As far as Vince Neil, I have nothing to say. In 2011, Monroe gave Sleaze Roxx his take on what happened that night: 'There was an accident, and unfortunately our drummer was killed. I thought it was inappropriate since it came across as if they were making fun of the accident, which I'm sure was not their intention.' Three years later, Monroe publicly apologized to Sixx, saying that his 'unflattering comments' about the bassist were 'really childish and stupid.' He explained: 'I just took it a bit personally when they called their album at the time 'Music to Crash Your Car To'. How low can you go? I'd say this gave bad taste a bad name.' There's nothing 'cool' or 'funny' about death or winding up a paraplegic for life. As we've previously stated: The most tasteless and murderous gimmick to cash in on the past we've ever heard of. 'I'm not only talking about Razzle, but also for the other families involved in the accident. 'The 'Mostly Crude' gotta be as dumb as they are to have done that,' he told Metal Sludge. It's just useless.'īack in 2004, Monroe slammed MÖTLEY CRÜE for the band's decision to title a box set 'Music To Crash Your Car To', calling the move beyond disrespectful and referring to the group's bassist Nikki Sixx as 'shallow,' 'ignorant' and 'stupid'. 'And I just don't wanna get into all that. 'It's a depressing subject and it's always like opening a can of worms,' Michael continued. 'As well as the two teenagers who got paralyzed in the accident I've heard that there was no mention of them either. I've never blamed anybody - you can't blame anybody for an accident - but a lot of people's lives were shattered, 'he said. Monroe went on to say that the car accident 'certainly destroyed a lot of people's lives. Two years ago, former HANOI ROCKS singer Michael Monroe told 'The Classic Metal Show' that he was 'not interested at all' in seeing MÖTLEY CRÜE's 'The Dirt' biopic. Neil served half of a 30-day jail sentence, received five years probation and had to pay $2.6 million in restitution, as well as perform 200 hours of community service. His blood alcohol level was 0.17, which was over the legal limit. Vince was charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence of alcohol. Neil's drunk-driving death car crash happened when he smashed his car into another vehicle in Redondo Beach, California, killing Razzle and seriously injuring two other occupants. And we went to the hospital and I found out that my bro was gone. And he said that there's been an accident. And I said, 'I'm gonna take a nap.' And when I woke up, Mick Mars was just kind of shaking me awake. They actually asked me to go with them to go and pick up some more beer. And I just said that I'm gonna take a nap. And we'd been kind of drinking beer all day. Andy and Tommy came a little bit later and some of their friends. But it wasn't really like a crazy party it was just a bunch of people showed up. And little by little, it just turned into more of a party.

And then he said, 'Let's just go back to my house and my wife will cook some lunch, or whatever, and some dinner, and we'll hang out.' And that's what we ended up doing - we ended up hanging out, having some beers and smoke a little spliff and have a good time and talk about things. And he was showing us places: 'There's The Troubadour' and 'There's the Rainbow' and 'There's Roxy' and 'There's the Whisky.' So we had a really nice afternoon with Vince. And he showed us Santa Monica and Hollywood Boulevard and we drove all around L.A. Just hop on my fucking lap.' So it was three of us just cruising around L.A. And Razzle was just, like, 'Oh, fuck it, mate. And Razzle was, like, ' Sami, come along.' And he came with a tiny little sports car - it wasn't that car that ended up in an accident it was another one but a two-seater - and there was no room. 'Cause Razzle and Vince were buddies, so he was going to pick up Razzle and show him around L.A. 'We stayed at the Franklin Plaza Suites, or something like that, at LaBrea and Franklin. ' Vince came to pick up me and Razzle,' Sami said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET).

During a recent interview with Waste Some Time With Jason Green, former HANOI ROCKS bassist Sami Yaffa discussed spending time with HANOI drummer Nicholas 'Razzle' Dingley and MÖTLEY CRÜE singer Vince Neil on the day of the tragic car accident caused by Neil in December 1984 that killed Razzle, who was Vince's passenger.

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