“It ended up costing $700,000 that record, which is a piece of shit. I mean, the days were like, say, Steve would play a solo, and Wagner was just like, ‘Yeah, man, let’s do the solo,’ and I said, ‘No matter how great the solo is, it doesn’t save the song if the song doesn’t have it.’ I couldn’t get anyone to help me to stop the record, and they just continued. Although their album sales are strong, they are more widely known for their energetic live performances.
#HANOI ROCKS SOLD RECORDS TV#
It was my deal with Polygram Records.’ That was the worst time in my life. According to Finnish radio and TV personality Jone Nikula (who was also Hanoi Rocks tour manager in the 2000s), Hanoi Rocks albums have sold between 780,000 and 1,000,000 copies around the world, but mostly in Scandinavia and Japan.
It’s a record that everybody hates, and it’s not my record anymore. And I was freaking out, trying to stop the project, ‘This is not going to happen. “It was supposed to be a couple of weeks of guitars – ended up being three months of guitar hell. The set is all on colored vinyl, each disc on a different color one for each of the seven colors of the rainbow that the human eye can distinguish. It contains replicas of all seven 7 inches the band released in Finland from 1980 to 1984, with original picture sleeve art. Steven even started playing a completely different style that he knew I didn’t like.”ĭuring the recording process, Monroe began to realize just how much of a shitshow the album was becoming: This extravagant Hanoi Rocks singles collection is limited to 555 copies. It became this heavy metal noodling, million notes per second. Recorded at Finlands Seawolf Studios this year, the album includes the 1 European hit single Fashion, which also remained in the Finnish charts for three week. It turned into heavy metal histrionics, guitar solos, and it just took a turn for the worse. Artist: Hanoi RocksTitle: Street PoetryProduct Type: COMPACT DISCS2007 album from the legendary Finnish rockers. Lets rock because the Glam rockers of Hanoi Rocks are back this year with a new album Despite what a lot of people believe, the guys of Hanoi Rocks arent. I mean, I’m sure he’s a good producer, but he was the wrong combination, him and Steve Stevens together. “He was the worst possible person to produce. I was like, ‘What? You don’t want to do Little Steven to produce it, what I’m going to do now? He’s the guy I wanted to work with.’ Steve Stevens didn’t support me either on that and then they went for this German heavy metal producer, Michael Wagner, who was the flavor of the month, at the time, because he’d done the Ozzy Osbourne album. But then, the record company didn’t allow that. “I wanted Little Steven to produce it, and that would have been good.