Producer Bob Rock has issued a brand new assertion following feedback made on the Speak Is Jericho podcast (heard beneath) by which he shared a narrative about working with Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx within the early days of the band by which the bassist questioned whether or not or not he had really performed on the band’s first 4 albums. Within the new assertion, Rock explains the context by which these feedback had been made, chalking it as much as Sixx joking round in a self-deprecating model.
Whereas showing on the podcast, Rock recalled, “[While making] ‘Dr. Feelgood’, [Nikki] says to me, he goes, ‘I do not assume I ever performed on any of the Motley Crue data. I feel someone got here in at night time and changed all my components.’ He says, ‘So I do not actually know find out how to play bass.'”
“And I mentioned, ‘Too dangerous. You are enjoying bass on it,'” the producer continues, “So I labored with him by means of ‘Dr. Feelgood,’ did loads of edits and made him play each be aware.”
Rock would later share how Sixx has continued to enhance as a participant over the course of his profession. “Once we did The Dust [soundtrack], the songs on The Dust, I went to see him and we began engaged on the demos. He picked up the bass and began enjoying, and I mentioned, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa. What is going on on right here?’ He had been taking bass classes for 5 years,” revealed Rock. “Rapidly he is a tremendous bass participant. And I feel that is so cool, in that time of his profession, he needed to be higher. I love that. So now, on The Dust, Nikki and Tommy [Lee] performed dwell off the ground, each of them.”
In October of 2021, Sixx himself opened up about taking guitar, bass and vocal classes earlier than the pandemic and that he even discovered to play bass along with his fingers, as he had been utilizing a decide up that time.
Now, to supply a clarification of what was mentioned on the podcast and the context by which is was shared, Rock issued an announcement that reads as follows:
Yesterday on a podcast with Chris Jericho I informed a narrative about working with Nikki Sixx and Motley Crue on the Dr. Feelgood report. Sadly, like many issues on the Web immediately, it was taken out of context and misconstrued. After I started working with Motley Crue on the Dr. Feelgood report, the band was sober for the primary time and Nikki significantly was recovering from a really public habit to heroin. We joked round loads and Nikki, in his very self-deprecating model would say he didn’t even keep in mind enjoying on their prior data. This was Nikki’s means of claiming that for the report we had been engaged on, he was displaying as much as do the very best he presumably may and to make the very best report of the band’s profession. Which we did. At no time did I ever really assume Nikki didn’t play bass on Motley Crue’s data. He’s one of the crucial distinctive and proficient gamers on this planet and his strategy to the instrument is a part of what has made Motley Crue nice all through the years.
Lastly, I used to be commenting on and commending Nikki as a result of he by no means stops studying and by no means stops bettering. I respect Nikki for at all times desirous to be higher at his craft and it reveals. I’ve labored with a number of the greatest bands on this planet and I can say unequivocally that Nikki Sixx is likely one of the most proficient gamers, lyricists and songwriters I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. And if the Web needs to latch onto a narrative from one or two sound bytes, its extraordinarily unlucky as a result of it doesn’t mirror the reality of the contributions he’s made to music during the last 40 years.
Mahalo – Bob Rock
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Rock has continued his working relationship with Motley Crue of late, most not too long ago working with Sixx, newly added guitarist John 5 and drummer Tommy Lee on new materials.
Motley Crue have returned to the street, as soon as once more enjoying alongside Def Leppard in a continuation of final yr’s North American “Stadium Tour” that’s now hitting different components of the globe. Make sure you get your tickets to see them right here.
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