Wednesday
May252016
Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee Go Back To Grade School
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 12:01AM
So apparently Tommy Lee just did an interview where he mentioned that Nikki Sixx unfollowed him on Twitter the day after Motley Crue's final show together. This seems completely absurd and yet I believe it. They don't need to be friends - in fact I think we'd all agree they hate each other - but they can be civil, right? Unfollowing Tommy seems pretty low and petty on Nikki's part. It's too bad there's no Motley Crue music to talk about these days. Just Twitter feuds.
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First: In Vince Neil's recent biography (2 or 3 years old by now) he clearly stated how he was completely left out of the loop on any/all of the Crue's recent activities.
He stated in his book that he had no clue about any tour they had w/kiss until he turned on the news & heard late "breaking news" about the Kiss tour. He also implied how Nikki would pull lots of stunts like this that essentially forced the other band members to comply otherwise they would be forced to face legal action because of breach of contract. How the hell Nikki was able to pull that B.S over the other band members is beyond me but Nikki ostensibly found several loopholes Also very recently Nikki claimed that the reason Motley called it quits is because they ran out of creativity, which is 100% complete BS.
If so how come Vince soon after talked about wanting to record another solo CD & Mick Mars almost instantly ran into the studio to record several amazing newly written solo songs featuring the amazing John Corabi on vocals...& I'm willing to bet the farm that Tommy is off somewhere creating a plethora of terrible/horrendous "Dance" songs
P.S. Also recently Nikki tried to tear John a new @$$hole about how "difficult" it was making the Motley Corabi CD with him, which is a 100% complete contradiction to everything he has ever said about him ever since meeting him in 1992 I used to idolize Nikki Sixx & held him up their with some of the all time greats like Axl Rose or Sid Vicious but the delusional/absurdness of his recent actions/behaviors in the past few years has almost completely destroyed any kind of respect I ever had for him. Had Motley Crue disbanded sometime in late 1997. Nikki would have 100% been my favorite rock star of all time...but his terrible musical output in the last 19 years has really done some pretty irreversible damage to my respect for him as a legitimate artist
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just an opinion.
But here's a thought...shut up and FU Jakki. I am more tired of your bullshit than Metalboy! is of Steel Panthers'.
Psshhh.....Teenagers
It would be double-plus-good (that's for all you Orwell fans out there) if the mysteries of rock weren't so open to the air these days. As it turns out, most of these peeks behind the curtain aren't worth the time.
Slap fights. Scorned bro-mances. Flaccid barbs traded over the 'web. And to think: once upon a time, the Crue (and countless others) were "on top." Edgy, dangerous, sexy even. Well, once the mystique wore off . . . this is what we get.
That said, I think it is Sully that should be put on a pedestal . . . he's a wee one, that fellow.
These guys never had to grow up and when they tried, they failed. Miserably and making us miserable. They should all take a clue from Slash and Axl.
Guns and Lewis. Ace and $immons, Bach and Snake, Pearcy and DiMartini, Blackie and Holmes, Whiteman and Purnell, Keifer and LeBar, Sixx and Lee and until now, Dokken and Lynch. Unfortunately, it's apparently too late for Crüe, though I think an honest endeavor of making new music on the level of the song "Saints of Los Angeles' may have made a difference for them.
While Sixx is a "marginal at best" bassist, he was once a pretty decent simplistic songwriter.
One thing has never changed... he's always been petty, childish, & kind of a douchenozzle.
His un-following Tommy is totally unsurprising to me.
Here's a read out on me, HIM, dovetailing off your "AARP age" comment...
Ever since I started getting that seaming lay endless stream of AARP junk mail in my mailbox (the kind where you get actual printed material sent to you), it goes straight into the trash as I am also in denial about facing the reality of it's implications, too!
If it annoys me, I wonder what reaction those vanity cases like Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee have when they also ponder the afternoon mail and one of those things show up...
Or do they instruct their housekeepers or "bodyguards" to chuck that stuff ahead of handing them the mail and forbidden to not even so much as mention it.
I think you are right though. You can live a life that shouts down the shackles of age. And you can do so while also cognizant of your overall place in life. I mean, we should all rage against the dying of the light. But that won't stop you from having to buy a jumbo bottle of pills at Costco to take care of your . . . arthritis, right?
Some of these rockers, however, seem to be caught in a bind of their own making, coming across as less elder statesmen (a role that every genre needs) and more as the guys with beer guts hanging over their spandex, belly buttons peeking out from underneath their Affliction shirts. For me, Sixx's problem is this: he is _trying_ too hard to stay relevant. When you have to tell people you are "with it," you have already lost the contest.
Regarding the "With it" comment... Has Sixx actually referred to himself as such? There's a cardinal rule in Advertising (the biz I was in before I became Metalboy!) which I would think may also apply here and in real life, as well... If you have to describe yourself as "cool" or a derivative as such, than you are indeed, not cool. Let others decide if you're cool or not!
I for one, assure you I am not but have fooled many into thinking I am, present company accepted!
No, Sixx has never said "with it." That was my stab at humor (see how often it falls flat?). But, just like that old-ish nod to being a "hep cat" or "the bee's knees," his persona exemplifies the self-same trend. He tries to walk the walk and talk the talk (see? I am doing it again.) and fails simply because . . . well, he is a 57 year old man!
You can rock and grow old gracefully (Robert Plant, though less rocking than he was in his youth, comes to mind) or you can rage on and still maintain an aura of 'the real' (Glenn Hughes, recovered from his fall, strikes that tone more often than not). You can even crash and burn, but do it with style (Lemmy). Sixx? He seems to be at pains to be wanted, and needed, and relevant, and on the cusp of whatever it is that 'being on the cusp of means' at any given time. And means to whom? That is the real question.
I don't begrudge him his desire to stay relevant. Nor do I question his right to say what he wants and release whatever music that strikes his fancy. I just find it calculated. You can't be a rebel by checking off boxes.
I have to ask (though I do so in an echo chamber) the same question I have asked Ace: when are you going to write a book? I bet you have stories to tell, and tell again. I would love to read it.