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| From | "Donnie" <largro13@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Motley Crue "The Dirt" |
| Date | Fri, 09 May 2008 22:50:43 -0000 |
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I know that it's an old biography, but I finally got around to
reading Motley Crue "The Dirt".
I had no idea they were fans of the Raspberries, Slade, the Sweet,
and the Beatles (I knew they had covered "Helter Skelter" but I that
that was for the weirdness/violence factor).
Motley Crue actually had pretty good taste, as fans of music, when
they were starting out. I wouldn't put them in the class of some of
the bands that they liked back then.
I was also surprised to see how close the New Wave/Power-Pop and L.A.
Glam Metal scenes were in the late 70s/early80s. The same club would
host something like Motley Crue or Ratt, and then host 20/20 or the
Plimsouls the next day. And before Motley Crue, Nikki Sixx was in a
band called London that split up because half the guys decided to
go 'skinny tie' in image, and the other half decided to go for 'the
New York Dolls/transvestite hooker' look.
Interesting stuff. While I clued in a long time ago that some of the
better Hair Metal singles were Power-Pop with a little more crunch
and volume, I didn't imagine that the different style bands ran in as
close a circles with each other.
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