Tracii Guns

Tracii Guns is one of those figures where the footnote turns out to be more interesting than the headline — he's often introduced as "the guy who was in Guns N' Roses before Slash," which is technically true but sells him wildly short. He co-founded L.A. Guns back in the mid-80s on the Sunset Strip, and that band's sleazy, hook-driven hard rock aged a lot better than most of its peers. What I genuinely respect about Tracii is that he never chased the nostalgia circuit on autopilot — he kept tinkering, forming Brides of Destruction with Nikki Sixx, recording through quieter eras without a major label safety net, and eventually returning to L.A. Guns as its creative anchor. The riff work is deceptively tasteful for glam metal, and the guy clearly loves playing guitar more than he loves any particular spotlight.

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Name (English)

Tracii Guns

Name (Japanese)

トレイシー・ガンズ

Reading

とれいしー・がんず

Born

January 20, 1966 (age 60)

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation

guitarist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Horse

High school

Fairfax High School

• Official sitehttp://www.traciigunsofficial.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/traciiguns/
• Xhttps://x.com/traciiguns
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracii%20Guns
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q592483

Tags

• California
• guitarist

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.