Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley tragically died in 1984 in a drunk driving accident as a passenger in a car driven by Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil. The group were poised for an international breakthrough at the time, and Razzle’s death ended up derailing the band. Complicating matters years later, Mötley Crüe released a box set called “Music To Crash Your Car To,” which understandably seemed in bad taste given the accident.
Hanoi Rocks guitarist Andy McCoy last week called Crüe “f*cking ripoffs” for going on their “25th goodbye tour or something,” referencing the current Stadium Tour. McCoy appeared for an interview with Artists On Record Starring ADIKA Live! “I speak the truth … I don’t lie, like Nikki Sixx, through my f*cking teeth.”
McCoy called Crüe’s decision to name their box set, “Music To Crash Your Car To,” “beyond disrespectful. I thought, and Michael Monroe thought, [that] was the tackiest title, thinking about what had happened… That was in real tacky, bad taste. If you’re European like me, it’s something you don’t do. You respect other people. You just don’t wanna make a buck for yourself. You respect other people.” McCoy also said of Vince Neil: “Never even got as much as an apology from that motherf*cker. You know who I’m talking about. I’m not gonna give any names. Why would I give him fame? F*ck him! Every time I see him, he runs away. Because he knows what I’d do. But that’s our business.”
McCoy also referenced one of Sixx’s stories about allegedly getting beat with a baseball bat on the floor of a drug dealer’s flat after overdosing. “I saved the bloke’s life,” McCoy said. “He tells stories that I beat him up with a baseball bat. I used to play baseball. I know how to use the f*cking bat. You think that he’d be alive? Hell no. Hell no. But he’s after the money. I’m after the art. We are very different. He’s a little farm boy from somewhere in Seattle. Sh*t bumf*ck. I’m from the inner city. It’s a big difference.”
McCoy also talked about the other two people in the crash that sustained lifelong injuries. “People forget about those two. I remember. I never forget. People tend to forget about them. And that was horrible. It was just plainly wrong. Fifty yards to the liquor store. I thought they’d walk. But no, this motherf*cker — I don’t care to mention his name; you know who he is — had to show off his second-hand f*cking ugly Pantera, which ain’t even a nice car to me.”
McCoy said he’s also not a fan of liberties taken for “The Dirt” autobiography and movie. “Like the party in that movie, the Mötley Crüe movie, in some mansion. You know what really happened? We were in a two-bedroom apartment. It was five people there. When I saw that movie, or clips of it, I was, like, ‘I don’t wanna see the whole movie. This is bullsh*t again. Hollywood bullsh*t.’ [Hanoi Rocks bassist] Sami [Yaffa] was passed out on the sofa, and Vince’s pregnant wife, who was on her seventh or eighth month. That’s who was there, [along with me and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee]. So the movie is just pure lies and bollocks again. And I can’t go for that kind of crap. I want the reality out.”
Hanoi Rocks singer Michael Monroe previously told The Classic Metal show that he was “not interested at all” in seeing “The Dirt.” Monroe said the accident “certainly destroyed a lot of people’s lives. I’ve never blamed anybody — you can’t blame anybody for an accident — but a lot of people’s lives were shattered,” he said. “As well as the two teenagers who got paralyzed in the accident; I’ve heard that there was no mention of them either [in the film]. It’s a depressing subject and it’s always like opening a can of worms. And I just don’t wanna get into all that. It’s just useless.”
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