In a new interview on Let There Be Talk, Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx talked about the early tour with Ozzy Osbourne.
Here’s the story (transcribed by UG):
“Vince [Neil, vocals] is a great collector, he collects everything. He sent me a picture the other day of the ‘no fun’ t-shirt that we have.
“We opened for Ozzy Osbourne and we had all gotten a little bit of trouble – Ozzy had been around, we had been spending time with him, so Sharon was like, ‘No more backstage!’
“So, we made a shirt, a smiley face with a line to circle through it, and it said, ‘No fun tour.’ And Ozzy wore one, the band, all of us wore it, all the road crew…
“When Sharon came in and saw it – god bless her – she just started laughing. She goes, ‘Alright, alright, enough with you guys!’
“Vince sent me a picture of that t-shirt and he goes, ‘A fan gave it to me the other day.’ And I couldn’t believe that Vince didn’t have it – he collects everything!
“And if you ever need anything, any kind of artwork or anything, Vince is the guy that has everything.
“But I was the opposite – I don’t really keep anything. I wish I had a little more thought back then about keeping stuff.
“One of my best friends gave me our first album where there are only a thousand pressings of it – [1981’s] ‘Too Fast for Love.’ And that’s the only reason I have it – because he gave it to me.”