In a recent chat with Revolver,Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam) mentioned that he was a fan of early Motley Crue, he even bought their first record.

Here’s what Stone said:

“For sure, Jeff and Mike and I loved hard rock, like, went through it all. I bought the first Motley Crue [album on] Leathür Records. I thought it was… At the time, it was punk-like. It had that same [raw energy], it’s like Motorhead. There was things about it that I was discovering about British hard rock at that time that felt also rebellious or against the norm or something that made me interested in it.

”And I always liked heavy… [The heaviest stuff I was into was Black] Sabbath and [Led] Zeppelin, nothing beyond… And then, like, N.W.A., and then moving into sort of more industrial sort of heavy. But it always had to have a song.”