BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION guitarist
Tracii Guns has posted the following message on the band's official web site:
"I just got back from Europe with the
BRIDES. This was by far the most fun i have ever had in Europe. We traveled by van and I was able to finally see everything I possibly could on our own clock. Italy was just unreal.
"Now for the burning question.
"Yes, I am joining
QUIET RIOT for all of 2006. We are going to record a record and support it by touring the world.
"How did this end up happening, you may ask? Well, it's very simple really.
"
Randy Rhoads started
QUIET RIOT with
Kevin DuBrow. I never had the pleasure of meeting
Randy, but I did meet
Kevin when I was 14 years old at Freedom Guitar in Hollywood and that was the first time I have ever been star-struck in my life.
QUIET RIOT was the big fish at that time in Los Angeles.
"When I was 17 and going to college,
QUIET RIOT came out with 'the huge record' and that's all i listened to until
MÖTLEY CRÜE's
'Shout at the Devil' came out. All of the guys in
QUIET RIOT —
Kevin,
Frankie [
Banali],
Carlos [
Cavazo] and
Rudy [
Sarzo] — have always known of my love of their band, so at this time
Frankie and
Kevin took a stab and asked me if I would like to join the band. I didn't even have to think about. I committed at least one year of my time to
QUIET RIOT and possibly more in the future.
"What is going to happen to the
BRIDES?
"Right now, the future of the
BRIDES is not clear. We have not broken the band up, but we also will not be working or playing in 2006. The
BRIDES is constantly a work in progress and I would feel alot better about the band if
Nikki [
Sixx] were to return, but I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon, so for now, it is what it is. The
BRIDES have the most loyal fans a band could ever want, even without
Nikki, and all of us do not take them for granted, and as soon as it is possible to give more back to the fans, I KNOW WE WILL."
BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION's video for the track
"White Trash" has been posted online at
Yahoo! Music. The clip was shot on August 20 at the Lake Castaic mobile home storage facility.
"White Trash" comes off the band's sophomore album,
"Runaway Brides", available now on
Shrapnel Records.
The follow-up to last year's
"Here Come the Brides",
"Runaway Brides" was recorded in part at a studio in Malibu, California with producer
Andy Johns, who has previously worked with guitarist
Tracii Guns on the
L.A. GUNS'
"Waking the Dead" album (which
Guns has referred to as "my favorite
L.A. GUNS record.").
Johns was reportedly involved with the album during its early recording stages but ended up leaving the project due to unspecified differences with
Guns and the rest of the band.