Bassist Kelly Nickels of L.A Guns waa asked about the sunset strip rock scene from the ’80’s, where he told the Australian magazine ”Heavy”:
“I wouldn’t say it was a united front.
He continued:
“We were all kind of indirectly maybe trying to outdo each other and stuff, hoping to draw the bigger crowds and sell more records and everything. You were kind of focused on what you were doing that you didn’t really pay attention to other bands that much.
”I knew who was happening and who people were talking about, but I didn’t go see them or hang out with them. I was worried about my own sh*t.”
Asked if he thinks the rock world will ever encounter another influential scene like that again, Nickels said:
“I don’t know. There are not too many scenes coming around anymore, I don’t think. That really helped. Fashion was big, and the music, and there was a pulse coming out of there.
I don’t know if you’ll ever see that again. Hopefully something will come and give it some kind of focus. But it’s hard to say. It just comes from everywhere now.”