“Fight boredom, fight normalcy, fight against what you’re told, what you’re supposed to do, be, or say. “We’re entertaining, we all want people to have a good time, but you don’t have to switch your brain off to dance and have a good time,” concluded Monroe. With “I Live Too Fast To Die Young”, it is clear Michael Monroe is striding into the summer with a triumphant - and perhaps most importantly, defiant - roar to offer you a chance to let your hair down (or up!) and to once again enjoy the freedom of joyous celebration and expression. Recorded at Inkfish Studios in Helsinki, Finland between November and December 2021 and produced by the band with engineer Erno Laitinen, the album features Monroe on lead vocals and harmonica, Steve Conte (guitars and vocals), Rich Jones (guitar, vocals), Karl Rockfist (drums) and Sami Yaffa (bass/vocals/guitar). Warm, funny, occasionally sad but ultimately upbeat, “I Live Too Fast To Die Young” brings the listener into the heart and soul of its creator. Moritz with some trashy times in Tokyo to boot. The eleven lean, mean, raw power rock ‘n’ roll songs which make up “I Live Too Fast To Die Young” see Monroe swagger the streets like a rock-punk poet, a storyteller who’s seen it all from the hellholes of Helsinki to the late-nights in London’s St.
Monroe‘s lens has always been directed towards the upside, even after the greatest downs a man can suffer, and the sheer power of his positive energy infuses everything he comes into contact with. Throughout “I Live Too Fast To Die Young”, Monroe tells tales of glory and observed stories, some pretty, some shitty, but all through a lens of eventual optimism, hope and a sense of dirty, cheeky late-night fun. Monroe, the gargantuan, gregarious, glamorous rock ‘n’ roll God who struts and fronts it with the same power and panache he first thrust our way leading HANOI ROCKS all those years ago, does not try to be a philosopher, but goddamn, he projects like one. “Having Slash play an absolutely ripping guitar solo on it was a real honor and it’s since become a fan favorite in our live shows,” adds Jones. “I figured this would be a good one for him to play a solo on, he said he loved the song and that it’s super catchy.” “ Slash is one of the nicest guys that I know and one of rock’s greatest guitarists as he’s maintained the spontaneity, the human touch and the heartfelt kick-ass attitude in his playing,” Monroe enthuses. “The whole ‘live fast, die young’ cliché is so boring, so I live too fast to die young! It takes more to survive and be here today than to self-destruct and die young!”Ī close friend of Monroe, Slash from GUNS N’ ROSES, throws down some lead guitar on the track. “I love reinventing old clichés,” Monroe laughs. “It’s a reference to Michael‘s seemingly boundless energy and the fact that he’s still kicking ass after all these years.” “This one started life as just a song title - a tongue-in-cheek nod to Vivienne Westwood‘s ‘Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die’ t-shirts after I had been gifted one by a fan in Japan,” guitarist Rich Jones explains.
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