L.A. Guns is a rock band from Los Angeles, California, originally formed in 1983 and continuing on today. During the 1980s the band's first three albums gained some commercial success, though historically the band is perhaps most noteworthy because its original members went on to form Guns N' Roses. The music of L.A. Guns is frequently associated with the L.A. glam metal scene which grew up around the Sunset Strip in the 1980s, in particular the sleaze rock subgenre, of which Guns N' Roses (which once featured three of the original L.