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Summary: Lewd, Crude, Rude, and -(what?)- Sensitive!
Review: This autobiography strongly resembles the Aerosmith book "Walk This Way" from a few years ago. You start out with the band's early days of non-stop partying, drugs, and chicks, and it's like the fun never stops. Then the story gets darker as the drugs take their toll and everyone loses their friends, money, and careers (at least temporarily). This pattern is clearly evident in the Motley Crue book, and to an even more extreme level than Aerosmith. The debauchery of the early years is truly excessive and explosive. If you love to act that way yourself, or do it vicariously by reading about the exploits of others, then you'll love those portions of this book. The only drawback is lurid descriptions of degrading things being done to women.When the darkness sets in, I was surprised by the senstive and emotional writing of the guys in the band. Mick Mars (an extremly funny guy) discusses his painful bone disease that will probably lead to his early demise, Nikki Sixx (who's more intelligent than I imagined) talks about his traumatic childhood and family life, and Tommy Lee (a real sweetheart) includes his letters to Pamela from prison and shows a deep love for his sons. The most moving part of the book is when Vince Neil (who I don't think is a very cool person otherwise) discusses the death of his four-year old daughter from cancer, and how it changed his entire outlook on life. This book also avoids the pitfalls of many biographies (and history books) by covering all time periods equally, instead of ignoring recent history at the expense of the glorified good old days. There's good coverage of the band's years with temporary singer John Corabi, and their recent not-so-glamorous struggles with the changing musical landscape. The only problem in this regard is the lack of dates and specific historical information, if you're the type that wants to know exactly when things happened. Otherwise, this was an extremely entertaining book, covering the expected rock star excesses with a surprising amount of realism and sensitivity. Good for both Crue fans and general rock fans alike.
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Summary: How are these guys still alive?!
Review: Well, I'm pretty sure it's not gonna win any literary awards, but this book certainly was entertaining. It's a dark story at times, but after reading this all my problems seemed petty. Excellent, entertaining, (quick) read.
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Summary: My 2 Cents
Review: I think the information contained in this book is all great - except that the chapters & timelines seem jumbled and hard to keep track of.
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Summary: Excellent! 10 times the sex drugs and rock n' roll!!
Review: This is the best book for true crue fans. I have been following the career of Motley Crue since the early 80's. I have seen them in the early days in Orange County, the Whiskey, all the clubs in LA. They are one of the true LA hard rocking bands. This is an excellent book that explains their lives, not just as the hard drinking, drug taking party boys; but it also explains their problems in life just like everyone else. If you enjoy the LA club scene from the 80's and Motley Crue, this is the book to get. No holds barred, no secrets kept! They talk about everyone from their ex-wives to the famous in Hollywood. I am glad I bought it! I couldn't put it down!
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Summary: Good and Nasty yet Eye-Opening
Review: Its got all the sex, drugs and rock-n-roll you want. It's a quick, fun read...The "eye-opening" is more like a re-remebering that this genre of heavy metal was full of post-punk kids who bonded with music full of angst and rage. It is hard to forget formulaic "hair band" ... music and its multitude of players, but at its onset it was really touching a raw nerve and actually saying something about the times of these explosive kids. Then the "we'll spray our hair and sound like Quiet Crue or Danger Ratt" pawns fell prey to the "corporate geniuses" and washed it all away with teenage dance-marketability and sterile music. The Crue certainly became a victim of this themselves later on, but who could blame them for any decisions they made seeing as how they were very rarely sane. It would have been a wild ride to hang with them at the beginning of this mess, though. Tommy Lee does need to cut down on the "Duuuude"s...
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Summary: ALL THE DIRT THAT'S FIT TO PRINT
Review: WELL, IT'S NOT GREAT LITERATURE BUT IT WAS EXTREMELY FUN TO READ. I KNEW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MOTLEY CRUE BUT THIS BOOK TOLD THE WHOLE STORY (IN GORY DETAIL(S)). I REALLY LIKED HOW EACH BAND MEMBER (AND ASSORTED OTHERS) TOLD THEIR PART OF THE TALE IN THEIR OWN VOICE. I COULD REALLY PICTURE/HEAR TOMMY SPEAKING IN MY HEAD (DUDE!). THEY EVEN LET SYLVIA RHONE HAVE HER SAY WHILE PAMELA/YOKO IS NOTABLY ABSENT (ALONG WITH HEATHER, BRANDI, ETC.). I MUST POINT OUT THAT, BEING A PARENT, IT WAS HARD READING ABOUT VINCE AND HIS DAUGHTER SKYLAR. WHILE SIMILAR TO DAVID LEE ROTH'S TELL-ALL, THIS BOOK WAS BETTER MAINLY BECAUSE THERE WAS MORE DIRT TO DISH. ALL I CAN SAY IS, DON'T WAIT FOR THE PAPERBACK, BUY IT NOW IN HARDBACK. WHY? 2 REASONS. FIRST, IT'S A GREAT SUMMERTIME BOOK TO TAKE TO THE BEACH OR POOL (WITH THE RADIO ON IN THE BACKROUND, OF COURSE). SECOND, THE HARDBACK VERSION HAS BIGGER PICTURES. SPEAKING OF PICTURES, THERE ARE PLENTY HERE INCLUDING A 16 PAGE COLOR CENTERSPREAD. R.I.P. SKYLAR.
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Summary: sleaze burns quickly; residue is surprisingly strong!
Review: This book cracked me up! To my surprise it is VERY well documented, detailed, and designed for that matter. While reading this you quickly suck up the sensational trashy details like a supermarket tabloid, but even then there is an unexpected element of quality left over. The book goes deeper than Playmates and "Zombie Dust". By page 400, four unique personalities are clearly defined. Each band member emerges honestly out of his ice block as he recalls his own views of their goofy band's crazy career. Mick Mars is no longer the mysterious monster I grew up thinking he was. He is humble, quietly wise and talented. Vince is surprisingly down-to-earth too. His passages are the most human of the bunch and I was even left feeling somewhat sorry for the guy. (LOL!) Then there's the other two members' accounts! Tommy, who manages to hang himself on his own poorly chosen words, and Nikki, who's bitterness injects you like a bad shot of smack. Through 100+ pages of Tommy Lee's "Dude" this and "Bro" that, a crudely drawn self portrait appears of a spoiled rotten drummer-boy brat who's approaching his 40's while "popping extacy all night" and getting "Mayhem" tattooed on his stomach. I was left wondering if he cares at ALL about anything besides his ego and his penis. Some of the things he writes are just plain funny "Bro", in a dumb-as-a-stone burned out glam-rocker sort of way. I was able to take Nikki's writings more seriously and sympathetically, but he still approaches the finish line with enough spite and bitterness in him to knock out a small army. You do get the impression that, depite his smacked out brain state, he would take a bullet for his band in it's quest for Hedonistic King of the Mountain. It's almost admirable. Yeah, I really liked this book. I even admitted to the cute girl working the bookstore where I bought it, that I used to listen to Motley Crue. She didn't laugh at me and I suspect maybe she read it as well. This book is good and it's nothing to be ashamed of liking.
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Summary: Motley revue
Review: This is a great book ! A must for all Motley fans. Makes me wish I had been there for even one weekend. Long live the Crue !!!
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Summary: Decadence Maximus
Review: This book was a real shocker. I love the way this book is organized and the honesty of the band. Each chapter belongs to a single band member or another partner-in-crime and it's interesting to read how each band member fills in the gaps of the others' story - sometimes with a very interesting twist. I honestly didn't want to put the book down. This book is one shock after another. I remember all the major events recounted by the band. Little did I, or as I'm sure most people, know all the dirt that was behind the headlines. I knew that Motely Crue was a party band but I would have never guessed the extent of their decadence. Considering the dregs that they dragged themselves into, these guys should have been dead many times over! Everything they did was to the extreme and just when you think it can't get any worse you are shocked by what they tell you next. I highly recommend this to everyone. I especially recommend this to all aspiring musicians chasing the rock and roll lifestyle - here's a sobering bludgeon from the dark side of rock and roll. Be careful what you wish for...
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Summary: couldn't put it down
Review: This was my guilty but proud read between book club books. Once I picked it up, I found myself staying up late at night just to get through another chapter. The best thing about The Dirt is that the personalities of each of the band members are given life. I spent my teen years listening to the Crue, but never really knew that Tommy was the baby and Mick was the outsider. Reading about their partying and misadventures confirmed that while I love getting the behind-the-scenes, crazy-rock-star stories, I know they sound more enviable in the pages than they were in real life. Hey, if I can't be a rock star, I might as well read about them.
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