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Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Neil Strauss, Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil - Motley Crue: The Dirt Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
1truluv's Full Review: Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Neil Strauss, Nikki Sixx, Vi...
It took me a week to read this book. I am usually able to go through one in about two days. However, this one I just had to keep putting down. I am a huge fan of heavy metal, rock 'n roll, and just about any other music ( with the exception of opera, sorry ). My daughter-in-law gave this book to me to read, she told me it was great. What the readers of this review need to understand is that my son is a musician. Not just a guitar player content with the bar scene, I was horrified when, he injured his back (in the '80's) and was in terrible pain for years afterward. He never gave up his love for music, but I couldn't understand why he was so overlooked, as he had become one of the best guitar players around. Well, I have to admit, after reading this book about the music scene in the '80's I am thankful that his big break did not come ( until now..:) He is in a three piece band and they are all married and stable and ready to go to the top. You are invited to listen to their music at www.blistur.com or www.myspace.com/blistur. Now that I have that said, about this book:
This book was dedicated to their wives and children In the hope that they may forgive us for what we've done.The contents of The Dirt are as follows:
Part 1- The Motley house
Part 2- Born to Lose
Part 3-Toast of the town
Part 4-Shout at the Devil
Part 5-Save our souls
Part 6-Girls,Girls, Girls
Part 7- Some of our best friends
are drug dealers
Part 8- Some of our best friends
were drug dealers
Part 9- Don't go away mad
Part 10 -Without you
Part 11 -The guns the women, the ego
Part 12 -Hollywood ending
The authors are Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil, and Tommy Lee. This is 426 pages of complete abandonment of any and all laws, be them man-made of of nature. Complete disrespect of anyone and anything they deemed beneath them. From the very beginning of the first chapter The Motley House, which was, as described, a filthy bug infested pig sty. The excuse that Tommy and Vince were still teenagers and didn't know how to clean up after themselves, was just that, an excuse. From this first chapter, I knew that I was in for a long read. I wasn't interested in the filthy language, the filthy way they treated the women ( who came and went like flies) the filthy places that they slept in and called home, along with all the drugs.
I am still amazed that four completely dysfunctional boys ( men?) became such rock stars. They tell not only of their reckless abandonment and loathing of any and all rules, but also of other rock stars of that period. They tell in complete detail about the women, how they treated them, used them, passed them around, and left them wondering what happened. These girls are by no means innocent. They willingly climbed through windows and got backstage, for one purpose only...to do a rock star!
I am in awe that these guys ( and the rest of the rock scene, at the time ) had the stamina to do the things they did and still live to tell it. Of course not all of them lived, as Vince Neil and his friend Razzle went on a liquor run, and Razzle never made it back to the party house, he was instead taken to the morgue, after Vince ran 65mph in a 25 mph zone and had a head on collision. This, however, was not enough to stop or even slow down the madness.
The '80's were rarin' to go, it was, as the saying goes, Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll, Mostly in that exact order. The Sunset Strip in the '80's must have been the most decadent place to be. All of these guys are most certainly musicians, as they wrote and sold millions of records, made multi-millions of dollars and to this day have a huge fan base.
In Part 2 Chapter 1 we are told of the reasons why these boys are the way they are. Starting with Nikki Sixx, "The trials and travails of young Nikki in which our hero is savagely beaten for brushing his teeth in an ill-advised direction. Learns the finer points of rabbit slaughter, utilizes a lunch box in self-defense, holds hands with sweet Sarah Hopper and sells crank"
He was named after his father Frank Carlton Feranna, who stayed around long enough to give him a sister he has no memory of ( his mother had told him that his sister had gone away to live somewhere else and wanted nothing to do with her family). He found out, after 30 years that his sister had Downs Syndrome and was hidden away. He had planned on going to rescue her after his last tour, but she died before he got a chance to meet her. She was blind and deaf and mute. He was went into an instant depression.
Chapter 2 Mick Mars"of Mick's delightful and happenstance encounter with a vendor of spirits" Not much to tell in this chapter, except his first encounter with Frank, who later changed his name to NikiSixx, because he didn't want the name of a father who walked out on him. Later in his adult life he would find out that he had a life-threatening disease called ankylosing spondylitis.(I personally knew a woman who contracted the disease which ultimately killed her a few years ago.)How this man got on stage and played guitar and did the drugs and alcohol without killing himself, I don't know
On to Tommy Lee Part 3 Chapter 1. Tommy Lee's mother was Greek. She did not speak a word of English. His father was an army sargeant who spoke no Greek. His childhood was filled with confusion, fear and insecurities. As an adult he was told by an analyst that because of his parents form of communication (which consisted of drawing pictures) was the reason he needed so many tattoos. This was his form of communication.
Chapter 3- We have Vince Neil, who tells about the violence and mayhem they created when they first started out. The fans hated them, until they got off the stage and started fighting with the audience who were shouting at them to go home. For some reason, after that the audience came back after telling their friends about the way they had acted, and a fan base was born. Surprisingly, they had garnered a fan in the name of David Lee Roth who set out telling Vince how to make it in the Music business.
I don't want to go into full detail of this book. There are 426 pages of the worst of the worst in the music industry. And that includes the powers that be who really have only one thing on their mind and that is to make money. They are the ones who made it easy for the rock stars to get all the alcohol, drugs and girls they wanted. There was no consideration of the well being of the young lives that were in constant chaos. This is a good read if you like heavy metal and have a need to know about the lives of the stars that are so idolized all over the world.
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