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Motley Crue's 'The Dirt'

May 9th 2006 09:41
The Dirt
'The Dirt' by Motley Crue
Whilst I don't for one second believe that anyone in Motley Crue was physically or mentally capable of actually writing any of this book it still goes down as one of the biggest works of genius in the musical autobiography genre ever. 'The Dirt' is an infamous warts-and-all retelling of Motley Crue's heady rise from rags to riches and their gleeful wallowing in a combination of said rags and riches from thereafter. I imagine they all sat down with a ghost writer of some sort (in the spirit of Motley Crue I can't be FUCKED going to check my book. Yeah, take that!) and regaled him or her with hours upon hours of sordid misadventures and endless debauchery.


You see, there are bands that talk about being 'rock n rol'l and there are bands who live the exhalted (and dirty) lifestyle that has become myth. If even half of what goes down in this book is true then I dare say Motley Crue live the myth.

Motley Crue
The band
The book starts with their early days as shitkicker musos and how the band came together... from there we see the squalid life of sex and drugs that befalls them in their sharehouse and their gradual rise to notoriety and fame. There are all sorts of tangents that leap off from here... group sex, overdoses, members leaving, debilitating diseases and half-remembered one-man heroin tours of south-east asia. All four members of Motley Crue tell their parts of the story, even parts where they directly contradict each other, plus a few other key characters chip in when neccessary. My favourite anecdote would have to be Nikki Sixx's meeting with Ozzy Osbourne... Ozzy is the only person that Sixx admits to be less fucked up then.


You don't have to be a Crue fan to enjoy this book, you don't even have to be an immoral junkie bassplayer like Nikki Sixx - just let it go and let them take you on their ride of ups and downs and flat out crashes. You won't be bored.
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Comment by Marzena Bastowski

March 28th 2008 12:54


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Comment by Luke

March 29th 2008 08:54


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yeah that's exactly the part I was referring to! someone should do a warts-and-all bio on Ozzy, i bet he's got plenty of stories too.

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