![]() Life wasn’t easy for the group as they lived hand to mouth, begging on the streets along with other questionable activities being their main source of income for a while, but things would eventually take off for them after they performed a 102-day tour. Hanoi Rocks were formed in Finland in 1979 by Mike Monroe and Andy McCoy. They were a wall of noise with teased hair and eyeliner, a sonic statement that looked good in lipstick, they were beauty dragged through a hedge backward and brought the seedier side of life to the world in all its unapologetic glory.Īnd they are much more than a bit part in a Motley Crue film. Hanoi Rocks had more in common with The Stooges than Poison, drank deep from the well of punk instead of glam, and made music that you could drink, f*ck, or fight to better than any that had come before or any that have followed since. I’m also guessing that some of you took a look at the header that accompanies this column and decided that if all I was going to do was rant on about some old 80s hair-metal band, you’d cut out. Photo: Tuomas Vitikainen ( Andy McCoy – Ilosaarirock 2008 2 ), pitpony.After last week’s break from the norm, where I talked Birdeatsbaby with Mishkin Fitzgerald, we’re back to the usual format of me telling you what band you need in your life, and which are the five best songs to get you there. And that’s the kind of stuff you don’t wanna be tough with.” He was slapped around to be woken, because he overdosed. ![]() ![]() If I beat someone up with a baseball bat who’s unconscious, you think he’d live? Hell no. I want the reality out.”Īnother thing McCoy reflected on were Nikki Sixx’s claims that he was beaten by a baseball bat at a drug dealer’s flat, saying: So the movie is just pure lies and bollocks again. Hollywood bullshit.’ Sami was passed out on the sofa, and Vince’s pregnant wife, who was on her seventh or eighth month. When I saw that movie, or clips of it, I was, like, ‘I don’t wanna see the whole movie. You know what really happened? We were in a two-bedroom apartment. “Like the party in that movie, the Mötley Crüe movie, in some mansion. Regarding Mötley Crüe biopic “The Dirt” and the exaggerated recreation of the tragedy, he said: But no, this motherfucker - I don’t care to mention his name you know who he is - had to show off his second-hand fucking ugly Pantera, which ain’t even a nice car to me.” Reminded of the two injured people, he commented: You just don’t wanna make a buck for yourself. If you’re European like me, it’s something you don’t do. “I thought, and Michael Monroe thought, was the tackiest title, thinking about what had happened… That was in real tacky, bad taste. ![]() Reminded by the interviewer of Mötley Crüe’s decision to name one of the box sets “Music to Crash Your Car to,” McCoy commented: Additionally, two other people were seriously injured, sustaining lifelong consequences as a result. Of course, the bad blood between two bands goes back to the 1980s when Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley got killed in a car accident with Vince Neil driving under the influence. I don’t lie, like Nikki Sixx, through my fucking teeth.” “Yeah, their 25th goodbye tour or something. Reflecting on the band’s current tour, McCoy said (transcript via Blabbermouth): In a recent interview over at the Waste Some Time With Jason Green podcast, McCoy discussed various Mötley Crüe-related topics. Among those who aren’t thrilled about the reunion is Hanoi Rocks guitarist Antti Hulkko, popularly known as Andy McCoy.
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