active, releasing The First Record in 2013 followed by The Second Record in 2014. The original L.A. Guns remained stable with a lineup of Lewis, Blades, Hamilton and Riley until March 2007, when Hamilton left the band to focus on his work as a record producer. Scotty Griffin was announced as his replacement a few days later. Griffin remained until July 2009, when he left to focus on The King Mixers; he was replaced by Kenny Kweens, who had recently left Beautiful Creatures. Griffin returned in January 2011, after Kweens decided to leave. This lineup released Hollywood Forever – its first studio album in seven years – in June 2012. After six months touring for the album, Blades announced his departure from L.A. Guns in December 2012 due to "extenuating circumstances and musical differences". Frank Wilsey was announced as the guitarist's replacement a week later, however a month later he was replaced by former Endeverafter frontman Michael Grant. In September 2014, Kweens replaced Griffin for a second time as the band's bassist. 2016 onwards: Guns returns to the group In September 2016, it was announced that Tracii Guns would be rejoining L.A. Guns for the first time since leaving in 2002, after the guitarist had reunited with vocalist Phil Lewis at several shows the previous year billed as "L.A. Guns' Phil Lewis and Tracii Guns". On December 1, Lewis announced that he would no longer be a member of the band as of January 1, 2017; however, it was quickly added by the group's new label Frontiers Records that the vocalist was referring to the version of the band featuring bassist Kenny Kweens and drummer Steve Riley, who would be replaced with Johnny Martin and Shane Fitzgibbon, respectively. The band released The Missing Peace in 2017, which was the first studio album by Lewis and Guns together in 15 years. After touring in promotion of the release, Michael Grant left L.A. Guns in March 2018. Although his departure was initially announced to be his choice, Grant later claimed that he was fired for "absolutely no reason". Grant was initially replaced by Johnny Monaco, who had recently left Enuff Z'Nuff. However, by June he had left the band and been replaced by former bassist Adam Hamilton, with Lewis claiming that Monaco "hated the travel and just wanted to focus on his own stuff". Hamilton had left again by early 2019, with