L.A. Guns’ Phil Lewis Damaged a Fan’s Phone While Being a Dick, Now He’s Wanted by Police

Phone policies at live shows are nothing new these days. Tool has one. Glenn Danzig aggressively uses his. Fans just know to put the phone away or be extremely discreet if they’re going to snap some mementos at those gigs. Yet during a L.A. Guns show last year, a female fan’s altercation with vocalist Phil Lewis led to a damaged phone and an outstanding arrest warrant for the 67-year-old performer.

Originally reported by our friends over at Metal Sludge, the incident occurred during a July 2023 L.A. Guns show at Basement East in Nashville, Tennessee. A female fan named Corissa Heindl was standing in the front row and filming a bit of the performance when Lewis can be seen winding back and slapping the phone out of her hand.

It’s a dick move, for sure, but one that resulted in Heindl reporting the incident to local police a couple days later. In an exchange on social media, Lewis apologized — somewhat half-heartedly from the looks of it — saying “Oops my hand slipped. Apologies”. Heindl told him that apology doesn’t pay for the damaged phone.

Weeks later, she alerted Lewis that there was a simple assault warrant out for him in Davidson County that she fully intended on making sure the local police department executes it next time he’s in the area.

“It’s been too long now for you to have made this right. You didn’t succeed in having me tossed out of the Basement East, because you aren’t as known there as I am. And YOU WERE SO WRONG.”

And while this incident is super shitty, it’s not even the only one involving Lewis! Metal Sludge also reported last week on an incident where Lewis apparently kicked a Florida fan while going after his phone too.

In that incident, Lewis allegedly went after the man’s phone before kicking him at a Ft. Lauderdale show earlier this month. Just as it did in Nashville, those actions resulted in filing a police report against Lewis for battery.

Lewis has been super shitty about phones and filming at L.A. Guns shows for a while now. But if you want fans to put their phones away, make that a rule at your shows and have security enforce it. To physically attack one of your own fans, causing damage to a decide that can easily be worth hundreds of dollars or more, just because of your ego or some dumb bullshit like that? That’s not fucking okay.