NIKKI SIXX SLAMS STRYPER’S MICHAEL SWEET OVER BOOK CLAIMS
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
Sixx said Bach was never auditioned. I think the fact Corabi got the gig speaks volumes about who was turned down or blew it off. Heroin addicts are losers. When the Crue start doing one-off festivals and Vegas runs in ’15, it’ll make the people know Sixx is a liar.
I started reading Heroin Diaries a few years back and stopped a third of the way through. I just couldn’t bring myself to believe half the shit I was reading. There’s no way someone as fucked up on herion as Nikki claimed to be could’ve written a diary so succinct in the details. So either he bullshitted about his heroin use, or he bullshitted about the accuracy of his account of things. I’ve never done heroin and I can’t remember what I had for breakfast. How these guys can remember the tiniest of details from 30 years back would be nothing short of a miracle.
I think of it like this. The nameless made-up foursome who just got into the RNRHOP had a live album called ALIVE which was admittedly overdubbed. Mr. Eisen brilliantly states in his book something like “who gives a fuck if was overdubbed, it sounds better that way.” If you apply that logic to any entertainment you usually come out ahead. I read THE HEROIN DIARIES back before KINDLES and KINDLE FIRES and I thought it was good. I’m a student of the classics and all I thought of was Dostoevsky’s NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND back from my CUNY days. If you still have it check it out. I am the guy who defends LULU on this site. Could I steer you wrong?
Yes, one day you and I are going to need to discuss your love for LULU. I support you no matter what, but LULU tests the boundaries of our legendary support for each other. I like Nikki, and have always been o.k. with the Crue. I respect a guys who has kept that band relevant so many years later, especially with fucks like Vince Neil on board. I just find his diary to be extremely questionable. Like you, I don’t give a shit that Alive was more a studio album than a live one. And I expect anyone’s book to stretch the truth and take that into consideration before reading. But Sixx’s book tested my limits as to what I was willing to accept. Maybe he believes it to be reality. But I sincerely doubt that it was close to reality.
“I’ve never done heroin and I can’t remember what I had for breakfast.”
So you know exactly what you can and can’t remember when on the drug? JImmy Page and Keith Richards made some of the best music of their career (admittedly with help) while on heroin. Whether it’s accurate down to the last detail or not, the fact remains, he was there when it happened, and we were not. Benefit of the doubt until it’s proven otherwise. Interesting that most of the people that were also ACTUALLY there aren’t really making a lot of waves about it, so as a general impression there must be a lot of truth there (if you’ve read it, you’d know that there are some people in those stories who would be well served by it being made up).
That was a very well typed up pile of nonsense there Bill. The comparison of someone writing and recording a song while on heroin to someone keeping 30 year memories while so heavily on the drug that they almost died 3 times makes me wonder how much heroin you did when typing your response. Apparently you believe everything you read when reading a biography. I tend to be more logical than that. But hey, I’m still a fan of Nikki’s and I believe you are too. So in honor of our differences, I’m going to play Red Hot when I get home tonight and let bygones be bygones.
“That was a very well typed up pile of nonsense there….”
DR ….I just used this line at the library when a patron asked me to proof-read an essay they wrote. Good line. 🙂
Thx Buddy. Feel free to use that one anytime. I’m trying to incorporate it myself right now at the office without HR being called. It goes back to your classic ‘have a gay day’ comment you made about a month back on a Halford post. I can’t remember whom you said it to. But that one was legendary.
Nikki’s ego needs its own tour bus when Mötley tours.As far as his book,I’ve had friends that were junkies.They are basically incoherent when they’re high,let alone keep a running,detailed diary of their escapades.
Amen…my thoughts exactly.
I have to agree with Nikki on this one. No one should judge anothers addiction or say that they are full of shit with what they say they went through.WE can thank god that some of us are alive to talk about it!!!
I personally have believed that Nikki exaggerated big time in order to get some misguided rock cred, like the Sex Pistols. But, in the end who knows?