Producer Bob Rock has issued a brand new assertion following feedback made on the Speak Is Jericho podcast (heard under) wherein he shared a narrative about working with Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx within the early days of the band wherein 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 wherein these feedback had been made, chalking it as much as Sixx joking round in a self-deprecating fashion.
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 any individual got here in at evening and changed all my elements.’ He says, ‘So I do not actually know the best way to play bass.'”
“And I stated, ‘Too dangerous. You are taking part in bass on it,'” the producer continues, “So I labored with him by way of ‘Dr. Feelgood,’ did loads of edits and made him play each notice.”
Rock would later share how Sixx has continued to enhance as a participant over the course of his profession. “After we did The Filth [soundtrack], the songs on The Filth, I went to see him and we began engaged on the demos. He picked up the bass and began taking part in, and I stated, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa. What is going on on right here?’ He had been taking bass classes for 5 years,” revealed Rock. “Swiftly 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 like that. So now, on The Filth, 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 realized to play bass along with his fingers, as he had been utilizing a choose up that time.
Now, to supply a clarification of what was stated on the podcast and the context wherein is was shared, Rock issued a press release that reads as follows:
Yesterday on a podcast with Chris Jericho I advised a narrative about working with Nikki Sixx and Motley Crue on the Dr. Feelgood report. Sadly, like many issues on the Web right this moment, 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 quite a bit and Nikki, in his very self-deprecating fashion would say he didn’t even keep in mind taking part in on their prior data. This was Nikki’s approach 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 probably the most distinctive and gifted gamers on the planet and his method 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 enhancing. I respect Nikki for at all times desirous to be higher at his craft and it reveals. I’ve labored with a few of the greatest bands on the planet and I can say unequivocally that Nikki Sixx is without doubt one of the most gifted 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 lately working with Sixx, newly added guitarist John 5 and drummer Tommy Lee on new materials.
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