{"id":951285,"date":"2026-10-30T00:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951285\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T00:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:58:18","slug":"nikki-sixx-ive-played-bass-on-every-motley-crue-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951285\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Sixx: I&#8217;ve Played Bass on Every M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/nikki-sixx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nikki Sixx<\/a> insists that he has played bass on every single <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/motley-crue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce<\/a> album the band has released, despite rumors the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>The response from Sixx came in a since deleted X\/Twitter post from Sixx after a fan asked, \u201cLol will you tell the truth about playing bass on theater of pain?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vivid-seats.pxf.io\/c\/1882189\/952533\/12730?subId1=motley-crue%2Asixx-played-bass-button&amp;subId2=&amp;subId3=&amp;sharedid=&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vividseats.com%2Fmotley-crue-tickets%2Fperformer%2F565\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Get M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce Tickets Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was in reference to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/features\/greg-leon-motley-crue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">rumor started by original Cr\u00fce lead guitarist Greg Leon<\/a> that Sixx didn\u2019t play bass on the band\u2019s third album Theatre of Pain, with Leon claiming to have seen a session bassist at work hired by producer Tom Werman.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>Sixx, however, focused his statement on ex-Cr\u00fce guitarist Mick Mars, who claimed that the bassist didn\u2019t play live in a <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2023\/04\/mick-mars-motley-crue-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lawsuit he filed<\/a> against his former band.<\/p>\n<p>Sixx wrote on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\u201cI\u2019ve played bass on every album M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce has ever recorded and written the lion\u2019s share of our music over the years. When Mick made statements about the band that we believe were untrue, in an attempt to gain leverage in a lawsuit he ultimately lost, it created a lot of confusion and fueled some negative perceptions of the band.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">The saddest part is that we genuinely loved Mick. During his struggles with addiction, I personally did everything I could to help him and, at times, save his life. We shared decades of music, memories, and brotherhood. That history means something to us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">What hurts the most isn\u2019t the lawsuit or the headlines. It\u2019s the feeling that someone we considered a brother turned his back on us and, in the process, misled the fans who supported all of us for so many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce are currently preparing for their upcoming \u201cCarnival of Sins in Sin City\u201d residency in Las Vegas set to begin Match 2027. <a style=\"display: inline !important;\" href=\"https:\/\/vivid-seats.pxf.io\/c\/1882189\/952533\/12730?subId1=motley-crue&amp;subId2=sixx-played-bass&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vividseats.com%2Fmotley-crue-tickets%2Fperformer%2F565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Get tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikki Sixx insists that he has played bass on every single M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce album the band has released,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-951285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}