How's that for an introduction? I don't think I could have said it better. I hope to see you all down the road, but in the meantime, keep on digging the new album.You know what happens when you connect a frogs leg to a 12-volt battery it twitches right? Imagine what would happen if you ran 6000 volts through your cat when it wasn't looking? It'd go beserk right? That's what Hanoi Rocks are like on stage!! I definitely want to play there as soon as possible. He won’t up on the dream, though: “I don’t want people to think that I don’t want to play there. “Unless you get on a really big tour, playing in clubs for a couple of hundred people in the Midwest, it’s like no one’s ever going to notice.” “We can’t afford to at this point,” he says. He would love to hit the United States, but he hasn’t played here since 2016 because it’s too expensive unless his band is paired as a support act with a group that’s doing a stadium run. tour last fall and resumes touring Europe on Feb. I sing, ‘I ain’t walkin’ on water, but I know a trick or two,’ which means, ‘Well, I ain’t perfect, but I’ve got a trick or two up my sleeve.’ Then there’s the line ‘Everybody’s pissin’ on their own parade,’ which is about how people often behave or vote against their own self-interest, like with Brexit, and to remind them about PMA - positive mental attitude - to make their own life better.” One of his favorite cuts is the title track, which he admits “is mostly about me. “Last Train to Tokyo” is a tribute to Japan, and what it’s like to visit while “really jet-lagged and tired and you’re only there for about a week or so, and you’re feeling exhausted and overwhelmed by the whole thing,” he says. But,” Monroe says, laughing, “it’s mostly about paranoid people doing blow.” “Helsinki Shakedown,” which was written in a hotel in that town, is about touring, the downtime between shows and lobby calls, and how to fill that space. It also has songs about cities that inspire Monroe: “Hollywood Paranoia” checks “so-called VIP rock bars and people doing coke and drinking cheap champagne and thinking they’re living some kind of high life. It features guest appearances from the Damned’s Captain Sensible (lead guitar on “One Man Gang”), Hanoi Rocks co-founder Nasty Suicide (lead guitar on “Wasted Years”), Apocalyptica’s Eicca Toppinen (cello on “Low Life in High Places”) and Finnish jazz musician Tero Saarti (trumpet on “Heaven Is a Free State”). One Man Gang was produced by Monroe, Jones and Conte, and recorded in Sipoo, Finland. And Karl - it’s funny, because when we found him in L.A., we had no idea he was born in Finland - was just a perfect fit.” Sami is my blood brother and a friend of mine for years, and he writes great riffs Steve and Rich write great songs and lyrics. Everybody writes and contributes in this gang. “We all share the same kind of view on life and like the same kind of music. “The band is called Michael Monroe, but we’re still a band of guys, so I thought it was appropriate to call it One Man Gang,” he explains. The album rocks, says Monroe, because the band does. Sammy Hagar and The Circle Announce Summer Tour With Whitesnake, Night Ranger But his ninth solo studio effort is well worth the wait: along with his band - guitarists Steve Conte and Rich Jones, drummer Karl “Rockfist” Rosqvist and longtime collaborator/bassist Sami Yaffa, another Hanoi Rocks alumnus - Monroe has delivered one of his best albums, from the insanely catchy title track to the contagious “Last Train to Tokyo.” (He also resurrected Hanoi Rocks from 2002-2009.) Until the October 2019 release of his latest album, One Man Gang (Silver Lining Music), it had been about four years since his last album, Blackout States, due to Monrow changing up his management, label and booking agent. Monroe carried on with a solo career, starting with 1987’s Nights Are So Long. Neil pleaded guilty to charges of vehicular manslaughter and drunk driving.) (Two people in the other vehicle suffered grave injuries. But Hanoi Rocks sadly never achieved the level of the success as other bands it had influenced, disbanding not long after drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley was killed in a 1984 accident while he was a passenger in Motley Crue singer Vince Neil’s car. Jyrki further posits that the man and band “belong in the top five of dangerous and influential rock’n’roll bands, along with The Rolling Stones, The New York Dolls, MC5 and The Stooges.” Guns N’ Roses paid tribute in 1989 when it rereleased Hanoi Rocks’ catalog on GNR’s vanity label, Uzi Suicide/Geffen.
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