Nikki Sixx, he's just like us! The bassist apparently suffers from embarrassment when watching old Mötley Crüe videos — and that's just the way he thinks it should be.
In a new interview with Classic Rock, Sixx reflected on the band's past, as well as a core tenet of the rock genre: humiliation.
"I dug into YouTube and was looking at some of the old videos," the musician told interviewer Sian Llewellyn, "and I guess it could all be considered embarrassing because rock 'n' roll is embarrassing – as it should be." Whatever do you mean, Mr. Sixx? Isn't rock supposed to be the opposite of embarrassing (i.e., cool)?
Thankfully, the bassist elaborated on his perspective: "[Rock stars] should be ridiculous, we should be outrageous, we should be pushing envelopes and we should be rebelling against each other. We're supposed to be loud and rude and in-your-face."
Mötley Crüe's antics — both on-stage and off — certainly cash the cheque Sixx is writing here. Though they've definitely become a little less wild in their elder years and have started drinking less beer, his point of view aligns with previous commentary on Pearl Jam being one of the "most boring bands in history."
What's his take on the current state of the genre then, you ask? "My criticism is that it's extremely overproduced in a lot of cases, the musician mused. "It's ProTooled to death, it's chopped to death and I miss some of the slop. I miss some of the flat notes. I miss when a guitar player doesn't exactly come down perfect. I kinda miss some of the nuts and bolts of just being in a raw rock 'n' roll band."
He added: "With that being said, there's some cool bands that are coming out and just going to the studio and cutting it pretty much live off the floor, and it's real — you can feel it, that they mean it."
So, despite rock 'n' roll being dead, according to Gene Simmons (cause of death: the fans), Sixx seems to think there are still signs of embarrassing life to be found.
In a new interview with Classic Rock, Sixx reflected on the band's past, as well as a core tenet of the rock genre: humiliation.
"I dug into YouTube and was looking at some of the old videos," the musician told interviewer Sian Llewellyn, "and I guess it could all be considered embarrassing because rock 'n' roll is embarrassing – as it should be." Whatever do you mean, Mr. Sixx? Isn't rock supposed to be the opposite of embarrassing (i.e., cool)?
Thankfully, the bassist elaborated on his perspective: "[Rock stars] should be ridiculous, we should be outrageous, we should be pushing envelopes and we should be rebelling against each other. We're supposed to be loud and rude and in-your-face."
Mötley Crüe's antics — both on-stage and off — certainly cash the cheque Sixx is writing here. Though they've definitely become a little less wild in their elder years and have started drinking less beer, his point of view aligns with previous commentary on Pearl Jam being one of the "most boring bands in history."
What's his take on the current state of the genre then, you ask? "My criticism is that it's extremely overproduced in a lot of cases, the musician mused. "It's ProTooled to death, it's chopped to death and I miss some of the slop. I miss some of the flat notes. I miss when a guitar player doesn't exactly come down perfect. I kinda miss some of the nuts and bolts of just being in a raw rock 'n' roll band."
He added: "With that being said, there's some cool bands that are coming out and just going to the studio and cutting it pretty much live off the floor, and it's real — you can feel it, that they mean it."
So, despite rock 'n' roll being dead, according to Gene Simmons (cause of death: the fans), Sixx seems to think there are still signs of embarrassing life to be found.