Bassist Nikki Sixx compared Motley Crue’s vocalist Vince Neil’s voice with Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant.
In a recent conversation with Yahoo Entertainment, Sixx said the following:
“I didn’t really even divulge this until like five years ago. There are elements. I’m not going to say it’s a domestic violence outcry. I’m not gonna say that. I’m just saying, I was telling you earlier. I document everything so sometimes it’s like ‘Wow I remember that and that really affected me so I want to write that.
”With Motley Crue, Vince has this amazing unique voice sometimes like Robert Plant, Perry Farrell other they have these interesting voices that are they’re not pitchy, they’re just raw and just kind of on top. I always love that about Vince’s voice and I would write for Vince. Vince will tell you ‘Nikki wrote all these lyrics for me.’
”I did. I gave him stuff. I understand his voice so much when we’re doing demos. I’ll sit in the studio with Tommy and we will get it so that it sounds like this song he delivers it. He owns it. One of the things he sometimes says like ‘I write too many lyrics in a short period of time,’ like ‘Shout at the Devil’ is a great example.”
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No offence to your band , not even to Vince. Ive been following and adoring this band since i was 18 years old. Im 54 years old . Ive seen then 5 times live. But the staduim tour was a big dissapointment. I didnt think vince sounded good at all. I didnt even stay to watch def leopard cuz i left 3 songs in to Motley. So im not sure what your saying about his voice but i think Vince has had it. My appologizes !
Motley Crüe was my favourite band when I was a kid I seen Theatre Of Pain , That was back when Vince could sing ! Quit disappointing everyone and give it up !
I agree 100%. My daughter n I left also. He was awful n I’m not embarrassed to say I left. I just think it’s time for Vince to retire. Plain n simple
I’m 54 this was a great band. Nikki is really delusional, flogging a has been to make more money…. makes a fool of them all… washed up years ago… he can’t even breathe properly when trying to sing now.
Saw every Motley Crue tour from 1997(Generation Swine tour)-2012(co-headlining with KISS). They played the same songs EVERY time! Sadly, both Paul Stanley/Vince Neil sounded weak that year. Haven’t seen either band since.
Vince is fine, washed up. He played a Bike fest here and was so wasted it was embarrassing. People paid big money, and he couldn’t sing, forgot the words, very similar to every video I’ve seen of this tour, what am insult to Robert Plant!!!
Seriously!!! Get a reality check put down the needle and clean your ears!! Plant is a god!! Vince well let’s just say it was fun while it lasted!
Well they both make noise that comes out of their mouth. In that sense Robert Plant and Vince Neil are very, very similar.singers.
Cmon people you’ve gotta remember where you were on their tour. If you are several shows into a tour his voice will get raw. I’ve heard priest and Ozzy . Their voices get raw too. The only person that I’ve heard sing in tip top form was Sammy Hagar or Robert Plant when he was doing the Page and Plant shows. . That’s another story in and of itself.
All if you that left before Def Leppard missed the BEST PART OF THE SHOW!
To pay all that cash and walk out was pretty silly.
The Cincinnati show Vince couldn’t even keep up with the music because I was singing along and I’d have to stop and be like really dude.
Hahahahahaa I want my money back from the sham of a farewell tour.
Nicki stop being delusional
speaking of sham farewell tours – has anybody followed the WASP 40th anniversary tour story?
The all lip-synching shows?
The horrible way they treated a much much better band, IMAGES OF EDEN, who were opening for them until they got too good and began to blow them off the stage nightly!! PLEASE REPORT ON THIS!!
Odd, I saw the stadium tour twice and Motley was the last act. Def Leppard was on before them.
Just typical of a co-headlining tour. KISS and Aerosmith did the same thing.