{"id":1310,"date":"2023-01-24T14:29:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2023-01-30T17:42:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T22:42:18","slug":"michael-monroe-releases-video-for-i-live-too-fast-to-die-young-featuring-guns-n-roses-guitarist-slash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=1310","title":{"rendered":"MICHAEL MONROE Releases Video For &#8216;I Live Too Fast To Die Young&#8217; Featuring GUNS N&#8217; ROSES Guitarist SLASH"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MM.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1311\" width=\"544\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MM.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MM-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MM-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Former&nbsp;<strong>HANOI ROCKS<\/strong>&nbsp;frontman&nbsp;<strong>Michael Monroe<\/strong>&nbsp;has released the video for the high-octane title track of his latest solo album,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;I Live Too Fast To Die Young&#8221;<\/strong>, out now via&nbsp;<strong>Silver Lining Music<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;I Live Too Fast To Die Young&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;is quintessential&nbsp;<strong>Monroe<\/strong>, playing with words and concepts in a playfully irreverent way and wrapping it all up in some proper kick-in-the-balls rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This one started life as just a song title \u2014 a tongue-in-cheek nod to&nbsp;<strong>Vivienne Westwood<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8216;Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die&#8217; t-shirts after I had been gifted one by a fan in Japan,&#8221; guitarist&nbsp;<strong>Rich Jones<\/strong>&nbsp;explains. &#8220;It&#8217;s a reference to&nbsp;<strong>Michael<\/strong>&#8216;s seemingly boundless energy and the fact that he&#8217;s still kicking ass after all these years.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I love reinventing old clich\u00e9s,&#8221;&nbsp;<strong>Monroe<\/strong>&nbsp;laughs. &#8220;The whole &#8216;live fast, die young&#8217; clich\u00e9 is so boring, so I live too fast to die young! It takes more to survive and be here today than to self-destruct and die young!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"Michael Monroe - I Live Too Fast To Die Young Featuring Slash (Official Video)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SE1dZ0aIBek?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A close friend of&nbsp;<strong>Monroe<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Slash<\/strong>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<strong>GUNS N&#8217; ROSES<\/strong>, throws down some lead guitar on the track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Slash<\/strong>&nbsp;is one of the nicest guys that I know and one of rock&#8217;s greatest guitarists as he&#8217;s maintained the spontaneity, the human touch and the heartfelt kick-ass attitude in his playing,&#8221;&nbsp;<strong>Monroe<\/strong>&nbsp;enthuses. &#8220;I figured this would be a good one for him to play a solo on, he said he loved the song and that it&#8217;s super catchy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Having&nbsp;<strong>Slash<\/strong>&nbsp;play an absolutely ripping guitar solo on it was a real honor and it&#8217;s since become a fan favorite in our live shows,&#8221; adds&nbsp;<strong>Jones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recorded at&nbsp;<strong>Inkfish Studios<\/strong>&nbsp;in Helsinki, Finland between November and December 2021 and produced by the band with engineer&nbsp;<strong>Erno Laitinen<\/strong>, the album features&nbsp;<strong>Monroe<\/strong>&nbsp;on lead vocals and harmonica,&nbsp;<strong>Steve Conte<\/strong>&nbsp;(guitars and vocals),<strong>Rich Jones<\/strong>&nbsp;(guitar, vocals),<strong>Karl Rockfist<\/strong>&nbsp;(drums) and&nbsp;<strong>Sami Yaffa<\/strong>&nbsp;(bass\/vocals\/guitar).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding the musical direction of&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;I Live Too Fast To Die Young&#8221;<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Monroe<\/strong>&nbsp;previously said: &#8220;The punk is always gonna be there \u2014 it&#8217;s part of my thing and our sound \u2014 and overall I think we&#8217;ve really renewed the band&#8217;s sound in the best possible way without getting away from who and what we are.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He continued: &#8220;I always wanted to maintain the excitement and curiosity of life, to keep that mind of a child and excitement about stuff and not get complacent, not get tired. Of course, I can be cynical and I&#8217;m sarcastic, and I haven&#8217;t had the best of luck, but then again who does? And I still have a lot of things to be happy about. It doesn&#8217;t take much for me to be happy. To be able to do what I love doing the most, and make a living out of it, that&#8217;s a gift.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monroe<\/strong>&nbsp;and his band are getting ready to join&nbsp;<strong>BLACK STAR RIDERS<\/strong>&nbsp;on their 2023 UK tour along with&nbsp;<strong>MOT\u00d6RHEAD<\/strong>&#8216;s&nbsp;<strong>Phil Campbell<\/strong>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<strong>BASTARD SONS<\/strong>. The tour will kick off on February 13 at Nottingham&#8217;s Rock City and conclude on February 26 at London&#8217;s 02 Shepherds Bush Empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former&nbsp;HANOI ROCKS&nbsp;frontman&nbsp;Michael Monroe&nbsp;has released the video for the high-octane title track of his latest solo album,&nbsp;&#8220;I Live Too Fast To Die Young&#8221;, out now via&nbsp;Silver Lining Music. &#8220;I Live Too Fast To Die Young&#8221;&nbsp;is quintessential&nbsp;Monroe, playing with words and concepts in a playfully irreverent way and wrapping it all up in some proper kick-in-the-balls rock&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=1310\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MICHAEL MONROE Releases Video For &#8216;I Live Too Fast To Die Young&#8217; Featuring GUNS N&#8217; ROSES Guitarist SLASH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}