![]() We were very good to each other and also enlightened each other in various ways musically vs business. We were looking for something to do that would be fun and make some music together no see where it would lead. Tracii Guns: Nikki and I once upon a time were in a midlife band crisis. Tracii responded to Nikki’s comments on the Metal Sludge website. The “f–ked-up relationship” between the former bandmates likely stems from comments made by Nikki Sixx on Twitter in 2017. You can read the entire interview this location. I might not even be a successful musician if not for that band. And if it wasn’t for him and his vision for that band, I wouldn’t have done L.A. And as much as I have a f–ked-up relationship with Nikki, and I really don’t care at this point, I love that music. Guns” and I’m like, “No!” and we did, and it was so cool watching Nikki each night play the intro to “One More Reason” because “One More Reason” I got that from (Motley Crue song) “Take Me to the Top.” There was a lot of that going back and forth between Nikki and I. Nikki was like, “We’ve got to play some L.A. And I only wanted to play stuff off “Shout at the Devil” and “Too Fast for Love” and that’s what we did. And so when I got to do Brides, I didn’t really give a hit about Brides, I just really wanted to play Motley Crue music. That was my lifestyle when I was 15, 15-years-old, going to see Motley Crue, dyed my hair black, wore leather 24 hours a day, going to high school thinking I was cool and all that stuff. ![]() More chicks went to the Motley Crue shows at the Troubadour, you know? So, for me, it was like a lifestyle. too but Motley Crue just seemed to have … more chicks. And there was W.A.S.P., and I loved W.A.S.P. Nobody sounded exactly like Vince, and it was really coming out of the L.A. And Vince (Neil) was a really special vocalist. And the way it was recorded, that’s really what they sounded like live back then. It sounds like Sweet, but it sounds like Motley Crue, this new band. And the great thing about (Motley Crue’s debut album) “Too Fast for Love” is they really wore their influences on the sleeves. Those four guys, man, the chemistry is undeniable. Nikki’s kind of a terror and wants to be a rock star so bad to validate him as a human being, right? So, number one, the chemistry. It’s the innocence, isn’t it? It’s these guys that are kind of from working-class families. What do you think is brilliant or underrated about those early Motley songs? Because those first couple of records are just so great. So, a little something different about your history, with the Motley Crue “Stadium Tour” recently launching, I was watching a video of Brides of Destruction, your supergroup with Nikki Sixx, playing the Motley classic “Live Wire” and sounded awesome. It’s a weird combination but those are the guys I like. Because it’s Johnny Thunders and (The Germs guitarist) Pat Smear on one end and then it goes Gary Moore, Page and Hendrix right in the middle. And so, when it’s like slow Zeppelin blues jam it’s still more like “Red House.” I still phrase it more like Hendrix would. But Hendrix and Randy are very out of control, the guitar sound. My tone is way more on the overly distorted side than Page live. I mean, a lot of the improvising I do live is more Hendrix than Page really. And then obviously (late Irish guitarist) Gary Moore. And I’m a huge Schenker fan but the way I do that slow vibrato really sounds more like Dave Murray to me. A lot of people say it’s like a (Michael) Schenker kind of thin. ![]() ![]() Like with the “Over The Edge” solo, the way I do the vibrato is very Dave Murray, and I never really connected that until a bunch of years ago. When I was a kid, I was so into those first two (Iron) Maiden records, and I think it has more to do with like live. Who are a few guitarist people might not guess that you love, that have impacted you a lot? The one I mention the least is really Dave Murray. Jimmy Page, Randy Rhoads, Johnny Thunders, I can hear those influences in your tone and your playing. AL.com: These musicians made their names during the 1980s, but they’re not stuck there by any means.
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