that "bow-taut guitar solos are slung against arrows of melody fired at the bulls-eye of '70s rock."[ '' The Tampa Tribune'' opined that "guitarist Tracii Guns' trigger-finger riffs still fire faster than a speeding bullet."][
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Track listing
Personnel
* Phil Lewis – lead vocals except on "Nothing Better to Do", acoustic guitar
*Tracii Guns
Tracy Richard Irving Ulrich (born January 20, 1966), known professionally as Tracii Guns, is an American guitarist best known as the co-founder of glam metal group L.A. Guns, as well as the Supergroup (music), supergroups named Brides of Destru ...
– lead guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
* Mick Cripps – lead and rhythm guitar, piano, keyboards, bass on track 4, backing vocals
* Kelly Nickels – bass guitar, lead vocals on "Nothing Better to Do", backing vocals
;Additional musicians
*Guy Griffin – acoustic guitar on track 15
*Michael “Bones” Gersema – drums on tracks 1, 5, 9, 13–17, backing vocals on tracks 1, 13 and 14
*Myron Grombacher – drums on tracks 2, 10–12
* Nickey Alexander – drums on track 4
* Steve Riley – drums on track 7
*Doni Gray – drums on track 8
*Steve Councel – harmonica on track 8, 14 and 15, backing vocals on track 8
*Cliff Brodsky – piano on track 8
*Steve Dior
Steve Dior is a British musician, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter best known for being in bands such as The London Cowboys, Filthy Lucre and The Idols.
Career
In 1976, Dior and Barry Jones built the basis of The Idols after previously rehe ...
– backing vocals on track 2
*Jim Wirt – backing vocals
;Production
*Jim Wirt – producer, engineer, mixing of tracks 6, 11 to 13
*Michael James Jackson – producer and engineer on "Crystal Eyes"
*Dan Daniel, Dennis Degher, Jeff Graham, Mark Shoffner, Marnie Riley, Tim Allison – assistant engineers
*Mick Guzauski
Nathan "Mick" Guzauski is an American multi-platinum mixing engineer and sound engineer.
His work spans a wide range of styles, including jazz, R&B, Latin, rock, pop, easy listening, funk and hip hop. He won a 2002 Latin Grammy for Thalía's ...
– mixing of tracks 1 to 5, 7 to 10, 14, 15
* Stephen Marcussen – mastering
*Robert Bisbo – album cover art
Charts
References
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L.A. Guns albums
1994 albums
Polydor Records albums