"When we were doing Two Steps From the Move, Bob Ezrin was trying to get Alice to come to the studio, but Alice couldn't make it back then," he explains. The singer's connection to Cooper goes back decades, as Hanoi Rocks covered the shock-rocker's classic "Under My Wheels" on their 1984 live album All Those Wasted Years. And he was telling me all these stories about the early days in Detroit when they were playing with the MC5 - Alice Cooper, MC5 and Iggy and the Stooges, a great lineup, and Ted Nugent and the whole Detroit scene." "Early in the day, we were in a hotel, and I filmed a clip with me and Alice in a hotel room talking about rock 'n' roll. "We got a cool with Alice Cooper when we were out touring with him in Milan," he says. He's looking for somebody to translate his eponymous 2011 autobiography into English, and he plans to release a documentary about his life and career next year. Monroe will keep his foot on the gas well into 2023. There's a bunch of stuff that I didn't even know existed. "But at the same time, we found a couple more multitrack tapes with outtakes from the first album and second one as well. "We're gonna keep the album as it was, with just a better sound," he explains. The singer says there won't be any bonus tracks on the remixed Oriental Beat, but he did find other goodies alongside the original multitrack tapes that could eventually see the light of day. Monroe says the new-and-improved Oriental Beat - "the remix, the real mix," with "no overdubs, just as it was" - will arrive this November. But fate smiled on the band when a Universal Music employee uncovered the original multitracks in a warehouse. Hanoi Rocks originally wanted to remix Oriental Beat in the early '90s, when Guns N' Roses re-released their catalog on their Uzi Suicide vanity label, but the original multitrack recordings were lost and presumed gone forever.
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