{"id":16086,"date":"2021-07-16T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=16086"},"modified":"2021-07-15T22:54:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T22:54:45","slug":"16086","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=16086","title":{"rendered":"Sami Yaffa – The Innermost Journey to Your Outermost Mind – pre sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAMI YAFFA<\/strong>, best known for his work with\u00a0New York Dolls<\/strong>,\u00a0Michael Monroe Band<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Hanoi Rocks\u00a0<\/strong>has announced the release of his first solo album \u201cThe Innermost Journey to Your Outermost Mind<\/strong>\u201d, out on September 3rd, 2021 via Livewire\/Cargo Records.<\/p>\n

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SAMI YAFFA<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has had a long and unique career as a musician. He played at the tender age of 16 on the Finnish punk legends Pelle Miljoona Oy’s legendary album Moottoritie On Kuuma. As an original member of the band\u00a0Hanoi Rocks<\/strong>\u00a0(1980-85) he recorded 5 albums with the band and toured the world extensively until the tragic events that ended the flight of the pioneering band. Hanoi Rocks became a major influence on many bands that later became huge like the Guns N`Roses and Pearl Jam.<\/p>\n

Yaffa\u2019s career continued after the break-up of Hanoi and ended up playing with\u00a0Joan Jett and The Blackhearts<\/strong>, the legendary\u00a0New York Dolls<\/strong>, the Swedish RnR machine The Hellacopters and many more artists. Sami began playing with the Hanoi Rocks lead singer\u00a0Michael Monroe<\/strong>\u00a0again in 2010, the collaboration with Michael continues to this day.<\/p>\n

But now it\u2019s time to put out an album under his own name. \u201cThe idea for the solo album started to take shape a few years back. I had written music for the New York Dolls and the Michael Monroe Band, but a lot of the songs and ideas were starting to sound more like me than the other bands.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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Recording lineup:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sami Yaffa (HANOI ROCKS, MICHAEL MONROE, NEW YORK DOLLS) – Vocals, Bass Guitar
\nRich Jones (MICHAEL MONROE) – Guitar
\nChristian Martucci (STONE SOUR) – Guitar
\nRane Raitsikka (SMACK) – Guitar
\nTimo Kaltio (IZZY STRADLIN, CHEAP AND NASTY) – Guitar
\nJanne Haavisto – Drums<\/p>\n

What kind of music does Yaffa then release under his own name? Versatile. \u201cI\u2019ve always loved the music of the bands like The Clash and The Rolling Stones. They can play country, funk, reggae and rock`n`roll, and still sound like themselves. I wanted the same kind of versatility for my own album. \u201d The album has influences on a fairly wide scale, but it hardly surprises those who have followed Yaffa’s career: in addition to his own music career, he has been seen getting to know the musical cultures of different parts of the world as a host of the Sami Yaffa: Soundtracker TV series. However, the beating heart of the album is in rock`n`roll and punk, I don’t shy away from that.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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Even though it\u2019s a solo album, Yaffa mentions a few of names without whom the album wouldn\u2019t have been completed. One being the drummer Janne Haavisto, with whom Sami played already as a teenager. And the other being his Michael Monroe Bands band mate Rich Jones who co-wrote a bulk of the songs with Sami. Also the Stone Sour guitarist Christian Martucci and Smack guitarist Rane played an important role in the creation of the album.<\/p>\n

SAMI YAFFA\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>is ready to hit the road after the release of the album with a line up of Janne Haavisto on drums, Linde Lindstr\u00f6m (HIM<\/strong>) on guitar and Burton (HIM<\/strong>) on keyboards.<\/p>\n

www.instagram.com\/samiyaffaofficial<\/a>
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SAMI YAFFA, best known for his work with\u00a0New York Dolls,\u00a0Michael Monroe Band\u00a0and\u00a0Hanoi Rocks\u00a0has announced the release of his first solo album \u201cThe Innermost Journey to Your Outermost Mind\u201d, out on September 3rd, 2021 via Livewire\/Cargo Records.   SAMI YAFFA\u00a0has had a long and unique career as a musician. He played at the tender age of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[123,4453,654,6960],"class_list":["post-16086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hanoi-rocks","tag-michael-monroe-band","tag-new-york-dolls","tag-the-innermost-journey-to-your-outermost-mind","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16092,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16086\/revisions\/16092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}