![]() ![]() In Japan, Hanoi Rocks success was even bigger. Hanoi Rocks mania reached a fever pitch when, after a show in Bombay, rabid fans caused a riot with local police because they would not leave the venue! The Times of India ran a front-page headline the next day exclaiming: Rock Band Causes A Riot. They toured India, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Japan. With a new drummer in place, the band set out to conquer the Far East. tour was completed, drummer Casino was let go and replaced by Nicholas Razzle Dingley. After another highly successful and sold-out U.K. While in London, the band recorded Oriental Beat, released in 1982. Because the headliner’s audience could not believe what they saw, the word of Hanoi Rocks amazing and energetic live show started spreading around the United Kingdom. In October of 81, the band went to England to tour as the support act for Wishbone Ash. Hanoi Rocks debut album, Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks, was released in March of 1981. After early growing pains, guitarist Nasty Suicide, bassist Sam Yaffa, and drummer Gyp Casino completed the lineup. Hanoi Rocks started in 1980 with vocalist Michael Monroe and guitarist Andy McCoy. Hanoi Rocks no doubt pioneered a sound that in turn inspired bands such as M tley Cr e and Guns N Roses (who later re-released the band’s earlier recordings on their own Uzi Suicide label through Geffen Records) to become household names and platinum-selling artists. Following in the footsteps of such glam godfathers as The New York Dolls, Dead Boys, The Stooges, and Kiss, Hanoi Rocks adopted the glam look and the one-foot-in-the-gutter-reaching-for-the-gold lifestyle that would become so commonplace on L.A.’s Sunset Strip only a few short years after their break up. In short, true rock n roll is back with a vengeance.ĭuring the first half of the glorious 80s, Finland’s Hanoi Rocks reached worldwide fame behind five studio albums, a double live record, and countless greatest hits compilations. After over 17 years of being apart, the uncompromising musical talent of the songwriting duo of Michael Monroe and Andy McCoy have written and recorded Twelve Shots On The Rocks, which raises the fist of true rock glitz and oozes with the sleazy glam lifestyle that present day bands merely copy. Since then, he has made some guest appearances with Monroe's band.Hanoi Rocks means one thing: rock n roll attitude. In 2010, Suicide also played a show with Michael Monroe in August 2010 at Ankkarock Festival, replacing Steve Conte who had to cancel due to family reasons. Suicide made a few guest appearances with the reformed Hanoi Rocks in the 2000s. After graduating from high school, he educated himself as a pharmacist and currently works in a drug company in Finland. Suicide retired from the rock scene in the mid-1990s and moved back to Finland (which was the reason why Demolition 23 broke up), where he finally finished his studies in high school. After the breakup of Demolition 23, Suicide recorded an album under his given name, titled Vinegar Blood, in 1996 it was released in Finland only. Suicide was also a member of Monroe's band Demolition 23 in the early nineties, in which he replaced original guitarist Jay Hening. Nasty Suicide also appears on Michael Monroe's second solo album Not Fakin' It, released in 1989, as a co-writer and guitarist. In 1988 Suicide made a short appearance in Guns N' Roses' music video for "Paradise City". After The Cherry Bombz Nasty went on to form his own band Cheap and Nasty, which was active from 1990 to 1994. The Cherry Bombz released two EPs: The Cherry Bombz (1985) and House Of Ecstasy (1986) as well as a live album, Coming Down Slow (1986). At the same time McCoy and Suicide started The Cherry Bombz, which included Timo Caltio on bass (later replaced by Dave Tregunna), Terry Chimes on drums and singer Anita Chellemah. After the breakup of Hanoi Rocks in 1985, he and his former bandmate Andy McCoy recorded an acoustic album under the name The Suicide Twins which was released in 1986 and was titled Silver Missiles and Nightingales. Suicide replaced Andy McCoy in Briard after McCoy joined Pelle Miljoona Oy. Before his tenure in Hanoi Rocks, Suicide played guitar in a Finnish punk band called Briard in the late 1970s. Hanoi Rocks was a Finnish rock band that combined elements of punk, glam rock, rock and roll, and blues. He is most famous for being one of the founding members of Hanoi Rocks, the group's rhythm guitarist between 19. Nasty Suicide (born Jan-Markus Stenfors on 27 February 1963) is a Finnish musician. ![]()
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