Bassist Nikki Sixx has bit back at Stryper singer Michael Sweet’s claims that Motley Crue’s biography is full of tall tales.
Crue bass player Sixx responded to Sweet’s swipe by posting a message on Facebook, claiming that the Stryper frontman had no right to comment on his experiences and his battle with drug addiction.
His post reads: “Non addicts talking shit about people who have fought for their lives to beat their addiction…..#MichaelSweet #OhHeHasABookForSale? #GodBlessTheChildrenOfTheBeast #SobrietyRocks #Sad.”
In a previous interview with Music Enthusiast, Sweet claimed Motley Cure’s official biography The Dirt – Confessions Of The World’s Most Notorious Rock Band and Sixx’s own memoir The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star were “stretched.”
In the interview, to plug his own book Honestly: My Life And Stryper Revealed, Sweet says: “Is it as controversial as Motley Crue? No, but I think half of what we hear about Motley Crue is BS anyway, like when you hear stories about Nikki Sixx dying three times and whatnot. It’s, like, how stretched is that?
Half of the stuff I read in these autobiographies I just kind of roll my eyes at, because I just think that a lot of these guys just did so many drugs and drank so much booze that their minds aren’t too clear in terms of remembering the past exactly as it went down.”
Sweet is not the first to question the credibility of Sixx’s book. Former member John Corabi previously said he found it hard to believe someone on heroin would be capable of keeping a diary.
additional source: metalhammer.co.uk
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Is this what too many of us in this nation are becoming….a bunch of whiny “oh, he hurt my feelings….boo-hoo. That man/woman said something I don’t agree with and I may cry or lash out and discredit him” Hey. I know, Nikki…..why not grow a pair and take Michael Sweet’s comments for what they are: HIS OPINION. I love you music man and you rock….but don’t be such a puss.
Much like Eddie and every one of those tweets he feels the need to RT because his hero called his show Wayne’s World. The truth hurts.
Are you saying my show is Wayne’s World too? Thank you! It is a HUGE film many love!
Ya know – I wish Nikki would shut the F up!!!!!! I am so tired of his rants, slamming, and overall Bullsh!t.
NIkki thinks he is better than anyone and everyone on the planet…. he is so delusional to the fact that while he was in F-up land, the rest of the sober world was watching him making a tool out of himself.
HONESTLY: Who the hell care? THE HEROIN DIARIES is quite excellent in the tradition of NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND. All these other bios about sex, drugs and fighting are all total shit.
It says right on the first page of The Dirt that some of it is a load of crap. It says specifically that “some of the characters in the book are “composites” which are a combination of 2 or more people into one. A lot of Sixx’s stories do change.
And Nikki sure does get defensive when someone calls the books b. s., rather than prove they aren’t.
my crazy ass sister was with the crue in the late 80s and early 90s and I asked her how it was after i read the dirt.. and i was a fan of theirs when they first came out….She said that book was spot on and couldnt believe they even put it out to read.
Well, you know, everyone has to write a book, everybody has a story to tell, whether it’s truthful or not.
Boring stories don’t sell books.