![]() Of course we could have continued, but maybe with the wrong guys. Michael Monroe says that “the main thing for me was to stop Hanoi Rocks. ![]() I touched his shoulder and said, ‘Bye Razzle.’”īut the crash in Redondo Beach ended it all in an instant. I went to see the body and he looked like a wax doll. It was a nightmare for him to see his friend in that way. It was our tour manager that went to identify him, and he never got over it. I’m glad that I wasn’t there because I probably would have demanded to see him. “Razzle was dead on arrival at the hospital,” says Monroe, who at the time was Hanoi Rocks’ singer. The vehicle careered into the path of oncoming traffic and smashed into two other cars. Michael Monroe could have been famous had his friend not been killed by a rock star. On December 8 1984, Nicholas ‘Razzle’ Dingley, the drummer with Hanoi Rocks, was a passenger in an orange-red 72 Ford Pantera sports car driven by Vince Neil, the front man with Mötley Crüe, when Neil lost control on a stretch of road near Redondo Beach in California. ![]() How did lead singer Michael Monroe carry on? He talks to Ian Winwood Hair metal pioneers Hanoi Rocks were destined for stardom – until fate intervened. Though they may feel like they’re just finding their legs, fawn stands tall, unafraid to explore and define the unique sonic language of OK Cool.Behind the music: A weekly series celebrating music's untold stories, from band-splitting feuds to the greatest performances of all time. The idea of a baby deer learning to walk felt pretty appropriate for the title of the EP–it parallels the vulnerability that comes with taking on new experiences,” Blomquist notes. “It definitely did, and still mostly does, feel like we’re just finding our legs in all of this. All we really knew is that we were always on the same page creatively in each project we had been in, and that was good enough to try writing together,” Stiebris explains. “I had never sung on stage in my life and was extremely nervous about it. Though the EP packs a confident punch, neither Stiebris (26) nor Blomquist (25) had ever taken on main songwriting duties in a band before starting OK Cool. The duo’s curiosity for experimentation is reflected throughout: linear, untraditional song structures are bolstered by their athletic musical precision, acute sense for hooks, and wall-of-sound mastery crafted with reverberated Telecasters and transcendent effects. It’s a kaleidoscopic stride that showcases the ongoing evolution in their union of glistening math rock and dream pop that the two shredders have been working on since their inception in 2020. I spend a lot of time with my sets and characters whenever I make a video, and this was a very fun environment to live in for a few months.”Įight songs clocking in at a head-spinning, 17-minute runtime, OK Cool’s third EP fawn is at heart a direct line into the minds and creative processes of the band’s songwriters Blomquist and Bridget Stiebris. ![]() ![]() “The final phrase of the song, ‘If I lay down the world will open up and leave me’ especially resonated with me, so I tried to create a representation of the worst case scenario fears that I have about exiting an ecosystem that seemingly depends on me. “One of the many things I enjoy about making music videos is grabbing inspiration from a song and creating a little world from it,” says Baughman of the ambitious video. “It can feel like a waste of time to not be productive when there’s so many plates I’m trying to balance at once, ultimately making it hard to ever relax without feeling like ‘if I lay down, the earth will open up and leave me.’” “nissanweekends” follows the soaring lead single “normal c,” which Stereogum praised as “full of snaking riffs and fiery vocals, and on first listen it strikes me as quite good.” “‘nissanweekends’ was written about the monotony of work and the stress that comes with balancing your time around it” explains the band’s Haley Blomquist. The shimmering, fuzzed out ballad arrives alongside an equally charming stop-motion animated video created by Joe Baughman. Chicago-based duo OK Cool today released “nissanweekends”, the latest single off their forthcoming EP fawn out April 28th via Take a Hike Records. ![]()
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