Nikki Sixx: Pearl Jam is "one of the most boring bands in history"

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  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,150
    Zod said:
    I get what he's saying.  80s hair metal, and to an extend, 70's and 60's rock.   Legendary musicians lived lives of excess.  Drugs, women, etc... When the grunge movement hit... those  bands seemed a little different.  Many of them didn't do cliche rock star things.  So in a way I can see why he'd say PJ is boring.  They kind of shunned the classic rock star tropes, and did their own thing.

    I On the flip side I don't think that impacted their ability to make music or put on a helluva show.  You just wouldn't have much to gossip about.

    I still like to spin some motley crue.  Personally I do have a soft spot for 80s hair metal. Thoroughly been enjoying the show peacemaker and how much is uses 80s hair metal music in the soundtrack :)
    You just mentioned the entire plot of that Mark Wahlberg movie Rock Star  :)
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,904
    Cropduster-80 said:
    Their music didn’t age well. I get Ed’s point. No offence to their fans but he isn’t wrong.  He may have said the same thing more tactfully though 

    In a certain time and place they were very popular, no denying that. 
    Has Ed heard all their music or just a few radio hits? Sure you can call Girls Girls Girls vacuous, it's a song about strip joints.
    But not every Motley song is that way. Sixx has also written some heavy lyrics stemming from his upbringing (which has some striking similarities to EV's as it pertains to his father) and his near death experience etc.
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  • igotid88
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    cp3iverson said:
    it really doesn’t bug me if the guy from Motley Crue or
    Mr. Waters or any other old rock stars insult Ed.   Not a Crue fan.  I like Pink Floyd but it still doesn’t bug me.  

    We see enough insults here from regular posters :lol:
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  • PJammer4life
    PJammer4life Los Angeles Posts: 2,669
    We’ve heard Eddie and Chris and Kurt say this about “hair bands” before but never singling out Motley Crue. Eddie did say he liked Guns and Roses though….
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,520
    igotid88 said:
    cp3iverson said:
    it really doesn’t bug me if the guy from Motley Crue or
    Mr. Waters or any other old rock stars insult Ed.   Not a Crue fan.  I like Pink Floyd but it still doesn’t bug me.  

    We see enough insults here from regular posters :lol:
    Roger Waters loves Eddie
    He didn't like not getting support from Eddie
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,726
    Band feuds 🤣🤣🤣 can’t wait to hear Vince Neil’s response after he gets 20 bud lites in him should be classic!
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  • Go Beavers
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    Noload said:
    Let's find common ground...lets all marry super models, count our money and call it a day!
    Common ground is Matt Cameron playing drums while twirling above the crowd in a steel cage. 
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,520
    PJammer4life said:
    We’ve heard Eddie and Chris and Kurt say this about “hair bands” before but never singling out Motley Crue. Eddie did say he liked Guns and Roses though….
    He said they "..at least had some teeth" or something. Didn't really say he "liked" them (?). 

    They are all friendly with Duff, are they not? So I guess shitting on Guns is a bit less likely. 

    And yes, Chinese Democracy is a very underrated album.
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
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    Go Beavers said:
    Noload said:
    Let's find common ground...lets all marry super models, count our money and call it a day!
    Common ground is Matt Cameron playing drums while twirling above the crowd in a steel cage. 
    Was it lasers or a "tittie cam" that Pearl Jam used on the 2006 tour but quickly dropped?
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  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,337
    My wife loves hair metal and listens to Hair Nation on XM. When I am driving with her and a particularly bad song, for example pretty much any song by Poison, Slaughter, Brittany Fox or most other of the Aqua Net task force comes on, I will make it a point to tell her that grunge didn’t kill off hair metal, shitty songs like those did. She just gives me the look. 
  • F Me In The Brain
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    josevolution said:
    Band feuds 🤣🤣🤣 can’t wait to hear Vince Neil’s response after he gets 20 bud lites in him should be classic!
    Ha.  
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,520
    JeBurkhardt said:
    My wife loves hair metal and listens to Hair Nation on XM. When I am driving with her and a particularly bad song, for example pretty much any song by Poison, Slaughter, Brittany Fox or most other of the Aqua Net task force comes on, I will make it a point to tell her that grunge didn’t kill off hair metal, shitty songs like those did. She just gives me the look. 
    Vinnie Vincent also hate Slaughter
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  • on2legs
    on2legs Posts: 16,002
    While I agree with Ed, he did invite that response from Motley Crue.  But a good band feud once in awhile is very rock n roll. 
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
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    josevolution said:
    Band feuds 🤣🤣🤣 can’t wait to hear Vince Neil’s response after he gets 20 bud lites in him should be classic!
    https://youtu.be/EWDWLOnbrn8
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • RP112579
    RP112579 Tinley Park, IL Posts: 3,388
    Are the members of Good Charlotte on Twitter? I'd like to hear a response about Ed ripping them back in the day.
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,520
    edited February 2022
    RP112579 said:
    Are the members of Good Charlotte on Twitter? I'd like to hear a response about Ed ripping them back in the day.
    They did respond. 

    Try to keep up with the feuding. 
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Cropduster-80
    Cropduster-80 Posts: 2,034
    Poncier said:
    Cropduster-80 said:
    Their music didn’t age well. I get Ed’s point. No offence to their fans but he isn’t wrong.  He may have said the same thing more tactfully though 

    In a certain time and place they were very popular, no denying that. 
    Has Ed heard all their music or just a few radio hits? Sure you can call Girls Girls Girls vacuous, it's a song about strip joints.
    But not every Motley song is that way. Sixx has also written some heavy lyrics stemming from his upbringing (which has some striking similarities to EV's as it pertains to his father) and his near death experience etc.
    I’m guessing probably not. Right or wrong I’m sure girls girls girls is the image a lot of people have

    i didn’t know that either and I had an album or two of theirs in high school.  

    I’m also not saying it’s fair to hold someone accountable for lyrics or a lifestyle today when it’s not as socially acceptable as it was at the time.  That happens all the time and I don’t think it’s fair.  

    Not aging well was what I meant. It seems worse today than it did at the time. Someone making a comment 30 years later about something that clearly wasn’t an issue then or he would have said it then. 

     Hopefully that makes sense 
  • JimmyV
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    Motley Crue is another on the long list of bands that was able to reschedule their 2020 shows. 
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,520
    edited February 2022
    Cropduster-80 said:
    Poncier said:
    Cropduster-80 said:
    Their music didn’t age well. I get Ed’s point. No offence to their fans but he isn’t wrong.  He may have said the same thing more tactfully though 

    In a certain time and place they were very popular, no denying that. 
    Has Ed heard all their music or just a few radio hits? Sure you can call Girls Girls Girls vacuous, it's a song about strip joints.
    But not every Motley song is that way. Sixx has also written some heavy lyrics stemming from his upbringing (which has some striking similarities to EV's as it pertains to his father) and his near death experience etc.
    I’m guessing probably not. Right or wrong I’m sure girls girls girls is the image a lot of people have

    i didn’t know that either and I had an album or two of theirs in high school.  

    I’m also not saying it’s fair to hold someone accountable for lyrics or a lifestyle today when it’s not as socially acceptable as it was at the time.  That happens all the time and I don’t think it’s fair.  

    Not aging well was what I meant. It seems worse today than it did at the time. Someone making a comment 30 years later about something that clearly wasn’t an issue then or he would have said it then. 

     Hopefully that makes sense 
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  • THEBIBLEISTEN
    THEBIBLEISTEN Posts: 2,002
    The 90s grunge bands and Seattle wiped the 80s hair bands off being reverent. They were done after Seattle took over and never came back. The big hair bands and girls on car hoods was embarrassing back then and still is today. Not everyone’s cup of tea. Really Ed’s fault for naming names. Should of said he didn’t relate to 80s hair bands. 

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