I think it’s all a learning and growing experience. How have your experiences contributed to the way you see and create music now? You’ve had quite a diverse musical career and the list of bands and collaborations you’ve done have really stacked up over the years. It still does, but now I just bring a bucket with me. The whole music industry just made me vomit. I actually stopped playing for like three years after that. Everybody was a huge mess and when that happened it was just icing on the cake. There were personal problems between the band members and a lot of drug problems from hell. They just wanted to put us back on the road and keep going as usual. The management didn’t really give a flying fuck about it. I don’t think we had the mechanism to deal with it we were way too young. When that happened, I’d just turned 21 and we’d been on the road for like five years solid and basically very, very burned out. Was part of the reason you left Hanoi Rocks at that time was because of the death of your drummer Razzle? I was in the original band not in the current re-incarnation of it. They resurrected Hanoi Rocks maybe like four or five years ago. Yeah, it was the original Hanoi Rocks from 1980 to ’85. You were in Hanoi Rocks and you were with them for five of their albums. You’re currently in two bands, The New York Dolls and Mad Juana, but let’s talk about some of the old stuff you’ve done. While on vacation in the vineyards of Southern California, Sami and Karmen chatted with Submerge about the past, the present and their future stage-stop in Sacramento with fellow members of Mad Juana. 5 on iTunes, due for a physical release on Sept. The band released their new album, Bruja on the Corner on Aug. Even when playing acoustic guitar with his vocalist wife Karmen Guy in the diverse, “globalista” band Mad Juana. But through the bands, the years and the different cities, Yaffa is still rock ‘n’ roll. He’s lived in Finland, New York City, a Spanish Isle and now in Ocean Beach, San Diego. He’s been glamorously shaggy and eclectically chic. He started touring when he was 15 years old and has been in more bands than you can count on one hand. He was a co-founder of the Finnish Glam rock group Hanoi Rocks in the ’80s. Ari Väntänen’s Razzle biography is a touching and funny read.” - Jouni Hirn, ”It feels like a large group of those who knew Razzle had gathered together to reminisce him… Razzle was a lovable rogue and the glue that kept Hanoi Rocks intact.” Kimmo Rantanen, TS ”The book flows smoothly and answers a lot of questions.” Vilho Rajala, ”Throughout the book, the atmosphere is sad and beautiful… A book of memories like this is the best way to capture Razzle’s story.Mr. Razzle lived fast and died young, but he affected countless lives. Together with old interview quotes, their stories create an image of a lovable rascal who was always up for a practical joke, kept his band together, and loved his rock’n’roll lifestyle from the bottom of his soul. But who really was Razzle, and what was his life like? To answer these questions, the author of this book interviewed dozens of people who knew Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley. His life ended in a car accident involving the singer in Mötley Crüe. A funny and wistful saga of a mythical cult icon.
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