Tom Werman on Motley Crue Studio Drug Culture, "L.A. ran on cocaine in the '70s & '80s" Nikki, Tommy 

I was 20 in 85 and partied like a rock star, went to all the shows had all the concert T's and had the worlds greatest time, i got to watch all these great bands come out of Cali some made some didn't..it was a special time for me🤘

I saw theatre of pain Nassau coliseum on long island where I lived then and now,great concert and album the winter of 1985, I was 17,going to all these great concerts,long island is a great place to live

I love this channel so much. I grew up on this music and never get tired of hearing these stories.

Tom Werman is a legend. Produced many killer albums.

I worked as a sound engineer, a few bands doing demos, mostly voiceovers, audio books, radio ads etc., I was high on weed in the studio pretty much all the time. You would be too if you were recording someone describe what's on tv for the blind or read Moby Dick and Pride & Prejudice for hours on end every day.

I was so excited when theater of pain came out and I was so confused when I opened it and I looked at them. Shout at the devil was a revelation. Theater of pain was let's dress up and be Aerosmith.

I smoked weed, played and recorded it. Thought it was my best ever. Magical ! Next day, I noticed the recording sounded exactly the same way - of the previous recording - when I was bored and straight.

I moved to Toronto in 1985 and it was the Canadian version of LA we had the Gasworks RockinRoll Heaven and all those bands he is talking about i partied with. crazy times no cell phones no computers just people meeting people and actually talking and partying. miss those daze lol.

I saw the Theater of Pain tour in Vegas at the Thomas and Mack Center. Autograph opened.

Luv his honesty

After the death of Razzle, talk about the best of times during the worst of times. Enjoyed the honesty of this interview.

Morning rock radio also ran on that in the 80s, that's how they were so peppy at 7 in the morning, it wasn't just coffee.

"I don't do cocaine..I just like the way it smells". Richard Pryor.

These interviews r so awesome! Thank YOU!

Great stuff !! I have done more than 50 albums, and those we partied on, are by far the best !

This interview makes me want to quit my job and responsibilities and go hard on the powder. Hope the wife understands.

Toms correct, coke helped a lot of people not get totally drunk and sloppy Love hearing his interviews. I’m glad he admitted to the partying

Another great interview. This channel is by far the best

Dream police was a killer album....

This channel gets better & better.. it goes where many other interviewers won’t go. Also, love the rare photos attached to the stories.. 🔥

Great interview

Awesome piece. And I'm now a new subscriber 🤘

Heroin Diaries was a fun read. Nikki never struck me as an addict . Never thought Nikki was as lost as he portrayed himself to be.

Theatre of Pain was my introduction to The Crue. I loved city boy blues and those videos were so huge. Love this side of The Crue, all bout entertaining and theatre definitely gets too much trash talk

Man this was one job I was cut out for. Spot on with the weed thing. I get way too introspective when i smoked weed.

I enjoyed this.

Thank you Mitch

A friends dad was VP of Electra in the 80’s. Last name was Klein. Gave me so many cassette tapes and MC memorabilia.

Excellent !!! :)

I have always loved Theatre Of Pain album. The only two songs that I don't care for are Smoking In The Boys Room and Raise Your Hands To Rock. One of my all time favorite Crue songs is Tonight (We Need A Lover), and I don't think that they have ever played it live.

Love this show

Weed was great for getting a different perspective on a mix. I'd work on stuff straight, and mix it down to cassette. Then a day or two later I'd pop the tape in the Walkman, smoke some skunk, and go for a bike ride and listen to it. It would take me out of my own involvement and let me hear it like it was someone else's music

As a non-smoker, I'd have a pitcher of beer a set (4 a nite) when we played smoky clubs just to take the second-hand-smoke sting out of my eyes. I haven't had a sip since I quit the stage.

Theatre of Pain, my favourite Crüe's álbum for sure... 🤘🏻💄🎸

1986 getting out of the army my song was "home sweet home"

Great interview. What is the name of the song at the very end?

I know alot of you will hate on me but I don't give a damn. I was in the thick of the late 70's through 80's drug and alcohol culture and abuse as a rock guitarist in a few bands. Looking back at it now there's no "high times" of it as fun, cool, badass or crazy, just stupid. Friends died from suicide, car wrecks, overdoses and many who lived wound up in jail, prison or still doped up and drunk and homeless. Had we had known better with education, tougher border patrols, Homeland Security, tougher laws and parents instilling common sense those "wasted" years wouldn't have been wasted and many would still be here. It was a dangerous, destructive time and I'm surprised to be alive and hope it never returns.

These are such great interviews. I hated weed. I heard the guys in Quiet riot say they didn't like cocaine, just liked the smell of it. 🤣😜

Tom might have played hard but importantly he worked hard & the results are timeless music.

I know Nikki would disagree with me. I think the "Theatre of Pain" album is great. I just love that entire album.

"we risked 10 years in jail to smoke a joint and now of course it's legal".. wished it was legal where I live.

Sounds like I like Tom Werman. I think his demeanor made him an outsider to the Rock star ego shit and that is why they talk negatively about him. He did good work.

I would say Vince Neil‘s deal was more of a terrible horrific car crash more than just a “wreck”

I was so stoked for this album after the first two. When I saw the photos on the back in the record store I was already let down. Then I heard it... I was out...done....on to Metallica and heavier less cheezy tunes...

Would you consider doing something related to Kix? Way underrated...imo.

Great stories man , interesting about Nikki and Tommy I'd partaking a lot I mean real lot say in a day 1.5litre of 40 percentage . I could still play but it's noticeable elements of music out the window. With not all some pub rock no problem playing gran yota, classical style no no.

Someday we'll have the name of the full bloom guy!!!! He's great!!!💥 KEEP ON...FULL IN BLOOM GUY💥🏋️

Ringo said the same thing about The Beatles. He said that when they’d record high it would sound great at the studio, but when they heard it played back later when they weren’t stoned it sounded like shit and that they would have to re-record it again.

I’ve never heard of anyone on heroin eating a lot.

Ya man. Glory Daze 🤘

I saw Girls Girls Girls with Whitesnake in September 87

When I'm smoking pot or hash I'll think I'm really cooking and start to record what I'm playing and more often than not it sounds far less interesting the next day at playback. It was the same when I was using opiates. I just can't trust my own judgement with regard to the quality of the music I create when I'm under the influence of certain substances. I never really did coke for any extended period of time so I can't say how it affects creativity.

Peruvian Marching Powder. 😎🎸🤘

Wasn't nothing strang to me about the 80s best times in my life cocaine was great look at today and all this meth shit cocaine rules

I worked in Video Production for over 30 years. By the late 80's Alternative Television, MTV & VH1 spawned legions of 80's Kids into legendary consumers buying the Hook, Linke and Sinker. There were VJ's doing 30 minute shows on Saturday Morning counting down the Top 10 video's that week! The world could not wait and now Grandpa's were once The Rock Icons! Fantastic journey. The producer was a bit bent on nostalgia that they now riddle as Taboo...sadly the Tone It Down...is B.S.

THEATRE OF PAIN AWESOMNENESS

😂 No wonder it took 6 weeks 😂🤣😂 I would want coke filled studio time to last too.

Sounds like the ideal situation for recording to me. Go figure. 🎸☠️

Wasn't Tom Werman writing a book? That could be amazing if the lawyers don't tear it to pieces.

All this talk about marijuana and alcohol is all good. But cocaine is where I draw the line.

interesting talk about creating on pot usually meant it wasn't good when you listened back the next day. My question, is it really not good when you create on pot or are people who are not on weed simply missing out ? SImple solution, stay high and the song will always sound better.

No they finally woke up by 7pm

I Love weed!

Long Islands Classic Rock is 103.1 WBZO Fm Max Fm

The most outrageous thing on drugs.8:02"We risked 10 years jail to smoke a joint".Who knows in other countries what!

I’m not buying that whole cocaine and creativity bit. In my experience, it would be great for the first 30 minutes, then everyone would just geek and fiend out.

The one thing pot was good for is writing, or overcoming writers block. Sometimes you need to be simple to be profound and it's like those neil young songs like Down by the RIver I call 'Epic Simplicity'

4:00 "Drugs, drugs, drugs...." 11:30 "Drugs, drugs, drugs..."

I love weed, much more than booze, but I never use it while performing, working, or creating. There's always crap to get finished. Some people simply don't like it.

Pot distorted the idea of what you were listening to, itmade things better than they actually were......well that explains The Grateful Dead.

"Hey Ace, do me a favor?". "sure man." "take this (a huge bag of coke) and give it to Geoff in Studio A". "sure man, no problem"

The guy interviewing sounds just like Nikki Sixx

yea I read some of the stories on the nikki sixx heroin diaries. he says he was so coked up , so fucked up that he , wrote some of the shittiest lyrics I ever heard lol. this was on the theater of pain days

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Cocaine screws with your timing Do a couple of lines and you're going to play fast then medium then slow then fast Don't agree about the weed thing The Beatles Hendrix Bob Dylan all those guys we're smoking weed doing sessions

Motley Crue did drugs? GET OTTA HERE!!!

I gave up weed in the early 90s. I swear,,, it was making me totally unproductive. I just couldn't do it anymore. However,,,,,,,,, i started on the powder. I went from one to the other to the other.

As an engineer, I can definitely see how cocaine would be extremely helpful. It's tough to be as nitpicky without it and I think I'd be way more creative. Oh well.

I don't care what anyone says, theater of pain was a WAY better album than girls girls girls

Love it. That music make us wanna press the gas pedal. Because it was created with the gas pedal floored. Very cool. Thats what's missing these days. Drugs. Hahahaha

That's what Ringo said about the Beatles when they would record songs. They would get high and think that their stuff sounded awesome while they were high, but then when they came back the next morning, they'd listen to it and it sounded like shit.

this guy talks like the Great Moses on South Park

A wise man once said.....I don't use cocaine....I just like the way it smells.

Notice he said LA. 99% of Americans never touched cocaine in the 70s 80s 90s or today.

Beatle's we very stoned..I guess no one's ever heard a coke mixing session....lotsa high end n tinty..lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm sure The Beatles woke up next day n went..that sounds good lol 🙂🙂 like it did when we were stoned.... never get stuff done?? Then they were just lazy period..just my observation

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What's with the chocolate bars?!

"Dude, he's a junkie!"

To correct him.... ManOwaR wrote and recorded (1984s) Hail to England in 6 days. On their own. And its better than All these 4 albums Tom did hands down.

I've drummed with guitar players who were weeders, and they all needed a few tokes before they played, even at rehearsal. The singer was always the heaviest drinker because he needed to medicate his overworked voice. As for myself I quit weed decades ago, firstly because it messes with my neuro pleasure receptors and makes it so I can't fully enjoy an experience without it, and also like the guy in the interview said, it gives a false perception of excellence when the reality is more like mediocre. I like to have 2 beers at the beginning of playing out because it relieves muscle soreness and stiffness, and generally loosens me up. But after the couple beers I want no more because it will dull the reflexes, so I switch over to gatorade or water. And I never have anything when I woodshed, it's all grinding work. I don't even drink much anymore, I have beer in the fridge and liquor in the house and hardly ever touch it, maybe once or twice a year. Having more than a couple drinks gives me a headache, so it's self limiting.

Motley was terrible live. Seen them 3x. I also seen their contemporaries Ratt/Dokken 3x. Ratt and Dokken killed 2x without question. Motley were a mess live.

Nikk was addicted mate I have his book

Krell

Imagine how much better the 80's could've been w/out cocaine. Drugs only F things up. They NEVER enhance. I know.

He did lita fords dangerous curves in 91

The Beatles made music stoned I'd say they did okay LoL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sikki Nixx didnt become an addict!?!? Dude, you knew him in the Girls era! That was his worst! His use started in the Shout days, was going strong during Theater.... Girls is where he was gone!

Then somebody figured out that baking soda makes freebase instead of very flammable ether.....and the cat was out the bag...... smoking coke changed things. Not like sniffing more like i.v. rush.

The way Nikki talks about Theater of Pain that album was recorded at the height of their drug addictions and that's why the album was so bad song wise. It's sandwiched in between Shout at the Devil and Girls, Girls, Girls...both strong albums.

This interview proves that clearly, candy bars are the gateway drug. We should outlaw chocolate because every dope addict started out eating candy bars at a young age.