Photos – Nikki Sixx – 2007.10.26
Nikki Sixx, bass player and principle songwriter for Motley Crue, was in Vancouver yesterday, October 26, to promote his new book “The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star”. He made a stop at the studio for an interview with CKNW’s Christy Clark and I was fortunate enough to meet him.
Here’s a photo and his autograph on the first Motley Crue box set titled “Music To Crash Your Car To”.
Nikki Sixx Dishes On Drugs
By Jason MacNeil (Sun Media)
The old adage states you shouldn’t complain because there is always somebody in the world worse off than you are. And for the nearly all of 1987, Nikki Sixx could have been a strong candidate for being that global somebody.
While having all the rock star riches and luxuries, the Motley Crue bassist also had a $5,000 a day drug habit, one that is vividly chronicled in his new book The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star.
“That’s how I communicated,” Sixx says during a promotional stop in Toronto. “I had to or I would go crazy and even as I was going crazy I had to write it down to see if what I was seeing and hearing and feeling was real.
“Cocaine was really the biggest downfall. Heroin you can maintain, sadly, but cocaine you start getting into the amounts of freebasing and mainlining you go into a whole other world of insanity.”
The 400-plus page book, written in part with journalist Ian Gittins, is a brutally honest look at Sixx’s hellish year, one which saw him overdose and be declared clinically dead at one point while Motley Crue toured behind its Girls, Girls, Girls album. The book also features recent interviews Gittins did with band mates, friends and family members, interviews Sixx says pull no punches.
“They would say things like, ‘He was undependable, he was a bit of a dictator when it came to the music but I love Nikki,’ ” he says. “I’m like, ‘That’s a fucking waste of my time!’ Let’s get into the meat of it and get into it. Ian got in there and really pulled out what was going on and peeling away all the stuff that’s going on now.”
Sixx says he decided to release the diaries as a means of helping others with various addictions and issues. Proceeds from the book, which recently hit No. 7 on the New York Times bestseller list, go to Covenant House and The Running Wild in the Night Foundation, the latter he founded to help young runaways. But the musician says he’s not about to get on any soapbox.
Read the rest of the story at Canoe – JAM! Music.
Highlights from Nikki Sixx’s September 25, 2007 book signing at Virgin Megastore at Times Square in New York City:
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UPDATE (October 28, 2007):
Nikki Sixx was interviewed by Ricker of Seattle’s KISW 99.9 FM earlier this month (October 7th). Listen to the six and a half minute chat here.
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The fact the guy is standing next to you is some kind of an achievement. By all thats reasonable he should be dead, like his (and mine) hero Tommy Bolin. Its a thin white line that he walked, and at least he’s doing some good telling the tale.
Good luck to the guy.