re: so im backstage with motley crue.

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Ever seen "last days here"? Its about the frontman from the band Pentagram, it's pretty shocking. Its on Netflix.

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It's about Bobby Liebling. I saw it a few years back, and it's very entertaining. It's a humbling view seeing how low someone can get. It's a shame because that guy had a fantastic rock n roll voice.

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I'm a cymbal hoarder

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Right on.

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i am sure they were epic partiers, but for the band to reach that level at least one person has to die

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Technically Nikki did die.

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i am sure they were epic partiers, but for the band to reach that level at least one person has to die.

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Vince Neil killed someone too.

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Layne Staley wasted away for 5 years in seclusion playing video games. Weighed around 90 lbs when he passed.

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Still amazed at how he made it through the Unplugged show and managed to make it another 6 years. That dude is right up there with Nikki Sixx when it comes to using heroin.

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That dude is right up there with Nikki Sixx when it comes to using heroin.

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Don Felder has a story about when the Eagles met Keith Richards for the first time. They get shown into his room to find him face down and kinda blue, passed out on the floor having shot too much smack.

He didn't have much on Sid and Nancy though. Nick Kent shared a place with them for a minute and goes into quite a bit of harrowing detail on their various drug habits in his book.

And they in turn don't have much on the Toxic Twins, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. Or on Slash, Izzy, and Steven Adler. Steven was doing really hard core shite when he was in his early teens, and Izzy was a well known smack dealer for quite some time.

And then you have the guys in Janes Addiction. Dave Navarro tells the story about how he couldn't wait to leave some awards show (MTV Awards if I remember correctly) so he could run home to shoot up. Hell, they're name and their first hit, Jane Says, is about about a stupendous junkie named Jane Painter, and one of them best songs, Three Days, is about a smack fueled weekend Perry, his girlfriend, and a sixteen year old chick named Ziola spent fricking and shooting up.

Nikki's overdose story gets a lot of mileage, no doubt in part due to the way he tells the story and his undeniable writing skills in relating it. But people forget that Slash and Gar Samuelson were both there that night. Gar was the drummer for Megadeth at the time. Imagine getting fired from Megadeth because you're too fricked up. That's no mean feat in and of itself. He ended up dying in '99 from liver failure brought on by all the drugs he did.

Nikki's best friend and former room mate Robin Crosby of Ratt was even more legendary than Nikki in the LA metal scene of the '80s for his drug intake.

And don't forget about Lemmy. Up until probably last year,he'd been a major speed freak and alcohoic for forty or more years. Hell, he's probably consumed more drugs and alcohol than all the members of Motley combined.

Eddie Van Halen did his very best to pickle himself with cocaine and booze from the '70s to the '00s, and his brother Alex almost drank himself to death before quitting cold turkey in the 80s. DLR himself snorted up a good bit of the GDP of Colombia.

Stevie Ray Vaughn used to wake up and dump an eight ball of coke in a big glass of whiskey and then slam it just to get going. He tore his insides up and almost died from doing that for so long. Reese Wynans still sounds in awe when he describes the size of the mountain of cocaine that was laid out on his piano during the recording of Soul To Soul.

People think Ozzy was the most drugged out member of Sabbath, but a lot of that has to do with his personality and forthrightness with the media in that regard. In all actuallity all of the band were major fiends, with the drummer Bill Ward possibly out doing Ozzy in the consumption Olympics. Later vocalist Glenn Hughes is a good bet to have done so too. Tony Iommi himself has gone into detail about how so much of their collective musical history was involved with cocaine.

None of them were ever investigated by the Feds like Lynyrd Skynyrd (and especially Leon Wilkinson) was near the end of their original run. Hell, they were doing so much blow that they basically became distributors for some dude with major Colombian connections. None of these acts ever wrote something as straight forward as 'That Smell' as RVZ did about Gary Rossington. And the other guitarist, Allen Collins, totaled a hundred grand worth of cars in one year in the '70s while loaded, not exactly an easy thing to do. RVZ was kind of a hypocrite too, bagging on the other members for their vices while he was blind drunk during the recording of their live album.

And one other thing the '70s bands had that the '80s bands didn't really have were the Quaaludes and the other absolutely spectacular pharmaceuticals that were banned later on. They were on some hellacious cocktails of drugs and booze that the later acts could only dream of.

GG Allin partied pretty hard too

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Hell, he's probably consumed more drugs and alcohol than all the members of Motley combined.

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you've got to be pretty bad off to cancel the entire European leg of your biggest most successful tour to date because you're too far gone into drugs and booze.
the crue's management said that if they'd went to Europe in support of the "girls" record in '87, they'd have all came back in body bags.

AIC cancelled several big tours because of Staley. They basically didn't tour at all for a few years.