Sami (about a year after his departure): "Tired? I was mentally and physically tired, if you wanna say so. We had to boot Rene Berg 'cause he didn't cope with the constant playin'." Terry Chimes and Nasty Suicide plays with us (Cherry Bombz). During the fourth night we took all the spotlights off from where he was standing so he had to play in pitch black darkness."Īndy: "Hanoi Rocks was a good band but its story ended when Razzle died and Sami left. During the first gig we thought he moved too much on stage, at second night we cut his cable so short he couldn't move at all and at third we didn't even introduce him to the audience. I ran out of methadone and I noticed that Warsaw schmack didn't suit me at all. Everytime we had a dinner I was soaked with vodka. I went to his room and from his suitcase bursted out zillion different kind of pills. Sometimes Andy didn't have that sense."Īndy: "That so called bass player we hired to cover Sami was a total nightmare to us. You gotta know what you're doin' to make any sense to that. You can achieve to good results only if you believe in what you're doing. I don't want to do things where I can't give 100% contribution. Michael: "Hanoi was a way of life and a family to everyone of us but when two new blokes came in, that idea vanished and it was just a group with musicians in it. Rene Berg never was the guy who could fit in. Of course it's still there but the original spirit died with Razzle and Sami. Michael: "One thing I mostly miss from Hanoi Rocks was the friendshipness, we did all the things together. Band wasn't meant to continue and Razzle's death during the American tour was a clear sign about that." There aren't any bad feelings about breaking up 'cause I knew it was the right decision. Going through such a phase takes time and you can't erase it from your memory just like that and get involved into something new. It took me almost a year before I totally recovered. Michael: "Everyone understands that when you lose someone close to you it'll take a long time to get back. But when Razzle died and Sami wanted to leave I thought why grift anymore 'cause the family feeling was gone." Michael: "That band was so important thing to me that I wanted to keep on tryin' though we had our disputes. Everything changed after Razzle died and Rene Berg wasn't good enough bass player we needed." I had long before that feeling that it was useless to keep on goin'. He's cool."Īndy: "Breaking Hanoi up wasn't difficult. I can't work with people I don't respect and I can' t respect those who publically slam old bandmates down."Īndy: "I was the Hanoi Rocks! I still keep going on. Our collaboration worked for a while but then. Principally we were opposite to each other. Michael: "I really don't know why Andy acted such a way. I stopped writing own songs 'cause I thought it would be useless 'cause Andy wanted to control everything." I had influence only then when we made the arrangements 'cause Andy's songs had lots of different parts and that. At first I offered many good tunes to him but when I noticed he wanted to make all the decisions I stopped that. Michael: "I wrote many songs then" (during Hanoi Rocks period) "but you know how Andy felt about my songs. We wouldn't have that same feeling anymore and I didn't want to see that band on stage." Hanoi was going to be same kind of a band like Foreigner or Reo Speedwagon and I didn't want that to happen. Michael: "Andy wants to do everything by himself so it was useless for me to make any suggestions. I feel secure now, I can live as I like." When Nasty and Terry joined Andy, it wasn't an issue of who turns back on who. Michael: "Hanoi Rocks had two main characters, me and Andy and one of us had to always give in. Michael: "Hanoi was my dream and it came true. When Razzle walked in, Hanoi Rocks was then perfect." Razzle was the one who lighted up the spirit of the band. It used to have magic but now the band's just like any other rock'n'roll band. Most of the things that happened to Hanoi just happened, without plans. Its music would've been okay but not good enough for me. Hanoi wasn't the same kind of a band it used to be. All the signs pointed to the fact that I had to leave. I have fond memories from Hanoi but that thing had to stop. That would've hurt me more than done good. Michael: "The only thing I had in mind then was that I won't continue with Hanoi. Like Mike Monroe has said: "Opinions are like arseholes – everybody's got one". It's useless trying to collect them inside one entity. In this part we go through interviews from 1985 until this day about the break-up of the band.
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