MÖTLEY CRÜE Bassist NIKKI SIXX - "We’re Dysfunctional Human Beings That Ended Up In A Gang"
July 13, 2008, 16 years ago
MSNBC.com recently filed a report on MÖTLEY CRÜE in the wake of the release of the band's new album, Saints Of Los Angeles. The following is an excerpt from the story:
For 27 years and with 50 million records sold, according to the band’s management, Tenth Street Entertainment, Motley Crue has always done things its own outrageous way, battling everyone, including itself, to do it.
“It’s really simple,” Sixx says of the group’s life of extremes. “It’s who we are. We’re dysfunctional human beings that ended up in a gang.”The gang’s impact stretches from when it ruled the ’80s Sunset Strip and unwittingly helped pioneer the glam metal genre that spawned dozens of wannabe acts, to its subsequent influence on two decades of performers, spanning the spectrum from Marilyn Manson to Buckcherry.
Motley is rock royalty with two generations of subjects: its original fans, and those fans’ children, who have been exposed to the band though their parents, channels like VH1 Classic and Fuse, and such videogames as “Guitar Hero” and “Rock Band.” (The new album’s title single sold five times as many copies as downloads via “Rock Band” in its first week of release in April as it sold via conventional channels. The single has hit No. 7 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.)
Fan ties nurtured Motley even before the group first appalled critics and parents with its controversial 1982 album, Shout at the Devil. The record is just one of many battles Motley has fought, and won, against the establishment.
“We know what we’re doing is real,” Sixx says. “For some reason, everyone wants to bet against us, every single time. And the fans want to vote for us. And there’s the rub, right there.”Go to this location for the complete story.
