Motley Crue's "Dr. Feelgood" (1989): Track by Track!

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<v Speaker 1>All right here we are for our much anticipated Motley
<v Speaker 1>Crue Doctor Feel Good Versus skid Row skid Row matchup.
<v Speaker 1>I am so excited we're gonna be talking about Doctor
<v Speaker 1>feel Good today. I don't know that I've been this
<v Speaker 1>excited to talk about a band in all of the
<v Speaker 1>episodes that we've done. I'm just I'm chomping at the bit.
<v Speaker 1>This is such a great band to talk about.
<v Speaker 3>There is so much interesting stuff that we could not
<v Speaker 3>cover at all in one podcast. Literally, there's three or
<v Speaker 3>four podcasts that we can do on Motley Crue.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, it is a storied life that they have led,
<v Speaker 1>and we fully anticipate that we're going to do several
<v Speaker 1>Motley Crue albums over the course of this podcast. So
<v Speaker 1>we don't want to spill everything now, but my gosh,
<v Speaker 1>there are so many fantastic stories out there there. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>it's an amazing combination of folks. You have two guys
<v Speaker 1>from the gutters who get together with two guys from
<v Speaker 1>the suburbs and they create the most hedonistic, kick in
<v Speaker 1>the butt awesome mix of music. It's incredible, It is incredible.
<v Speaker 3>It's gonna be amazing. So hold on to your seats.
<v Speaker 3>Let's get into Motley Crue Doctor Filger.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So our story begins on December twenty second, nineteen
<v Speaker 1>eighty seven. It is the end of a year long
<v Speaker 1>battle with Heroin that Nikky six has gone through and
<v Speaker 1>he is in Hong Kong. He has a flight out
<v Speaker 1>at nine pm. Doc McGhee has a flight out at
<v Speaker 1>six pm. Doc McGee makes his flight. Nicky, knowing Doc
<v Speaker 1>is gone, deliberately skips his flight. He goes to the
<v Speaker 1>interpreter Lee and says to her, if Doc finds out
<v Speaker 1>what I did, I'm gonna have to kill you. And
<v Speaker 1>then he laughs, but he doesn't think it's very funny.
<v Speaker 1>So they go out to explore the streets of Hong
<v Speaker 1>Kong and he happens to see an old man on
<v Speaker 1>street sitting next to like this steam coming out of
<v Speaker 1>the street, and he asks Lee, the interpreter, about it,
<v Speaker 1>and she says, oh, it's a fortune teller, and he's like, okay,
<v Speaker 1>let's go check it out. And so they walk over
<v Speaker 1>there and the fortune teller looks at Nicky six and
<v Speaker 1>he says, I don't want to tell his fortune, and
<v Speaker 1>Lee tells him and he says, come on, I mean
<v Speaker 1>it's no big deal and pushes his way into to
<v Speaker 1>the fortune and the fortune teller says Okay, give me
<v Speaker 1>your hand, looks at his hand, says something to Lee,
<v Speaker 1>and Lee says, He says that if you continue to
<v Speaker 1>do the things that you were doing, you will not
<v Speaker 1>live to see the end of the year. And Nicki
<v Speaker 1>six says, tell him thank you, because that gives me
<v Speaker 1>about a week longer than I thought I had. Reminder,
<v Speaker 1>this is December twenty second. He flies home and on
<v Speaker 1>December twenty third, as he arrives in La, his limo
<v Speaker 1>driver shoots him up after picking him up from the
<v Speaker 1>and he calls up Slash and says, let's go party.
<v Speaker 3>Yep.
<v Speaker 1>So Slash, Steven Adler, Robin Crosby, and Slash's girlfriend Sally
<v Speaker 1>Sally McLoughlin all go out and they go to the
<v Speaker 1>cathouse and as they're there, living life to the fullest,
<v Speaker 1>Slash and Nicki keep going back and forth to the
<v Speaker 1>limo to do cocaine, keep coming back in, and finally
<v Speaker 1>they just leave and go back to the hotel, leaving
<v Speaker 1>Sally behind. This is her first night in La. She's
<v Speaker 1>a little bit pissed. She has to walk back to
<v Speaker 1>the hotel. Steven Adler's got one room, Slash has got
<v Speaker 1>another room. When Nicky and Slash get to the room.
<v Speaker 1>He's like, can we get any junk anywhere? And Slash says,
<v Speaker 1>I know a buddy who's a dope fiend. We'll get
<v Speaker 1>it from him. He brings it over. When Sally walks in,
<v Speaker 1>Nicky is obviously messed up, and she is obviously pissed
<v Speaker 1>at Slash for leaving her behind. So Nicky walks over
<v Speaker 1>to Stephen Adler's room and shortly thereafter comes back over
<v Speaker 1>to slash His room, looking like a ghost, and as
<v Speaker 1>Sally opens the door for him, he falls into the
<v Speaker 1>corner of the floor and stops moving and stops breathing,
<v Speaker 1>and the drug dealer that they have goes, oh crap,
<v Speaker 1>he's dead, and he jumps out the window and runs away.
<v Speaker 1>Sally is trying her best to wake him up, and
<v Speaker 1>he's not waking up. Slash, who is drunk and coked
<v Speaker 1>out of his mind, starts screaming Todd because he just
<v Speaker 1>had a friend a few weeks before who had died
<v Speaker 1>of a heroin over to us named Todd. He starts
<v Speaker 1>screaming Todd and tearing up the bathroom, breaks the glass
<v Speaker 1>door in the shower, glass shards fall over Sally as
<v Speaker 1>she's trying to revive Nicky six, and she gets up,
<v Speaker 1>punches him in the face and lays him out. She
<v Speaker 1>continues to try to revive Nicky six and he's not
<v Speaker 1>coming around all is the limo driver and says, I
<v Speaker 1>think he's dead. The limo driver calls Vince Neil and
<v Speaker 1>says Nicky's dead.
<v Speaker 3>Wow.
<v Speaker 1>At this point, Vince Neil, who hated Nicky six, says,
<v Speaker 1>I didn't cry at this time, and I hated Nicky,
<v Speaker 1>but when I heard this, I broke down in tears.
<v Speaker 1>The ambulance comes. They put a white sheet over him
<v Speaker 1>because he is dead, and it's only at the behest
<v Speaker 1>of some fans, some young girl fans outside saying please
<v Speaker 1>don't give up on him. That They give it one
<v Speaker 1>more try and they get his heart beating again. They
<v Speaker 1>take him to hospital. He's in and out of several
<v Speaker 1>operating rooms. They finally have him in one room. His
<v Speaker 1>heart is beating and he wakes up. He puts pulls
<v Speaker 1>all of the tubes out of him, walks out in
<v Speaker 1>the december cold in nothing but a dirty pair of
<v Speaker 1>leather pants. The girls who would beg the EMTs are
<v Speaker 1>standing outside with a candlelight, hoping that he doesn't die,
<v Speaker 1>and so he gets a ride from them back to
<v Speaker 1>his house. He goes into his house and he shoots
<v Speaker 1>up again. He wakes up with the needle still in
<v Speaker 1>his arm, blood in his hand, and he realizes what
<v Speaker 1>has happened, and he decides, I can't do this anymore.
<v Speaker 1>This is what he writes in his journal. Maybe there
<v Speaker 1>is a God, Maybe, just maybe there is such a lifeline.
<v Speaker 1>Something happened last night. I died. Sounds insane, doesn't I
<v Speaker 1>feel differently today. I think, for the first time in
<v Speaker 1>my life, I feel hopeful. I can't remember ever feeling happy,
<v Speaker 1>but I feel like something has snapped. I feel I
<v Speaker 1>don't know. Last night was not unlike many nights for me,
<v Speaker 1>driving toward hell, hoping to be welcomed into death's arms,
<v Speaker 1>or simply to kill the pain and fill the whole
<v Speaker 1>of emptiness inside. I saw something. Okay, here we go.
<v Speaker 1>I was on the gurney. The sheet was over my head.
<v Speaker 1>I saw something. There was my limo. There we were
<v Speaker 1>people crying. There was an ambulance. There was a body
<v Speaker 1>with a sheet over it being loaded into an ambulance,
<v Speaker 1>and it was me. I saw it all, I was
<v Speaker 1>up above it all. I couldn't know this if I
<v Speaker 1>was dead. I don't understand it. But something feels different
<v Speaker 1>in me. I'm just going to have to write later.
<v Speaker 1>I need to collect my thoughts. And he goes and
<v Speaker 1>he starts cleaning out all of his drug stuff and
<v Speaker 1>the paraphernalia, and he comes across an AA book because
<v Speaker 1>he has tried rehab multiple times, and he sees this
<v Speaker 1>phrase step one. We admitted that we were powerless and
<v Speaker 1>that our lives had become unmanageable. He feels more tired
<v Speaker 1>than he's ever felt in his life, and he falls
<v Speaker 1>asleep for two days. When he wakes up on the
<v Speaker 1>twenty fifth, this is his entry, good morning and Merry Christmas.
<v Speaker 1>I decided to put this diary away and start a
<v Speaker 1>new one.
<v Speaker 3>That's beautiful, nice, It's incredible.
<v Speaker 1>He says he doesn't know how he survived the year
<v Speaker 1>of addiction that he had, but he felt on this
<v Speaker 1>day that it was a new day. It's awesome.
<v Speaker 3>That is awesome.
<v Speaker 1>So that's the end of one chapter, which is the
<v Speaker 1>beginning of the next chapter, which is the chapter leading
<v Speaker 1>into Doctor Feel Good. So this guy, who, among other things,
<v Speaker 1>felt like he needed to do these drugs because all
<v Speaker 1>of his heroes did these drugs and they said they
<v Speaker 1>wrote their best stuff on drugs. And so what happens
<v Speaker 1>when he stops doing the drugs. Does he lose his creativity? No,
<v Speaker 1>he writes the biggest selling Motley Crue album of all time.
<v Speaker 1>So NICKI started off as a kid with a really
<v Speaker 1>crappy childhood. He can remember being a little kid where
<v Speaker 1>his mom and her boyfriend go down with him to
<v Speaker 1>Texas at about six years old, and he's sitting on
<v Speaker 1>the he's playing with a really crappy Tonka truck on
<v Speaker 1>the front porch, and his mom and her boyfriend are
<v Speaker 1>getting wasted drinking and smoking dope. And at six years old,
<v Speaker 1>they invite him in and give him his first hit
<v Speaker 1>on the joint and his first drink of whiskey, and
<v Speaker 1>he says he felt more live at that moment than
<v Speaker 1>he had ever had before. Suddenly the crazy voices in
<v Speaker 1>his head were quiet.
<v Speaker 3>Six years old, nice, really great, really great.
<v Speaker 1>Tommy lived in Suburbia, had an Ozzie and Harriet life.
<v Speaker 1>So did Vince Neil Mick Mars, who I thought had
<v Speaker 1>to be at least twenty years older than the rest
<v Speaker 1>of the guys. But I think he's only like three
<v Speaker 1>or four years old. He looks like Joan Jet and
<v Speaker 1>Gollum got together and had a baby. Did you know
<v Speaker 1>that Nicky's mom dated Richard Pryor?
<v Speaker 3>Oh I didn't know that. Yes, No, he.
<v Speaker 1>Was dealing like black Jacket Lake Tahoe or something, and
<v Speaker 1>he walked in and their eyes met and it was
<v Speaker 1>love at first sight. Like they were in a really
<v Speaker 1>serious relationship when Nicky was like six years old, five
<v Speaker 1>years old something like that.
<v Speaker 3>Richard Pryor dated Margot Kidder. Yeah, also dated Nicky Six's mom. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>that's incredible. Okay, keep going, all right.
<v Speaker 1>So McK mars, his real name is not Mick marsh.
<v Speaker 1>You know what his real name is.
<v Speaker 3>Bob Ellen Deal bad had He's been bad since the
<v Speaker 3>day he was born.
<v Speaker 1>So he I mean, what a very unfortunate face that
<v Speaker 1>that man has. But my gosh, when you turn out
<v Speaker 1>the lights and he plays the guitar, you gotta think
<v Speaker 1>that he looks like a Greek god because he is phenomenal.
<v Speaker 3>He's a great guitar player.
<v Speaker 1>So Nicky bounced between his mom and his grandparents quite
<v Speaker 1>a bit. At some point when he was living in
<v Speaker 1>Seattle with his mom, made some friends who had a band,
<v Speaker 1>and he realized that he wanted to be part of
<v Speaker 1>the band. And they're like, well, we'll let you play
<v Speaker 1>bass if you can get a bass. So he walks
<v Speaker 1>into a guitar store with a guitar case in his hand,
<v Speaker 1>and he asked the guy at the counter for an application.
<v Speaker 1>And when the guy goes in the back to get
<v Speaker 1>the application, Nicky very calmly opens his guitar case, picks
<v Speaker 1>up a guitar, sticks in the guitar case, closes the case,
<v Speaker 1>and waits for the guy to come back with the application. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>takes the application, goes back out. He's all excited, opens
<v Speaker 1>up the guitar case to show his friends who are
<v Speaker 1>in the band, and they're like, dude, you got a guitar.
<v Speaker 1>We said bass, not a guitar. You're supposed to get
<v Speaker 1>a bass, and he's like, oh no. So ultimately ends
<v Speaker 1>up with a bass, but he's terrible at it. He's
<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's interesting because I remember, you know, watching
<v Speaker 1>the videos back in the day, and I can't remember
<v Speaker 1>which video it was, but basically he's kind of crawling
<v Speaker 1>along toward the camera in this very seductive way, and
<v Speaker 1>I'm looking at him and I'm going, he's just a
<v Speaker 1>pretty boy in the band Like this, it's the guitar solo,
<v Speaker 1>but they're showing the bass player because the guitarist is
<v Speaker 1>one hundred years old and frightening, and this is pretty.
<v Speaker 1>But Nicky six is the architect of Motley.
<v Speaker 3>Crue Oh, without a doubt, Without a doubt.
<v Speaker 1>When he realized he wanted to be in a band,
<v Speaker 1>he had an entire system that he was going to
<v Speaker 1>go through to put together the perfect band. He didn't
<v Speaker 1>have it perfect the first time that he put a
<v Speaker 1>band together, but when he eventually went out to la
<v Speaker 1>he started a band. The band that was called London
<v Speaker 1>with Lizzie Gray and a couple other guys, and their
<v Speaker 1>singer was a singer who had been in Monta Hoopo,
<v Speaker 1>the last singer that Monta Hoopole had before it broke up.
<v Speaker 1>Right and after gigging for a while, the singer was like,
<v Speaker 1>I'm not going to be in a band with that
<v Speaker 1>guy anymore. He has no idea how to play the bass. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>Like Nicky, he's our guy. He's the one put us together,
<v Speaker 1>and he's like, it's either him or me, and they said,
<v Speaker 1>we're not kicking Nicky out of the band, and so
<v Speaker 1>the singer for the band that was called London he left,
<v Speaker 1>and after he left, of course the band falls part.
<v Speaker 1>So Nicky's looking for a drummer and happens to come
<v Speaker 1>across Tommy Lee, who's playing for a band.
<v Speaker 3>Called Sweet nineteen.
<v Speaker 1>Sweet nineteen, and Tommy had known Vince Neil from high school.
<v Speaker 1>They went to high school together and Vince was kind
<v Speaker 1>of in this poppy band called rock Handy, which played
<v Speaker 1>some his cover band. Yeah yeah, it was a cover band,
<v Speaker 1>but Vince knew how to get the Bad girls and Tommy.
<v Speaker 1>He introduced Tommy to the Bad Girls, and so Tommy
<v Speaker 1>was like, oh, I like Vince. But whenever Tommy and
<v Speaker 1>Nicky got together, they're like, all right, we need a guitarist.
<v Speaker 1>And they start looking in looking in the one ads
<v Speaker 1>in the and they see something that says, you know.
<v Speaker 3>Loud rude and aggressive guitar player available, and this came
<v Speaker 3>from the recycler. Yeah, so I find this super interesting.
<v Speaker 3>So they're like, loud rude and aggressive guitar player, that's
<v Speaker 3>our guy, right, So they call him up and they
<v Speaker 3>said he shows up black leather, about five foot two.
<v Speaker 3>Tommy said he looked just like cousin it from the
<v Speaker 3>Adams family. And then when he started to play, they
<v Speaker 3>were like, this is the guy. He know one thing
<v Speaker 3>about this guy, but this is it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he is phenomenal. And they thought the fact that
<v Speaker 1>he looked like an alien actually would help them out.
<v Speaker 1>They thought it made it. So they've got a drummer.
<v Speaker 1>And Tommy was an awesome drummer. He was really young.
<v Speaker 1>He was the youngest of them all and was still
<v Speaker 1>in high school when he got together with Nicki and
<v Speaker 1>but he had been playing drums since he was a
<v Speaker 1>little kid, and he was phenomenal. He just did it
<v Speaker 1>all the time. He put in his ten thousand hours
<v Speaker 1>to become an expert. And so he was a drummer
<v Speaker 1>in the marching band in high school. Yeah, he was
<v Speaker 1>in the band before. He was in a band. Very cool. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>And so yeah, so they're thinking, Okay, we need a singer.
<v Speaker 1>Vince is already with a band, and so they're like, well,
<v Speaker 1>how do we get Vince to come play with us
<v Speaker 1>instead of playing with rock Candy, And they offered to
<v Speaker 1>pay him one hundred and fifty bucks a week.
<v Speaker 3>Here's the deal. Motley Crue was formed on January seventeenth,
<v Speaker 3>nineteen eighty one, and that's the date that Nicky and
<v Speaker 3>Tommy sort of got the nucleus together, right. Vince was
<v Speaker 3>hired on April first of eighty one. Once Vince was
<v Speaker 3>hired April first, the band played its first gig at
<v Speaker 3>the Starwood Nightclub on April twenty fourth. So they needed
<v Speaker 3>a name, right, And so Nicky sat down and he says,
<v Speaker 3>all right, guys, this is what I'm thinking. I'm thinking
<v Speaker 3>about calling it Christmas okay, And he even played with
<v Speaker 3>like the spelling like xmass, you know, x muss, you know,
<v Speaker 3>and they were all like, no, no, terrible, terrible, terrible.
<v Speaker 3>So so, and Mick Mars remembered something from a long
<v Speaker 3>time ago when I was with a band called White Horse.
<v Speaker 3>The guy working the sound booth said, well, this is
<v Speaker 3>a motley looking crew, and Mick Mars was like, man,
<v Speaker 3>that's a that's a pretty cool name. And he wrote
<v Speaker 3>it down and he kind of played with the spelling
<v Speaker 3>of it, and he brought it out and he said, guys,
<v Speaker 3>I've been waiting for a long time and I think
<v Speaker 3>this could be a really cool band name, and when
<v Speaker 3>they saw it, they were all like, that looks awesome.
<v Speaker 3>And then Vince Neil, who apparently they were drinking a
<v Speaker 3>lot of Low and Brow beer at the time, loved
<v Speaker 3>the little two little dots umlatz, the umlatz. Yeah, and
<v Speaker 3>so that's why, Oh.
<v Speaker 1>That's fantastic. I did not know that the umlatz came
<v Speaker 1>from Low and Brown beer. You didn't know.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's it. So Low and Brow we look at
<v Speaker 3>their Low and Brow beer and we're like, yeah, how
<v Speaker 3>about a couple of little dots over the O, A
<v Speaker 3>couple of little dots over the you, and that is
<v Speaker 3>how you have Motley Crew.
<v Speaker 1>That's fantastic. So yeah, so they start playing and it
<v Speaker 1>so the punk crowd isn't interested in them, but because
<v Speaker 1>they've they've adopted this glam style and this is interesting
<v Speaker 1>that they've you know, they're they're they're looking at Kiss,
<v Speaker 1>they're looking at David Bowie, all these guys from the
<v Speaker 1>seventies who had done this clam stuff, and they're trying
<v Speaker 1>to bring that back, I guess. And so the punk
<v Speaker 1>guys hate them. But what they would do, in addition
<v Speaker 1>to plastering their posters everywhere on Hollywood Boulevard is they
<v Speaker 1>would go to local high schools or in the suburbs
<v Speaker 1>and hand out their posters to the hottest chicks, because
<v Speaker 1>you got to figure, if the beautiful girls are going,
<v Speaker 1>the guys are going to come right.
<v Speaker 3>Oh smart, It's brilliant marketing.
<v Speaker 1>Exactly what happened. So the suburban kids are the ones
<v Speaker 1>who were like buying all the tickets to Motley Cruz
<v Speaker 1>shows when they were playing at the Whiskey of Go Go,
<v Speaker 1>And of course at the end, you know, at the
<v Speaker 1>end of every show, they would go, all right, everybody
<v Speaker 1>come back to our you know me, keep on party.
<v Speaker 1>And so like, you know, five hundred people would show
<v Speaker 1>up at this absolute crap hole of an apartment that
<v Speaker 1>they had. But the door had been kicked in so
<v Speaker 1>many times that it was no longer on its hinges,
<v Speaker 1>it no longer had a lock. And one night, David
<v Speaker 1>Lee Roth comes over to do some coke with Motley
<v Speaker 1>Crue and somebody tries to come in the door and
<v Speaker 1>it falls over on top of David Lee Roth. And
<v Speaker 1>I just got to think, if I'm sitting here doing
<v Speaker 1>drugs with David Lee Roth and the door falls on
<v Speaker 1>top of him, I've made it.
<v Speaker 3>I have arrived exactly. So, just to recap, we got
<v Speaker 3>the four members of the band, and so I always
<v Speaker 3>think it's interesting these guys have such rockstar names, but
<v Speaker 3>sometimes it's interesting for us to look at what they
<v Speaker 3>were actually named. Right, so you have Vince Neil who's
<v Speaker 3>the lead singer. His name is actually Vincent Neil Wharton,
<v Speaker 3>a little less rockstar than Vince Neil. Mick Mars. We
<v Speaker 3>already talked about Bob al Deal, right, Tommy Lee Bass Okay,
<v Speaker 3>Nikki six his real name is Frankie Farana, which he
<v Speaker 3>got the name NICKI six from his driver's license. He
<v Speaker 3>was looking at the number and he saw just the
<v Speaker 3>end of it it said N six and they're like,
<v Speaker 3>what's your name.
<v Speaker 5>He's like, Nicky six, yes, and he actually legally yeah,
<v Speaker 5>he had it legally changed. And when the guys from
<v Speaker 5>the band that he played with in Seattle called him
<v Speaker 5>up after a couple of years, he was like, I'm
<v Speaker 5>just gonna tell you.
<v Speaker 1>This one time. Yeah, frank Farana is dead. Do not
<v Speaker 1>call that name. I am Niky six.
<v Speaker 3>I will mention this. The first on their first album,
<v Speaker 3>Too Fast for Love, there's a song called on with
<v Speaker 3>the show, and the lyrics start off with Frankie died
<v Speaker 3>just the other night. Some say it was suicide, but
<v Speaker 3>we know how the story goes, and so it's just
<v Speaker 3>kind of an auto biographical song about putting to death
<v Speaker 3>who he was.
<v Speaker 1>Now, so they put on a show like we know
<v Speaker 1>that Tommy is awesome, we know that Mick is awesome.
<v Speaker 1>We know that Vince has a unique voice. It's probably
<v Speaker 1>not a great voice, but it's a unique voice. And
<v Speaker 1>we know that Nicky is terrible at the base, but
<v Speaker 1>write some incredible songs, right right.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's a magic recipe. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>There. They have figured out that it's all about the
<v Speaker 1>show that you put on, and so that's why they
<v Speaker 1>wore the makeup, That's why they wore the crazy leather
<v Speaker 1>clothes that they had. That's why they had the pyrotechnics
<v Speaker 1>and the flamethrowers out of the guitar and all the
<v Speaker 1>other stuff that they would do. They knew it was
<v Speaker 1>all about the show. And so when all these suburban
<v Speaker 1>kids started coming to the show, they had a line
<v Speaker 1>out the door, like they were like they're they're looking
<v Speaker 1>at it and they're like, what the heck is going on?
<v Speaker 1>There's a line going all the way into the parking
<v Speaker 1>lot and our show has already sold out. What's going
<v Speaker 1>on here? This is crazy? And as it happens, Tom
<v Speaker 1>Zutat is driving by Yes and he sees this line
<v Speaker 1>out the door and he's like, what is going on here?
<v Speaker 1>And he sees Motley Cruez sold out on the marquee
<v Speaker 1>and he's like, I got to check this out. He
<v Speaker 1>walks in, he watches the show, and he comes backstage
<v Speaker 1>and says, I want to sign you guys, let me
<v Speaker 1>sign you to Electric Electra Records. He would probably go
<v Speaker 1>on to regret that later on because at some point
<v Speaker 1>while they're touring, he has a new girl that he's
<v Speaker 1>been dating and he brings her backstage and Nicky's like,
<v Speaker 1>so you guys pretty serious and he's like, well, you know,
<v Speaker 1>we've been on a two or three days. We're just
<v Speaker 1>getting to know each other. And Nicky says, you're really hot,
<v Speaker 1>and within three minutes is having sex with.
<v Speaker 3>The Sorry the movie The Dirt shows Vince Neil having
<v Speaker 3>sex with her.
<v Speaker 1>It's a different girl, like Tom Zutat got his girl
<v Speaker 1>ft by two different numbers Motley Crew.
<v Speaker 3>The point is, don't ever bring your girlfriend around, Molly Crow.
<v Speaker 1>Exactly right, exactly right. If you don't remember, Tom Zutat
<v Speaker 1>is the guy who also signed Guns N' Roses a
<v Speaker 1>few years later, Right.
<v Speaker 3>That's it. That's the same guy.
<v Speaker 1>He actually wanted Nicky six to produce Appetite for Destruction.
<v Speaker 1>Did you know that?
<v Speaker 3>No? I did not know that.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, and nick as strung at as he was realized
<v Speaker 1>there's no way he could produce an album. He's like,
<v Speaker 1>I would have been able to barely push the play
<v Speaker 1>and stop button. There was no way I was going
<v Speaker 1>to be able to produce an album.
<v Speaker 3>Wow, that's awesome. I did not know that.
<v Speaker 1>Tom Zutak realizes that these guys need management. He calls
<v Speaker 1>up Doug Thaylor, who's been a band manager before, who
<v Speaker 1>has recently partnered with Doc McGhee. They fly out to
<v Speaker 1>see him and they said it was like a three
<v Speaker 1>ring circus. The fans were going friggin' nuts, and they thought,
<v Speaker 1>we got to show this in every city and that
<v Speaker 1>we can across the country because this is going to
<v Speaker 1>be a hit.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And Nikki and Tommy they used to talk about
<v Speaker 3>how they would in their apartment. They would practice setting
<v Speaker 3>themselves on fire.
<v Speaker 1>So before Doug Taylor and Doc McGee started managing them,
<v Speaker 1>their former manager, the Kaufmans, put together the money to
<v Speaker 1>produce their own album on their own label called the
<v Speaker 1>Leather Label.
<v Speaker 3>This album was this is Too Fast for Love Right.
<v Speaker 1>And when Electra Records has at this point moved over
<v Speaker 1>to New York City, they've got a new CEO and
<v Speaker 1>his name is Bob krass Now and when he sees
<v Speaker 1>Motley Crue, he's like, we're not putting these guys on
<v Speaker 1>electric records. I don't know what you guys are thinking.
<v Speaker 1>And they're like what, and he's like, listen, we got
<v Speaker 1>Joni Mitchell, We've got Linda Ronstat, we have artists on
<v Speaker 1>our record label. We don't want to sell our albums
<v Speaker 1>to people who live in the gutter. So they're at
<v Speaker 1>this weird position where they know that they've got a
<v Speaker 1>hit on their hands, but the record company's like, we're
<v Speaker 1>not going to do anything with it. And so they
<v Speaker 1>realize they've got to start with touring. And the first
<v Speaker 1>big show that they do, do you know what it is?
<v Speaker 1>US Festival nineteen eighty three.
<v Speaker 3>Oh my gosh, wow.
<v Speaker 1>And so the US Festival that we've mentioned a couple
<v Speaker 1>of different times. Now we've mentioned it within excess. We
<v Speaker 1>mentioned it obviously with Van Halen. It opens with Quiet Riot,
<v Speaker 1>second band to play, Motley Crue. They go out there
<v Speaker 1>and they play the worst piece of crap show they've
<v Speaker 1>ever played in their entire lives. They are missing cues,
<v Speaker 1>the bass and the drums aren't syncing up, and at
<v Speaker 1>some point Tommy, you know, after the show, he realizes
<v Speaker 1>that there's a television station there filming everything that's going on,
<v Speaker 1>and he starts crying and begging Doc McGee. He's like,
<v Speaker 1>you got to do something. We can't let anybody see
<v Speaker 1>how badly we did tonight. But what Doc McGee and
<v Speaker 1>Tom's Zoutat and Doug Taylor see that the guys don't
<v Speaker 1>see is that all one hundred thousand people that are
<v Speaker 1>there are loving it. They don't care that the band
<v Speaker 1>can't play for crap right put on a show. They
<v Speaker 1>have the right look, and they know if this is
<v Speaker 1>the way the crowd reacts when they play like crap,
<v Speaker 1>there's no way that we're going to fail.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So this is nineteen eighty three and by this
<v Speaker 3>time there they've got an album called Shout At the Devil.
<v Speaker 3>This ramped up on MTV, and this is where I
<v Speaker 3>first heard of them. They're putting out videos like Looks
<v Speaker 3>That Kill, and they've got the pinogram and the makeup
<v Speaker 3>and the girls, and so.
<v Speaker 1>I wonder why some people thought they were Satanists.
<v Speaker 3>They were going with the burning Pinogram. I mean, they're
<v Speaker 3>pretty bold and out front.
<v Speaker 1>Right, and your and your song is called Shout at
<v Speaker 1>the Devil, Shout Out the Devil. Yeah, and Nigg's like
<v Speaker 1>I said, shout at the Devil, Shout with the Devil.
<v Speaker 3>Right, and every church youth pastor said, oh, okay, no problem.
<v Speaker 1>When they got together to make that album, Tom Warman
<v Speaker 1>it was the producer, and he calls up Doug Taylor
<v Speaker 1>after a couple of days and he says, listen, nick
<v Speaker 1>and Tommy easy to work with. Neil painting and this
<v Speaker 1>guy can't play the bass, and Doug Taylor goes, no shit,
<v Speaker 1>We've known that he can't play the bass. It doesn't matter.
<v Speaker 1>Just record the music and yeah, Shout of the Devil
<v Speaker 1>makes them mega hits.
<v Speaker 3>It's really interesting. I mean, I know we've talked about it,
<v Speaker 3>but the fact that Nicky can't play and yet still
<v Speaker 3>is the most important member of the band.
<v Speaker 1>He is the cornerstone of the band.
<v Speaker 3>He writes all the songs. Yes, every hit ever made
<v Speaker 3>made by Motley Crue was written by Nicky six.
<v Speaker 1>He is a great songwriter, a great performer, and a
<v Speaker 1>terrible musician, or at least he was in the early eighties.
<v Speaker 1>I probably learned a thing or two in the last
<v Speaker 1>forty years.
<v Speaker 3>I think you're right. I think you're right.
<v Speaker 1>So the success that they have with the crowd at
<v Speaker 1>the US festival leads to them touring with Ozzy Osbourne,
<v Speaker 1>where they learn even more about putting on a good
<v Speaker 1>show and and drinking and drugging and sexing to the max. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>So between Shout at the Devil and Theater of Pain,
<v Speaker 1>the band has a major event occur in the history
<v Speaker 1>of the band.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's right. On December eighth, nineteen eighty four, Vince
<v Speaker 3>Neil was making a liquor run in his car, which
<v Speaker 3>was a Pantera, and he had Nicholas aka Razzled Dingley
<v Speaker 3>from the band Hanai Rocks in the pasture seat with him.
<v Speaker 3>They went to make a run to grab some more
<v Speaker 3>beer and was involved in a head on collision that
<v Speaker 3>killed Razzle and Vince was in serious trouble of doing
<v Speaker 3>actual hard jail time for his death.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, which having the history that I do, him getting
<v Speaker 1>as little time as he did is amazing to me.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, it's it's incredible. He was charged with DUI and
<v Speaker 3>vehicular manslaughter, was to only thirty days in jail, it's crazy,
<v Speaker 3>and only served eighteen of those days. That's crazy, and
<v Speaker 3>then was subsequently sued for two point five million dollars.
<v Speaker 3>The short jail term was negotiated by his lawyers, which
<v Speaker 3>would allow him to go on tour and make this
<v Speaker 3>money to pay the estate of Razzle. Right, But I
<v Speaker 3>heard Doc McGee talking about this, I thought this was
<v Speaker 3>such an interesting story. Doc's talking to the lawyers and
<v Speaker 3>talking to Vince, and the lawyers like, Vince, they really
<v Speaker 3>want you to do some hard jail time for this.
<v Speaker 3>And Vince's response was I can't, and they're like, what
<v Speaker 3>do you mean you can't. He's like, I got a tour,
<v Speaker 3>I can't take time off. And Doc McGee is like,
<v Speaker 3>that's when I knew these guys had no idea that
<v Speaker 3>their real life consequences to problems that they're causing around them.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. So this this moment and Doc McGee also traces
<v Speaker 1>back to whenever Nicky's heroin addiction began to get truly
<v Speaker 1>out of hand. He thinks that the notion that suddenly
<v Speaker 1>all of this work that he had done putting this
<v Speaker 1>band together, having the success that they had had up
<v Speaker 1>until that point, could suddenly be taken away without him
<v Speaker 1>having any control over it. And he feels like that
<v Speaker 1>is when this his drug addiction really ramped up. And
<v Speaker 1>it was after this point that Vince Neil says, I
<v Speaker 1>didn't really feel like I was a member of the
<v Speaker 1>band anymore. I felt like I was a singer for
<v Speaker 1>the band. It was. It was an entirely different dynamic
<v Speaker 1>after this happened. And he, of course he had to
<v Speaker 1>stay clean while he was on his probation, which with
<v Speaker 1>these guys, I mean that's like trying to jump in
<v Speaker 1>the pool without getting wet, right, And they were not.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, they'd ask him to pass drugs and drinks
<v Speaker 1>and stuff like that, and it was it was a hard,
<v Speaker 1>hard experience. This is where Vince Neil and Nikki really
<v Speaker 1>started hating each other.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, all right, So after Shout of the Devil, which
<v Speaker 3>sometime we've got a podcast about that, and that's that
<v Speaker 3>one has tons of great songs on it. But in
<v Speaker 3>nineteen eighty five they come out with the Theater of
<v Speaker 3>Pain album and they cover the first song out of
<v Speaker 3>the Gate. They cover the old Brownsville station song called
<v Speaker 3>Smoking in the Boys Room. But the song that really
<v Speaker 3>really sort of ramps them up into the next level
<v Speaker 3>of rock groups is the second single off Theater Pain.
<v Speaker 3>It's called Home, Sweet Home, maybe the greatest rock ballad
<v Speaker 3>of all time. After Theater of Pain, a couple of
<v Speaker 3>years later, in nineteen eighty seven, they come out with
<v Speaker 3>the Girls, Girls, Girls album. The funny thing is that
<v Speaker 3>all these stories sound tremendously sad. Yeah, and they are
<v Speaker 3>pathetic stories. But this band was full tilt, out of
<v Speaker 3>control rock and roll fun right. It wasn't sadness. It
<v Speaker 3>was full on you know, the top fuel, funny car
<v Speaker 3>going one hundred and three miles an hour.
<v Speaker 1>Right, Well, and Vince Neil and pretty much Yeah, Vince
<v Speaker 1>Neil's objective in being a part of a band was
<v Speaker 1>he got to be with He got to sleep with
<v Speaker 1>a lot of girls.
<v Speaker 3>Oh as many as possible.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Nikki six said girls were my crush. I fell
<v Speaker 1>in love with Heroin.
<v Speaker 3>So in nineteen eighty seven they come out with the
<v Speaker 3>album Girls, Girls, Girls, Yes, which I love this album
<v Speaker 3>and I've heard them talk a little bit critically about it,
<v Speaker 3>but there's some great songs on this album. Wild Side
<v Speaker 3>is great, Girls Girls Girls is great. You're All I
<v Speaker 3>Need is great. I'm a big fan of this album.
<v Speaker 3>But this is when they are full on out of control.
<v Speaker 1>So I saw them is off of probation at this
<v Speaker 1>point and it started drinking and drugging again. Oh yeah,
<v Speaker 1>oh one.
<v Speaker 3>I heard him talking about this. Tommy Lee said this
<v Speaker 3>happened every single day. He would wake up, pull himself together,
<v Speaker 3>drink drug Girls, showtime, drink drug Girl. He said it
<v Speaker 3>got so out of control that Doc McGee would chase
<v Speaker 3>him around the hotel and when he caught him, he
<v Speaker 3>would punch his lights out and handcuff him to the bed.
<v Speaker 3>And the next day, when they finally get out of
<v Speaker 3>bed after doing all this, they would make fun of events
<v Speaker 3>for taking a shower.
<v Speaker 1>You mentioned wild Side, So here's the story. On wild Side.
<v Speaker 1>He wakes up from a night of drinking and drugging
<v Speaker 1>and the girl that he's been with that night is
<v Speaker 1>putting back on her Catholic school girl uniform, not because
<v Speaker 1>it's the sexy thing to wear because of Britney Spears,
<v Speaker 1>because that hasn't happened yet. She's actually a Catholic school girl.
<v Speaker 1>And so he says to her, hey, is the Lord's
<v Speaker 1>Prayer actually, you know? Important? And she says, yeah, of
<v Speaker 1>course it is, and he says, could you give me
<v Speaker 1>a copy of it? And she shows him where it
<v Speaker 1>is in the Bible. Then he drops her off on
<v Speaker 1>his motorcycle at the Catholic school. The nuns are looking
<v Speaker 1>at him disapprovingly, and he goes, I can't imagine and
<v Speaker 1>how much more disapproval they would have on their face
<v Speaker 1>if they knew what I was about to do with
<v Speaker 1>the Lord's Prayer. And that was the wild side.
<v Speaker 3>Now that we're on Girls Girls Growth, I want to
<v Speaker 3>mention something that I thought was interesting and this will
<v Speaker 3>come into play when we talked about Doctor Feel Good
<v Speaker 3>here in a second. So, the band's fourth album, Girls,
<v Speaker 3>Girls Girls, was released May of nineteen eighty seven. It
<v Speaker 3>debuted at number two on the Billboard Top two hundred. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>Nicki has come out and publicly talked about how he
<v Speaker 3>feels like they were screwed out of a number one record.
<v Speaker 3>He feels like the record executive somehow cook the books
<v Speaker 3>to show that Whitney Houston's album sold more copies than
<v Speaker 3>their's did. And I don't know the full story, but
<v Speaker 3>he felt screwed over, which is why what doctor Phil
<v Speaker 3>Good accomplishes later is so fulfilling.
<v Speaker 1>Right right? Did you know that Nicky six dated Lead Afford.
<v Speaker 3>I did know that.
<v Speaker 1>Apparently the first time they met, she walks up to
<v Speaker 1>him and puts half a quay lude in his mouth,
<v Speaker 1>and three days later they were living together.
<v Speaker 3>The girls involved here, let's let's just cover some of
<v Speaker 3>these famous women, right, So Tommy has been involved with
<v Speaker 3>Heather Locklear yep, Pamela Anderson, yes, Bobby Brown, who you
<v Speaker 3>may know from the Cherry Pie video. Okay, okay, Annie,
<v Speaker 3>Kataine Toni Kataine yep. Right, which became.
<v Speaker 1>Interesting when White Snake started touring with them and she
<v Speaker 1>was married to David Coverdale at the time.
<v Speaker 3>That is interesting. That was the Girl's Girl tour. Nicky
<v Speaker 3>was involved with Vanity yep.
<v Speaker 1>Nasty not her, that's just the song they sang. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, but yes, she was also a nasty girl.
<v Speaker 1>But Okay, go ahead.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Vanity the Nasty Girl, right uh, Leada Ford and
<v Speaker 3>then subsequent playboy playmates, right Vince Neil has a list
<v Speaker 3>too long to even discusses. Yep, and it's mostly filled
<v Speaker 3>with playmates and porn stars.
<v Speaker 1>Right. Yeah. When when NICKI was dating Vanity, I mean
<v Speaker 1>it was a it was a long relationship, but she
<v Speaker 1>had been involved with Prince before that. And one time
<v Speaker 1>he goes over to her apartment and she's got twenty
<v Speaker 1>four dozen roses sitting in the corner, and he's like,
<v Speaker 1>what's up with the roses? And he goes over there
<v Speaker 1>and he looks at the card and it says something
<v Speaker 1>like come back to me, I love you, Love Prince,
<v Speaker 1>And he was like, if I find that little door,
<v Speaker 1>if I'm gonna kick his head. And then a couple
<v Speaker 1>days later he finds out that Vanity had actually sent
<v Speaker 1>the roses to herself just to f with his head.
<v Speaker 1>And that kind of defined the relationship that they had.
<v Speaker 1>It was a constant let's do a lot of drugs together,
<v Speaker 1>let's scream and fight with each other, and let's screw
<v Speaker 1>with these with each other's heads.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I heard him discuss this. She would yell at
<v Speaker 3>him for drinking like a Coca cola, and then an
<v Speaker 3>hour later they'd be doing Heroin together.
<v Speaker 1>So while they're on the Girls Girls Girls Tour there,
<v Speaker 1>Nicky runs into this guy who's who says, Hey, I
<v Speaker 1>don't know if you remember, but you guys were here
<v Speaker 1>a couple of years ago and I kicked open the
<v Speaker 1>door to get in before everybody else, and like the
<v Speaker 1>whole crowd came after me, and he's like, I do
<v Speaker 1>remember that. And this kid is now performing in the
<v Speaker 1>opening band, and the band is called VO five, and
<v Speaker 1>the kid says, I'm going to be a rock star,
<v Speaker 1>and it turns out he was right, because just a
<v Speaker 1>few months earlier he had joined a little band called
<v Speaker 1>skid Row and he's finishing up the VO five concert
<v Speaker 1>sets that they had, which is why they were opening
<v Speaker 1>for Motley Crue, and within the next two years he
<v Speaker 1>would have that rock star stardom.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So on the Girls Girls Girls Tour, the drinking
<v Speaker 3>and drugging and partying was the next level rock star stuff, right.
<v Speaker 3>They did not have any consequences. They were completely out
<v Speaker 3>of control. And when they saw events kill a guy
<v Speaker 3>and have no consequences, that just meant it was full
<v Speaker 3>speed ahead for everyone, right. So but at that point
<v Speaker 3>Doug Theair and Doc McGee pulled an intervention and said, guys, listen,
<v Speaker 3>we are not going to Europe. If we go to Europe,
<v Speaker 3>somebody's coming back in a body bag and we are
<v Speaker 3>not going to be present for that. So they shut
<v Speaker 3>down the European leg of the tour. Just said that's it. Well,
<v Speaker 3>you guys need to go to rehab and get your
<v Speaker 3>act together, right, and so that's what they did. They
<v Speaker 3>got they went to rehab, all four of them got
<v Speaker 3>their you know, got their act together so that they
<v Speaker 3>could be completely sober for their next album.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. So during the Girls Girls Girls tour, Aerosmith leaves
<v Speaker 1>a note on their jet like a ticket, like you
<v Speaker 1>get a parking ticket. They leave the note in the
<v Speaker 1>window of the jet from the crew that says, if
<v Speaker 1>you don't ease up, you're going to crash and burn,
<v Speaker 1>just like we did back in the seventies.
<v Speaker 3>Yep.
<v Speaker 1>Now here's something interesting that you may not know. Dude,
<v Speaker 1>looks like a lady was written about was written about
<v Speaker 1>Vince Neil.
<v Speaker 3>This is the craziest story. Okay, tell me this story.
<v Speaker 1>No That's that's all I got. Okay, you got more,
<v Speaker 1>go for it.
<v Speaker 3>Okay. So I heard this story. I think it's hilarious.
<v Speaker 1>Okay. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>They go into a bar Steve Tyler. Steven Tyler looks
<v Speaker 3>over across the room and notices a full blonde mane
<v Speaker 3>of hair and says, whoa look at that. And when
<v Speaker 3>he goes over, he goes over to talk to this wonderful,
<v Speaker 3>you know, wonderful looking woman. He is shocked to find
<v Speaker 3>that it's Vince Neil. So his band and Molly Crue
<v Speaker 3>proceed to beat him to death with that, and that
<v Speaker 3>gave birth to the song dude looks like a lady.
<v Speaker 3>Fantastic rock and roll history right there, and dire.
<v Speaker 1>Straight song Money for Nothing is about Motley Crue, is it?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? I did not know that. That is good.
<v Speaker 1>Look at that he's got his own jet airplane. That
<v Speaker 1>is a millionaire.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, there you go. Okay. So I thought this was
<v Speaker 3>As they're prepping for their fifth studio album, they dropped
<v Speaker 3>the producer of their previous three albums, warmon Tom Mormon,
<v Speaker 3>and they pick up this guy named Bob Rock. Up
<v Speaker 3>to this point, he had produced to an album called
<v Speaker 3>Kingdom come and he had done Sonic Temple by The Cult, okay,
<v Speaker 3>and so he's kind of a rising star, and so
<v Speaker 3>they pick him up and he works with them, does
<v Speaker 3>Doctor Feel Good, But then he goes on to do
<v Speaker 3>the Black Album by Metallica, Keep the Faith by bon Jovi,
<v Speaker 3>and I think he even does Britney Spears later on
<v Speaker 3>Michael Boubla.
<v Speaker 1>He he does her album Excuse Me and and does
<v Speaker 1>his album as long as.
<v Speaker 3>He does their albums. Let me correct that. So Bob
<v Speaker 3>Rock is a climbing star, and in fact it's so.
<v Speaker 3>Lars Ulrich, after hearing Doctor Feel Good, says, I want
<v Speaker 3>that producer for our next album, which is funny because
<v Speaker 3>Metallica is known to have hated Motley Krue. So they
<v Speaker 3>hire Bob Rock and they pick up and they all
<v Speaker 3>move to Vancouver to record Doctor filgad for nearly a year.
<v Speaker 3>I think getting out of LA they're newly sober and
<v Speaker 3>they can go in sort of this college slash summer
<v Speaker 3>camp type of atmosphere where all they do is get up,
<v Speaker 3>go to the studio and work. I think that was
<v Speaker 3>key to the success of the album. I Got Something
<v Speaker 3>That's Gonna blow your mind.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, tell me.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, this is my little nugget. Okay, So they dropped
<v Speaker 3>Tom Mormon and they're going to go with Bob Rock.
<v Speaker 3>But before they hired Bob Rock, they thought about having
<v Speaker 3>Quincy Jones produce their album. Wow, how about that?
<v Speaker 1>That would have been an interesting Yeah. Their formula which
<v Speaker 1>is make stuff that has their signature on it, but
<v Speaker 1>things that are hooky. They're all about hooky melodies. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>you've they're fantastic at it, right. They've got the they've
<v Speaker 1>got the look and the attitude and the right guitars
<v Speaker 1>and drums for a killer metal band. But they have
<v Speaker 1>almost a pop sensibility about the melodies of their music.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, for sure. I think it's interesting that while
<v Speaker 3>they're in Vancouver recording Doctor Feel Good in the studio
<v Speaker 3>right next door, Aerosmith is recording Pump And we'll have
<v Speaker 3>some crossover here in a minute when we dive into
<v Speaker 3>the tracks in the album Doctor Fielgod was released on
<v Speaker 3>September first, nineteen eighty nine, their only album to reach
<v Speaker 3>number one. Are We ready to dive in? Are you
<v Speaker 3>ready to dive in?
<v Speaker 1>I am ready to dive in.
<v Speaker 3>Let's dive into the tracks on Doctor field Good. The
<v Speaker 3>first track on the album is called TNT, otherwise known
<v Speaker 3>as Terror in Tinseltown. It's not really a song, but
<v Speaker 3>it's the intro to Doctor field Good.
<v Speaker 1>And what perfect intro for the first album that they've
<v Speaker 1>done in sobriety about a seventeen year old who's odeed
<v Speaker 1>on drugs.
<v Speaker 3>It's really interesting. I think it sets a serious tone
<v Speaker 3>for the album. This is not screw around party rock.
<v Speaker 3>This is this is serious stuff, right, And then you
<v Speaker 3>have this hard break that sounds like a crash. Reminds
<v Speaker 3>me a little bit of maybe a head on collision
<v Speaker 3>from a few years before.
<v Speaker 1>Ooh, didn't even think of that. Good call.
<v Speaker 3>One little tidbit on this I found that I thought
<v Speaker 3>was interesting. Hm, this is the exact same sample used
<v Speaker 3>by the band Queen's Reich for their song Eyes of
<v Speaker 3>a Stranger. If you listen to Eyes of the Stranger,
<v Speaker 3>it's the same deal, Doctor Davis telephone, please Doctor Davis.
<v Speaker 3>So two rock albums using the same sample. Kind of interesting.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, it's crazy all right.
<v Speaker 3>So that brings us to the title track, first real
<v Speaker 3>song on the album, feel Good.
<v Speaker 1>I love the drums in this song. I love it all.
<v Speaker 1>I love it all, but Nicki talked about how he
<v Speaker 1>would get together with Tommy whenever he was writing a song,
<v Speaker 1>and Tommy had this amazing ability to find the heartbeat
<v Speaker 1>of the song, like he just knew the rhythms. He's
<v Speaker 1>an expert drummer who could find the way to bring
<v Speaker 1>the words that Nicki had written to life with the beat.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I almost say that this is like a drum riff.
<v Speaker 3>It's just really good. Really, these guys are at the
<v Speaker 3>top of their game with this song. This song was
<v Speaker 3>released August twenty eighth, nineteen eighty nine, reached number six
<v Speaker 3>on the Hot one hundred, peaked at number six on
<v Speaker 3>October twenty eighth, nineteen eighty nine. And clearly this song
<v Speaker 3>is about an LA drug dealer that Nicki six knew.
<v Speaker 1>This song grabs you from the first moment. You know,
<v Speaker 1>you talked about how you felt about want to be
<v Speaker 1>starting something, and this one just that bump bump bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump,
<v Speaker 1>bump bump. It grabs you instantly, and you know that
<v Speaker 1>what you're listening to is going to be a song
<v Speaker 1>that's going to be timeless. It is still good it's
<v Speaker 1>still totally listenable right now. It's it's awesome.
<v Speaker 3>I love it. It's a scarface type of story with
<v Speaker 3>this guy Rattel Jimmy or jig Son Jimmy. I love
<v Speaker 3>the part where he's talking about he sells powdered goods
<v Speaker 3>and packages candy cane and he's going to be your Frankenstein.
<v Speaker 3>I mean it just it's just really great, really really
<v Speaker 3>top of their game. Great song. I think the guitar
<v Speaker 3>solo in this song is killer. I mean, Mick is
<v Speaker 3>just shredding.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing. And it's interesting that
<v Speaker 1>you know, they're getting off drugs and Mick has always
<v Speaker 1>always been like the quiet member of the band, and
<v Speaker 1>he was, i mean, more than anything, was a drinker.
<v Speaker 1>But he was going through something that none of the
<v Speaker 1>band knew about.
<v Speaker 3>Did you know this, Yeah, the bone diagnosis. Yeah. Basically
<v Speaker 3>it fuses your spine together where you can't turn your
<v Speaker 3>head and yeah, like curves you down.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, right, And it's intensely painful. And so he at
<v Speaker 1>some point had gotten significantly addicted to the painkillers that
<v Speaker 1>he had had. And it was the guy who was
<v Speaker 1>those guys who were so drug addled during the Girls
<v Speaker 1>Girls Girls tour. That had to come to him and
<v Speaker 1>go hey man, we got to get you cleaned up.
<v Speaker 1>Like he was ready to die. He had wasted away
<v Speaker 1>to nothing. Just hold up, and he was about to die. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>before they saved him. He's still around yep, looking still
<v Speaker 1>like the cripkeeper keeper from the Tails of the Crypt.
<v Speaker 1>That's exactly what.
<v Speaker 3>So Nicky wrote all the lyrics.
<v Speaker 1>Mick is the one who came up with the guitar riff,
<v Speaker 1>yeah chords for the chorus, and Nicky laid the lyrics
<v Speaker 1>and melody over the top.
<v Speaker 3>That this was ranked in two thousand and nine as
<v Speaker 3>the fifteenth greatest hard rock song of all Time by
<v Speaker 3>VH one. Okay, so that brings us to the second
<v Speaker 3>title on the album, a song called Slicy or Pie.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, hold on, these guys are doing a bluesy thing.
<v Speaker 1>Wait a minute, my hard rock band is doing what?
<v Speaker 3>What?
<v Speaker 1>What's going on here?
<v Speaker 3>Oh?
<v Speaker 1>Oh, there they are. There's the band that I know
<v Speaker 1>and love.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah exactly.
<v Speaker 1>Oh man, I love this song. I love it so
<v Speaker 1>every one of these songs. As I was listening to
<v Speaker 1>the album, I thought every single one of them rock
<v Speaker 1>ballad or skipper, heavy metal or songs written for strippers.
<v Speaker 3>There we go. Okay, that's great, man.
<v Speaker 1>And so Doctor feel Good is a is obviously a rocker.
<v Speaker 1>I mean it's a hard rocker for sure. Tatoo crawl
<v Speaker 1>on down our leg so sexy, so young. Ever get caught,
<v Speaker 1>they'll arrest me.
<v Speaker 3>Okay. So this song is Slicy Your Pie. That the
<v Speaker 3>very beginning, the voice you hear in the background is
<v Speaker 3>Steven Tyler.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, I did not know that.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, nice and I.
<v Speaker 1>We didn't talk about this before, but you were a
<v Speaker 1>crew guy like you. You love Motley Crue growing up, definitely,
<v Speaker 1>definitely it was. I heard their songs, but I was
<v Speaker 1>never I didn't buy the albums. I was never into
<v Speaker 1>their stuff. So when I heard this slice of Your Pie,
<v Speaker 1>this is the first time I had heard the song,
<v Speaker 1>was in preparation for the show, and my mind was blown.
<v Speaker 1>It's great and this has given me dynamics that I
<v Speaker 1>didn't know that Motley Crue had had them coming in
<v Speaker 1>with this kind of acoustic bluesy intro before they get
<v Speaker 1>back into the Motley style. It is amazing. But then
<v Speaker 1>when you get about two minutes and forty five seconds
<v Speaker 1>into this song, you have a break down that occurs
<v Speaker 1>and you started to hear that kind of uh Tyler
<v Speaker 1>was doing at the beginning, and it goes into this
<v Speaker 1>part and if you listened out now, I want you
<v Speaker 1>to listen to a song called because by the Beatles.
<v Speaker 2>Wait for the voices to come in and you come
<v Speaker 2>in here in just a second. So that's that's awesome,
<v Speaker 2>I mean.
<v Speaker 3>Incredible, And that blows my mind because I did not
<v Speaker 3>know that Slice of Your Pie steals from Abbey Road.
<v Speaker 1>It's it's not the exact same, but the style is
<v Speaker 1>obviously there, and especially when you come in with that voice.
<v Speaker 1>Oh man, they do it. They do a great job
<v Speaker 1>with it. Great, great song.
<v Speaker 3>It is a great song. It's blues and then it's
<v Speaker 3>that sleezy motley rock. During this song, they say got
<v Speaker 3>something sticky sweet for you. Then later we have a
<v Speaker 3>song called sticky Sweet. And so I'm wondering, did that
<v Speaker 3>lyric come from that song or did that song come
<v Speaker 3>from that lyric? Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>What do you think they're talking about? This sticky Sweet?
<v Speaker 3>I'm not exactly sure, like life savers or something.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, sirrup.
<v Speaker 3>After Slice of Your Pie, the next song on the
<v Speaker 3>album is called Rattlesnake Shake.
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna go ahead and say that this is a
<v Speaker 1>stripper song, and you would be right. It's interesting because
<v Speaker 1>obviously we listen to both of these albums several times
<v Speaker 1>before we do these podcasts, and I can remember the
<v Speaker 1>first time I listened to Doctor Feel Good, I followed
<v Speaker 1>it up immediately skid Row and I went, man, they
<v Speaker 1>seem to be saying the same thing. Wait a minute.
<v Speaker 1>They both have the same song title. What's going on
<v Speaker 1>with that?
<v Speaker 3>They both have a song on the albums that we're
<v Speaker 3>comparing called Rattlesnake Shake.
<v Speaker 1>And they're not the same song. It's not as though,
<v Speaker 1>you know, skid Row is not covering Motley Crue here.
<v Speaker 1>I just I don't you know. You can guess as
<v Speaker 1>to what a rattlesnake Shake is. But the mental picture
<v Speaker 1>that I came up with is Doc McGhee is in
<v Speaker 1>a strip club with both the guys from skid Row
<v Speaker 1>and the guys from Motley Crue, and the girl is
<v Speaker 1>up there shaking her booty and Doc McGee says, it's
<v Speaker 1>the rattlesnake Shake. One of you guys should write a
<v Speaker 1>song about that. Tell me you cannot imagine the stripper
<v Speaker 1>walking onto the stage for that first bit of guitar
<v Speaker 1>that's playing, bomp, bomp bomp.
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely, it's a stripper sock. It's a one hundred percent
<v Speaker 3>stripper sock.
<v Speaker 1>Well, let's not let's not jump ahead here. Let's take
<v Speaker 1>a look at the lyrics, just what they might be
<v Speaker 1>talking about. Let's see, she's a sex machine. She keeps
<v Speaker 1>her engine hot, her motor clean, way she moves across
<v Speaker 1>the floor, the way she shakes her hips and licks
<v Speaker 1>her lips. Come on there, girl, won't you shake? That thing?
<v Speaker 1>Could be?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I think I think so. Stripper song slides through
<v Speaker 3>the night with a viper's smile.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh, she's got sassy class. I've said it before,
<v Speaker 1>I'll say it again. If we've learned anything from rock
<v Speaker 1>of the eighties, if you want to have a hit,
<v Speaker 1>write a song for strippers. Absolutely, absolutely, black and blue,
<v Speaker 1>pour some sugar on me, rattlesnake shake.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So this song has some horns in it, which
<v Speaker 3>is not typical Motley Cruz style. I think this is
<v Speaker 3>the influence of Aerosmith. Okay, Aerosmith's right next door. Their
<v Speaker 3>their they're idols and Aerosmith is not afraid to put
<v Speaker 3>some some horns in their music. I think this is
<v Speaker 3>the Aerosmith influence. I like this song. I think it's
<v Speaker 3>a fun song. I know all the words. The part
<v Speaker 3>that really kind of bugs me is the chorus everything
<v Speaker 3>but the snake shake to do. It's just got kind
<v Speaker 3>of a little to feel. It's a little corny, it's
<v Speaker 3>a little beaver. I can't say that. On this podcast, Fleetwood.
<v Speaker 1>Mac also had a song called Rattlesnake Shake. I get wow, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>it's crazy.
<v Speaker 3>Wow. Hey, I do want to mention. Okay, so the
<v Speaker 3>one of the opening lyrics is she keeps her engine hot,
<v Speaker 3>her motor clean. That has to be a reference to
<v Speaker 3>you shook me all night long by as of.
<v Speaker 1>Course it is, yeah, yeah, no question. Yeah. And I
<v Speaker 1>have to think that the Beatles influence that we just
<v Speaker 1>heard also had something to do with Aerosmith, because Aerosmith
<v Speaker 1>did a cover of Come Together, which was a Beatles song.
<v Speaker 3>I like the breakdown in the middle of the song,
<v Speaker 3>so to break.
<v Speaker 1>It down into this awesome little bit where you've got
<v Speaker 1>just the bass and the drums going, and I guess
<v Speaker 1>Nikki has finally learned to play the bass at this
<v Speaker 1>point because it sounds really good. Then you get Mick
<v Speaker 1>coming in with the guitar and climbing up the ladder
<v Speaker 1>of the guitar with his speed metal awesomeness. I love it.
<v Speaker 3>Catch you tune. Good song, definitely not a skipper. Now
<v Speaker 3>we're moving on to one of the great songs on
<v Speaker 3>the entire album. This song is called Kickstar in.
<v Speaker 1>My Heart like you're in a car, but his guitar.
<v Speaker 3>And then.
<v Speaker 1>If you are not banging your head right now, you
<v Speaker 1>should not be listening to this podcast. So good, so good,
<v Speaker 1>so much of a build and a pump and get
<v Speaker 1>you out of your seat and start rocking your freaking
<v Speaker 1>balls off. It's too good.
<v Speaker 3>Oh it's great, man, it's great, so much fun and
<v Speaker 3>bang your head and pump your fist. Love it. This
<v Speaker 3>is Motley creative best. Nicky wrote this song and brought
<v Speaker 3>it to rehearsal, but he thought it was a throwaway.
<v Speaker 3>In his words, he says it's something that belonged on
<v Speaker 3>Too Fast for Love. One of his former managers actually
<v Speaker 3>urged him to say, look, dude, this is pretty good.
<v Speaker 3>You need to share this with the rest of the band,
<v Speaker 3>and he just kind of did and didn't really expect
<v Speaker 3>a lot of it, and it turned out to be
<v Speaker 3>one of their biggest hits.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, too too good to have left off. That
<v Speaker 1>was I'm so glad that that happened. So this song
<v Speaker 1>is called Kickstart My Heart. I told you the story.
<v Speaker 1>This is about him being dead and them bringing him
<v Speaker 1>back to life. Yeah, kickstart my Heart.
<v Speaker 3>The two adrenaline shots to the heart are what kick
<v Speaker 3>started his heart. This was the second single, released November twentieth,
<v Speaker 3>nineteen eighty nine.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah, this is with them being in sobriety. This
<v Speaker 1>is kind of the message that they're given out, which
<v Speaker 1>is we're finding hour high from something other than drugs now,
<v Speaker 1>which is why you see them skydiving and racing cars
<v Speaker 1>and going back to the place where they first became
<v Speaker 1>a hit. The whiskey of Go Go driven by mister
<v Speaker 1>Sam Kinnison himself.
<v Speaker 3>That's exactly right where we talk about the video, which
<v Speaker 3>I think we need to talk about the video. But
<v Speaker 3>I've got a quick funny story about this song. On
<v Speaker 3>January seventh, twenty nineteen, a driver in Manitoba, Canada, Okay,
<v Speaker 3>I've got a good friend, Cameron Eckert shout out to
<v Speaker 3>my good Canadian friend in Vancouver, but the driver was
<v Speaker 3>in Manitoba, Canada, was pulled over for doing ninety miles
<v Speaker 3>an hour just one hundred and forty five kilometers per hour.
<v Speaker 3>His excuse was he was listening to Kickstart in My Heart.
<v Speaker 3>The officer didn't go for it because he happened to
<v Speaker 3>be listening to the same radio station. Oh, still makes
<v Speaker 3>for a funny story. That's good, okay, So let's talk
<v Speaker 3>about the video. The video was shot at the Whiskey
<v Speaker 3>of Go Go on October fifth, nineteen eighty nine, during
<v Speaker 3>Motley CRU's warm up show before the Doctor Feel Good Tour. So,
<v Speaker 3>like you said, Sam Kinnison is driving the Doctor Feel
<v Speaker 3>Good Mobile. He pulled back up to the place where
<v Speaker 3>they got their start, the Whiskey of Go Go. And now,
<v Speaker 3>of course they're huge stars.
<v Speaker 1>So you were telling me about this breakdown in the
<v Speaker 1>middle of the song, okay.
<v Speaker 3>So I love the breakdown in the middle of the song,
<v Speaker 3>and particularly let's talk about that part in the video
<v Speaker 3>as well. So it's this nostalgic look at their previous accomplishments, right,
<v Speaker 3>And in the video you see clips from Girls Girls,
<v Speaker 3>Girls Live Wire looks that Kill, Smoking in the Boys Room,
<v Speaker 3>wild Side, too Young to Fall in Love, and Home
<v Speaker 3>Sweet Home, Different videos, and it kind of walks you
<v Speaker 3>through their career as it builds in it ramps right
<v Speaker 3>back up into the kick butt, fast paced Kickstart My Heart,
<v Speaker 3>and it blows me away. We must We've kicked some.
<v Speaker 1>Love.
<v Speaker 3>This is the song that they opened the Doctor Feel
<v Speaker 3>Good tour with perfect I mean, is there a better
<v Speaker 3>kickoff to a rock concert than this song?
<v Speaker 1>No? This is the absolute perfect choice to start off
<v Speaker 1>the set for Doctor fiel Good.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, I got a quick story. The first time I
<v Speaker 3>heard Doctor Feel Good was about a week and a
<v Speaker 3>half or two weeks before the release of the album.
<v Speaker 3>Somehow the radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma got hold of
<v Speaker 3>a copy of the album and played it through its entirety,
<v Speaker 3>and one guy on my baseball team had the forethought
<v Speaker 3>to press record on his little blank tape that he
<v Speaker 3>had in his stereo system and made copies and distributed
<v Speaker 3>it to everybody on the baseball team. Uh huh, So
<v Speaker 3>we were blowing out Kickstart My Heart like two weeks
<v Speaker 3>before the album was released.
<v Speaker 1>Nice.
<v Speaker 3>So that I feel like, for some reason, I have
<v Speaker 3>a connection with this song because I learned it before
<v Speaker 3>the average person could get their hands.
<v Speaker 1>On it right, and the fact that it was going
<v Speaker 1>to be a humongous hit was undeniable.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, oh yeah, that's awesome. Great song. Great song
<v Speaker 3>that brings us to the next song. That song is
<v Speaker 3>called Without You.
<v Speaker 1>So this one obviously is the rock ballad. This is
<v Speaker 1>This is back when Tommy was still married to Heather
<v Speaker 1>Locklear and Nicky and Mick wrote this song together as
<v Speaker 1>Tommy's perspective of Heather Locklear because she was she was
<v Speaker 1>a she had come from a conservative family. We're talking
<v Speaker 1>about like head of the cheerleading squad. Totally different style
<v Speaker 1>than Motley Crue and the girls that they were accustomed to.
<v Speaker 1>But she, at least in the early part of their relationship,
<v Speaker 1>kept Tommy grounded and he was definitely very in love
<v Speaker 1>with her. And Nikki picked up on that and said,
<v Speaker 1>I just saw what she was for him and thought
<v Speaker 1>I can write a song. And he said, I got
<v Speaker 1>a little muchy on this when it is a love song,
<v Speaker 1>but that's okay because it was from Tommy's perspective about
<v Speaker 1>what Heather was doing.
<v Speaker 3>For this song has got a mixed playing that steel
<v Speaker 3>guitar and you've got some strings. It's a great song.
<v Speaker 3>It's not Home Sweet, Home great, but it's a good
<v Speaker 3>rock ballad.
<v Speaker 1>I love the song. The video, it's the video has
<v Speaker 1>got some like computer animation stuff at the beginning that
<v Speaker 1>was pretty cutting edge for nineteen eighty eight or whatever
<v Speaker 1>it was.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean the video is a little corny.
<v Speaker 1>It's got don't like the panther.
<v Speaker 3>I always like panthers and videos. But you've got yeah,
<v Speaker 3>you're right. I mean, you got that heart with the swords,
<v Speaker 3>but you've got these Egyptian statues, and you even have
<v Speaker 3>like vins as like Samson from the Old Testament. Right,
<v Speaker 3>puts his hands up, pushes over two pillars for no
<v Speaker 3>apparent reason. Lots of smoke blowing.
<v Speaker 1>They wisely got a lady to direct this video. This
<v Speaker 1>was by Mary Lambert, who also did the visuals for
<v Speaker 1>Don't Go Away, Mad, Just Go Away. So we'll talk
<v Speaker 1>about that one here in a minute.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah cool. I do I think this song's great. This
<v Speaker 3>is yeah slow Dance Heaven. In nineteen ninety this reached
<v Speaker 3>number eight on the Hot one hundred and by the way,
<v Speaker 3>this is the third single released March twelfth, nineteen ninety
<v Speaker 3>reach number eight top ten hit.
<v Speaker 1>It's a great song. I love it. It's a great song,
<v Speaker 1>rock ballad that goes well with the other rock ballads
<v Speaker 1>of late eighties.
<v Speaker 3>It definitely does it, definitely does. Freddy all right, stop
<v Speaker 3>your tape, kick it out, flip it over side to
<v Speaker 3>starting off with the same old situation.
<v Speaker 1>Once again, hang in my head, and I'm thinking, this
<v Speaker 1>is where the stripper walks on the stage. The stripper
<v Speaker 1>is leaving you to go be with another stripper, because.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, okay, let's talk about that for a second. I
<v Speaker 3>think that is hilarious. And ninety percent of people, ninety
<v Speaker 3>nine percent of people who listen to this song have
<v Speaker 3>no idea what this song is about. It's about chicks
<v Speaker 3>leaving you for other chicks.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, NICKI said, which is worse than a chick leaving
<v Speaker 1>you for a guy, because there's nothing you can do
<v Speaker 1>about a chick leaving you for another chick.
<v Speaker 3>I think it's funny that they think that this is
<v Speaker 3>like just the same old situation, like this happens all
<v Speaker 3>the time.
<v Speaker 1>You know, here we go again.
<v Speaker 3>If it's happened once, it's happened a thousand times. Tommy
<v Speaker 3>so they.
<v Speaker 1>Play, they play this song for the guys at Electric
<v Speaker 1>Records and they're like, oh, this is perfect for a single,
<v Speaker 1>And they look at each other and they're like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>we'll tell them what it's about later.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, I love that man. So this song is pure,
<v Speaker 3>full throat, all Motley fun. Right, you've got in the video,
<v Speaker 3>You've got the they have this little camera and a
<v Speaker 3>Gerbil ball and they just throw it out there in
<v Speaker 3>the crowd and they pass it around and he had
<v Speaker 3>this crazy finch. But this the the video demonstrates Tommy's
<v Speaker 3>overhead drum kit.
<v Speaker 1>That's super cool, right, Yes, you just this came that
<v Speaker 1>came from a dream he had. He you know, obviously
<v Speaker 1>was probably cooked out of his mind and fell asleep
<v Speaker 1>and had a dream about being inside of a cage
<v Speaker 1>that was spinning around with his drum set in it
<v Speaker 1>over the crowd. And he woke up told Nicky about
<v Speaker 1>it and said, I think I might be I might
<v Speaker 1>try to make that really happen, and by golly, he did.
<v Speaker 3>Interestingly, at the beginning of this video, you have a
<v Speaker 3>little scroll and it says between August seventh of eighty
<v Speaker 3>nine and August sixth of nineteen ninety almost exactly one year,
<v Speaker 3>Motley played in front of two million fans in fourteen countries.
<v Speaker 1>And it's great. It's a kind of helicopter landing. And
<v Speaker 1>this really just shows the mentality because both Tommy and
<v Speaker 1>Vince walk by and they make this face at the
<v Speaker 1>camera like any of us would as we were walking
<v Speaker 1>by a camera. And then you see Mick and Nicki
<v Speaker 1>walking up and they just look like they're doing nothing.
<v Speaker 1>But then Nicky makes this awesome like it's like he
<v Speaker 1>knows where the frame of the camera is and he
<v Speaker 1>pulls his head to one side and pulls his chewing
<v Speaker 1>gum out to the other and you're like, wow, he
<v Speaker 1>just turned that into from goofy into cool.
<v Speaker 3>So this is the video. It was like a live
<v Speaker 3>type of thing, and you get to see him on
<v Speaker 3>stage during live thing. And I always remember, I don't
<v Speaker 3>know why this sticks with me, but the background singers,
<v Speaker 3>the girls, the you know, the good looking girls or
<v Speaker 3>the background singers, they were called the Nasty habits.
<v Speaker 1>Well I don't know what the rule was on this
<v Speaker 1>particular set, but the Girls Girls Girls Tour was the
<v Speaker 1>first one that they decided to have backup singers at all. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and the rule was no sleeping with the backup singers.
<v Speaker 1>Do you know who broke the rule?
<v Speaker 3>Mick Nick. That's right, that's awesome. So Same Old Situations.
<v Speaker 3>The fifth single, released July thirtieth, nineteen ninety, peaked at
<v Speaker 3>number seventy eight on the Billboard Hot one hundred. This
<v Speaker 3>song is better than number six seventy eight on the
<v Speaker 3>Hot one hundred. I'm sorry.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, absolutely fantastic song.
<v Speaker 3>Yeap, love it all right? Ready to move on?
<v Speaker 1>Yes all right.
<v Speaker 3>The next song after Same Old Situation is a song
<v Speaker 3>called Sticky Weak.
<v Speaker 1>This introduction is like a perfect mix of Black Dog
<v Speaker 1>by led Zeppelin and Back in Black by a CDC.
<v Speaker 1>It's just that don't break, dump break, and it's it's awesome.
<v Speaker 1>I love it, kicks butt and once again stripper.
<v Speaker 3>Song, Stripper song, yep. Okay, so this is not my
<v Speaker 3>favorite song on the album. I'd call this one of
<v Speaker 3>the weaker tracks. It's still fun and all that. The
<v Speaker 3>interesting thing to me is singing in the background on
<v Speaker 3>this song. You have Steven Tyler, you have Jack Blades
<v Speaker 3>from Night Ranger and Damn Yankees.
<v Speaker 1>He also sing same Old situation okay, yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, And you also have Brian Adams, What Summer of
<v Speaker 3>sixty nine, Brian Adams singing backup?
<v Speaker 1>What Motley crue Let Brian Adams come in and sing
<v Speaker 1>back up?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, he lived. He was living in Vancouver at the time,
<v Speaker 3>and they're like, hey, come on down. Wow, that's pretty cool.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, you got Steven Tyler, Jack Blades, Brian Adams
<v Speaker 3>and Vince Neil all singing on the same track.
<v Speaker 1>That's pretty that's pretty cool.
<v Speaker 3>I dig it the lyric where Vince says, oh, good god,
<v Speaker 3>there's a fire in my pants.
<v Speaker 1>There's a fire pants.
<v Speaker 3>Moving on to another stripper song. This song is called
<v Speaker 3>she Goes Down.
<v Speaker 1>I mean like she's up on a ladder and she's
<v Speaker 1>on the stairs, she's on an escalator.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. This song starts off with that big, humongous zipper
<v Speaker 3>sound effect.
<v Speaker 1>The subtlety and restraint that they've shown on this song.
<v Speaker 3>Really Yeah, she goes down all night long, she goes
<v Speaker 3>down on all my friends, she goes down, she gives
<v Speaker 3>heart attack, she goes down down.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my goodness.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, little interesting tidbit on this song. This song again
<v Speaker 3>a little cornball, a little silly, still fun. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>if you don't have songs about sex with Motley Cruze.
<v Speaker 3>There's something wrong. This is a fun song. But singing
<v Speaker 3>background on this song is Robin Xander of Cheap Trick.
<v Speaker 1>Nice. Yeah, Robin Xander was really close with Nicky six.
<v Speaker 1>He considered Cheap Trick to be one of the best
<v Speaker 1>bands ever, and I believe they toured together for a
<v Speaker 1>little while too.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, Nicki's been a big fan of Cheap Trick
<v Speaker 3>for a long time. All Right, song after that is
<v Speaker 3>a song called Don't Go Away Mad, Just Go Away.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So there are two components to this song for me, Right,
<v Speaker 1>there's this the verse that you have at the beginning,
<v Speaker 1>and there's not really a chorus right this song, right,
<v Speaker 1>it's kind of like Hey Jude, where you've got all
<v Speaker 1>this stuff and then at the end you've got this,
<v Speaker 1>You've got the girl Don't go Away, Mad, Just go Away,
<v Speaker 1>repeating itself over and over again. And so I was
<v Speaker 1>listening to this song when I was running today tonight,
<v Speaker 1>just before we started recording, and I had just finished
<v Speaker 1>The Heroin Diaries by Nikki six, and I remember the
<v Speaker 1>line where he said girls were his crush and he
<v Speaker 1>fell in love with Heroin, And I'm listening to these lyrics,
<v Speaker 1>and I have to think that the beginning part of
<v Speaker 1>the song is not actually about a girl. It's about
<v Speaker 1>him giving up his habit. So it says in here,
<v Speaker 1>let's see we were too young, okay, too young to
<v Speaker 1>fall in love, which is a throwback to one of
<v Speaker 1>their old songs when he first started doing drugs. And
<v Speaker 1>then he says, that's all right, that's okay. We were
<v Speaker 1>walking through some youth, smiling through some pain, which I
<v Speaker 1>think has got to be a neil in the arm.
<v Speaker 1>That's all right, that's okay, let's turn the page. My
<v Speaker 1>friends called us today down from La. They were shooting
<v Speaker 1>pool all night, sleeping half the day. They said I
<v Speaker 1>could crash if I could find my own way. I
<v Speaker 1>told them you were leaving on a bus to go away.
<v Speaker 1>I think this is about he's friends with it in La.
<v Speaker 1>Has got to be they're shooting dope, not pool, and
<v Speaker 1>they're offering him the opportunity to do dope. And he says, no,
<v Speaker 1>I'm not doing that anymore. That train has sailed, that
<v Speaker 1>bus has left. I'm not involved in that bad relationship anymore.
<v Speaker 1>This is I haven't read anything that says this is
<v Speaker 1>my own interpretation of the song. But I think this
<v Speaker 1>is about giving up his addiction.
<v Speaker 3>Interesting, Okay, that's interesting.
<v Speaker 1>And then the second part of the song where it
<v Speaker 1>just keeps repeating girl don't go away, mad, just go away.
<v Speaker 1>He said he got it from some movie.
<v Speaker 3>I think it's in a yeah, it's Heartbreak Ridge by
<v Speaker 3>Niecewood movie. Yeah, he said he was in the movie
<v Speaker 3>and when they said that line, he's like, wow, that's
<v Speaker 3>a great line. And he wrote it down in the
<v Speaker 3>movie theater on his hand or something like that.
<v Speaker 1>Nice.
<v Speaker 3>It's a great This is a.
<v Speaker 1>Fun song, great feel good song.
<v Speaker 3>The video is a little bit strange. So this is
<v Speaker 3>before their big blow up, which happened just a couple
<v Speaker 3>of years after this. I remember watching this video going,
<v Speaker 3>so Vince is away and they're like, hey, we're getting
<v Speaker 3>the band back together. Come on back. I think Vince
<v Speaker 3>is in New York and come on back to LA
<v Speaker 3>and they were shooting pool all night and said I
<v Speaker 3>could crash if I could find my way. It comes back,
<v Speaker 3>and then as the song ramps up into the repeated
<v Speaker 3>line girl don't go away, Man, I just go away,
<v Speaker 3>Vince shows up and Hey, we're playing and we're back together.
<v Speaker 3>We're having a great They exchange three of the worst
<v Speaker 3>most awkward hugs that you ever. I remember watching this
<v Speaker 3>going they need somebody should have reshot that scene because
<v Speaker 3>it just it was.
<v Speaker 1>Probably the best take that they had. Mary Lambert was like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>you guys, come hug each other like I haven't seen
<v Speaker 1>it the like.
<v Speaker 3>Hug we hate him, hug we hate each other.
<v Speaker 1>We got to listen to the end of the song
<v Speaker 1>for sure. Oh yeah, it's like a totally different song,
<v Speaker 1>but it's still it's.
<v Speaker 3>It's it's kind of like Rocket Queen. The beginning is
<v Speaker 3>one song and the end it closes with a different song.
<v Speaker 3>But I think it. I think this one ramps up.
<v Speaker 3>I like the the end of it really a whole lot. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>last song on the album a song called Time for Change,
<v Speaker 3>So injured.
<v Speaker 1>This song, I'm thinking, Okay, we're reaching out for home.
<v Speaker 3>Sweet home, right, that's the attempt.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, and I feel like they fail.
<v Speaker 3>It's sweet to miss.
<v Speaker 1>It is a This is Motley Cruze trying to do
<v Speaker 1>we Are the World and it doesn't work.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I'm with you.
<v Speaker 1>I love every single song on this album so far,
<v Speaker 1>and they finished with this one and I was just like,
<v Speaker 1>you shouldn't have tried to do this.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean it was at least an attempt to
<v Speaker 3>do something a little bit different. I mean it's a
<v Speaker 3>it's almost like a campfire song with a piano. I
<v Speaker 3>don't buy it. I'm not into the time for change
<v Speaker 3>and all this stuff. I'd rather hear smoking the boys Room,
<v Speaker 3>you know. Can we do something else?
<v Speaker 1>Can we have another stripper song? Please? We've got rock,
<v Speaker 1>We've got skippers, We've got rock ballads and songs for strippers.
<v Speaker 1>This one is the skipper on the album for me.
<v Speaker 1>I loved every other song up into this one, and
<v Speaker 1>I would just flip the tape over hit rewind to
<v Speaker 1>the bay back at the beginning of Doctor Feel Good,
<v Speaker 1>and go from there.
<v Speaker 3>I would not I'm with you, this is a skipper this.
<v Speaker 3>I do remember this getting airplay on my local radio station,
<v Speaker 3>which they used to do, right. They would play through
<v Speaker 3>the hits, and once they were done with all the hits,
<v Speaker 3>they would find other songs to play, and I remember
<v Speaker 3>this song actually making the top ten at ten or
<v Speaker 3>whatever on my local radio station.
<v Speaker 1>But even then I was like, eh, eh no, so
<v Speaker 1>that's it, that's the album. And then the album is
<v Speaker 1>released and it becomes their first and only number one hit.
<v Speaker 3>The reviews Doctor Feel Good were almost universally positive. I
<v Speaker 3>like this when it says, very entertaining, bringing the listeners
<v Speaker 3>in a world of an everlasting party where they savored
<v Speaker 3>the joys of trashy, unapologetic, decadent fun.
<v Speaker 1>It's interesting.
<v Speaker 4>You know.
<v Speaker 1>Bob Rock obviously was more meticulous about the way that
<v Speaker 1>this album was produced, but he kept the edge that
<v Speaker 1>Motley Crue had. He did it. He walked that thin
<v Speaker 1>line of overproduced and you know, unlistenable. I guess I
<v Speaker 1>don't know that he walked it very well, where he
<v Speaker 1>maintained this strong hard rock heavy metal sound that they
<v Speaker 1>had while also making it very radio friendly.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah this, I mean this is the most radio friendly
<v Speaker 3>album that Molly Crue has ever done.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Doctor feel Good and Kickstart My Heart were both
<v Speaker 1>named nominated for Grammy Awards for Best Hard Rock Performance
<v Speaker 1>in nineteen ninety and in nineteen ninety one lost to
<v Speaker 1>Living Color.
<v Speaker 3>I feel like Doctor field Good and Kickstart of My
<v Speaker 3>Heart should have won, but I stinking love culture personality
<v Speaker 3>by Living Color.
<v Speaker 1>They did win Best hard Rock Heavy Metal Album of
<v Speaker 1>the Year at the American Music Awards in January of
<v Speaker 1>ninety one for the album Yeah, and.
<v Speaker 3>They deserved it. Great album, tons of great songs, tons
<v Speaker 3>of fun. I love it.
<v Speaker 1>So that wraps up Doctor Feel Good. What an incredible album.
<v Speaker 1>Please don't forget to join us next week when we
<v Speaker 1>look at skid Row's debut album, skid Row.
<v Speaker 3>I am so looking forward to get it into skid
<v Speaker 3>Row's first album.
<v Speaker 1>It's beautiful. I mean, talk about a guy who has
<v Speaker 1>a voice that was made for rock and roll and
<v Speaker 1>a face and a body and a personnel who wait
<v Speaker 1>a minute, Okay, I guess we'll have to talk about
<v Speaker 1>that next week. Don't forget to join us. Don't forget
<v Speaker 1>to subscribe so that you don't miss the episode. Jason,
<v Speaker 1>it's been awesome man, d I can't.
<v Speaker 3>Wait to see you next week. Skid Row, finish it up.
<v Speaker 3>The matchup cool