Motley Crue VS. Bad Reality TV

FINALLY!!!! After waiting two long years, it's finally here! Nikki Sixx's autobiography is in my grimy, little hands! A review of the book is forthcoming, but I have to finish reading Lemmy's autobiography, White Line Fever, first.



Next purchase is the soundtrack that goes along with The Heroin Diaries. I listened to a few choice songs today on myspace, and I have to admit that I'm impressed. I'm always scared when Motley Crue members do solo projects. Nikki Sixx never lets me down.

While we're on the topic of Motley Crue, I'd like to get a few things off my chest. I know this is old news, but I'd like to discuss Motley Crue suing one of their managers, Carl Stubner for making poor business decisions and for "forcing" Tommy Lee to do bad reality TV shows that in turn "tarnished" the band's reputation.

I hate to say anything bad about one of my favorite bands of all time, but...Are these boys out of their god damn minds? This may be one of the dumbest law suits ever. Obviously, I don't know all of the details, but it still seems a bit ridiculous to me.


I understand that the band lost money because they had to cancel some tour dates, but I don't know that the manager is necessarily to blame for this. Tommy Lee's got a mind of his own and could have said no to any of that shit that his manager put in front of him (and let's be honest...we kinda wish he would have). Tommy Lee Goes To College wasn't that bad; I watched it every week and thought it was kind of funny. And I'll admit that I didn't watch Rock Star Supernova because I knew it was going to be a train wreck, and I just couldn't put myself through that. However, I had plenty of friends who watched it religiously and thought it was great. I'm pretty sure neither of those shows did anything to hurt the reputation of the band.


If anyone should get sued for doing bad reality TV, it should be Vince Neil. Why didn't the rest of Motley Crue stop him from doing the Surreal Life or The Remaking of Vince Neil? Dear god...watching Vince get plastic surgery made me want to throw up. And someone should sue Desmond Child for writing such a wretched song for Vince; that song made me want to go deaf.


And as far as Motley Crue being pissed off about losing money...how much more money can they make? I can't imagine that this career hasn't been lucrative enough for them. Look at all the tours and CD's and t-shirts and books and DVD's (and god knows what else) that they've had. All of that had to have made them a pretty fucking penny over the years. Do they really want to whore themselves out like Gene Simmons and KISS? I hope not.


Regardless, Motley Crue will go down in the Rock 'N Roll record books as being one of the greatest rock bands to ever exist. For me, this law suit is doing more to tarnish their reputation than any reality TV show that Tommy Lee did. For a super fan like me, it's just disappointing and heartbreaking to see your favorite band squabble over some stupid shit. Again, I don't know all the details and I suppose that the band doesn't really think that this is stupid shit, but it's still disappointing nonetheless.


I should keep going and talk about Kid Rock bitch slapping Tommy Lee, but I don't have the energy.

She's A Crazy Bitch

I've written a few things here and there over the years. I usually just save them to a folder on my computer and keep them to myself. Now that I have this wonderful outlet, I'll be posting some of these writings on here. Yes, they're dated, but I feel like they deserve to be read and acknowledged by not only me, but the rest of the world.

Here's an oldie but goodie. Enjoy!

Back in the day when Buckcherry first stepped out onto the music scene, I hated them. Yup, I hated them because they sounded like the 80's hair bands that I grew up with and that had been shunned from society at this point. I never really gave them a chance. But now that I'm past my teenage angst, I've opened up my diverse musical palette to include them. I appreciate them now for trying to keep that music alive in today's sea of indistinguishable bands.
If you haven't heard about it, read this: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/15495188.htm
A 16yr old girl and her parents are suing Buckcherry and Warner Music. Here's why...
Buckcherry posted an open casting call on their myspace page telling anyone and everyone to come to an LA nightclub if they wanted to be in their new video. This 16yr old girl, going by Jane Doe in the lawsuit, shows up at the nightclub, fills out a release and falsifies all of her information. Then she says the band coerced her to take shots and then encouraged her to perform sexual acts with another girl. Then they put it in their video and let the whole world see it (Does Tracy Lords ring a bell?).
Look folks, teenagers are not as naive as we think they are or as naive as we would like them to be. At 16, I was fully aware of sex and drinking and drugs. It was all around me. I was also very aware of what went on at backstage at concerts and the dirty shennanigans that went down with girls and rock stars. Who doesn't know about that shit?
When I was 16, my friend Stephanie and I got backstage passes for a Pantera show. Some roadie walked by, saw us, chatted with us, and handed us passes. Why did the roadie give us backstage passes? Because we were dressed like sluts. And why did we dress like sluts? Because we wanted backstage passes.
After the show, we were ushered into a room. The roadie who had given us the passes greeted us at the door and handed us each a beer, no questions asked. We walked into the room full of guys and a few other girls and we realized...we were the only people in the entire room who had a gotten a beer. And why did that roadie give us the beer? Because we were two hot chicks dressed like sluts. And why did we dress like sluts? Because we wanted backstage passes so we could party with Pantera.
Eventually, everyone else got beer. Then the cops barged in to check everyone's ID's. Everyone was quickly thrown out of the room, except for us; we were escorted to the back of the arena...and onto Phil Anselmo's tour bus. We sat on his bus stunned and smoked weed with him. He asked us how old we were and we promptly lied and told him 17. After hanging out for about an hour, we just got up and left. Nothing happened (because there were older, hot girls at his disposal who arrived after us).
Here's my point. Stephanie and I knew exactly what we were doing at 16. We knew what dressing slutty could get us, and that's exactly what we wanted. We knew that drinking under age and smoking weed was bad, but we did it anyways because we wanted to be cool. However, we were (and still are) both smart enough to not let things get out of control. There NEVER would have been a point where we would have gotten so wasted that we would have fucked some random dude or girl, let alone have someone video tape it.
Jane Doe knew EXACTLY what she was doing. She wanted to be cool and have fun and get down with the band, so she took those shots and fucked those girls and let them video tape it all. It's only when she realized that the whole world was going to see that video, did she start to have regrets.
I'm sure it got around school and everyone was calling her a whore, and then her parents found out about it and that was the beginning of the end for poor little Jane Doe. Her parents realized that their young, naive daughter wasn't as sweet and innocent as they thought. And god only knows their daughter couldn't have done all that shit of her own volition. Somebody had to have forced her to do such vulgar and perverted things, so they blamed the band and sued them.
What the parents don't want to admit is that they have no one but themselves to blame for their daughter's irresponsible act. They are her parents. They raised her. Apparently, they missed teaching her something, or they just sucked as parents. Or maybe there is just a screw loose in their daughter's head.
Rewind to the 1980's when Judas Priest was being sued by the parents of a teenager who killed himself. Do you honestly believe that playing a record backwards can cause your child to kill himself? No, of course not. There was something already wrong with your child, something not right in his head. He was already fucked up. No parent wants to admit that their kid is fucked up, and they sure as hell don't want to blame themselves for that fuck up. So what's the next logical thing to do...blame someone else.
I think that this whole lawsuit against Buckcherry and their record label is fucking ridiculous. This girl blatantly lied about herself on the release form, so how could the band be at fault? Because they didn't ID her? Because they were under the assumption that she was old enough to drink, or at least old enough to be a legal adult? Because they released a dirty video that included a girl who stated that she was old enough to be in that video? She started this whole downward spiral when she decided to show up and falsify information. When she realized that what she did was stupid, she tried to save face and pick up a quick dollar.

Hello

Hey virtual world! How's it going? This is my very first post on my new blog. Welcome!

In case you didn't read the "About Me" section, I created this blog to discuss music. I'm very passionate about music. There are definitely certain genres that I gravitate towards, so let's briefly talk about those first (since the "About Me" section cut me off...) and get to know each other. Shall we?

My heart lies with 80's hair bands, or cock rock as I like to call it. It moves me like nothing else. Say what you will about it, but some amazing music was created out of this genre. Don't hate.

Lately, I've been listening to nothing but classic rock, southern rock, and old country. For me, it's just the purist and most simple form of music out there.

Today's music just sounds so mechanical and overproduced. It feels as though the artist doesn't have a heart or a soul anymore. Very few new bands have moved me the way the old ones have. Like I said before, for me, today's rock bands have lost that purity and that soul that the old guys had by the balls. It's sad.

So my blogs will mostly concist of me forcing my opinion on you or ranting about how stupid some rock star is. If you have ideas or comments or questions, please feel free to post a comment. I'm not interested in petty arguments about how you think I'm an idiot for not liking Rush. I'm interested in well thought out debates about how I should reconsider my hatred for Rush because they really are talented muscians. You get the idea. :)