It was life on the streets that would eventually shape the group’s attitude, image and sound. He would go on to reveal thatĪndy would live with his girlfriend during the time and Gyp had an apartment during their time in Sweden. We’d sometimes go to a bar and I’d chat up some girl, and when she’d invite me to her house, I’d say: “Do you mind if my friends come along?” Then when we got to the house we’d head straight for the fridge. We’d beg enough to get a hamburger to share, or a bottle of wine to forget about the hunger. So me, Sami Yaffa and Nasty Sicide were living on the streets for the first six months, begging for change. I had a few hundred Finnish marks, not much, when I left home and ended up in Stockholm. When we started Hanoi Rocks we were homeless. Most of the members were literally living in the street as Monroe would tell loudersound This is where things got difficult for the band. When Mccoy was ready to join the group they would relocate to Sweden and have drummer gyp casino and bassist Sami Yaffa joining the band. We’ll talk a little more about him later. At one of the band’s early shows a fellow named Seppo who was responsible for bringing iggy pop and the stooges to finland was in attendance and showed an interest in managing the band. The band soon hit the Finnish club circuit playing a mix of Cheap Trick, MC5 and The Police covers along with songs Monroe and Mccoy had written. The only members of the classic lineup who were in the first incarnation of the band were mike monroe and nasty sicide. But Mccoy did have an understanding with Monroe that he would eventually join Hanoi Rocks. Riding the bus one day Andy suggested the band name “Chinese Rocks” named after the Johnny Thunders song and then “Hanoi Rocks” and well the rest was history.Īnd Hanoi Rocks would be formed in 1979, but funny enough Mccoy wasn’t in the first incarnation of the group because he was still playing in his other band. Andy was in a new band at the time named Pelle (pellay) Miljoona but was still interested in forming a band with monroe. By the summer of 1979 monroe was back again in Sweden and would meet future hanoi rocks rhythm guitarist Nasty Sicide through Andy McCoy. The band would quickly fell apart and Michael moved back to Helsinki. Monroe eventually left home and moved to Stockholm, Sweden and started another punk band called Nymphomaniac. Im not going to be a slave to fashion he’d remember so i said no and me and andy talked about putting a real band together the way we thought a cool rock band should be and that’s how Hanoi started.After skipping the army I wasn’t going to cut my hair just to be in a band he’d say While Monroe was against cutting his hair, the seeds of Hanoi Rocks were being carefully planted as he would tell Louder Sound “the punk thing was great, but you can join our punk band if you cut your hair. It was there that the two met and started talking and started hit it off and Monroe at one point almost joined Mccoy’s band, but was told he had to cut his hair. And in 1976 Monroe would play in a band called Madness and he just happened to share the same rehearsal space and drummer with guitarist Andy Mccoy Who played in a punk rock band named Briard. Also influencing monroe at a young age was the first wo concerts he ever went to as a kid which was the band slade and sweet.
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Monroe would reveal in his autobiography thatsHis real first exposure to rock n’ roll was seeing Black Sabbath perform a show in paris on TV and that memory would stay with him for the rest of his life. His father was a famous radio and TV personality. Hanoi Rocks frontman Mike Monroe was born as Matti Antero Kristian Fagerholm in 1962 in Finland.
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And Hanoi Rocks could’ve went on to become one of the biggest bands of the 80’s had it not been for a terrible tragedy that served as the catalyst to derail the band. In fact someone had to show those bands the way and Hanoi Rocks was up to the challenge.
While yes they would play an important role in the hair metal scene of the 80’s it was more having to do with who they influenced including Guns N’ Roses, Skid Row and Poison. Don’t forget to smash the bell notification icon to be notified every time I put out a new video on my channel.Now formed in Finland in 1979 by singer Mike Monroe and guitarist Andy Mccoy Hanoi rocks shared more in common wit traditional rock n’ roll, glam and punk than the LA hair metal scene that they are associated with. What’s going on my fellow rock n’ rollers.