RockMusicStar.com's Thomas S. Orwat Jr. has issued a new interview with L.A. GUNS' Stacey Blades (guitar) and Scotty Griffin (bass). An excerpt follows:

Q: You’re currently promoting your new CD/LP/digital download, Hollywood Forever. I’ve heard it and I’m telling you, its one great rock record. I thought your last release, Tales From The Strip, was the album of the year when it came out in 2005, and this one is even better.

Stacey Blades: "We kind of look at it as kind of like a top form athlete that is put to the test. Since it was seven years since the last release, the pressure was really on. We had to write an album that was just as good as Tales From The Strip, if not better. But I’m really proud of everybody in the band, everyone really stepped it up. There are some amazing songs. We played around 80 shows last year, so everyone was really playing their asses off and in tip top shape. Once we started the pre-production we were happy with how the songs were shaping up. And we were just happy to be in the studio, especially with Andy Johns as our producer again. And we were excited for our fans, because it was such a long time between releases."

Q: It seemed like you weren’t in the studio too long, I read somewhere that it was less than a month.

SB: "I was more like six weeks."

Scotty Griffin: "Yeah, with pre-production. When we started, we had no finished songs, just maybe a riff here and there. So in just in a month’s time, we laid down all the tracks, but we still needed to work on the lyrics. But, overall the recording and mastering took about six full weeks. But yeah, it was kind of like old school doing it that way."

SB: "We were playing so well, that when we were recording the bed tracks, and guitars and everything and Phil was singing he ass off, we didn’t need to do it in multiple takes. Yes, there were songs that we did spend a lot of time on, but there were others that shaped up rather quickly. And with everyone playing so great, we really didn’t have to dick around a lot in the studio."

SG: "When we did the drums, originally, I was just playing along, and it sounded so good that we left a lot of the bass in, so it was live drums and live bass on the whole album."

SB: "You can definitely get the vibe from that when you listen to it."

SG: "Kind of like what Zeppelin use to do, and we had Andy Johns who did a great job recording us, so what do you expect."

Read the full interview at this location.

L.A. Guns will release their first studio album in seven years, titled Hollywood Forever, on June 5th. The band recently issued the second video from Hollywood Forever; a clip showcasing their take on 'Araña Negra' (originally recorded by THE BICICLETAS):

This is in addition to the video for 'You Better Not Love Me', which only came out a week ago:

The cover art and tracklisting for Hollywood Forever are as follows:

'Hollywood Forever'

'You Better Not Love Me'

'Eel Pie'

'Sweet Mystery'

'Burn'

'Vine St. Shimmy'

'Dirty Black Night'

'Underneath The Sun'

'Queenie'

'Crazy Tango'

'Venus Bomb'

'I Won’t Play'

'Requiem (Hollywood Forever)'

'Araña Negra' (originally recorded by THE BICICLETAS)

L.A. Guns plan to tour extensively in support of Hollywood Forever. Confirmed dates can be accessed at this location.