Obviously the last one is a joke probably made up by Andy. One of the many stories from the days in Sweden tells that they earned money by cleaning toilets, picking up strawberries and even selling themselves. Now and then Michael managed to pick up some local girl so that the whole band could have something proper to eat but mainly their daily meal was cucumber with butter on it. They hardly had money for food or any other necessities and they had to sleep in corridors and subway stations. The early days in Stockholm very quite rough for the boys. Michael, Andy, Sam and Nasty moved to Stockholm where Gyp joined them. On the eve of Pelle Miljoona Oy's important Finnish tour Andy decided to leave the band and took Sammy with him. Andy and Sam played on Pelle Miljoona Oy's most succesful album Moottoritie On Kuuma. According to a legend Andy had a vision of a band which could be a huge success worldwide and had asked from Love Records executive Atte Blom in which band he could make enough money to make his dream come true. In February 1980 Andy and 17-years old Sam Yaffa, who had earlier played with punk band Suopo (which did few gigs in late 1970's but no recordings), joined the most popular Finnish band at those days.
They did few gigs in Finland and once they were booked to perform in Tavastia Club by Seppo Vesterinen. At the time the line-up was Michael, Nasty, Stefan Piesnack, Peki Sirola and Nedi. The first Hanoi Rocks was born in the spring of 1980 in Helsinki. Andy also played on several Maukka Perusjätkä's recordings. On occasion, Andy played in Maukka's and Ralf's bands as well. With those groups Michael played only gigs so there are no recordings. Other Michael's bands were Pelle Miljoona, Madness (not that UK group), Bolin, Easy Living, Black Magic and Ralf Örn Pop. Unfortunately that material is hardly available anymore. Although Andy liked Michael's style very much: "His hair almost covered his whole arse and even in winter he wore t-shirts.” Before Hanoi Rocks Michael had played saxophone with Maukka Perusjätkä on their gigs and could be seen playing sax in one Finnish Broadcasting Company's tv-show. Nasty's first appearance on a record was Briard's Rockin' On The Beach single's b-side Miss World.Īndy had met Michael Monroe as early as 1977 but they didn't co-operate yet. On the Briard's last year Andy's schoolmate and principal's son Nasty Suicide joined the band.
The most famous Briard songs were the first single I Really Hate Ya, and the second one f*ck The Army. Briard released four singles during the next three years and one album few years afterwards. The first punk rock single ever made in Finland was recorded by a band called Briard which was formed by only fourteen years old Andy McCoy & Pete "Räkä” Malmi in 1976.
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