The E Street Band journeyman will release Demolition 23 on his Wicked Cool Records in October, complete with new artwork from Monroe's guitarist Rich Jones and vintage photos from the singer's archives. Watch Hanoi Rocks Play 'Under My Wheels' Live at the Marquee in 1983Īs if that weren't enough, next year will also see the reissue and first-ever vinyl release of Demolition 23, the self-titled 1994 debut album from Monroe's short-lived punk band, which featured former Hanoi Rocks bassist Sami Yaffa and was largely written and produced by Steven Van Zandt. We were supposed to do that first because we used to play it live. "We were gonna record 'Under My Wheels' with Alice, and then that never happened. "When we were doing Two Steps From the Move, Bob Ezrin was trying to get Alice to come to the studio, but Alice couldn't make it back then," he explains. The singer's connection to Cooper goes back decades, as Hanoi Rocks covered the shock-rocker's classic "Under My Wheels" on their 1984 live album All Those Wasted Years. And he was telling me all these stories about the early days in Detroit when they were playing with the MC5 - Alice Cooper, MC5 and Iggy and the Stooges, a great lineup, and Ted Nugent and the whole Detroit scene." "Early in the day, we were in a hotel, and I filmed a clip with me and Alice in a hotel room talking about rock 'n' roll. "We got a cool with Alice Cooper when we were out touring with him in Milan," he says. He's looking for somebody to translate his eponymous 2011 autobiography into English, and he plans to release a documentary about his life and career next year. Monroe will keep his foot on the gas well into 2023. There's a bunch of stuff that I didn't even know existed. "But at the same time, we found a couple more multitrack tapes with outtakes from the first album and second one as well.
"We're gonna keep the album as it was, with just a better sound," he explains.
The singer says there won't be any bonus tracks on the remixed Oriental Beat, but he did find other goodies alongside the original multitrack tapes that could eventually see the light of day. Monroe says the new-and-improved Oriental Beat - "the remix, the real mix," with "no overdubs, just as it was" - will arrive this November. But fate smiled on the band when a Universal Music employee uncovered the original multitracks in a warehouse. Hanoi Rocks originally wanted to remix Oriental Beat in the early '90s, when Guns N' Roses re-released their catalog on their Uzi Suicide vanity label, but the original multitrack recordings were lost and presumed gone forever. So all you can hear is like snare drum and vocal, and it just really ruined the whole record, probably set us back for a couple of years because of the sound of that record." "There's a lot of great songs, but the mix was really, really bad. "The second was produced by this guy, Peter Woolliscroft - it was really horrible," Monroe tells UCR. While the album helped boost the Finnish glam-punks' international profile and features some of their most beloved songs, including the title track and "Motorvatin'," the band members have frequently and emphatically criticized its subpar production. First up is a remixed, 40th-anniversary reissue of Oriental Beat, the second album by Monroe's original band, Hanoi Rocks. The tireless rocker just released his latest solo album, I Live Too Fast to Die Young, in June, and he's got a slew of other projects in the works for the near future.
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