Rock Clarifies Comments on Sixx’s Bass Playing in New Statement

Producer Bob Rock has issued a brand new assertion following feedback made on the Talk Is Jericho podcast (heard beneath) in which he shared a narrative about working with Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx in the early days of the band in which the bassist questioned whether or not or not he had truly performed on the band’s first 4 albums. In the brand new assertion, Rock explains the context in which these feedback have been made, chalking it as much as Sixx joking round in a self-deprecating model.

While showing on the podcast, Rock recalled, “[While making] ‘Dr. Feelgood’, [Nikki] says to me, he goes, ‘I don’t think I ever played on any of the Motley Crue records. I think somebody came in at night and replaced all my parts.’ He says, ‘So I don’t really know how to play bass.'”

“And I said, ‘Too bad. You’re playing bass on it,'” the producer continues, “So I worked with him through ‘Dr. Feelgood,’ did a lot of edits and made him play every note.”

Rock would later share how Sixx has continued to enhance as a participant over the course of his profession. “When we did The Dirt [soundtrack], the songs on The Dirt, I went to see him and we started working on the demos. He picked up the bass and started playing, and I said, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa. What’s going on here?’ He had been taking bass lessons for five years,” revealed Rock. “All of a sudden he’s an amazing bass player. And I think that’s so cool, in that point of his career, he wanted to be better. I admire that. So now, on The Dirt, Nikki and Tommy [Lee] played live off the floor, both of them.”

In October of 2021, Sixx himself opened up about taking guitar, bass and vocal classes earlier than the pandemic and that he even discovered to play bass together with his fingers, as he had been utilizing a choose up that time.

Now, to supply a clarification of what was mentioned on the podcast and the context in which is was shared, Rock issued a press release that reads as follows:

Yesterday on a podcast with Chris Jericho I informed a narrative about working with Nikki Sixx and Motley Crue on the Dr. Feelgood report. Unfortunately, like many issues on the Internet right now, it was taken out of context and misconstrued. When I started working with Motley Crue on the Dr. Feelgood report, the band was sober for the primary time and Nikki significantly was recovering from a really public habit to heroin. We joked round quite a bit and Nikki, in his very self-deprecating model would say he didn’t even bear in mind enjoying on their prior data. This was Nikki’s method of claiming that for the report we have been working on, he was exhibiting as much as do the perfect he probably might and to make the perfect report of the band’s profession. Which we did. At no time did I ever truly assume Nikki didn’t play bass on Motley Crue’s data. He’s one of the crucial distinctive and gifted gamers in the world and his method to the instrument is a part of what has made Motley Crue nice all through the years.

Lastly, I used to be commenting on and commending Nikki as a result of he by no means stops studying and by no means stops enhancing. I respect Nikki for all the time eager to be higher at his craft and it exhibits. I’ve labored with a few of the greatest bands in the world and I can say unequivocally that Nikki Sixx is without doubt one of the most gifted gamers, lyricists and songwriters I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. And if the Internet desires to latch onto a narrative from one or two sound bytes, its extraordinarily unlucky as a result of it doesn’t replicate the reality of the contributions he’s made to music over the past 40 years.
Mahalo – Bob Rock

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Rock has continued his working relationship with Motley Crue of late, most not too long ago working with Sixx, newly added guitarist John 5 and drummer Tommy Lee on new materials.

Motley Crue have returned to the street, as soon as once more enjoying alongside Def Leppard in a continuation of final yr’s North American “Stadium Tour” that’s now hitting different elements of the globe. Be certain to get your tickets to see them right here.

Bob Rock on Talk Is Jericho Podcast