During a chat on “Talk Is Jericho“, the podcast hosted by Chris Jericho, producer Bob Rock confirmed that he recently worked on three new Motley Crue songs.
More, the producer mentioned how it was working with the new band guitarist, John 5:
“It was so amazing. It was just the best time, so easy. It was really easy.”
Bob Rock recounted a story about being impressed by bassist Nikki Sixx‘s willingness to improve his craft decades into the band’s existence:
“[While we were making 1989’s] ‘Dr. Feelgood’, (Nikki) says to me, he goes, ‘I don’t think I ever played on any of the Motley Crue records. I think somebody came in at night and replaced all my parts.’ He says, ‘So I don’t really know how to play bass.’ And I said, ‘Too bad. You’re playing bass on it.’ So I worked with him through ‘Dr. Feelgood’, did a lot of edits and made him play every note.
”But when we did ‘The Dirt’ (soundtrack), the songs on ‘The Dirt’, I went to see him and we started working on the demos. He picked up the bass and started playing, and I said, ‘Woah, woah, woah. What’s going on here?’ He had been taking bass lessons for five years.
”All of a sudden he’s an amazing bass player. And I think that’s so cool, in that point of his career, he wanted to be better. I admire that. So now, on ‘The Dirt’, Nikki and Tommy (Lee) played live off the floor, both of them.”
