VINCE NEIL HANOI ROCKS FULL

Harmless except to themselves ? Certainly not to the friends and family of Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas “Razzle”Dingby, who paid with his life for riding with Vince Neil in 1984 just before Theatre of Pain was recorded or to Tommy Lee ex-wife Pamela Anderson, who was kicked by Lee while she held their infant son (Lee did four months in jail for assault ) nor harmless to the family of 4 year-old Daniel Karven-Veres, who drowned in Lee’s pool during a June 2001 birthday party. Turns out I was wrong, about four million times over! Meanwhile, relatively new national influencer MTV went all in with saturation exposure for Theatre of Pain, particularly Motley Crue’s “Home Sweet Home” video. I absolutely loved “Looks That Kill” (and still do, can’t get enough ), but after hearing their record company’s choices for singles, first Motley Crue’s cover of a Brownsville Station mid-chart early Seventies pop song,”Smokin’ in the Boys Room” followed by a slow piano arrangement crooning”Home Sweet Home”, I decided that my Dallas-based regional powerhouse rock radio station would go easy on the airplay. Okay, it’s ‘fess up time for me regarding Motley Crue and their June 1985 third album, Theatre of Pain. In that instant, Vince Neil dropped the wireless microphone from his face to his side and, looking down at me in breathless bewilderment and amazement, rolled his eyes as if to say,”Can you believe this is my life?” It wasn’t Spinal Tap, it was pure Groucho Marx. Suddenly, as Neil reaches the edge of the stage closest to these wide-eyed young female fans, the girls simultaneously all lift their tops to expose matched pairs of bare breasts. Motley Crue ripped through a pile-driving version of “Looks That Kill” (which still makes me reach for the volume knob exactly the same way it first did in September 1983), and from my vantage point on the floor sidestage, Vince ran straight at me out onto a wing which extended almost to the first loge of seats just above my head, occupied by row after row of dancing, innocent-looking young women. After appearing earlier that afternoon on my Dallas radio show, Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil was running from side to side at the front lip of their huge stage during a 1989 stop on their Dr.Feelgood tour in front of 18,000 fans, everyone on their feet.

VINCE NEIL HANOI ROCKS FULL

Your best bet is finding them used, preferably on vinyl.In an alternate universe where being boring and predictable is the Original Sin, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx, and Tommy Lee of Motley Crue would be sanctified saints, because they have been waging jihad against the tyranny of the mainstream for a full four decades. Axl Rose re-released all of their albums on CD over a decade ago, but they've all gone out of print since then. Nowadays, Neil owns his own brand of tequilla. Razzle was killed instantly and Vince Neil did 15 days in jail. The two were both drunk speeding around in Neil's car when they crashed head-on onto another vehicle. In December of 1984, he was killed in a car crash caused by Vince Neil, singer of Motley Crue. Unfortunately the death of their second drummer Razzle (who replaced original drummer, Gyp Casino) signaled the end of the band. Looking at the pictures on the inner sleeve to Back To Mystery City makes you feel like they were the future of rock music at the dawn of the 80's. There's something very powerful about a band that look like junkie drag queens and play music that sounds like a hybrid of the Ramones, Little Richard, and African-Psychedelic-Tribal-Punk.

There was a drugged-out, hyper-active image to this band that co-existed with a vibe of sophistication. If you look deeper, you will see that they were a very original band that stood alone.

All of the stories about them ripping off bands and bands ripping them off are true and understandable but uninteresting at this point. Singer Michael Monroe had a very extreme rock star persona that went beyond comic book proportions. They did 5 studio albums and an amazing double live LP.

Their first album came out in 1981, and by 1985 they had broken up. Guitarist Andy McCoy had been in Briard, a punk band that had released a few 7' records in 1977. There's something about them that is genuinely mystifying. Everyone thinks they're hair metal but that's one of the biggest misconceptions about them. They're one of my all-time favorite bands.

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