Read excerpts from Motley Crue bassist's
book online
A seven-page preview of MÖTLEY CRÜE
bassist Nikki Sixx's upcoming book "Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a
Shattered Rock Star", has been posted at
RockConfidential.com.
Nikki Sixx recently spoke to Billboard
magazine about "Heroin Diaries", due September 18 via MTV/VH1 Pocket Books, a
division of Simon And Schuster.
"The Heroin Diaries" offers an unflinching
and utterly gripping look at Sixx's descent into drug addiction with a
soundtrack, featuring James Michael and DJ Ashba (ex-BEAUTIFUL CREATURES), to
match. The book is a tell-all, drawn from Nikki's 1986 and '87 journals.
Sixx found the diaries in storage and
spent years compiling them for the book. He said he sees them more as a
commentary on the record business than as a portrait of a lurid rock 'n' roll
lifestyle.
"We have managers and record company
people saying that there was this massive machine and nobody was willing to take
it off the road and fix the broken wheel," he said. "It would have cost them
money. It was more important to keep the business rolling than confronting me. I
was left out there to die. 'Hey, let him shoot up, and don't ruffle his
feathers. I want my 15 percent.' That's how it works."
Sixx is aware that many fans will be more
drawn to the "Behind the Music"-like tales of the book rather than the look at a
junkie caught up in a music machine.
"You have to be drawn to the car race because you think there's going to be a
car crash," he said. "So if that's what it takes, fine. If people want to read
this book to see how fucked up my life was, and to see how many drugs I took,
and to read about my crazy sexcapades, then fine. But in the end, every time the
book sells, it's going to put money into a bank account to keep some kids off
the street."
