West Arkeen(1960-1997)
- Composer
West Arkeen is an American musician and song-writer.
West Arkeen was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France and grew up in San Diego, California. He was the grandson of Russian-Jewish immigrants and the son of Morris Arkeen. Arkeen started playing guitar when he was 14 years old. After having only one guitar lesson, Arkeen was a self-taught guitar player.
Arkeen worked in the oil industry in Texas and as a slot machine repairman in Las Vegas, before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a music career at age 21. After several years of struggling to launch a career, Arkeen befriended a group of musicians, later to be known as Guns N' Roses . Arkeen co-wrote 'Yesterday', 'It's So Easy', 'Crash Diet', 'Bad Obsession', 'The Garden', 'Sentimental Movie' for Guns N' Roses. Arkeen also penned 'Make Your Play' and 'Pressure' for Brother Cane , and co-wrote 'My Misery' for Phantom Blue .
After working on other songs with the band for their double set Use Your Illusion I and II, Arkeen started his own project in 1995, The Outpatience. Featuring vocalist Mike Shotton, bassist James Hunting, guitarist Joey Hunting, drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. and keyboardist Gregg Buchwalter, the band released their debut album, Anxious Disease in 1996 in Japan. The album has connections to Guns N' Roses : Axl Rose , Slash and Duff McKagan appear as guest artists and Izzy Stradlin co-wrote one of the songs.
West Arkeen was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France and grew up in San Diego, California. He was the grandson of Russian-Jewish immigrants and the son of Morris Arkeen. Arkeen started playing guitar when he was 14 years old. After having only one guitar lesson, Arkeen was a self-taught guitar player.
Arkeen worked in the oil industry in Texas and as a slot machine repairman in Las Vegas, before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a music career at age 21. After several years of struggling to launch a career, Arkeen befriended a group of musicians, later to be known as Guns N' Roses . Arkeen co-wrote 'Yesterday', 'It's So Easy', 'Crash Diet', 'Bad Obsession', 'The Garden', 'Sentimental Movie' for Guns N' Roses. Arkeen also penned 'Make Your Play' and 'Pressure' for Brother Cane , and co-wrote 'My Misery' for Phantom Blue .
After working on other songs with the band for their double set Use Your Illusion I and II, Arkeen started his own project in 1995, The Outpatience. Featuring vocalist Mike Shotton, bassist James Hunting, guitarist Joey Hunting, drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. and keyboardist Gregg Buchwalter, the band released their debut album, Anxious Disease in 1996 in Japan. The album has connections to Guns N' Roses : Axl Rose , Slash and Duff McKagan appear as guest artists and Izzy Stradlin co-wrote one of the songs.