I mean, the days were like, say, Steve would play a solo, and Wagner was just like, ‘Yeah, man, let’s do the solo,’ and I said, ‘No matter how great the solo is, it doesn’t save the song if the song doesn’t have it.’ I couldn’t get anyone to help me to stop the record, and they just continued. It was my deal with Polygram Records.’ That was the worst time in my life. He has provided the low end for bands such as Pelle Miljoona Oy, Hanoi Rocks, Jetboy. It’s a record that everybody hates, and it’s not my record anymore. Sami Yaffa is a Finnish musician, whose main instrument is the bass. And I was freaking out, trying to stop the project, ‘This is not going to happen. “It was supposed to be a couple of weeks of guitars – ended up being three months of guitar hell. Steven even started playing a completely different style that he knew I didn’t like.”ĭuring the recording process, Monroe began to realize just how much of a shitshow the album was becoming: It became this heavy metal noodling, million notes per second.
It turned into heavy metal histrionics, guitar solos, and it just took a turn for the worse. I mean, I’m sure he’s a good producer, but he was the wrong combination, him and Steve Stevens together. “He was the worst possible person to produce. I was like, ‘What? You don’t want to do Little Steven to produce it, what I’m going to do now? He’s the guy I wanted to work with.’ Steve Stevens didn’t support me either on that and then they went for this German heavy metal producer, Michael Wagner, who was the flavor of the month, at the time, because he’d done the Ozzy Osbourne album. But then, the record company didn’t allow that. “I wanted Little Steven to produce it, and that would have been good.
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