Recently talking to The Eddie Trunk Podcast, bassist Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue talked about Rush, and “The Dirt” movie.
The interviewer said: “In the book, you talk about your dislike of Rush, and it’s not a personal thing, the music just didn’t connect with you. But you have a line in a book, ‘If you start out saying that you’re a fan of Rush, we’re probably not going to be friends”, Sixx replied:
“That comes to that round table I do with my friends, that’s the kind of stuff. I was like, I’m sarcastic by nature first, and then a bass player.
“It comes first, sarcasm comes first. Gets me in trouble online, gets me in trouble with my wife all the time, and you know, I wrote that in there, and then Alex, my co-writer and the editor thought it was funny, and I’m like, ‘I know Eddie’s going to bring this up…’
“So I put it in the book. I saw Rush, it was Kansas headlining, it was either Queen or Rush next, so it’s the three of them, and Rush’s first album was out, and that song ‘Working Man,’ that song’s so great, loved that record.
“And Queen had just come out with ‘Killer Queen,’ so Queen’s probably second on the bill, and then Rush put out ‘Fly By Night,’ and I’m diving deeper into the Dolls and that stuff.
“And so me and my friends had to make a decision. [Laughs]”
Asked more: ”You talk about something in the book that ‘The Dirt’ got wrong. There’s a moment in there, I remember reading where you said something like, ‘Here’s something that wasn’t accurate in the film…’?”, the bassist replied:
“Which is kind of a no-no to do, but since I was going back and reliving a lot of this, it was the fact that I called my dad, he said, ‘I don’t have a son,’ and all that.
“There was a phone call that happened in my life that wasn’t the phone call in the book.
“The phone call in the book, my dad had already passed, and that was hard to accept because you can’t be mad at somebody who’s dead, you can’t make amends with somebody who’s dead, so that’s why we got into that.”