Talk:Nikki Sixx/Archive 1

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ozzy
- * An incident on the same tour as above involved Ozzy and possibly Nikki snorting a trail of ants through a straw like cocaine.
 * Ozzy Osbourne dared Sixx to lick up his own urine, but before he could Ozzy got on his hands and knees and licked it up first

That did actually happen. The Motley Crue Autobiography is the source. James Barlow 20:08, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

The band "London" linked on the main page is the WRONG band. Nikki's London was in L.A. in 1979-80-81. The band included John St. John, Lizzie Grey, Andre(can't remember the last name), and Dane Rage. Then, Andre was replaced by Nigel Benjamin, formerly of Mott and British Assasin, then Nigel was replaced by Michael White. I was there. 63.98.58.254 19:02, 19 July 2006 (UTC)Regina Lawson Voorhes

Divorce from Donna D'errico
This needs to be more structured in the "Recent Times" section. I've edited to the best of my abilities and updated the information on the divorce.--Carrotcrow13 19:42, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

The Necronomicon
"Sixx, searching for inspiration, came across satanic literature such as The Necromonicon." I'm removing the "such as The Necronomicon" part. The Necronomicon is a fictional book invented by H. P. Lovecraft. The book was mentioned in a great deal of Lovecraft horror stories and he even wrote some passages too so most people tend to think believe the book actually exists. --84.248.175.197 20:41, 8 October 2006 (UTC)


 * It is possible that they contributor was refering to this work Simon Necronomicon which was a major "forbidden book" in the late 70s and early 80s before the hoax unraveled.

Tanya Vece
Is she Nikki's daughter or not? I keep seeing info about her added removed and then put back again. Thanks (INXS-Girl 13:14, 02 April 2007 (UTC)

The Heroin Diaries?
This article seems to be void of any information relating to Sixx's upcoming project (album/book), "the Heroin Diaries". - N &#246; &#134; &#36; &#174; &#229; M  19:24, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Trivia
"He once referred to Jack Daniels as "mothers milk"." Come on, who hasn't? Witczak 20:11, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Discussion
Can someone add "L.A. Rats" to the list of associated acts? I tried, but apparently there are too many trolls around so this page is locked down. Thanks

The rap-metal band he was in was called 58, not .58. The "58" was simply denoting the year in which Sixx and band co-founder David Darling were born. user:Jsc1973

no mention of the to fast for love album recorded with Leathür records Originally released independently in 1981 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Fast_for_Love should be interspaced within this entry. 58 was not a rap metal band! They are equal parts glam, hip-hop, rock, pop, and a car crash!

The Greensboro incident keeps popping up...it's not important to the biography. It seems like someone's trying to portray him as a racist, not add anything of value to the page. If it needs to be there, shouldn't there be articles that show some kind of aftermath or condemnation? Having that in there is merely inflammatory. Sugarnova (talk) 14:06, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Vanity
Were Nikki and Vanity actually engaged? Not according to The Heroin Diaries; which implies it was all in Vanity's mind. Didn't Nikki ask her to marry him when he was stoned and then regret it the next day? INXS-Girl (talk) 17:32, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
 * He may have regretted it, but did he withdraw the offer? Plenty of men have regretted the words they've said, without actually reneging on them.  Just how "brief" was this supposed engagement?  If it was just a day, then it should be deleted from the article, but if they were publicly known as a couple for an extended period, even if only for months, and especially if they were mentioned as a couple in a Reliable Source, then it should remain.  -- Zsero (talk) 01:34, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * All I can tell you is what I've read, that Nikki claims they were never engaged and that he was shocked when Vanity announced they were. They were both so mixed up at the time, so who knows? INXS-Girl (talk) 15:50, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, then unless it can be positively documented, out it goes. -- Zsero (talk) 04:54, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Eleven Seven
Should info about Nikki being made president of Eleven Seven records be added? http://musicnews.livevideo.com/music_blog.asp?id=359 82.31.34.92 (talk) 13:58, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Voice type
The "voice type" field in the musical artist infobox template is intended for classical vocalists. This position is supported by Voice type and Voice classification in non-classical music. In the rare instance when a reliable source exists to support a voice type for a non-classical vocalist (i.e. Maria Carey) the source must be provided for inclusion in the infobox. I will revert the entry in this field for this page, if you disagree please comment at the talk page for the musical artist infobox. J04n(talk page) 16:31, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

The 'running wild in the night' part is blatantly POV
not that I really mind that heroin gets put in a bad light, but Nikki is named as a "has-been" bassist and then in contrast, the tone is unbelievably didactic. I mean, alright, I really DO mind that fighting drugs = being a saint, cos it reads stupidly. Be neutral. Please62.107.24.213 (talk) 18:23, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Musician?
Should we really classify him as a musician? Face it, it is really stretching the definition rather broadly. Maybe a Bass Guitar abuser? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.90.198.151 (talk) 05:31, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, he is a musician. A very good one, in fact. That he may create music which doesn't suit your personal tastes is no reason to denigrate what he has done. Jsc1973 (talk) 19:17, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Personal Life/Tattoos
I'd really like to see some information about Nikki's tattoos in the Personal Life section. I know that he has at least some work by LA tattoo legend Jack Rudy, but I don't have much more info than that. If anyone has good source material for this, or the time to investigate, I think it would make a good addition to the page. Nikki and Tommy Lee's tattoos were a big inspiration to me in terms of tattoo collecting. They inarguably had the best work of any of the glam/metal bands of the '80s. You didn't see a lot of bands with sleeves back then, period, let alone good sleeves.Brakoholic (talk) 01:46, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

A non mentioned project ¬¬
Why there's nothing mentioning that strange porn film where he was the main character, Edward Penishands? (from Edward Scissorhands) Tuggaboy (talk) 14:42, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Unsourced claims about Sixx's personal life
I've removed the following, as the claims are unsourced and therefore breach Wikipedia's guidelines on biographies:


 * In the early 1980s, Sixx dated guitarist Lita Ford. They lived together for a short while.
 * From December 1986 to September 1987, Sixx dated singer/actress/model Vanity. They had a rocky and drug-oriented relationship, which is chronicled in Sixx's book  The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star. During this time, Vanity would tell the press that they were engaged, while Sixx would always deny her claim.
 * On the night of December 23, 1987, Sixx was declared dead for two minutes after a heroin overdose, only to be revived by paramedics with two shots of Naloxone. In an interview, Sixx states that after he was declared dead, the ambulance arrived and one of the paramedics in the ambulance was a Mötley Crüe fan. "Apparently, the paramedic took one look at me and said, 'No one's gonna die in my ambulance.'" He also recalled having an out-of- body experience while being revived. When Nikki came into the hospital, he ripped the tubes out of his nose and escaped into the parking lot where two female fans gave him a ride home wearing just a pair of leather pants. At the time, Nikki's near death experience did not do much to change his ways. Not long after returning home, he shot up in his bathroom and passed out until the next morning, where he found the needle he had used the night before still dangling from his arm. On an earlier trip to London, Sixx overdosed at a dealer's house and the dealer apparently tried to beat the life back into him with a bat. Afterward, the dealer dumped Sixx into a nearby dumpster. Sixx recounted the incident in The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star, saying, "I had overdosed in London exactly a year earlier: Valentine's Day 1986. We had played the Hammersmith Odeon".

This information can be re-added once sources have been found ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 19:30, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 31 January 2018
The article has a section abou sixx:am. The end has this bit:

In 2010, the group continued recording the album with plans to release it by the late 2010/early 2011 with the group bringing in Paul R. Brown to shoot the video for the album's first single.[46][47] During an interview in July, Sixx stated that the album was almost finished.[48][49] With the release of "Lies of the Beautiful People" in April 2011, Sixx took to a feud with Facebook.[citation needed]

Sixx announced in October 2017, that he will be stepping down from Sixx Sense on December 31, 2017.[50]

The feud with facebook is a non-sequitur. What does took a feud even mean, and what was it about?

The Sixx Sense radio show is not mentioned before in that bit and just declared over in the article under the Sixx:am band section. The Sixx Sense radio show bit is in a later section. That section does not mention that he is retiring from the show so it should be added in there. FlAsHFlOoD (talk) 20:30, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done I completely deleted the sentence about the Facebook "feud", as it was tagged as uncited 3 years ago. I also moved the statement about the radio show to a more appropriate section. &mdash; KuyaBriBri Talk 21:33, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 March 2019
grammar, under Motley Crue, first paragraph: - "In 1981, Sixx founded Mötley Crüe alongside with drummer." Either one works, but not both 'alongside' or 'with.' - "They issued three more albums during the 80's, Theatre of Pain in 1985 and Girls, Girls, Girls in 1987,[1][7] and Dr. Feelgood in 1989." Substitute comma for first 'and.'

under personal life, last sentence: - "Transcendental Meditation is an important self-help technique to Sixx." 'For' is correct usage.

Thanks, and rock on my dude! 24.218.246.55 (talk) 16:38, 21 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Yes check.svg Done all, thanks! &#8209;&#8209; El Hef  ( Meep? ) 17:04, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

racist rant
In this 10/28/1997 video, Nikki Sixx engages in a shocking racist rant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbR9TkKatu0#t=3m29s (it starts at 3:29) In this video, he sort-of apologizes, or tries to explain/excuse it, and identifies the location of the rant as "Greensboro, South Carolina." (It was really the Greensboro, North Carolina Coliseum): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjywoak21H8#t=1m20s (it starts at 1:20) MTV ran an article about the incident, here: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1432411/m246tley-cr252es-sixx-clashes-with-carolina-security-guard.jhtml (or here) This Wikipedia article contains a brief mention of the incident, but no mention of Sixx's racist rant:
 * "Sixx is controversial for an October 30, 1997 incident at Greensboro Coliseum in which during a Mötley Crüe concert he goaded the audience to physically attack a security guard for repeatedly punching a female fan.[24] In May 2001, Sixx addressed the issue and claimed he had apologized to the victim of the incident.[25]"
 * So, he WASN'T controversial BEFORE this incident? This is the one thing that made him controversial? If you're with me so far, you see that the wording in the quoted passage really needs some work. It sounds like just another day in the life of Nikki Sixx. FiggazWithAttitude (talk) 20:09, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

I'm surprised that his racial insults aren't mentioned in the Wikipedia article. Isn't that noteworthy? It seems noteworthy to me. Also, "for repeatedly punching a female fan" is POV. It is by no means clear that the guard really punched the fan. The article at least needs to say "allegedly." Also, "the victim of the incident" is unclear: is that the female fan, or the African-American security guard? NCdave (talk) 17:52, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Note that in the 2001 interview (reference [25] in the article) Sixx does not say that the security guard punched anyone. Instead he says, "That gentleman had spit in my face and yelling obscenities at me."
 * The spitting part seems implausible, since the security guard was on the ground, and Sixx was on a stage 5-6 feet higher. It would be very hard to spit in someone's face from such vantage point.
 * Is there any Reliable Source indicating that the security guard really did "repeatedly punch" a female fan? NCdave (talk) 18:18, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Also, the date given for the incident in the article is wrong. Mötley Crüe was in Greensboro on 10/28/1997, not 10/30/1997; see the tour schedule. NCdave (talk) 21:54, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Name
Unless he actually changed his legal name, which doesn't appear to have happened, the article should probably begin, "Frank Carlton Serafino Ferrana Jr., better known as Nikki Sixx...".
 * Many sources state he changed his name to Nikki Sixx. Here is one that says he did it legally: Nikki Sixx Interview "He legally changed his name when he was 22." HrZ (talk) 14:39, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Seems his daughters name is Storm Brieanne Sixx, Brieann is what is listed and is missing the E. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:186:4580:1387:DC94:9A8:39C2:CF56 (talk) 15:42, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Biography assessment rating comment
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Hey, just want to make it known that he was pronounced dead on December 23, 1987. That needs to be included in his death record on this page Kristhekidboy (talk) 04:54, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

1987 deaths
I removed this tag, because it gives that idea that he is presently dead. He was pronounced dead on arival from a drug overdose in 1987, but came back too... and is clearly still with us. - Deathrocker 06:20, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

yes but l feel that it should be put in that he was declared dead and then revived

But that needs to be included in the article, I mean even if you just state that he was pronounced dead. Kristhekidboy (talk) 04:56, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Italian descent problem
He is of Italian descent on his father's side, from Calascibetta, Sicily (source ; No Prato, Tuscany.--79.36.96.132 (talk) 13:24, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

His musical ability is in question
The article should contain some mention of the fact that there have been numerous credible accusations that Sixx cannot play his instrument: https://loudwire.com/nikki-sixx-didnt-know-how-play-bass-before-dr-feelgood-bob-rock/ https://wmgk.com/2023/05/26/nikki-sixx-reportedly-didnt-play-bass-on-early-motley-crue-lps/
 * Kevin DuBrow has said that Sixx once auditioned for Quiet Riot in 1977 but was rejected because he "just didn't know how to play the instrument." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_8jslERmMA
 * The guitarist who formed Motley Crue says when Sixx auditioned (twice) he was unable to play the bass guitar. He was hired based upon image rather than ability. The same guitarist also said that he was present in the studio when Theatre of Pain was recorded, and an uncredited session musician had played the bass on that album because Sixx was incapable. https://www.guitarworld.com/features/greg-leon-motley-crue
 * Producer Bob Rock has said that Sixx told him that even he isn't sure if he played on the band's first 4 albums, and in fact told him "I don't really know how to play bass". https://www.loudersound.com/news/bob-rock-nikki-sixxs-bass-parts-replaced

I think this is a rather important detail, seeing as how we're talking about a guy who's notable only for being a musician. 156.57.11.183 (talk) 21:36, 19 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I'm not a researcher, but I've heard the same through the years, in fact Sixx still didn't know much (as far as playing the Bass) even when he started to form Motley. -  FlightTime  ( open channel ) 21:52, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Makes you wonder how he wrote virtually all the band's material with limited musical ability. 156.57.11.183 (talk) 02:15, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Radio show not in Dallas
He may have been syndicated in Dallas but the show was in Sherman Oaks. He talked about it being near his house in SoCal. RobertGary1 (talk) 18:56, 3 March 2024 (UTC)