Hanio Rocks Death news :Antti Hulkko, better known as Andy McCoy, THE GUITAR LEGEND is a Finnish musician have just been confirmed d..
Antti Hulkko (born 11 October 1962), better known as Andy McCoy, is a Finnish musician. He is best known for his role as the lead guitarist and main songwriter of the rock band Hanoi Rocks,[2] but has also played with Iggy Pop and a variety of other groups. McCoy’s works cover a wide range of music genres, including rock ‘n’ roll, punk rock, flamenco, glam punk, glam rock, blues rock and hard rock. He is also an avid painter.
WHEN I OPENED my daily newspaper on Saturday, October the 19th, I glimpsed an article that got me all excited. Our nation’s biggest paper was running a longer feature on Andy McCoy that I started to read with a lot of interest. The man is Finland’s most legendary Rock star ever, and his interviews are always a very entertaining read.
To my disappointment the general tenor of this article was a downer. The negatively coloured feature made it seem that Andy’s life wasn’t in order. One photo taken at Andy’s rehearsal studio showed a very messy pedalboard, which made me feel especially bad. A decade ago I had been working as Andy’s guitar technician and I remember that his equipment was in great shape during Hanoi Rocks’ final fling. The current situation looked worrying. Is this really Andy’s current state of affairs? The man kept on complaining all through the article, and his board had clearly seen better days. His whole set-up looked a real mess, from his amps to the general state of the rehearsal space.
Andy had recently released a new record called 21st Century Rocks, his first solo effort in 24 years. It had received rave reviews from critics and fans alike. Andy had assembled a new band and was ready to hit the road. Even though I hadn’t yet downed all of my first cup of coffee, I felt a spontaneous urge to help Andy in such a way that his gear would run problem-free during the upcoming shows.
Even though I had steered clear of social media over the last months, I reacted instinctively: I took a quick snap of Andy’s pedalboard right off the paper and put it on Instagram. My message read that if anybody out there knew how to get hold of Andy, could they please tell him that I’d be more than willing to help him sort his board out.
Yes, it’s true I build pedalboards for a living, and, yes, I try to run a business venture here, but my main mission in life is to help musicians create the wonderful music that delights us all. We have the cables, the plugs, the accessories and always enough time to put an already existing board back into full working order. Sometimes the reward comes in other ways than money; often karma takes care of that part.
MY SPONTANEOUS POST seemed to resonate with the crowd. Several people got back to me with messages and texts, but in the end it was guitarist Mikko Kosonen, who really set the wheels in motion. He told Andy’s manager, Hessu Klingberg, about me. I had given Mikko permission to forward my private phone number to Hessu, who called me straight away.
