Nikki Sixx says 'unhip' network is not the right partner
Motley Crue are back with a new album, a song that's a hit with gamers and an upcoming festival tour, but the bad-boy rockers are frustrated that a long-awaited movie about their lives is going nowhere.
The glam-metal veterans first announced in 2006 they had reached a deal with MTV Films/Paramount to start producing a biopic based on their best-selling autobiography "The Dirt," which was co-written with Neil Strauss
But the band is now looking for new partners, bassist/lyricist Nikki Sixx told Reuters. "We're trying to get them (MTV) out of the way to make this movie that should have been made a long time ago," he said.
"MTV has become bogged down in its own way. It's a channel that used to be hip and has now actually become unhip. We signed with them because we believed they were right, but they haven't come to the table," he said. "We need to find the right partner. They are not the right partner."
Paramount Pictures and MTV Films, both units of media conglomerate Viacom, declined comment.
Fighting with partners and among themselves is nothing new for Motley Crue, whose members also include singer Vince Neil, guitarist Mick Mars and drummer Tommy Lee.
After rising to prominence in Los Angeles' heavy metal scene in the early 1980s, the band enjoyed such hits as "Dr. Feelgood" and "Shout at the Devil," but also endured the temporary departures of both Neil and Lee, record-label strife, waning popularity and the consequences of drug abuse.
Next Tuesday, the band will release the autobiographical album "Saints of Los Angeles," which it will promote during its touring hard-rock festival, Crue Fest, starting next month. It marks the band's first studio album of new material by the original lineup in over 10 years, since "Generation Swine."
"It's a fun album with some dark moments. It covers a lot of emotions of four human beings and their life as a band," said Sixx.
Crue Fest, which will run from July 1 through August 31, will also feature Grammy-nominated rock acts Buckcherry and Papa Roach, as well as Sixx's side project Sixx: A.M.
