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Mötley Crüe Pt. 1: Sex, Drugs, and Even More Sex and Drugs: How Are These Dudes Still Alive? · DISGRACELAND

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  Speaker 1: Disgraceland as a production of Double Elvis. The stories about
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  Speaker 1: eighties LA metal band Motley.
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  Speaker 2: Crue are totally insane. They had a violent, fucket all
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  Speaker 2: approach toward anything in anyone who got in their way.
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  Speaker 2: Bass Player Nikki six once hammered a nail through a
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  Speaker 2: so called poser's ear board. On tour, the band would
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  Speaker 2: break bottles over each other's heads and see who could
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  Speaker 2: swallow the most broken glass. In the early days, they
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: would pimp out their seventeen year old drummer Tommy Lee
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  Speaker 2: for beer money. In studio time, they had sex with
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  Speaker 2: or tried to have sex with anyone in anything that moved.
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  Speaker 2: Nicki once went so far as to try to bed
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  Speaker 2: Tommy's mom, and of course they all slept with each
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  Speaker 2: other's girlfriends, beare behind each other's backs. And when they
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  Speaker 2: made it big, they took their earnings and bought a plane.
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  Speaker 2: But it wasn't enough just to own their own jet.
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  Speaker 2: Motley Crue had to paint a giant dick and balls
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  Speaker 2: on the tail so that when they landed, it would
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  Speaker 2: literally look like they were flying in to fuck the city.
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  Speaker 2: The excessive sex, drugs, and violence led to several near
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  Speaker 2: death experiences multiple car crashes, fires, fights, drownings, and drug overdoses.
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  Speaker 2: Yet Motley Crue made a habit of cheating death and
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  Speaker 2: made some great music along the way. That music I
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  Speaker 2: played you at the top of the show. That wasn't
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  Speaker 2: great music. That was a preset loop from my melotron
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  Speaker 2: called Vienna Waltz Marimba Low MK one. I played you
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  Speaker 2: that loop because I can't afford the license for Faith
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  Speaker 2: by George Michael. And why would I play you that
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  Speaker 2: specific slice of Didley esque Pleathan Cheese? Could I afford it?
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  Speaker 2: Because that was the number one song in America on
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  Speaker 2: December twenty third, nineteen eighty seven, And that was the
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  Speaker 2: day of Nikki six bass player Motley Crue died, And
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  Speaker 2: of course it was also the day he came back
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  Speaker 2: to life. On this episode Pleasant Cheese, Waltzon, Marimba's Cheating
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  Speaker 2: Death and Motley Crue, I'm Jake Brennan and this.
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  Speaker 3: This disgrace man.
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  Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy seven, Frank Farrana was a seventeen year
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  Speaker 2: old teenage Deliquo. He was a pill popping weedhead and
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  Speaker 2: devoted Johnny Thunder's wannabe. Frank Farana was a vacuum cleaner
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  Speaker 2: salesman who dealt coeludes on the side with his next
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  Speaker 2: door neighbor, a neighbor who's he was secretly sleeping with.
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  Speaker 2: Frank Farana was also a punk, a fiend, a single
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  Speaker 2: minded rock and roll animal whose one ambition was to
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  Speaker 2: become the biggest baddest bass player in the world's biggest
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  Speaker 2: baddest rock band. Frank Farana was Nicki six. Frank stole
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  Speaker 2: his stage name from a childhood musician friend whom he
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  Speaker 2: deemed unworthy of such a badass moniker. So Frank did
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  Speaker 2: what came natural to him. He saw what he wanted,
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  Speaker 2: and he took it, and voila, Nikki six was born.
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  Speaker 2: Fuck that other guy. So Nicki six took to the
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  Speaker 2: streets of late seventies Hollywood hell bent for action. Unlike most,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't see his idols as people to live up to.
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  Speaker 2: He saw his idols as people to outlive for. Niggi
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls and Sid Vicious
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  Speaker 2: of the Sex Business were warm up backs for the
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  Speaker 2: real thing him. Nicki six might not have been in
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  Speaker 2: a band yet, but he lived a life. He stole, cheated,
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  Speaker 2: fucked and fought his way to the top. The Sunset Strip.
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  Speaker 2: Heavy metal heat punk rock was burning out of the
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  Speaker 2: public's consciousness and fast. His beloved sex Pistons were over,
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  Speaker 2: as were the New York Dolls. Bands like The Clash
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  Speaker 2: and Elvis Costello's attractions were, in Nicky's mind, too soft
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  Speaker 2: and then sold out the promise of punk rock from
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  Speaker 2: the mainstream and were more concerned with being political and
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  Speaker 2: seeming smart rather than being rock and roll. Too clever
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  Speaker 2: by half fuck that Nicki envisioned a world where the
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  Speaker 2: sleeves and glamour of this beloved punk and British glam
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  Speaker 2: bands would dominate the prevescent imaginations of teenagers everywhere. He
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  Speaker 2: began dressing the party with scripting for himself. Silver studs,
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  Speaker 2: skin tight black jeans, capezio boots or beverriette capezios with
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  Speaker 2: stiletto heels, hair dyed jet black and piled up high
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  Speaker 2: to the Hollywood hills, and of course I make up.
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  Speaker 2: It was part Bleaker and Bowery punk and part spiders
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  Speaker 2: from Mars glam. It was androgynous masculine at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: It was tough and it was sexy. You didn't know
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  Speaker 2: whether you wanted to fuck Nikki or fight Niki or both,
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  Speaker 2: it didn't matter. The look was meant to confuse, to compel,
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  Speaker 2: And who is this hot chick hanging out at the club.
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  Speaker 2: It looked like you wanted to kick your ass. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she's a heat and he's in a band. What kind
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  Speaker 2: of band? He doesn't look punk, he doesn't look glam?
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  Speaker 2: The hell is he? Shock? Aw? That was the idea.
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  Speaker 2: If you didn't like it, you could fuck right off,
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  Speaker 2: head downtown with the new wave geeks, or out to
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  Speaker 2: Venice with the hardcore kids and gang bangers who never
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  Speaker 2: got laid and took their frustration out on each other
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  Speaker 2: in the pit, slam dancing a bunch of pent up
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  Speaker 2: late and homosexual frustration. If you asked Nicki, Nicki six
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  Speaker 2: was at the club for two reasons, to find his
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  Speaker 2: future bandmates and to fuck your girlfriend. And if you
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  Speaker 2: didn't like it, well that was your problem. When not
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  Speaker 2: at the bar hanging out, Nicki was either sleeping off
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  Speaker 2: a buzz or regrettably working. And Nicki hated work, but
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  Speaker 2: he didn't hate wary work. At the liquor store, chicks
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  Speaker 2: from Sunset Strip were always wandering in and eager to
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  Speaker 2: check out the glamazon Italian kid with the makeup and
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  Speaker 2: dreamy eyes working the register. And work the register he did.
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  Speaker 2: Nicki was regularly skimming off the top to buy drugs, boos,
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  Speaker 2: and musical gear. But the real reason he didn't hate
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  Speaker 2: where he worked was because it was close to the action.
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  Speaker 2: Musicians from bands playing and hanging out at nearby clubs
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  Speaker 2: The Starwood, the Rainbow Room, and the Troubadour were always
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  Speaker 2: popping in. Most of them were posers, hairdressing, weekend warrior
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  Speaker 2: types who wouldn't know sweet from cheap trick, But Nicki
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  Speaker 2: was optimistic. One of these nights, a like minded rock
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  Speaker 2: and roll warrior would walk in and Nicki would finally
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  Speaker 2: have a bandmate. And so it happened. The dude looked
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  Speaker 2: like he was Gene Simmons as mini me. That is,
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  Speaker 2: if Gene Simmons were actually as bad ass as his
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  Speaker 2: image purported him to be. This dude was far fucking
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  Speaker 2: out and he was dressed head to toe in black,
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  Speaker 2: a beat up less Paul guitar case in hand platform
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  Speaker 2: boots with duct taped heels, silver studs, his eyes heavily
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  Speaker 2: mass scaret and buried beneath his jet black bangs. He
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  Speaker 2: spoke in barely audible mumbles, and NICKI commented on the
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  Speaker 2: guitar asked him his name and wanted to know what
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  Speaker 2: the bands he was into, and a little alien looking
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  Speaker 2: cousin it dude told Nicky. But Nicky wasn't listening because
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  Speaker 2: it didn't matter, because in it could have said John
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  Speaker 2: Dever or Judy Collins and it wouldn't have mattered at all,
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  Speaker 2: because the dude's look was right, and like the rock
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  Speaker 2: gods Jagger and Ronson before him, his name was Mick,
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  Speaker 2: Mick Mars, and he was perfect and always but one
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  Speaker 2: he was on his way to Alaska for a tour
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  Speaker 2: with his lame band Shit. Nicky wasn't deterred, though, He
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  Speaker 2: was determined and kept up the search. Through a mutual friend,
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  Speaker 2: he hooked up with a seventeen going on twelve year
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  Speaker 2: old drummer and ball of phrenetic energy named Tommy Lee.
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  Speaker 2: Tommy was young, but he had chops and he was
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  Speaker 2: a skinny adonis. The chicks loved him before he even
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  Speaker 2: sat down at his kit. Plus, he and Nicky had
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  Speaker 2: legit chemistry, and Tommy idolized the older Nicky six, who'd
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  Speaker 2: already gained a rap on the strip as a dude
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  Speaker 2: not to be fucked with and a dude. It was
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  Speaker 2: going places, but they still needed a guitar player, so
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  Speaker 2: they started combing recycler magazines classifieds. Tommy spotted the listing first.
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  Speaker 2: It read loud, rude and aggressive guitarist available. And there
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  Speaker 2: was another listing with the exact same number, and this
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  Speaker 2: one with even more spot on descriptors extraterrestrial guitarist available
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  Speaker 2: for any other aliens that want to conquer the Earth.
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  Speaker 2: Tommy couldn't get the little wheel on the rotary telephone
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  Speaker 2: to spin fast enough. He quickly dialed the number to
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  Speaker 2: set up a jam session, and in a couple of
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  Speaker 2: days a faint knock on the door produced none other
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  Speaker 2: than the alien looking cousin it dude from the liquor store.
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  Speaker 2: Nicky could not believe his eyes. It was a universe talking.
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  Speaker 2: Mick Marrs had arrived. Three down, one to go. They
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  Speaker 2: needed a singer. Tommy knew a guy. It was a
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  Speaker 2: long shot. The guy was yond cool, way cooler than Tommy,
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  Speaker 2: maybe even cooler than Nicky and Mick. But Nicky and
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  Speaker 2: Mick didn't give a fucking really, what's cooler? They're not
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  Speaker 2: giving a fuck nothing. But Tommy's ex schoolmate was like
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  Speaker 2: the coolest dude on campus. He was a singer in
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  Speaker 2: a local band that jammed on cheap trick and arrowsmith
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  Speaker 2: and that mainly existed as means for the band get league.
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  Speaker 2: Not that the singer who Tommy coveted needed any help.
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  Speaker 2: He was gorgeous. He had that Spacoli look before that
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  Speaker 2: Spacoli look was even a thing. Long blonde sunstroke surfer hair,
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  Speaker 2: eternally tanned, ripped Levi's devilish eyes, and the dude could
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  Speaker 2: not only hit those high Robin Xander minks, he could
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  Speaker 2: work the crowd like Stephen Tyler, and Tommy's timing couldn't
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  Speaker 2: have been better. The singer was on the oul to
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  Speaker 2: this band, so a rehearsal with Tommy, Nicky and Mick
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  Speaker 2: was arranged. The two eighty Z roared into the parking
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  Speaker 2: lot at Burbank's IRS rehearsal studios with authority, and eighteen
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  Speaker 2: year old Vince Neil hopped out of the driver's seat,
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  Speaker 2: trailed by his very attractive, very rich, older girlfriend, the
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  Speaker 2: owner of the two week who proceeded to tell anyone
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  Speaker 2: who was listening, No one was just how stupid an
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  Speaker 2: idea it was for Vince to be stooping to Tommy
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  Speaker 2: Lee's level. She was thoroughly ignored. A gallon of peppermin
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  Speaker 2: schnapps was shared, as were a few words on musical
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  Speaker 2: references in the usual Suspects, the Dolls, the Pistols, Sweet Sabbath,
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  Speaker 2: and when they got down to it and picked up
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  Speaker 2: their instruments, the chemistry was instant. Tommy's energy pulled Nicky's
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  Speaker 2: sloppy bass playing into a makeshift pocket. Mixed guttural riffs
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  Speaker 2: provided a dark platform for Vince's anthemic voice, and they
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  Speaker 2: quickly demonstrated a knack for making powerful, electrifying music. And
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  Speaker 2: in no time Motley Crue was born, and throughout their
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  Speaker 2: life as a band, they would demonstrate an uncanny knack
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  Speaker 2: for cheating death. Everyone knows vampires aren't real, everyone except
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  Speaker 2: Angelino's La residents have a special relationship with the creatures
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  Speaker 2: of the night, a weariness, almost like an acceptance that, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: if vampires exist anywhere, and they probably exist here in
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  Speaker 2: La up the road in Sacramento. In the late seventies,
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  Speaker 2: Richard Chase and enterprising twenty seven year old serial killer
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  Speaker 2: drank his victim's blood before cannibalizing them. He was known
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  Speaker 2: publicly as the Vampire Killer, and in Hollywood there'd long
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  Speaker 2: been rumors of secret vampire societies where members were known
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  Speaker 2: to subsist on raw filet mignon and to drink the
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  Speaker 2: blood of teenage girls during sex. Whenever residents read in
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  Speaker 2: the paper about a Jane Doe turning up dead, maybe
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  Speaker 2: underneath the bridge down in the valley, they couldn't help
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  Speaker 2: but think about the lost boys out in Venice, or
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  Speaker 2: the bad boys out on the strip, standing in the
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  Speaker 2: shadows with designs in the blood pumping through the good
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  Speaker 2: girls with broken hearts. Dom Menendez was a god fearing man,
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  Speaker 2: and he was outside his apartment complex watering the flowers
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  Speaker 2: in his front yard like he did every Sunday morning
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  Speaker 2: before Church. Went out of the front door stumbled what
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  Speaker 2: Dom believed to be one of Hollywood's rumored creatures of
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  Speaker 2: the night in the flesh before his very own eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Could it be tall menacing, dressed like an extra from
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  Speaker 2: a Mad Max movie, with skin the color of milk
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  Speaker 2: and one tattooed arm shielding his eyes? But what was
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  Speaker 2: most telling and most frightening was the blood. It covered
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  Speaker 2: his face, and it was most intense around the vampire's mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Fresh from a feeding frenzy in Dom's apartment building on
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  Speaker 2: a Sunday before Church, Dom dropped the garden hose and
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  Speaker 2: passed out, face down in his petunias, and Nikki six
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  Speaker 2: didn't give him a second look. As he bounded by
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  Speaker 2: and hopped into his Porsche. He flipped down the driver's
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  Speaker 2: side visor to check his mascara in the mirror, and
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: that's when he noticed the blood. Shit, No wonder the
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  Speaker 2: old man was looking at him strange. Nicki looked like
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  Speaker 2: a glamed out Vlad the Impaler. The blood must have
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  Speaker 2: been from the nerdy neighbor he'd been going down on
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  Speaker 2: earlier that morning. She clearly had her period, and judging
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  Speaker 2: King the amount of blood, it was day one and
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  Speaker 2: Nicky didn't care. He was aspiraling out of control. It
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: was nineteen eighty four. Motley Crue's second album, Shout at
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  Speaker 2: the Devil, had established them as a band not to
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  Speaker 2: be fucked with. Critics hated it, kids loved it, and
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  Speaker 2: it was selling big time, and Nicki and the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the boys were living the life, but fresh off
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  Speaker 2: the road from an epically debaucherous tour with the Prince
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  Speaker 2: of Darkness himself, Ozzy Osbourne, Nicki was at loose ends.
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  Speaker 2: He had discovered his girlfriend at the time, former Runaways
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  Speaker 2: guitar player and five Alarmed Smoke Show lead A Ford,
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  Speaker 2: had been set up with another dude by one of
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  Speaker 2: her skeezy punk rock guy friends, and Nicky was pissed,
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  Speaker 2: so he grabbed Tommy in a couple two by fours
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  Speaker 2: and headed over to Leda's apartment, where he knew her
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  Speaker 2: punk rock friend was staying. The two burst in like
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  Speaker 2: a heavy metal buddy cop duo and proceeded to beat
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  Speaker 2: the punk dude near death with the two by fours.
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  Speaker 2: Then it was off to receipt a country club. Nicki
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  Speaker 2: had dropped Tommy off in his place and picked up
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  Speaker 2: a date. He was high on kailas drunk on jack
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  Speaker 2: and with this new girl who was hot to trot,
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  Speaker 2: and the two pulled into the parking lot and hopped
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: out of the Porsche, but only made it as far
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  Speaker 2: as the hood before giving into their colonel desires. It
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  Speaker 2: was broad daylight and Nikki was fully engaged in intercourse
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  Speaker 2: with his date on the hood of his car in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the receipt a country club parking lot.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: A crowd began to gather and started an egg lam
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  Speaker 2: on nice car, dude, nice dick dude. Hey, said Nikki
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  Speaker 2: from Motley. It is too ut. Niki, despite the distraction
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  Speaker 2: of the crowd, and despite his increation, brought himself to climax,
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  Speaker 2: rolled off his date and onto his back on the
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  Speaker 2: hook of his Porsche with Frank Farana Salami. Still hard
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  Speaker 2: and fully exposed. He looked at the crowd of wastoid
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: metal heads and staring at him, me, who am I?
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  Speaker 2: Is this real? Am I really alive? We'll be right
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  Speaker 2: back after this word word word. Living long was never
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  Speaker 2: the plan, Living fast was the plan. Johnny Thunders did
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  Speaker 2: never retirement fund, and Sid Vicious didn't have a fucking
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  Speaker 2: IRA And to paraphrase fair and Young, live fast, fuck
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  Speaker 2: hard and leave a notorious memory. But Nicki, Mick, Tom
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  Speaker 2: and Vince were beginning to sense their immortality again and
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: again they managed to escape their certain fate. There was
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: the fire in the hotel room in Germany, where they
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: managed to get out unharmed, And there was the other
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  Speaker 2: fire on stage where Tommy's drum tech set his face
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  Speaker 2: aflame with the smoke machine and flooded the stage. Yet
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: the band avoided electrocution. And there was a time Nicki
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: walked away naked and dazed from a bad car accident
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: where he wrapped his Porsche around a tree. And there
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  Speaker 2: was the constant drug abuse coke, heroin, speed, speedballs, and
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  Speaker 2: yet no over, not yet at least, And of course
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: there was constant casual sex. Casual is too casual a
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: word for Motley Cruz. Sex wasn't casual. Sex was a
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  Speaker 2: twenty four to seven full time occupation. The band was
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: dtf fully and fucked all the time. They slept with
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: everything and anything. Vince had been having sex with multiple
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: women multiple times a day since he was in high school.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Before he was even a star. In the early days,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: they pimped out Tommy for beer money. They made him
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  Speaker 2: sleep with the engineer at the first studio they recorded
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  Speaker 2: at for free studio time. To throw the girlfriends off
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: the scente of their sunset strip sexual conquest, the boys
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  Speaker 2: would hit the taco truck on their way home at night,
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  Speaker 2: buy a couple egg and cheese burritos, and stick their
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: dicks in them to mask the smell of sex, and
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: when they became famous, it just became more insane. Sex
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  Speaker 2: backstage was a given before and after shows, like immediately
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  Speaker 2: after shows, as in, walk off stage, grab a girl,
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  Speaker 2: any girl, and get right down to it quick in
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  Speaker 2: public view of everyone else around. It's no exaggeration to
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: say that life for Motley Crue was quite literally a
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: non stop orgy. How they all hadn't contracted HIV was
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: a miracle, yet there they were, living it up and
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: cheating death. Nick Marr's have been drinking for days straight,
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  Speaker 2: trying to avoid his girlfriend, his bandmates, and any and
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  Speaker 2: all sense of responsibility that his newfound fame was now
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: cramping his style with. He was the type of drunk
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  Speaker 2: that it is hard to explain to people who haven't
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: gone on serious two to three four day vendors, the
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  Speaker 2: type of drunk where the consistent drinking and lack of
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: sleep creates an alternate reality in one's mind, one where
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: you feel in total control, even though of course you
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: totally aren't. Your thoughts make sense to you, yet you
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: are completely out of step with reality. You speak to
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  Speaker 2: your friends and you hear the words come out of
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  Speaker 2: your mouth, and they sound perfectly articulate. But what your
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: friends hear is a garbled, backward mess of words. You
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: get ideas like, Hey, I don't necessarily want to go swimming,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: but I just want to walk into the ocean because
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: it seems peaceful. And yeah, I know I've been drinking
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: rum and coke since last Tuesday. But still I got
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: I got this. It doesn't matter that I can't swim.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna walk into the ocean. I'm not even
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: gonna take my clothes off. Besides, it's nighttime, nobody's even here.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't the water look so peaceful? And so Mick
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Mars like Stirling Hayden and long goodbye. Stepped into the
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Pacific Ocean from the sandy shore below Vince Neil's Redondo
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  Speaker 2: Beach home. One step and then another, His mind began
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: to quiet finally, and then blackness. Where's Mick, Tommy asked
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Vince at the party upstairs at Vince's place. Who the
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: fuck knows? Vince could have cared less, He was busy
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: watching Tommy's fiance, Honey take turns. At Tommy's insistence, I'm
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: going down on a row of guys and Vince's jacuzzi.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Honey would do anything for Tommy, and Tommy would do
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: anything for his friends. The Hanoi Rocks guys are in
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: town from Finland, and there were at Vince's Rodondo Beach
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: House celebrating the US tour they were waiting to embark on.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: The party was epic, even by Motley Crue standards. Not
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: only were the Hanoi guys in town and in need
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: of being shown a good time, but famous producer in
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Hollywood Hills party impresario Roy Thomas Baker was hanging out.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: He'd been the first to show Motley Crue how to
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: throw a party our TV, as they called him. His
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: parties were as legend as the Queen and t Rex
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: records that he made, so Vince was serious about returning
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: the favor. The only problem was and they were out
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: of beer, and where the fuck was Mick. The nineteen
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: seventy two Ford Pantera is a serious automobile. It was
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Ford's answer to the Ferrari, the Lamborghini, and Porsche sports cars.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: It's a small car built for speed. A V eight
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: engine capable of pumping out an impressive three hundred and
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: thirty horsepower. Most Ford Pantera owners are caerr hobbyists weekend
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: track rats who use their powerful speedster to race around
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: with other semi pros. N Neil used his Ford Pantera
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: for beer runs after staying up for three days straight
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: drinking and doing blow. Vince pumped the engine. The Pantera
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: purred like a panther, as it was designed to do.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: The sign said twenty five miles per hour, The odometer
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: said fifty miles per hour, and the engine now roared razzle.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Dingley drummer for Hanoi rocks, hung on for dear life,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: his right hand clutching the handle above the passenger side door,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: his left hand cradingly a couple hundred dollars worth of
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: booze and beer of brown paper bags on his lap.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: The curvy Redondo Beach roads were unforgiving. Vince pushed the
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: accelerator fifty five miles per hour. Razzle grinned, exhilarated slick
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: with freshly fallen rain. The road unwound before them. Vince
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: wound the engine faster sixty miles per hour, faster still
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: sixty three miles per hour, even faster sixty five miles
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: per hour, and at twenty five mile per hour, zone,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: then head lights. Razzle's heart pumped with fear. Vince pumped
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: the brakes, and the Pantera spun, angling passenger side first
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: across the road and right into the front of the
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: oncoming Volkswagen. Its passengers were pinballed together violently. The side
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: door nearest Razzle, now an accordion, pushed his prone body
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: onto Vince's lap. Blood. Razzle's blood was everywhere. The impact
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: was too much. Razzle, Dingley, drummer for promising heavy metal
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: band Hanoi Rocks and expectant father, died later that evening
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: at the hospital. Vince Neil, singer of the world's most
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: hedonistic rock band Motley Crue, emerged unscathed, blew a point
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: one point seven on the breathalyzer, paid a two point
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: one million dollar fine, served thirty days in a country
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: club posing as a prison, and hit the road with
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: his band again like nothing happened. Having thoroughly cheated justice
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: and death for what seemed to be the umpteenth time,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Tommy Lee, perhaps realizing the STD bullets he dodged up
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: to this point, took himself off the market and married
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: actress Heather Locklear. Vince Neil, fresh out of rehab and
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: jail went right back to being Vince Neil, snorting drugs,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: banging everything that moved on that fateful night that Vince
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Neil's carelessness brought death to his friend Razzle's door. McK
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: maurer is washed up on the shore beneath Vince's house
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: after his half hearted stab at suicide. He awoke to
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: the blinding Pacific Coast sun, his clothes dried and wrinkled
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: on his dry and wrinkled skin. The ocean had spit
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: him back out. Death, it seemed, didn't want him on
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: that day in nor did he want Vince or Tommy.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: But death hadn't quite made up its mind yet about Nicky.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Nicky six died on December twenty third, nineteen eighty seven,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California. The doctors
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: pronounced him dead before midnight. Death suited Nikki. It came
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: with a calm, a sense of inner peace, and a
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: balance that he could never quite attain in life. The
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: feeling overtook him and he dug it. A warm wave
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: embraced him as he ascended out of the ravage. Tattooed
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: in track marked shell of a body, he'd been dragging
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Nicki six around in for the better part of a decade.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: A body he'd been injecting with cocaine and heroin regularly daily,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: sometimes at the same time, A body that used to
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: be beautiful but now was little more than a glammed out,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: road worn bag of bones. He could see it lying there,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: at first exposed to the jarring fluorescent hospital lights, then
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: lying unnaturally still under a sheet atop the gurney he'd
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: been on since back at the Franklin Plaza hotel. The
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: party at the hotel with the Guns n' Roses and
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Megada guys was turned up to eleven per usual. Someone
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: offered to tie Nikki off with some sweet Persian heroin,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: and as soon as the drug hit his vein, he
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: went blue and passed out. Someone called nine to one one.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: The drug dealer jumped out of the window and took
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: off down the street, yelling I just killed Nicky six
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: g and our guitarist, Slash, confused and frightened, decided it
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: was a good time to trash the hotel room's bathroom.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: The EMTs quickly made the scene and strapped Nicky to
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: the aforementioned gurney and hustled him to the hospital and
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: now here he was dead. He could see the commotion
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: all around him, but felt no turn one. Emergency room
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: staff frantically booted him up with adrenaline shots from big,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: ugly hypodermic needles, but nothing. He heard the EKG monitor
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: chirping intermittently, but now it just sang a sad one
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: note song. A nurse with thick forearms repeatedly smacked Nicky's cheeks.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: A doctor shouted, We're losing him. Hospital staff buzzed in
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: and out of the room. He heard someone asked, is
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: that really him? And through all of the tense energy
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: surging around him, Nicki remained calm and watched his death
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: unfold below him. He was content for the first time
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: in his life, except he wasn't alive. He was dead,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: lying on a gurney under a sheet with his eyes closed,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: yet he could see everything around him. He felt nothing
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: but peace. He had no sense of guilt or ego
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: or addiction, just calm. Then the worst pain he'd ever
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: felt in his life, a jolt to his heart that
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: was part lightning bolt, part Peterbilt tracted trailer growth and bamed.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Nicki opened his eyes and bolted upright on the gurney,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: back to life, but feeling like a truck hit him.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: The pain was immense, his headache was blinding, his eyes burned,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: his stomach nod she itched all over. He was admitted,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: given a room, and questioned by police who wanted to
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: know who gave him the heroine. Nicki asked if he
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: was under arrest. The cop said no and pressed him
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: again to give up his dealer. Nicki told him the
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: fuck off, ripped the ivy needles out of his arms,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: pulled the tubes out of his nose, and walked out
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: of the hospital shirtless in just his leather pants and
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: motorcycle boots. Said Vicious died of a heroin overdose. Pussy
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Johnny Thunders also died of a heroin overdose, also a pussy.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Nicky six a mortal death cheating rock god. In his
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: mind at least, Nicky Six, like Tommy Lee, Micmars, and
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Vince Neil were more like complete degenerates, doing anything at
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: the expense of anyone, even themselves, to live the rock
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: and roll animal life to the fullest. Vince's behavior, of course,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: resulted in the loss of life of a friend in
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: a stupid and careless accident and Motley Crue lived hard,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: so hard that death just wasn't deadly enough. Or maybe
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: they're actually the undead, immortal creatures of the night, eating
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: death from its due, you know, kind of like those
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: rumored Hollywood vampires. Of course, they could have just been
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: batshit crazy and a little bit lucky, insatiable rock and
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: roll animals determined to outlive, out drug, out brawl and
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: outball their heroes. But I don't know. I say it's
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: even on sayre vampires. Has anyone ever seen Mick Mars
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: in the Daylight?
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: I haven't.
• 27:23
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