For a start, he was sued by another guy whom he allegedly lifted the moniker "Nikki Sixx" from. Secondly, his band is a veritable pastiche of about three dozen other. Thirdly, he maintains that he made up the name Motley Crue (when, it turns out, that ancient guitarist Mick Mars traded under that name when he played in a bar band). Now take a look at the tatoo....ya think Rollins was pleased about that?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― Who did release magic family out from the base of $499 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)
>Nikki Sixx says that Zeppelin---one of the most innovative and experimental rock bands in history---were just some blues rock band, but that AC/DC "carved out an original, never-heard-before sound", which is, of course, ridiculously false. In fact, if you give another listen to a little song called "Alright Now" by the band FREE (which later turned into Bad Company) you'll notice that this classic rock staple from 1970, is the EXACT blueprint of the AC/DC sound, from Paul Rodgers raspy and hoarse blues wail (which sound a LOT like Bon Scott and Brian Johnson) to the simplistic, bonecrunching guitar riff and flatrock drumbeat, all of which became AC/DC "trademarks" a decade later! (Listen to it again if you doubt me.) (And even Foreigner's "Hot Blooded" is the best AC/DC song ever written---listen to it more closely next time and you'll see.)
Sixx also ironically hails Queen, a band that has acknowledged their jealously of Zeppelin for beating them to the sounds they were aiming for!
But then, no one has ever called Motley Crue "intelligent".
People (like me) enjoy them for being occasionally lovable morons.
Touching You(that's my name)L.E.S.NYC
― chuck, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― he does guitar with his mouth lmao mint (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― nince veil, Thursday, 17 February 2005 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)
have you got any pixx of him w/no shirt on? will pay 2 see.
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 17 February 2005 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)
but i thought accept's "balls to the wall" was the best ac/dc song ever written!
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)
Fuck yeah, I'm in that camp. Zeppelin as a concept was just the best studio musicians money could buy lamping hard on one particular era of the Stones.
but that AC/DC "carved out an original, never-heard-before sound", which is, of course, ridiculously false.
Nikki Sixx wrote the first two Crue albums, so he's not a total sock. Besides, if his only genius is thieving from the true greats -- aren't you obliged to his word for things like this?
FREE point well taken and totally true up to a point.
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 18 February 2005 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)
(I am completely, 100% serious)
― David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 18 February 2005 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)
?!?!?! Wha? You so crazy.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 18 February 2005 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)
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Matt, they were all studio dudes except Bonham, right? That wasn't a disrespect.
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 18 February 2005 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)