Previously I had written music for the New York Dolls and the Michael Monroe Band, but now some of the songs that I was writing and had written, started to sound more and more like my own stuff instead of what I would write for those bands.” “The idea for the solo album started to take shape a few years back. This collaboration continues to this day, but now Yaffa is also releasing music under his own name. In 2009 he started a band with the Hanoi Rocks singer Michael Monroe. The band influenced many of the acts that would later become huge in the world of rock n’ roll - including Guns N' Roses.Īfter the break-up of Hanoi Rocks, Yaffa was asked to join some of the most notable artists in R’n’R history such as Joan Jett And The Blackhearts 2002-04, as well as one of Hanoi Rocks' major influences, the New York Dolls 2004-10.
Pelle Miljoona Oy was Finland's number one band at the time, but Yaffa and his future cohorts were aiming higher: as an original member of the band Hanoi Rocks, he spent the first half of the 80’s as an international rock musician with all its ups, downs and trappings. He joined the punk band Pelle Miljoona Oy at the tender age of 16 and played on the bands now legendary album Moottoritie On Kuuma. Sami Yaffa has had a unique career as a musician. It's about the frustration and distress of addiction” - Sami Yaffa How hard it is to change one’s habits, no matter how much one wants it.
It’s a story about two people whose communication is stuck.
“‘The Last Time’ is one of the first songs I wrote for this album when still living in Brooklyn NY back in 2015. Yaffa recently released “The Last Time”, the first single taken from the album.