For this week's video, I needed to look no further than VH-1 Classic for inspiration. A couple of days ago I turned on my favorite channel and this was the first vid I saw - L.A. Guns' "I Wanna Be Your Man," from 1989's Cocked and Loaded.
I was never a huge L.A. Guns fan, although "Ballad of Jayne" remains one of my favorite power ballads of all-time. I couldn't really remember any other songs of theirs that I truly liked until I saw this video again. I'm reminded that it was played on MTV quite a bit and that I really dug it. I always had kind of a crush on lead singer Phil Lewis, too. What was it about androgynous, painfully skinny, leather-clad, long-haired sleazebags that was so appealing to me in those days? Who knows. Looking at this video again, I'm starting to think he actually looks like a brunette, glam-rock version of Jodie Foster.
By the way...since I wasn't able to include a forgotten classic last week, stay tuned for lots of vids this week. (Not all forgotten or classics.)
I was never a huge L.A. Guns fan, although "Ballad of Jayne" remains one of my favorite power ballads of all-time. I couldn't really remember any other songs of theirs that I truly liked until I saw this video again. I'm reminded that it was played on MTV quite a bit and that I really dug it. I always had kind of a crush on lead singer Phil Lewis, too. What was it about androgynous, painfully skinny, leather-clad, long-haired sleazebags that was so appealing to me in those days? Who knows. Looking at this video again, I'm starting to think he actually looks like a brunette, glam-rock version of Jodie Foster.
By the way...since I wasn't able to include a forgotten classic last week, stay tuned for lots of vids this week. (Not all forgotten or classics.)
Comments
Okay, okay, "Electric Gypsy" still kicks major ass, yeah! Glam at its finest, yeah!
I always wondered what it would've been like if Tracii stayed in Guns N' Roses? I mean Slash defines the G-N-R sound.
Or you could blog all the street musicians. Get busy - your public awaits. Well, the Canuckian Social Misfit awaits - not exactly "public", but a fan, nonetheless.
I don't think about L.A. Guns as much as Guns and Roses. I'd forgotten not only about this video, but about this song.
You are doing a tremendous service.
That's a danger in being drawn to those androgenous types, innit?
-- david
I don't remember this song, but I wasn't much of an LA Guns fan either.