Antti Hulkko (born 11 October 1962 in Pelkosenniemi, Finland), better known as Andy McCoy, is a Finnish musician. He is most famous for his role as the lead guitarist and main songwriter of Hanoi Rocks, but has also played with Iggy Pop.
Artistically McCoy's works cover a wide range of music forms, including rock 'n' roll, punk rock, flamenco, glam punk, glam rock, blues rock and hard rock.
Antti Hulkko was born in Pelkosenniemi, Finnish Lapland to Finnish parents. At the age of 9 his family moved to Stockholm, Sweden, where he grew fluent in Swedish and learned basic English language (his neighbour was half-Jamaican). At the age of 14 his family returned to Finland - this time to Helsinki. Hulkko has said that this was something of a cultural shock to him as he had started to forget the Finnish language. In Helsinki his family lived in the suburb of Vuosaari, where Antti went to Botby Högstadieskolan school.
Before Hanoi Rocks, McCoy had become well known in his home country, Finland, due to his work in the punk rock band Pelle Miljoona Oy. During this time McCoy was talking with Matti Fagerholm (better known as Michael Monroe) to start a band of their own, but because McCoy was currently in Pelle Miljoona Oy, he told Monroe to start the band without him in 1979. After McCoy left Pelle Miljoona Oy, he joined Monroe in Hanoi Rocks, with another former-Pelle Miljoona Oy member, Sam Yaffa. At this point, the Hanoi Rocks line-up consisted of Michael Monroe (lead vocals), Andy McCoy (lead guitar), Nasty Suicide (rhythm guitar), Sam Yaffa (bass) and Swedish Gyp Casino (drums).
Arto Kalevi Nyberg (born May 28, 1966, Viiala) is one of the best known journalists on Yleisradio in Finland. He hosts his own talk show called Arto Nyberg. Before getting his own show, Nyberg worked as a journalist and host on the Finnish morning television programme Aamu-TV.
For two years in a row (in 2006 and 2007), Nyberg received the Venla award for best TV performer.
Nyberg plays music in the band Nyrok Dolls, plays football and enjoys English beer. He is married to reporter Sara Nyberg and has a son named Max (born 2003).
Matti Antero Kristian Fagerholm (born on 17 June 1962 in Helsinki), best known by his stage name, Michael Monroe, is a Finnish rock musician, and multi-instrumentalist who rose to fame as the vocalist for the glam punk band Hanoi Rocks, and has served as the frontman for all-star side projects, such as Demolition 23. and Jerusalem Slim (with Steve Stevens).
Michael Monroe was born Matti "Makke" Fagerholm on 17 June 1962. His father, Pentti Fagerholm, is a very well known retired Finnish radio personality and reporter. Monroe states in the Hanoi Rocks autobiography All Those Wasted Years that one of the first times he was exposed to rock n' roll was when he saw Black Sabbath's 1970 Paris performance on television. Some other favourite bands of Monroe's at the time included: Alice Cooper, The New York Dolls, Led Zeppelin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Little Richard. From 1976 to 1979, Monroe played in a band called Madness. During this time, while rehearsing in a basement of a church in Töölö, Monroe met guitarist Andy McCoy (then known as Antti Hulkko); McCoy's band, Briard, was also rehearsing there at the time.
Ralf-Henrik ”Dave” Lindholm (born 31 March 1952, Helsinki) is a Finnish guitarist and singer-songwriter who has made a career under his own name and also participated in some noteworthy groups. He has written songs and recorded in both Finnish and English.
Lindholm's first recordings were made with his band Ferris that published its sole recording in 1971 through the Love Records label. He wanted to record for Love Records also as a solo artist and suggested that "Great Pen Lee" would be his new stage name. Ther record label however persuaded him to use the name "Isokynä" (trans. "big pen") and to sing in Finnish or Swedish instead of English. Thus he recorded two albums in Finnish in years 1972 and 1973. Especially the second LP Sirkus, is considered to be one of the most important Finnish rock albums.
In 1975 he established a group that performed in English. He named the group simply the Rock 'n' Roll Band. The band only released one album. In 1978 he released a very successful solo album Vanha ja Uusi Romanssi. He had dropped the name "Isokynä" and was now called simply Dave (pronounced Dá-vé in Finnish slang) Lindholm. In 1979 he formed a rock group called the Bluesounds that also performed in English. Its most famous album "Black" was released in 1980.
Strung Out is a Californian punk rock band from Simi Valley, California, formed in 1989. They are known mainly for their musical style, which fuses aspects of punk rock and heavy metal to form their primary sound. They have released seven albums on Fat Wreck Chords and appeared on numerous compilations and skate/surf videos. They have played on the Warped Tour and continue to tour internationally.
The band formed in 1989 in Simi Valley, California. The original lineup consisted of vocalist Jason Cruz, guitarists Jake Kiley and Rob Ramos, bassist Jim Cherry and drummer Adam Austin. After releasing a self-titled 7" record, they became one of the first bands to be signed to Fat Wreck Chords, the record label owned and operated by Fat Mike of the band NOFX. Austin left the band in 1992 and was replaced by Brad Morrison who also left the band and was replaced on drums by Jordan Burns, formerly of fellow Simi Valley natives Ten Foot Pole. Their first album, Another Day in Paradise, was released in May 1994. Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues followed in 1996. In 1998 they released The Skinny Years...Before We Got Fat, a compilation album of their pre-Fat Wreck Chords material.
We always seem to argue
that ain't no good
look what it's doing to me
Ya we were heading for a glory
got such a dirty story
hope that no one finds out
and I was fighting my way
to the center of your heart
Ya Ya it's a Heartattack Baby
Heartattack Baby no one
gives a shit
Wanna score some Heartattack Baby
It'll knock you of your feet
It'll kick out all your teeth
Now your like some pussy galore
Get away from my door
Look at the shape that I'm in
Ya we were such a pretty couple
Always into trouble with our
substance abuse
and I was fighting my way
Take me train
Take me out of Houston
Station train
Take me cross the nation
Take me back
Back to Fox Field Junction train
Different Land
A Different Day
He would take my hand
And he would say I Love You
Back in Fox Field Junction
Why did I say goodbye
Why did I make
A young boy cry
Where did I go
Where did I go wrong
Why did I say
We must part
Why did I break
A young boy's heart
Why did I do
Get your rocks off
now baby don't you dare to stop
Yeah you've yearning
to start searching learning to let go
from what holds you back
Just learn to let it go
Love can make it grow
You gotta let it go
You gotta let it go
Go let it flow
Gotta make it grow
You gotta let it go go
Go with the flow
You're old enough to know
Make up your mind girl
Out there it's a wild world
Open the door hit the dance floor
The stuff that gets you off
out there there's plenty more
Just gotta let it go
Learn to make it flow
Just go with the flow
Gotta let it go
Learn to make it flow
You're old enough to know
You want the front row
Well then go with the flow
Every nights a last show
Now if I had a bit of money
And used a little bit of sense
I might come up with something
That'll last till the end
Lord I've tried so hard
to make ends meet
But always end up with nothing
Where will this misery lead
But til then I've learned to let it go
Real love can make it grow
Just go with the flow
You want the front row
well then go with the flow
Every shows the last show
Just dare to let it go
Take a change it'll flow
You'll discover when you go
Well once upon a time
I thought everything would be alright
Then at the blink of an eye
Disaster struck at speed of light
Lord I fell down to my knees
God help me please
Can't squeese blood out of a rock
Sometimes the bad times gotta stop
No can't squeese blood out of a rock
Cos I've got nohing left to hock
Life's such a short dance
Like a one night romance
Grow with your mistakes
Skip the blow the fakes and flakes
Cut yourself frec from the chains of pain
Learn to let it go
Take a chance and it'll flow
You gotta let it go
You've gotta let it go
Go with the flow
Gotta let it go go go go go
I wish I would have known you
When you were just a child
I would have cared for you
Made sure you'd be alright
And wish I would've been there
When you went to highschool
I would've dated you
You could've been my
homecoming queen
My teenage dream
Yeah in your eyes I read
The whole Universe opening up
Unseen galaxies with virgin shades
Untouched by human eyes
The drom of Calo
With it's entire mystery
With a love like this
How could I go wrong
all you need is for us to travel on
Sometimes high baby some times low
But never deprived of your love
Your unconditional love
And now that your with me
its worth more than gold
Cos I know true love's a gift
Yeah a gift from high above
And I never wanna see you down
Cos when you smile
you make me smile I realize
everything you do is so worthwile
So can I thank you
for always being around
This Gypsy Love blood song
Baby don't disregard the fact
You'll always see me running back
It makes no difference what you do
I'll always stay strung out over you
And there might be talk all over town
About some other guys around
Still makes no difference what you do
I'm forever strung out over you
All my friends think that I'm a fool
Yeah they call this self abuse
But how can they know about love that's true
They've never been in love with you
The clocks a ticking on the wall
I fear you won't come home at all
But I stay waiting by your door
I just want more and more and more
The only thing that I ever wanna do
Is to get strung out over you
No there is nothing in the world
I'd rather do than stay strung out over you
My heart's a blaze I'm in a mist
I've never been in love like this
your presence liquid like the sea
Embracing me eternally
So please take some time to face the truth
I am so strung out over you
And baby never disregard this fact
you'll always see me running back
The only thing that I ever want to do
Is to get strung out over you
No there is nothing in the world
I'd rather do than get strung out over you
A little bit of magic
Deep inside of your heart
Keeps me strung out over you
It's that little bit of magic
Deep inside of your heart
Keeps me strung out over you
Helps me pull it through and through
Keeps me strung out over you an' you and only you
The only thing that I ever want to do
Is to get strung out over you
No there is nothing in the world
I'd rather do than stay strung out over you
The only thing that I ever want to do
Is to get strung out over you
No there is nothing in the world
Sweet Gangsta Bitch
Lives fast out in the suburbs
Goes out and gets high
In search of the divine
Higher than the sky
Blinded by reflections
In a world full of mirrors
seeing trails of history
In the shadows of the mainstream
This is how it all begins
this is where she should check in
Get higher than the sky
Want to embrace it all
Ya this is how she struts her stuff
She's doing it with Lazers
She's dancing on the stars
She's doing it with Lazers
Blowing our city apart
This morning she woke up
About dayglow noon
last night she passed out
To a blood red moon
Murder on her mind
She shot the cop down
He fell cold to the pavement
Thanx for everything
Hey Mr. Seen it all come listen to me
I've lived Lemura 'n' you can't even dream
I've climbed the tree of life
gone back in time
The Akashic Archives babe
I made them all mine
I took a long long ride to Medieval Madras
yeah man I took with me
the wind and the trees
Thru secret valleys to a God
like stream
Where' the light of the golden dawn
washed over me
I searched 600 years
please do understand
I'm not trying to prove a point
but it was here in my hand
I made the best ever deaf
with some guy up above
Gave me wings of motion heard the ring of true love
from the streets of Rio
to the Slums of Madras
burns such a desire to know
of the woman I had
Yeah took a long ride to Medieval Madras
just to see these women I once had
the Akashic Archives baby
now there all mine, mine, mine
Yeah I've climbed the tree of life
gone back in time
Angels of Babylon please watch over me
I've got this tendency to be indiscreet
But in her Celestial bliss
I get my release
And you can go there too now baby
Please don't ask me no questions
And I will tell you no lies
How I wish all this shit inside
would fade away so I try
Try to make things
Better around here
My heart is screaming
so loud and clear
I back my bags
And I'm out of here
And to the jungle I disappear
So deep down in the misery
Of dangerous things
Well I've been there before
and I will be there again
I wanna cry
I wanna die
Too much love and hate inside
I wanna give
I wanna take
There's too much love and hate
Please don't ask me no questions
And you'll be spared
all my lies
so dark in the freeway of life
I'm confused don't know
wrong from right
So please don't hesitate
to pick your part
In this theatre of hate
Too many lies
Tell me what's right
Check her before you go
her door is open it's never closed
she's always there
crying for company some company
give her some of your extacy
and she'll supply you
with her privacy
like some kinda A-bomb
blowing up your wildest dreams
Let it Rock don't dare to stop
Let it Rock all night thru
She strips behind
the velvet screen
while I lay here
in my opiale dreams
deadly nightshade please
cut me clean
Garden of Eden in Emerald green
I pick the fruit
from the forbidden tree
Her passionate juices
intoxicate me
I'm an addict for her scene
She always on top
as I ride beneath
She says leave the door open
when you leave
She waits for someone
else special anxiously
She lights a cigarette
looks me in the eye
She says thank you
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na
I fell in love with a Italian girl
Well she came from only
heaven knows
But my Lord above I must've
needed her
together we built a small
humble home
And now I wanna hold her
tight everynight
that's all I wanna do
is to satisfy rest of my life
It's just the kind of thing I thought
I'd never ever end up and do
But somehow
my outlook's changed
since I found myself with you
How I love her - My Italian girl
How I need her - My Italian girl
Heaven walks into the room
whenever
she walks on by oh by
Oh Lord above I tell myself must
be an angel in disguise
So now I wanna
I'm gonna roll you
I'm gonna roll you
All thru the night
I'm on the run now
Having some fun now
For the very first time
In my life
I can't get enough of this
I can't get enough how ever hard I try
I said
I can't get enough of this
I can't get enough how ever hard I try
Cause when I want something
I'm gonna get that thing
Ya when I want something
I'm gonna get it
even though it might hurt
Ya when I want someone
I'm gonna get that one
even though it might hurt
I'll penetrate you
Yeah penetrate you
So hard so good
The land of the rising sun
So in demand the Yen gains strength
by the day buying power
Japan flowers spreading flowers scent
Enveloping our globe
Since I arriving (sic)
Been watching bullet trains
Hit speed of light
The view's ever changing
Mount Fuji still rules
The Imperial Japan
I'm dreaming of Japan
Still dreaming of Japan
I'm dreaming of Japan
Always dreaming of Japan
Harajuku shopping
Shibuya nightclubs greet me
With an Oriental Beat
Such a new scene so exciting
Presented to me all duty free
Geishas in Kimonos
Undress introduce me to sex Oriental style
Give it to me add to my memories
Of the far East
Oh is this Heaven
Or is this Hell
All lost and drunk
Down the Ginza again
Somebody translate get me to my hotel
Get me to a taxi let me talk about it
I'm Tokyo dreaming
My thoughts drift in to another place another time
How it feels so extremely sweet and so Japanese
In the land of the rising sun
The girls down Shibuya live that Oriental Beat
Yeah I'll go there
Wellcome me back again
ladies and gentelemen
I'm back new and so improved
Playing the guitar
and crank it out loud
if Hendrix was my father
he'd be real proud
I know it's never too loud
Tell the girl I'm on the scam
looking for someone to
wham-bam-bam
I've been born
born again electric
It's a matter of faith
rock 'n' roll is my bait
at this rate, won't be long
'til we're all saved
I'm your hard rock saint
Smashed my acoustic guitar
right agains the wall
to put my message straight
Beatnik of Jesus
screaming for Lord
pleading gimme more
Born again electric