A bit of Clash, Dickies, NY Dolls, Nips and Rolling Stones.

yep storming band, i only saw them once at Reading83. Firmly believe if that moron from Motley Crue hadn't wiped out Razzle that they'd have been huge, "2 steps from the move" had everything, great sons and production, just unable to tour it due to dead drummer!Mind you, i suspect the flipside of being huge for them would have meant heroin killing at least one of them! Mike Monroe was a great opening act for MH a couple of years back, mind you we are privileged, they always go out with some great opening acts, proper VFM

I would have loved to have seen Hanoi Rocks live, but sadly never got the opportunity. I was never really in to the whole hairspray/glam image thing, but the sleeve of their first album really caught my eye when I saw it in a record shop. I have 3 or 4 of their LP's on vinyl but haven't bothered to upgrade to CD versions for some reason, an oversight I must put right. Agree about Mike Munroe supporting Motorhead. Saw the Nottingham gig and he was superb especially his walkabout across the balcony, including his microphone packing up once he got there. Good to see Ginger 'Wildheart' onstage with him too.

yeah MM always goes wild onstage, climbs here there and every bloody where! I never distinguished between the glam stuff ands metal stuff really, to me was always just "guys with guitars", used to go and see indie bands back then, too, the Smiths were always great. The Hanoi live at the marquee is a belter, as musicmatt says, but at this stage you'd probably be best served by any of the numerous compilations, there was an excellent one called "dead by christmas" awhile back. Ironically, one of their songs and, if memory serves, Razzle died in Deecember, now thats spooky.
Ginger is a bit eclectic, I love his poppier stuff but when he goes all deathmetal, i lose interest. Nice guy, ran into him at a family monkey park when we were with respective families, very personable guy. Him with the Monroe band was great, sadly personality clashes with maanagement saw him off, pty as MM needs a songwriting foil like him

I replaced all my old Hanoi vinyl a couple of years ago. There is a great little box set called lightnin' bar blues, and it has all the old albums in mini reproductions of the original sleeves. The price was really good too.

I never saw them live either. I was all ready to go to THAT marquee gig and for some stupid reason me and my friend decided against it. I've kicked myself ever since.

yeah i had a "blonde moment" and opted not to go to their final marquee shows despite a kid at school offering me a ticket. d'oh. Assume you've seen the Tube clip of them playing just after Razzle died with Terry Chimes from the Clash on drums, proper emotional,Monroe resplendent in gold lame, they're all totally off their tits with grief and whatever else. Worth finidng on youtube if you've not seen

Cheers, I'll have a look on YouTube. If it's the one I'm thinking of, I saw it on tv
when it came out. Me and my friend were both quite choked up when we saw it.

Rush - Counterparts

nice album, great bass sound and "cold fire" a real favourite of mine, enjoy
Playing Slade Live the compliation of the Alive/2/SOS and Reading 1980 sets, also trying to get kid to sleep so Noddy screaming his nuts off isn't possibly helpin with that!

The Slade set at Reading 1980 was a revelation.

A proper hard rocking set with some surprises thrown in.

Very under rated in my opinion.