MÖTLEY CRÜE's NIkki Sixx To Ask DEF LEPPARD Singer Joe Elliott About '80s Glam Scene Slam On Sixx Sense Tonight
September 10, 2010, 14 years ago
Part two of an interview with DEF LEPPARD singer Joe Elliott is airing tonight on MÖTLEY CRÜE/SIXX A.M. bassist Nikki Sixx' syndicated radio show, Sixx Sense. A show description reads: "On tonight's show, we're airing a part of last night's Joe Elliott interview that you didn't hear. A couple years back Joe had some choice words about Mötley Crüe. Tonight, Nikki asks him, Point Blank, what he was really talking about."
During a press conference at the Sweden Rock Festival on Friday, June 6, 2008, Def Leppard vocalist Joe Elliott was asked about their connection with the 1980s glam metal scene. His answer reads as follows:
"If you actually look at the way that the 'glam' bands, if you want to call it that, from Los Angeles dressed themselves up, they totally missed the point. When English glam bands from the '70s came on Top Of The Pops, it was almost an afterthought to what they were actually doing - music always came first, and then they'd be like, 'What are we gonna wear?' . . . BOWIE was very image-driven, and maybe the music came second, but a lot of the other bands, it was always about the music - the image thing was just something that they did to just upstage other bands on Top Of The Pops; that's what they used to do. So we were never driven to do the mascara thing or whatever these bands did. They didn't have any substance musically, I don't think, in comparison to us, so we didn't feel we needed to do it. Bands that do that are doing it to cover up the fact that there is no substance in their music. The only band - and I'm not saying it because we're here - the only band that did pull it off was HANOI ROCKS. I thought they were a good band, and they looked… Michael Monroe was one of the best. And I think Andy McCoy (Hanoi Rocks guitarist) does the best kind of (THE ROLLING STONES') Keith Richards... so much better than Mötley Crüe or POISON or any of those bands. They were real - the rest of the guys, it was all a bit fake for me."For more info about Sixx Sense and to tune in visit Sixxsense.com.
