MÖTLEY CRÜE and SIXX: A.M. bassist Nikki Sixx is the most recent musician to answer KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons’ fresh remark that “rock is useless.”
Simmonstold Esquire mag closing month — in an interview carried out through his son Nick — that “rock didn’t die of outdated age. It was once murdered. Some brilliance, someplace, was once going to be expressed and now it may not as a result of it is that a lot more difficult to make cash enjoying and writing songs. Nobody can pay you to do it.”
Simmons went directly to elaborate that because of file-sharing and different problems, file label make stronger for rock tune was once now not to be had adore it was once when KISS was once bobbing up, concluding, “It is in any case useless. Rock is in any case useless.”
Requested to weigh in on Gene’s feedback, Sixx advised Mythical Rock Interviews: “Gene’s now not the primary not to have his finger at the pulse, and may not be the closing.”
He persisted: “Believe me, new blood is boiling in a storage close to you simply ready to be the following greatest band on this planet. We want them.”
MÖTLEY CRÜE in August finished the primary leg of its “The Ultimate Excursion” with make stronger from Alice Cooper. The present leg of the trek kicked off on October 10 in Oklahoma Town and can conclude on November 22 in Spokane, Washington.
SIXX: A.M.’s new album, “Trendy Antique”, was once launched on October 7 by means of 11 Seven Song.
