![]() ![]() Hanoi Rocks guitarist Andy McCoy says he’s never received an apology from Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil, whose infamous 1984 car crash resulted in the death of the band’s drummer, Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley. I was very lucky to have known him.The post Hanoi Rocks Guitarist: Vince Neil Never Apologized for Car Crash That Killed Band’s Drummer appeared first on Consequence. And always so consistent always the same wonderful, lovely guy. I was so young and baby-faced back then, I’m sure his fans would have eaten me alive. Do you know how much that means to me?” Talk about honour. “He said, ‘You know what, mate? We’ll back you up.’ And he offered to have Motörhead back me up as a band because he was so upset about Razzle dying. Monroe also reveals that, following Razzle’s death, Lemmy offered him Motörhead’s services as his backing band. To me, the most important thing was to end and maintain the integrity of the band.” It was just me, Andy, and Nasty, and they were all the way down there and I was all the way up there. Then Sami also left, so all of a sudden we didn’t have a drummer or a bass player. “What we had with Razzle was really special, you see. “That was the end of the band,” says Monroe. Convicted of vehicular manslaughter the following year, Neil served just 15 days in prison for Razzle’s death. The English drummer, born Nicholas Dingley, was killed on December 8, 1984, when, having joined intoxicated Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil on a trip to a Los Angeles liquor store, Neil’s Pantera sports car hit an oncoming vehicle, killing the drummer instantly. Referring to the break up of Hanoi Rocks, Monroe admits to Stocks, “Hanoi Rocks died with Razzle.” I didn’t want any money for my involvement in the song I just asked that they mention Stiv Bators on the album, to honour his memory, which they kindly did.” “God bless Axl for putting ‘In memory of Stiv Bators’ on the record sleeve. ![]() ![]() There was definitely never a dull moment.” Johnny Thunders moved in with us as well. When Hanoi Rocks was breaking up after Razzle died, I moved in with Stiv in London in 1985, and we lived together for a year before I moved to New York. “I always felt a spiritual connection to him. “Stiv Bators is one of the best kept secrets in rock ‘n’ roll,” Monroe adds. Never.’ I said it must’ve been Stiv getting his wings, like in It’s a Wonderful Life: ‘Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.’ Axl said, ‘That must be the sweetest thing I’ve ever heard anybody say about anybody else.’ When I got back into the control room, I asked Axl, ‘Do those pinball machines ever go off by themselves?’ He said, ‘Oh, no. All of a sudden, The Rolling Stones and Kiss pinball machines behind me started going off by themselves. After we’d finished recording the vocals, there was a piano in the studio, and I was sitting there playing it. “Axl really sounded like Stiv when he sang on that song, too. And it became the first single off the album.” He was like, ‘Wow! We have to do this song - we’re doing a covers album next.’ They were already working on ‘The Spaghetti Incident?’, and I suggested that we did the song as a duet, in memory of Stiv Bators - which we did. “That was when he first heard Ain’t It Fun. “He told me over the phone that he’d never heard the Dead Boys before,” Monroe recalls, “so I made a tape of their first album and the best of the second album, and we listened to the tape in Hollywood, driving around in Axl’s car.” ![]()
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