Nikki Sixx stated he was all in favor of Motley Crue persevering with as avatars as soon as the real-life band members are gone.
The bassist argued that, so long as sure values had been assured, it represented a chance to maintain their music alive for many years to return.
“I really like expertise,” Sixx advised Swedish radio station Rockklassiker in a latest interview. “I believe [it’s good] so long as it’s coming from an artist that claims, ‘I’ve one thing I wanna do and this expertise is gonna assist.’”
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He added: “In some unspecified time in the future, we’re not gonna be right here anymore.… to not be a Debbie Downer, but it surely’s simply not gonna occur. And the way nice in your band – or no matter it’s that you simply do – to have the ability to go ahead for generations and generations. So I believe, when the time is correct, put us in a coffin and fireplace up these avatars.”
Sixx cited examples of Motley Crue’s longstanding curiosity in pushing presentational boundaries, saying: “We did some stuff with holograms years in the past, earlier than the expertise was actually fleshed out.”
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Turning to the band’s newest video, for the one “Dogs of War,” he reported: “Once I consider our first video… [it] possibly value $1,000. There was no MTV on the time, so it was like, ‘How can we shoot a video that [gets people to] discuss us on the information after we tour?’
“And we had been lighting me on fireplace on stage on the time, and Mick [Mars] puked up some blood. And it was similar to, ‘Fuck it – let’s simply throw all the things in there!’ And that was what we did to get followers to see what we wanna be represented as. The identical as ‘Canines Of Conflict.’”
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