With respect to L.A. Guns‘ albums in the late ’90s that featured different singers, namely American Hardcore (1996) with Chris Van Dahl on lead vocals, Wasted EP (1998) with Ralph Saenz (who later became Steel Panther frontman Michael Starr) and Shrinking Violet (1999), with Jizzy Pearl, Riley indicated (with slight edits):
“I liked American Hardcore, it was a fun record to make. It was the first record that Tracii and I made after the ‘classic’ line-up had broken up. It was smack in the middle of the grunge era, we opted to do something heavier, I remember Tracii was a fan of Pantera. I was too, I was friends with Vinnie [Paul] and Dimebag and the rest of the guys in the band. He was dead set on doing a Pantera sounding record. We had already established o