{"id":19430,"date":"2021-11-02T10:34:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T14:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=19430"},"modified":"2022-01-21T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T18:43:07","slug":"former-hanoi-rocks-bassist-sami-yaffa-takes-us-on-the-innermost-journey-to-your-outermost-mind-with-his-debut-solo-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=19430","title":{"rendered":"Former Hanoi Rocks Bassist Sami Yaffa Takes Us on The Innermost Journey to Your Outermost Mind With His Debut Solo Album."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary <strong>Hanoi Rocks<\/strong> bassist <strong>Sami Yaffa<\/strong> has had quite an impressive legacy of music.\u00a0 Not only was he in Hanoi Rocks, but Sami has served as bassist for bands such as 80\u2019s sleaze rockers Jetboy, bassist for his former Hanoi Rocks bandmate Michael Monroe, Johnny Thunders, and served as bassist for the legendary New York Dolls.\u00a0 The list actually could go on for much longer, but you get the idea.\u00a0 Sami Yaffa is a rock n\u2019 roll icon that is sadly unknown by commercial rock audiences.<\/p>\n<p>After being the bassist in bands for most of his career, Sami finally stepped forward and released his debut solo album, <em><strong>The Innermost Journey to Your Outermost Mind<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Being a long-time fan of Hanoi Rocks, I was excited to hear that Sami was doing this.\u00a0 The release of this album was met with optimism and nervousness from me, but I just felt that if I let the music talk, it would convey its message to me.<\/p>\n<p>Kicking off with \u201cArmageddon Together,\u201d I have to say that I was completely caught off guard.\u00a0 This song has all the swagger and attitude of a Rolling Stones song but with a much darker edge.\u00a0 I can only describe it as if the Stones were bar band; this song has Sami Yaffa being an \u201coutback in the alley band.\u201d Nevertheless, it\u2019s so gnarly groovy that it got me pumped as fuck to hear what was to come.<\/p>\n<p>Just when I thought I had an idea of where the album was going, \u201cSelling Me Shit,\u201d which I can only describe as punk rock juggernaut, took me on an unexpected detour.\u00a0 From there, the songs would take me on sudden turns and detours to a point where it became completely unpredictable as to the direction it was taking me.<\/p>\n<p>The street punk sound of \u201cGerminator,\u201d the Hanoi Rocks sounding \u201cFortunate One,\u201d the Bob Dylan-esque \u201cDown at St. Joe\u2019s,\u201d the dub infused \u201cRotten Roots,\u201d and the reggae-inspired \u201cLook Ahead\u201d were diamonds in the rough.\u00a0 These songs are a prime example of Sami Yaffa\u2019s diverse influences and his ability to express them in his writing, playing, and singing without any restraint.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Sami Yaffa - Down At St. Joe&#039;s\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IWxUjdAwAl0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Innermost Journey to Your Outermost Mind<\/strong><\/em> is an album that knows no boundaries.\u00a0 Instead of focusing on trying to do just one thing, Yaffa chose to make the album that he wanted to make.\u00a0 The sincerity of his lyrics, the musicianship, and the honest, confident, and gritty, gnarly vocals put Sami Yaffa in a place where he has belonged all along.\u00a0 It took a while to get here, but good things come to those who wait.\u00a0 As an artist, it\u2019s clear to hear that Yaffa has found his place as a leader, and as a fan, I couldn\u2019t be any happier. <em><strong>The Innermost Journey to Your Outermost Mind<\/strong><\/em> will be getting many, many more spins from me in the future.\u00a0 Hell, I\u2019m on my 5<sup>th<\/sup> spin of it as I am writing this piece.\u00a0 Yes, it\u2019s that fucking good.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the front, Sami.\u00a0 You belong here.<\/p>\n<p>You can pick up a copy of the album <a href=\"https:\/\/cargorecordsdirect.co.uk\/products\/sami-yaffa-the-innermost-journey-to-your-outermost-mind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify:album:2FKYsiEWHTVL4GpP17Qaqs\" width=\"750\" height=\"950\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Hanoi Rocks bassist Sami Yaffa has had quite an impressive legacy of music.\u00a0 Not only was he in Hanoi Rocks, but Sami has served as bassist for bands such as 80\u2019s sleaze rockers Jetboy, bassist for his former Hanoi Rocks bandmate Michael Monroe, Johnny Thunders, and served as bassist for the legendary New York Dolls.\u00a0 The list actually could go on for much longer, but you get the idea.\u00a0 Sami Yaffa is a rock n\u2019 roll icon that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":19431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2087,2080,2312,2230,2229,905,2085,2077,180,2078,2090,2084,2086,2079,1435,2076,2196,2088,2089,1844,2081,2082,2408,2083],"class_list":["post-19430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-classic-rock","tag-classic-rock-blog","tag-death-metal","tag-folk-music-blog","tag-folk-rock-blog","tag-hanoi-rocks","tag-hard-rock","tag-hard-rock-blog","tag-heavy-metal","tag-heavy-metal-blog","tag-instrumental-bands","tag-mailchimp","tag-metal","tag-metal-blog","tag-michael-monroe","tag-music-blog","tag-occult-rock-blog","tag-prog-rock","tag-progressive-rock","tag-psych-rock","tag-psych-rock-blog","tag-psychedelic-rock-blog","tag-sami-yaffa","tag-wordpress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/61e19322176242b1b74a7bc739601b73.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19432,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19430\/revisions\/19432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}