Nikki Sixx on Blackie Lawless, "He's super talented & he's done amazing stuff," Nigel Benjamin 2021 

Nice of Nikki to give blackie the credit he deserves

Ok Nikki, now add WASP to the damn Stadium Tour 🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻

Thanks. I've been listening to Motley Crue for decades but never heard the story told that well. great job!

Nikki's life has been one hell of a story. If only he could remember ALL of it...

Love full in bloom vocal introduction.

Sounds like fate to me. Nikki was destined to create his own band just like Blackie. Funny to see them in photos together back then, they looked like they belonged in the same band.

Blackie Lawless Facebook fanpage 140,000 followers.. #repost Blackie Lawless showed Nikki how to light himself on fire. I had the pleasure to meet Nikki twice, Cool guy.

wasp and blackie....is wasp and blackie--wasp is in my life since 1983 and it's a hate to love relation but wasp and blackie will stay in my life till the end am 52--true metal child and i love your chanel full in bloom is part of my life too now!!!..well done rock till death

Blackie and Nikki were like brothers. Blackie was the older brother to a lot of these guys in the upcoming rock scene that would eventually explode towards success between 1982-1984.

Mr. Cool is Cries in the night from the last Command I believe

Blackie Is a BEAST

Thanks! I just made a comment on Nikki’s insta a few weeks ago wanting some Blackie stories!

Thank You

I find most of these type of videos (band evolution) fascinating. What a weird stew it must have been to be in.

Motley Crue is absolute proof you don't need to read or write music to make millions. Only the ability to PLAY! They and WASP came up with some of the best music and lyrics of the HM genre.

Thanks for another interesting video

Blackie does what I call "Thinking Man's Metal." All of Metallurgy does this once in awhile; a song here, or there. basically, one song ROCK OPERAS, AC/DC did it with the Siamese twin songs WALK ALL OVER YOU/ TOUCH TOO MUCH, OVERDOSE, and LET THERE BE ROCK. GNR did it with the again siamese (must be played together) songs ESTRANGED/ SO FINE, as well as CIVIL WAR. Judas Priest has DON'T HAVE TO BE OLD TO BE WISE, BEYOND THE REALMS OF DEATH, DREAMER/DREAMER DECIEVER and all of NOSTRADAMUS. Blackie does it CONSTANTLY. MOST of his albums are rock operas per song. Thinking Man's metal. He thinks it out first.

Perhaps Sixx can see himself, or Blackie see's himself as not dissimilar to Nikki. Both men have been arguably the critical driving influence in their respective bands. Joe Elliot from Leppard has always been the driver - even if DL have always operated as a democracy, like Crue, but Nikki's always had the final say. The late genius Steve 'The Riffmaster' Clark was the brilliant songwriter/creator of iconic brutal riffing/harmonies/melodies/hooks, live Clark was dazzling. But it was Elliot's parents that loaned him the $$ to record Leppard's first ever record, when Steve died the loss remains incalculable. He penned/musically gifted DL 90% of their music - with 'Mutt' mining the diamonds, Steve delivered - but Elliot managed to keep DL intact, even if their lack of success post Steve's passing betrays just how much Steve really was the lyrical/musical genius. I do not know why Blackie receives slagging off, like Lars [another driver] who also gets slagged off. Sixx's great talent has always been his drive. And lyrical capabilities. Interviews like this are golden, they give an insight into the behind the scenes dynamics of bands.

Geez I'd pay to see them!!!! I can hear both AC/DC and WASP influences on Nikki and The Crue

Heard they're Collab on a new wig line to be called the Blikki Wiggi

And rest is history for Nikki Sixx and Motley Crue.

Blackie should have been Motley Crue frontman instead of Vince. With Lawless the guys would kick some ass even to this day.

A full in bloom News Brief ****** THANK YOU***** "CATER"

The problem with reading or listening to anything by Nikki Six is his story varies greatly from interview to interview, not very credible at all... I would put little weight on this...

Interesting how incestuous the LA scene was at that time. Cool story. Cool video. Very interesting and informative. Good stuff.💪👍🥃🎸

I remember seeing Motley Crue open for Hall and Oates in Louisville in 1991...

Very interesting.

It always seemed like London was ready for a big breakthrough in Hollywood Sunset Strip music scene but it never happened.

To hear nikki lauding blackie's work and not realizing Mr cool was reworked and recorded as Cries in the night is hilarious

Heard Nikki Sixx talking music theory the other day. It was like having the magician cram the rabbit back into the hat.

igel Benjamin had been the lead singer for "MOTT"... the band that carried on after Ian Hunter left "Mott the Hoople"... he did two albums with them... he did not play in "British Lions", that was the band that was once, "Mott"... they recruited singer John Fiddler.

My bad ,....Dane Rage was in Sister in 1977

that's cute, lol, i used to do that, not know the song and just play it metal style :D didn't matter what style the band was.. i learnt a lot since... it's all good.

And hes a worker or he wouldnt be. When he came to shreveport my friend made a bunch of zerox flyers with the eagle and he who dares wins and I tossed the whole stack onstage he picked one up and held it up for everybody to see. Uea blackies a staple man in the history of it all

Nikki stole the Crue pentagram from Blackie.

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Omg can you imagine Nickki and Blackie working together..

I always read that The Crimson Idol was based on Nikki.

"I'm giving it some balls man!"

To me its funny reading your comments.. Saying he isnt this or that and he didnt remember that right or he s lying... Me.... Im like damn this guy can still form sentences.. Didnt he put the drug cartel outta business...lol I give it to him for having the will to live....LOL

Blackie also has a reputation for not paying his band and then disappearing. Gotta keep it 100.

to me WASP is much more interesting than MC, love blackie, He really is one of a kind.

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When I read the Dirt, all the chapters written by Nikki were way more detailed and in depth, you can tell he's the brains. I tried to sing a few WASP songs, that's when I realised how great Blackie's voice is. Even when pro singers do covers of WASP songs, it'll sound good if you've never heard the original, but then you play the WASP version and Blackie's voice blows them to bits, it's laughable.

Sounds easy enough 😛

Blackie and nikki both were inspired by gene simmons

Didnt Nikki used to say in interviews that he stole that first Thunderbird?

But Blackie can actually play a bass and use ALL 4 strings

I was and still am the guy who can't play bass to save my life-nikki sixx

How was that cola enema shower, Nikki?

According to Lizzie Nicki don't even remember jamming with Blackie or Nigel

The older Nikki gets the more he actually believes his own fables. I'm not knocking him he created a band through image story attitude and music in that order. The guys in the bins in the producers used to call him one note I don't think he even learned base and got sober.

Thought Nicky six sounded different to that

Is Vince Neil still utterly useless!??😂

I have always loved Crue and Sixx. But Nikki's overblown ego is pretty fucking ridiculous. This man is a bassist. And he's just a regular bassist,and that is it. This guy is not even close to being one of the greatest bassists ever. He's probably the most highly overrated bassists,by his own omission.

Strange..I've just watched dirt? and it was clearly Mick marrs who came up with the name motley...

Very famous story about Nikki Sixx and how he walked in to a music instrument shop with a guitar case. Nikki pretended to be interested in applying for a sales job and when the store owner turned his back to get the application form. Nikki immediately a gibson les paul put it in his case and walked out of the store.

Blackie Lawless is God.

Blackie click clack miming tour 2022 yeh🤣

Imagine going from working with a lead singer with a 5 octave range to working with Vince Neil. Or, even simpler, imagine hearing Vince Neil sing and wanting him in your band. Sixx is like Zombie - below average musical ability but hypersonic drive and self-promotion.

man of sloth

Blackie Lawless is a narcissist that ruin a great band by kicking out Chris , Randy & Steve .. after that wasp sucked .

Nikki’s stories always contradict each other. I thought he stole the first guitar, and it was wrong?? That’s a funny story. It was likely never true. Nikki’s stories always contradict each other. I loved the Crue. The first 3 (forced self to like Theater, although there are 2 kind of favs) By the time Girls came out, I was 18. I found it was still music for the 14 year old I had been.

Playing his own style meaning out of tune, off key and doesn't know what he's doing musically. I love how he's trying to spin it to where he was trying to be an innovator LOL

Nikki….the smart guy who makes money off being coherent during his heroin addiction.

Wonder how he feels about his singer Vince who can't sing anymore.

Blackie always looks like he's taking a dump the way he squats down while holding his bass.

I listened to Mr Cool, it was alright, nothing special, voice sounds kind of like Blind Guardian.

Worst bass player in the history of music

Well hes honest . Never been a huge sixx fan hes a bit of a poser imho

Blackie may be all that but he treated Chris Holmes like sh**. I can’t respect a guy who F’s over his band mates, especially ones that helped make him famous. Say what you will but Chris was a major contributor to their sound. Never got any respect based on a stupid interview or whatever. Blackie was jealous, Chris was hot

I didi disagree with the statement you paying to see these talented individuals ,in the raw, not when they Nowadays not 25 years ago .yeah they may seem old ND out of shape because they are old and out of shape.

Simply the 2 worst musicians in American history