Two nights before outlaw country comes to Shooters Sports Bar in the form of David Allan Coe, something completely different will headline the Arkansas-side club.

This upcoming Monday it’s a night of rip-rockin’ Hollywood glam metal, Sunset Strip style, with Faster Pussycat and the LA Guns joined by Bang Tango and High 4.

On their Website, Faster Pussycat bill themselves as the kings of sleazy rock and roll. They got their start in Los Angeles in 1986 when Taime Downe formed the band.

From there, Faster Pussycat built up a fan base with albums like their debut “Faster Pussycat,” “Wake Me When It’s Over” and “Whipped,” the single “House of Pain” being a hit for the band with big hair and a snarling electric guitar sound.

Through its various incarnations and personnel changes, the hard rockin’ LA Guns have also been one of the standardbearers of the scene since the early 1980s. Axl Rose was one of the first band members but moved on to fame and fortune as part of Guns N’ Roses.

Now, there are two bands calling themselves LA Guns, one featuring early LA Guns vocalist Phil Lewis and another featuring Tracii Guns, founder of the band.

It’s the latter lineup with Guns coming to Shooters. The band’s new lead vocalist (lately of Chicago-based Lovehammers) is Marty Casey, who was one of the top two singers in the reality TV Show “Rock Star: INXS.”

“It was kind of like being in the right place at the right time,” said Casey in a phone interview before the band headed to Puerto Rico for a concert.

He’d worked in a songwriting capacity with the LA Guns crew before signing up as lead singer, so now he gets a chance to sing some of the songs he wrote. He said an album is due out March of next year.

Casey said LA Guns live shows will feature a bit of everything, including LA Guns songs from the first three albums, his song “Trees” from the Lovehammers, and some Brides of Destruction songs (Tracii Guns’ project with Mötley Crüe’s Nixxi Sixx).

Casey said he considers this version of the band the real one since Guns, the originator of the band, is in it. And he said he approaches the band with a voice to give those older LA Guns songs justice.

“It’s definitely an understanding that the band has had a history,” said Casey.

He said it’s pretty wild how much renewed interest there is in the LA Guns scene, though he said the band is more black leather metal than glam.

“I just think that it’s really exciting for all the original LA Guns fans,” Casey said, noting the blend of new fans and faithful ones make for a cool mix.



(Tickets: $10 in advance and $15 at the door. The show starts at 8 p.m.

Info: 870-773-4903.)