This book is a classic. I have read it countless times, and still find it to be one of the best rock autobiographies around. Motley Crue: Iconic, Complex, Tragic. These guys are so human, and that is why I love this book. I personally dislike their music greatly: always did, always will. However, the four amazing people who talk about themselves in this book are worthy of their status.
Nikki Sixx is the total geek, low self esteem-having, "make myself over into an icon" leader; Tommy is the comic foil to Nikki's serious tone; the stereotypical drummer: childlike, inarticulate, very physical. Vince is the classic vocalist: brash, self absorbed, but in truth the most sensitive of the members. The perrson I respect the most in the band is definitely Mick Mars: schizophrenic for sure, but he knows the members of the band better than they know themselves. He is the most down to earth, and the least self-pitying.
This book is very enjoyable because these four men are very bit the comic-book characters they portrayed onstage, and unbelievably human, and real in spite of that. |
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band Books In Print, Audio Books.