More on the Crue
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dancerjodi"Theater of Pain" makes so much more sense now. The album was created and recorded right after Vince caused the car accident (while driving drunk) that would kill his friend Razzle from Hanoi Rocks. Vince would head to rehab while the other band members would get further involved with drugs and alcohol.
After Vince got out of rehab he tried to maintain sobriety while the other guys plummeted more and more into addiction. It was at this time that Theater of Pain was written, why the album is mostly shit, and why "Home Sweet Home" was such a melancholy song.
It reminds me of 8th grade though - and of when the few rock/metal kids there were at St. Pats were singing together while we drove back by bus from our trip to Washington DC (another favorite was "Shook Me All Night Long"). Spending over 10 hours in a bus packed with 8th graders singing Motley Crue and AC/DC must of been hell for our chaperones.
Quote from Vince (pg. 147):
"After all, we had just recorded a weak album and the first hit from it, a cover of Brownsville Station's 'Smokin' in the Boys' Room', which I used to play with my old band, Rock Candy, was my idea. But every night, though I loved singing it live, Nikki wold complain that the song was stupid and he didn't want to play it. Outside of 'Home Sweet Home', which MTV aired so much they had to establish an expiration date for new videos in order to stop the flood of requests, the rest of the album was pure shit. Every night, when I ran around onstage in my pink leather pants that laced up the sides I felt like the one sober enough to realize how bad some of those songs were. I was shocked the record went double platinum, and maybe it just reinforced the idea that we were so great we could even get away with putting out a terrible album."
After Vince got out of rehab he tried to maintain sobriety while the other guys plummeted more and more into addiction. It was at this time that Theater of Pain was written, why the album is mostly shit, and why "Home Sweet Home" was such a melancholy song.
It reminds me of 8th grade though - and of when the few rock/metal kids there were at St. Pats were singing together while we drove back by bus from our trip to Washington DC (another favorite was "Shook Me All Night Long"). Spending over 10 hours in a bus packed with 8th graders singing Motley Crue and AC/DC must of been hell for our chaperones.
Quote from Vince (pg. 147):
"After all, we had just recorded a weak album and the first hit from it, a cover of Brownsville Station's 'Smokin' in the Boys' Room', which I used to play with my old band, Rock Candy, was my idea. But every night, though I loved singing it live, Nikki wold complain that the song was stupid and he didn't want to play it. Outside of 'Home Sweet Home', which MTV aired so much they had to establish an expiration date for new videos in order to stop the flood of requests, the rest of the album was pure shit. Every night, when I ran around onstage in my pink leather pants that laced up the sides I felt like the one sober enough to realize how bad some of those songs were. I was shocked the record went double platinum, and maybe it just reinforced the idea that we were so great we could even get away with putting out a terrible album."
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Date: 2004-07-13 01:05 pm (UTC)Home Sweet Home definitely did get overplayed. I saw both video versions too.
Wow, I just went back and looked at my CD and that album really did have very little redeeming on it, didn't it?
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Date: 2004-07-13 01:24 pm (UTC)I have a friend here who met the entire original lineup. He said Mick was the only one who was even remotely nice. I think that really comes through in the book, too.
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Date: 2004-07-13 01:40 pm (UTC)See, it was Girl Scout camp, and we were charged with doing a talent show, but had no idea what to do, so the one girl who knew music (I was...10? didn't know music) decided our tent had to do a lip sync (easy way out) of "Home Sweet Home," and the other two of us had never heard of this band. I distinctly remember looking at the album pictures and trying to convince another girl that no, really, they were guys. Anyway. I was up there doing Tommy Lee's part, and Lisa was playing Vince, so we were nicknamed after them, and I was called Tommy or Tommy Lee for the next few years at camp.
Um.
Yeah.
Don't know why you needed to know that.