"I hope I have been able to demystify this," Sixx explained. While promoting the book, he told UCR that he hopes the path he began with The Heroin Diaries has provided more than just entertainment. Sixx, meanwhile, ventured yet again into the literary world with 2021's The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx. "We never know what we're gonna do in the future," Michael said, "but for now we're looking at this and saying, 'This is a good way to wrap this up.'" At the time, Michael told Metal On Loud that the group was on an indefinite hiatus, especially in light of Motley Crue's Stadium Tour, which launched in summer 2022 after being delayed by COVID for two years. released the Hits compilation, which the band suggested could be its last word for a while, perhaps ever. "We got to do more - it was like the ultimate icing on the cake," Michael noted. The trio also released 7, an EP comprising seven acoustic renditions of songs off their first two albums, in 2011. Modern Vintage followed in 2014, and the twin Prayers for the Damned and Prayers for the Blessed arrived in 2016. 10 on the Billboard 200 and whose lead single, "Lies of the Beautiful People," topped the Mainstream Rock chart. followed up The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack with 2011's This Is Gonna Hurt - also a companion to a Sixx book of the same name - which debuted at No. "So I think the answer to that was This is Gonna Hurt and everything else that came along after that." went out and played off of The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack, we found that we pined and we wished that we had more songs like 'Pray For Me,' and a little more hard-hitting stuff," Sixx said. would be an active, or at least semi-active, band moving forward. The Crue Fest jaunt also instilled the idea in the trio that Sixx:A.M. performed seven or eight songs a night off The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack, which were also recorded for a bonus Live is Beautiful EP that appeared on a special deluxe edition of the album that came out in November 2008. With help from Papa Roach drummer Tony Palermo, Sixx:A.M. Why not, man?' And it's something I've never done before, so I figured, 'What the hell, why not?'" "The guys were like, 'Dude, it's a great record. "And everyone was like, 'No, dude.' And then was very supportive," he continued. But then Motley started happening, so I figured Sixx:A.M. "It was the promoters who were like, 'Look, this band hasn't toured, and it's really in demand. "I didn't want to do it," said Sixx, who pulled double duty with Sixx:A.M. who had released the X-Mas in Hell EP in June of that year - signed on as the opening act for Crue Fest, a summer 2008 tour package that also included Buckcherry, Papa Roach and Trapt. That changed in 2008, however, when Sixx:A.M. a studio project at best and insisted they had no touring plans. Watch Sixx:A.M.'s 'Life Is Beautiful' Videoĭespite the success, Sixx, Ashba and Michael considered Sixx:A.M. It was this strange little side piece to, and now it's a hit? Come on!" "I thought the book could be successful, especially after The Dirt. The music video was a hot property as well, and the soundtrack shot to No. 2 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart and No. "Life is Beautiful," the first single from the newly christened Sixx:A.M.'s The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack, hit No. None of us anticipated it would be played on the radio or anything."īut that's just what happened. Michael added, "It truly was just this little escape for all of us to do what was in our hearts or passionate about, without having to comply to any rules of the music business. We were just writing these songs to be a soundtrack for Nikki's book," Ashba later recalled. "We didn't think it was, like, a band or anything. Sixx recruited guitarist Daren Jay "DJ" Ashba, with whom he'd started Funny Farm Studios (and who would join Guns N' Roses two years later), and James Michael, a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who'd worked with Sixx and Ashba on albums for Marion Raven. The project led to an entirely new band, too. It just followed along with the plot of the book, kind of like a movie soundtrack would." "We figured it would be a few songs at first, and it turned into a whole album. "That was the surprise of the whole thing," Sixx told this writer some years later.
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