Famed producer Tom Werman (MÖTLEY CRÜE, TED NUGENT, CHEAP TRICK, TWISTED SISTER, BLUE ÖYSTER CULT) spoke with Chuck Harrell from KTVU.com recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

KTVU.com: Do you see anyone from your music biz days?

Tom Werman: "Not on a regular basis. Friends of mine, yes, but not artists I worked with."

KTVU.com: Why is that? Is it that you aren't in a working relationship or is that "just the way it is?"

Tom Werman: "It's because, for the most part, if you are not working for their benefit, if you are not doing something to help them, you don't exist. It's that cold. I mean, look at Mötley Crüe. I had a five-year relationship with them. We made three albums together; we had a very decent relationship, no arguments, no words, no bitterness, nothing. As soon as I stopped working with them, they made a record with Bob Rock. [When] they released it, they had a big release party in L.A. and they didn't bother to invite me. And that's fine, but that's just how it goes."

KTVU.com: So you are responsible for breaking Mötley Crüe and making them what they are, but don't get an invite - as common courtesy would dictate - to their album release party? I can only imagine they invited people with less impact on their career and people who didn't work on the Bob Rock album to the very same event. That is pretty cold. They are sort of biting the hand that fed them.

Tom Werman: "Oh, absolutely."

KTVU.com: Does it speak the same of Twisted Sister and Cheap Trick, since you are no longer serving a purpose for them anymore?

Tom Werman: "With Twisted Sister, you'll have to ask Dee Snider about that because he has a major thing...he definitely has issues, I can't explain that. He had a problem with me only after the record was done, never during the record. That's the amazing thing about these people. They are so two-faced."

KTVU.com: So what is that? Why are these bands saying these things? Honestly, I know little about the history between you and Mötley Crüe...

Tom Werman: "That's just it. There was no history except that 25 years later, Nikki Sixx decides to write a book called The Heroin Diaries and he shits all over me in the book. And he says [mocking Sixx] 'Aw, I wish Werman would get off the phone, I had to do all the work with Vince.' So I wrote to The New York Times book review and I said 'You reviewed this book last week; it's pure fiction. If people are looking for something real, this isn't it.' I said it was 'stunningly inaccurate.' Nikki was very pissed off. He was embarrassed."

KTVU.com: Well, this is a guy who was supposed to be under the influence of heroin most of the time, was he not? I mean, it's called The Heroin Diaries...

Tom Werman: "Well, much of the time, yeah."

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