Sketchy memories from those in attendance suggest that three to four days into the party, on the evening of December 8, with supplies depleted, a trip to buy more booze was mooted. With Monroe laid up in his hotel room, McCoy, Razzle, bassist Sam Yaffa and guitarist Nasty Suicide embarked on a mammoth drinking binge with the Crüe that was always destined to end in total, unmitigated disaster. It came as little surprise, then, that as soon as the – temporarily derailed – Hanoi Rocks touring machine arrived in LA, Mötley Crüe held an impromptu welcome party for them. And although the two bands were never the closest of friends, they did share an unhealthy appetite for cavalier self-destruction. Hanoi’s ebullient drummer Razzle vaguely knew Crüe vocalist Vince Neil, and while in London Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee had crash-landed at Andy McCoy’s flat to hang out and watch an AC/DC video. But thumb twiddling was something they were never particularly good at.īirds of a feather flock together, and Hanoi Rocks’ unquenchable desire for partying had previously, and almost inevitably, brought them into LA band Motley Crue’s orbit. It was very heavy.”įor more on this topic, follow the Classic Rock Observer.The remainder of the band, after flying down to Los Angeles, routinely ripped to the gills on a variety of intoxicants, were forced to kick back and twiddle their thumbs while Monroe recovered. And we went to the hospital and I found out that my bro was gone. And he said that there’s been an accident. “And I wondered where everybody else was.
And I said, ‘I’m gonna take a nap.’ And when I woke up, Mick Mars was just kind of shaking me awake. They actually asked me to go with them to go and pick up some more beer. “And I just said that I’m gonna take a nap. Yaffa explained that some of the party wanted more beer, so Neil and Dingley headed to the liquor to pick some more up. And we’d been kind of drinking beer all day. Andy and Tommy came a little bit later and some of their friends. “But it wasn’t really like a crazy party it was just a bunch of people showed up. And little by little, it just turned into more of a party. “And that’s what we ended up doing – we ended up hanging out, having some beers and smoke a little spliff and have a good time and talk about things. And then he said, ‘Let’s just go back to my house and my wife will cook some lunch, or whatever, and some dinner, and we’ll hang out.’ “So we had a really nice afternoon with Vince. Yaffa said the trio decided to head back to Neils to have dinner, and that they were joined there by some other famous rockstars, and began to drink beer.
And he showed us Santa Monica and Hollywood Boulevard and we drove all around L.A. Just hop on my fucking lap.’ So it was three of us just cruising around L.A. “And Razzle was just, like, ‘Oh, fuck it, mate. and all this stuff,” Yaffa began.Īnd Razzle was, like, ‘Sami, come along.’ And he came with a tiny little sports car – it wasn’t that car that ended up in an accident it was another one but a two-seater – and there was no room.
‘Cause Razzle and Vince were buddies, so he was going to pick up Razzle and show him around L.A. We stayed at the Franklin Plaza Suites, or something like that, at LaBrea and Franklin.
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