MÖTLEY CRÜE Bassist Nikki Sixx - "What Happened To The Kid With The Dream?"
October 28, 2007, 16 years ago
The following report is courtesy of Nina Metz from Chicagotribune.com:
It had been more than 15 years since MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx read back through the journals he kept during the 1980s.
"I was just going through stuff, reading about the beginning of the band," he says. "We had just played in front of 65,000 people, and they all know our songs. I was the kid with the dream, and it was all happening. The debauchery -- it was all fun and exciting. Then when I hit [the journals from] '86 to '87, I was like, 'What happened to the kid with the dream?'"His notorious rock 'n' roll excess took the form of alcohol, cocaine and heroin, which he details in The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star, a memoir of addiction that reprints his journal entries - along with his present-day observations - from 1986 through 1987. Sixx has since kicked his addictions. "That's what I like about the word recovery," he says, "you're recovering something about yourself."
One of Mötley Crüe's last big hits was 1991's 'Home Sweet Home' - a theme Sixx has taken to heart with his six-bedroom, seven-bathroom Mediterranean-style house in Los Angeles.
"I'm a single father and make all decorating decisions myself," he says. His style is "funky eclectic mixed with antiques and overstuffed furniture with classic macabre fabrics." Sixx has four children from two previous marriages, and shares custody 50-50 with their mothers. At any time, the house includes son Gunner, 16, daughter Storm, 13, son Decker, 12, and daughter Frankie, 6 -- plus a nanny."The first thing I think about in the morning and the last thing I think about at night are my kids," he says. "I'm really proud to be a single father, and not a single rock star. I gotta tell you, the bar is so high for me in meeting someone [to date], it weeds out about 99 percent of the population. To let them into our life, that's a big decision that I take very seriously."
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