Last week Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx made some waves when he criticized KISS for duplicating the Crue’s onstage mechanics, for their Motely’s final tour.
Ahead of KISS’ show at The Forum in Los Angles, Nikki took to Instagram (in a since-deleted post) to share an image of Crüe’s final tour with the caption “If ya wanna see an exact reenactment of this just go to the Los Angeles Forum tonight.”
Kerrang! caught up with Nikki to discuss his comments, and clarify exactly what he meant.
“I didn’t go to see KISS at the Forum [in Los Angeles]. First of all, I have to say that I really like KISS’s earlier songwriting; when I was a little kid who was learning to play music, they were a huge band. Aerosmith was always my favorite, but you can’t argue with simplicity of songs like Deuce and Black Diamond and Strutter and Parasite. In terms of my songwriting influences, they go into the same category as Slade or Cheap Trick. It’s very simple, hooky songwriting.
But what they did that really bothered me, and my bandmates, is [for Crüe’s farewell tour] we built these giant arms that fitted in the venue’s ceilings, that had lights in them, and we developed these things. It was a lot of work and it cost a lot of money. And these things would hide up there and then we’d use the lights to light the show. Then at the end of the set these arms would come down from the ceiling and me and Vince would jump on them and they would take us out over the arena and that was our grand finale.
But then I saw a video [of KISS] and they were using our arms. It was exactly our shtick. I just think it’s uncool. I think it’s uncool of the company to make the same thing again for them. I don’t know, it just bothers me. It was our last tour on Earth, and something that people have posters of on their walls is now being repeated by KISS. Sure, we all use pyro and stuff, but with this we re-invented an idea. And this was our idea.”
Compare for yourself.
Motley Crue’s biopic The Dirt will be airing on Netflix on March 22nd, the same day the band will be releasing the soundtrack from the movie. Read more about it here.
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GENE SIMMONS DR. LOVE
YOU KNOW WHAT HE’S THINKING OF
PAUL STANLEY MR. SPEED
PEARL JAM SUCKS JUST LIKE CREED
ACE FREHLEY GUITAR PLAYER
TOMMY THAYER WHAT A FAKER
ERIC SINGER DEAD RINGER
PETER CRISS HE IS KISS
TOMMY LEE NEWS FOR YOU
RAP SUCKS AND THAT IS TRUE
NIKKI SIXX IS SUCH A LIAR
WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE
Don’t blame me, blame Monet! 😉
MICK MARS FANCY CARS
VINCE NEIL STUCK IN BARS
okay, I’m done…
DON’T SHOOT ME
I’m only the piano player
Doug, I love ya, but Monet is a professional. Monet’s grasp of juxtaposition and dichotomy is on some other level. That’s not easy to do what he does…he just makes it look easy. This is me talking, your bro, who cares about you and your personal ego trip.
Ego trip? Hell no! Just having some fun, bro!
At this point I just don’t care – why does anyone in Crue care? kiss is done – they are a joke – I am shocked people are buying hugely overpriced tickets to a glorified karaoke show – possibly nostalgia, the spectacle of a kiss show … maybe people just don’t care their being sold down the river by the best snake oil salesmen in the business ….kiss was my favorite band from my teen years until they – dressed Tommy and Eric up as ace & pete and then couldn’t really physically do it anymore – but kept on anyway – really tarnishing their legacy- then adding insult to injury …having to lip sync to mount a last tour – I say good riddance –
TOO YOUNG TO FALL IN LOVE
OZZY OSBOURNE ATE A DOVE
MOTLEY CRUE NEW TATTOO
IRON MAIDENS ‘ BELGIAN BREW
ACE FREHLEY PETER CRISS
OSBOURNE ALSO TOOK A PISS
WE DIDN’ T START THE FIRE……
ALL HELL’S BREAKIN’ LOOSE
YOU KNOW YOUR MAN IS WORKIN’ HARD
HE’S WORTH A DEUCE
It’s hard to stop once you start this s–t! Well, it’s all on you, Monet, apparently
NO ONE CAN RECITE THE PIANO MAN
LIKE THE RICH-MAN
yeah, I’m done having fun.
…you half assed that one.
You May Be Right
I was talkin’ to Monet up there…Doug, I am getting into my own personal ego trip right now. 🙂
Dana,
Just when I thought I was out. They pull me back in!
MM
It’s okay, you are great at it.
At least it’s a small departure from all the Juan Croucier posts. Juat can I say?
D 🙂
What’s Nikki promoting? Why does he give a flying fu#$?
Probably, The Dirt movie, which is airing on Netflix, March 22nd.
This has been a Motley Crue public service announcement.