#Hanoi rocks 80s plus#

There isn't much in common musically between GnR and Hanoi Rocks. However, they were apparently quite influential in the glam scene and shaping the fashion sensibilities of LA during the early '80s.Ĭan you think of other similarities between GnR and Hanoi Rocks? I've tried listening to many songs of Hanoi Rocks, and there aren't any other songs besides 'Lost In The City (live 1984)' that I love. In that video, the lead guitarist is Andy McCoy looks just like Izzy Stradlin. Of course, I only started listening to to Hanoi Rocks since last night, and I'm loving their live version of 'Lost In The City' from 1984.

#Hanoi rocks 80s plus#

Plus Axl looks like Mike Monroe here as well.įinally, Hanoi Rocks has a song where the lyrics state 'Welcome to the Jungle.' Izzy Stradlin looks just like the two at the top and right of this image. Here's a picture of Michael Monroe and Axl looks just like him in later years. Notice the hat at the far left? It's identical to what Slash wears now. Here's a picture of Hanoi Rocks around 1985. Hanoi Rocks has a very nice song called 'Lost In The City,' and one of the lyrics is 'Take me down.' I read about this association on Wiki, also. Towards the end of Rocket Queen, Axl sings 'Don't ever leave me.' There is still 'The Nottingham Tapes' from 1984 but the former is better.Hanoi Rocks has a song called 'Don't You Never Leave Me.

Pity it's currently unavailable on DVD as the band were on top form. If anyone wants to see the band at their peak, try and find footage of the 'All Those Wasted Years' video live from London's Marquee Club in 1983, which spawned the double live album of the same name. Some years later Mike Monroe and Andy McCoy reformed the group for a fairly long period but despite some decent material they couldn't regain their former glory.

If that's true, then the man's a gutless (insert expletive here.). A very drunk - and who knows what else - Vince Neil was driving the car which caused the fatality and I've never really forgiven him for it - to make things worse he allegedly has never apologised or expressed any remorse to Razzle's family.

Razzle's death did indeed spell the end for the band as prior to that they were very close-knit - bassist Sam Yaffa was so upset that he left shortly afterwards and despite staggering on for a few months with a new bass player that was pretty much game over (they split up after some indifferent gigs in Poland, as I recall). Of course, it was easy to spot the influences a mile off - New York Dolls, the Stones, Alice Cooper, even the Clash - but they went against the grain as regards the metal scene of that time and helped revive the sleazy glam/punk spirit of the 70s rather than wanting to flounder in a morass of overproduction while knocking out clichéd 100 MPH sub-Eddie Van Halen guitar solos or singing cheesy power ballads. One of the best bands I've ever seen - they really did restore my faith in rock & roll for a couple of glorious years in the early-mid 80s and influenced bands like the Dogs D'Amour, the Quireboys and the Babysitters. But they left a couple of great songs and great theatrics-here again is Until I Get You. Alas, many of HR succumbed to various addictions, drummer Razzle dying in a car crash while fetching more booze, and the group fell apart. Hanoi Rocks' mix of punk and glam metal never quite caught on (except in Japan, where they became cult objects), but the group are acknowledged to have been quite influential among their peers and successors. Fast-forward about a decade to the mid 1980s, and we meet the Fabulous Finns (and an Englishman) of Hanoi Rocks: ace guitarist Antti Hulkko (Andy McCoy), guitarist Jan-Markus Stenfors ('Nasty Suicide'), bassist Sami Yaffa, drummer Nicholas Dingley ('Razzle'), and the winsome, shy blonde lead vocalist and occasional saxophonist Matti Fagerholm (Michael Monroe). 1975-ish, and we have the glam blonde beauty of Sweet's Brian Connolly and his mates. The Sweet thread put me in mind of resurrecting the fine Hanoi Rocks concert clip I posted a ways back in another thread.