Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx has posted on Instagram, “Please excuse my first two violent outburst’s during the early interviews tomorrow.I guess I don’t operate well without at least 2 gallons of coffee in me when jet lagged.😂”
Sixx recently criticized the KISS farewell tour in a Kerrang interview.
“I didn’t go to see KISS at the Forum [in Los Angeles],” he said. “First of all, I have to say that I really like KISS’s earlier songwriting; when I was a little kid who was learning to play music, they were a huge band. Aerosmith was always my favorite, but you can’t argue with simplicity of songs like ‘Deuce’ and ‘Black Diamond’ and ‘Strutter’ and ‘Parasite’. In terms of my songwriting influences, they go into the same category as Slade or Cheap Trick. It’s very simple, hooky songwriting.
“But what they did that really bothered me, and my bandmates, is [for Crue’s farewell tour] we built these giant arms that fitted in the venue’s ceilings, that had lights in them, and we developed these things. It was a lot of work and it cost a lot of money. And these things would hide up there and then we’d use the lights to light the show. Then at the end of the set these arms would come down from the ceiling and me and Vince would jump on them and they would take us out over the arena and that was our grand finale.
“But then I saw a video [of KISS] and they were using our arms! It was exactly our shtick! I just think it’s uncool. I think it’s uncool of the company to make the same thing again for them. I don’t know, it just bothers me. It was our last tour on Earth, and something that people have posters of on their walls is now being repeated by KISS. Sure, we all use pyro and stuff, but with this we re-invented an idea. And this was our idea.”
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