![]() When you haven’t dealt with your childhood pain, struggle with depression and a crushing loneliness and life on the road seems endless and empty and you self-medicate with sex and heroin, well, things quickly turn into a nightmare. You’d think the lifestyle of a big rock and roll star at the height of his stardom was nothing but luxurious decadence and fun times, right? Well, it is and it isn’t. Sorry this turned into an album review, but they were released as companions :) Recommended for: hard rock or metal fans in general, Motley Crue fans, Queensryche fans Recommnded songs: 'Life is Beautiful', 'Van Nuys', 'Courtesy Call' Which is odd, because I thought I was supposed to stop liking metal when I got old. I have to admit that Vince Neil's voice is a little on the ragged edge of my taste envelope but overall I don't have a problem with them anymore. Then I wondered - why, if I liked this, was I not a Motley Crue fan? So I looked through the Motley Crue discography and I found that I liked and remembered a bunch of their songs. Since I was never a fan, I thought that explained it. I read in the Allmusic review of this album that Motley Crue fans would not like it. The intermissions when segments of the diaries are read complement the flow of the songs and enhance the story. It is both a powerful concept album and a collection of hard rock gems. Nikki's slide into the depths of addiction and the background information on several of rock music's more venerable gods including: Rick Neilsen's apparent antipathy toward Gene Simmons, David Coverdale being described as 'the Richard Burton of Rock and Roll,' and Vanity's insane behavior both as a coke whore and a minister make for some amusing anecdotes from the sleazy side of the spotlights.īut, back to the album. The layout was sometimes difficult to deal with (red print on black paper is not easy on these old eyes), but the story itself was enthralling. Just to complete the experience, I snagged the book from the library. Well, I acquired the album the next day and WOW! This was the best rock concept album since Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime. ![]() The album was released as a companion disc for his new autobiography: The Heroin Diaries. Sixx AM is a project put together by Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue fame. Having established that fact, I was blown away when I heard 'Life is Beautiful' on my favorite internet radio station ( I immediately had to find out who this Sixx AM band was. To the best of my memory, they only had two songs I can truly say I liked: 'Shout at the Devil' and 'Dr. I have to start out saying I was never a Motley Crue fan when they were huge.
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