I worked for a bank for six months and quit. I came back from the UK with a master’s degree in financial math. To be fair, I have a fulltime job, teaching math and it’s ok to make my living, and I’ll be like ‘yeah two or three nights per week, why not?’” he says.
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I put a lot of money in this in the first place, and worked my ass off for free for nine years, I don’t think anyone would do that. It is clear he would rather die than let the club, which has been so much of his life for the last decade, close. subsidizes it with income from his day job.
The venue often does not make money, and if needs be D.A. Chào meets D.A.Ĭharismatic, almost cocky even, this Hanoi rock legend’s love of music is infectious, and he gets excited and his eyes start to dance when discussing Hanoi Rock City. He even thought briefly about playing professional. Long flowing scarf, oversize beanie hat and an old beaten up black trenchcoat, D.A looks every inch like the sort of guy that runs a rock club, and he talks every inch like the manager of a rock club too, so it comes as a touch of a surprise when he tells us his day job is as a math teacher, though if that is not sufficiently roguish he quickly puts our mind at ease, telling that in the past he used his math skills to good effect to hustle people at poker games.
It is pointless.’ For the first three years I was living off poker and pool.” “I worked for a bank for six months and quit. It has been open almost 10 years and though it was founded by four people, work commitments mean one of them is now in London and two in Saigon, so the club is run exclusively by Duc Anh, who tells Chào: “Just call me D.A.
The Opera House aside, Hanoi Rock City is about as close as the capital gets as to having an iconic music venue.
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Nights at this large live-house are high energy, a little cliquey perhaps, but they zip along creating great moments for musicians to come together and jam. The evening’s eclectic nature is not unusal here, at just one of the many open-mics held weekly at the, now infamous, Hanoi Rock City. She dedicates the song to her ex-boyfriend but afterwards jokes: “Not really. After that, what is surely Hanoi’s sexiest folk singer steps up to sing a Michael Jackson cover she is small and birdlike, like a sparrow, and hits every note perfectly. One song later and a blind dude gets up to guitar riff and sing some outlandish blues numbers.
Guitarist Andy McCoy and vocalist Mike Monroe reformed the band in the 21st Century. It all came to a sticky unpleasant end when drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley was killed in a car crash in California while on a beer run with Motley Crüe singer Vince Neil at the wheel.īut until that point, this was a band of some style and competence.Īfter Razzle’s death, Hanoi Rocks fell apart. Finnish glam heroes Hanoi Rocks were pissed-up, junked-up white trash, and had all the moves and tunes of a 1980’s New York Dolls, with slightly healthier livers.Īlthough their influence today may be perceived as minimal, Guns N’ Roses, Motley Crüe and their LA ilk all admit that they stole bits of Hanoi Rocks and recycled them for huge personal gain – but they did it without the flash and sparkle, the ambiguous sexuality, the wit and the eccentricity (visiting Israel they offended devout Jews by appearing at the Wailing Wall dressed as women).Īfter four albums for independent labels, the band signed a major deal with CBS in 1983.
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