“I remember walking down the stairs onto the stage and hardly knowing Tommy and Vince and Mick,” Mötley Crüe bassist and principal songwriter Nikki Sixx says, reflecting on Mötley Crüe’s first-ever gig, in West Hollywood on April 24th, 1981. “But at the same time feeling like I’d known them my whole life. Breaking into that first song, I remember just feeling at home.”

Sixx spoke by phone with LAWeekly from backstage at an arena in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Mötley Crüe is nearing the end of The Final Tour, a farewell trek bound by a “cessation of touring agreement,” and culminating in a three-show hometown stand at the Staples Center leading up to the band's December 31st finale.

The same four dudes that will be in Mötley Crüe when the band plays Staples are the same four that played the group’s 1981 Starwood debut: Sixx, frontman Vince Neil, guitarist Mick Mars and drummer Tommy Lee. Of course a lot has happened to those four people in the 34 years since. Stardom, propelled by catchy yet heavy hits like “Looks That Kill”, “Home Sweet Home”. “Girls, Girls, Girls” and “Dr. Feelgood.” Infamy, propelled by epic heroin, coke, booze and groupie consumption, as chronicled in the group’s 2001 page-turner memoir, The Dirt.

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Speaking with Las Vegas Magazine about the end of Mötley Crüe, frontman Vince Neil also discussed the band’s upcoming biopic, The Dirt.

Q: Has there been talk about when work will start on the Mötley Crüe biopic after the tour is finished?

A: “That’s making movies. Making music and making movies is two different things. We’re involved in it, but… we just got a new script about three or four months ago, the rewrite of the old script, and it’s way, way better. It’s such a great script. This movie should be out in the summer of 2016. It does stay pretty close to The Dirt, so if you’ve read The Dirt it’s really something to look forward to.”

Q: How does it strike you that you’ll be seeing an actor playing you on screen?

A: “That’s gonna be strange. It’s funny, I saw the table read of the last script. They have these different actors playing each person, and even just the table read of the script was weird when the Vince guy was talking (laughs). It wasn’t the guy that’s gonna play me, but it was just kind of weird hearing somebody say your words. It’s a bit of a trip.”

Q: The success of Straight Outta Compton probably has the studio looking at a Mötley Crüe biopic as a little more lucrative than they did before. Does it start with the beginning of the band?

A: “It starts just like The Dirt. The first scene is the first pages of The Dirt, in our apartment in Hollywood. There’s a party going on. That’s where the book starts.”

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