1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:16,080 Speaker 1: Disgraceland as a production of Double Elvis. This is a 2 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: story about stupidity and fun, stupid behavior and fun music, 3 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:28,479 Speaker 1: stupid music and fun behavior. It's about a dude who, well, 4 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: after all these years, he's a dude I don't quite 5 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: know what I think about. He's a rock and roll 6 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: original who will one day be a rock and roll icon, 7 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: and well, he's also a total cliche. He's created one 8 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: of the greatest American bands of all time, and I 9 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 1: kind of hate them as much as I love them. 10 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: I totally get this guy's importance in rock history, but 11 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 1: I could just as easily see a rock history in 12 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 1: the rear view that would be just fine without this 13 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: dude or his band in it. This dude, Nikki six 14 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: and Motley Crue. They were full of life, yet he 15 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: died more than once. Same with his band, who are 16 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: now kind of on life support. But at one point 17 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: Motley Cruze made great music. Unlike that music I played 18 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 1: for you at the top of the show that wasn't 19 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: great music, And that was a preset loop from my 20 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,960 Speaker 1: melotron called Ricky Rackman as the bastard child to Casey 21 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: Casem MK two. I played you that loop because I 22 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: can't afford the rights to Faith by George Michael. And 23 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:32,680 Speaker 1: why would I play you that specific slice of tight 24 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 1: Jean cheese? Could I afford it? Because that was the 25 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 1: number one song in America on December twenty third, nineteen 26 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: eighty seven, And that was one of the days Nikki 27 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: six died after being shot up with heroin in a 28 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: Los Angeles hotel room. On this episode Dead Alive, Stupid, Fun, Guns, 29 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: Dope and Prince Slash and Stephen and Jack Daniels on 30 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 1: the bull A train with Nikki six. I'm Jake Brennan 31 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: and this is Disgraceland. Nineteen eighty West Hollywood, California. Fourteen 32 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 1: year old Saul Hudson bent his knees and shifted his 33 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: way back as he tore us down Santa Monica Boulevard 34 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: on his skateboard. He looked back to see his friend 35 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,359 Speaker 1: Steven was cruising right behind him on his own board 36 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 1: with his wavy blonde hair a stark contrast to Saul's 37 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: curly black. It was late and all the Hollywood freaks 38 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: were out. Dopers, drop ups, and derelics, hung off with 39 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: every curve bathed the neon lit by the bright lights 40 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: that glared from movie theater and nightclub Marquis while they 41 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: took long drags off their camel filters. A kick and 42 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: a push, and Saul and Stephen were gliding past the 43 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: Rusty Nail, where men with mustaches and tightly cropped hair 44 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: wearing tight white T shirts and even tighter jeans loitered 45 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: before ducking back into the club to find some action 46 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: on the dance floor. For Saul and Stephen, the real 47 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 1: action was just a little further up the road, where 48 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: the men didn't dress so conservatively. At the Starwood Nightclub, 49 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: the men wore their hair long, and they teased it up. 50 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: They spray painted at Mick Ronson's silver, and they wore 51 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: women's jackets turned inside out, a cheet of Prince spandex, 52 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: and dog collars around their necks. Sunglasses were definitely required 53 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: at night. The two boys stopped their heels on the 54 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: backs of their boards and came to a stop right 55 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: in front of the Starwood. Saul looked up at the Marquee. 56 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: Tonight it read London and I'm not talking about the city. 57 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 1: I'm talking about London. The band with Nigel Benjamin on 58 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 1: lead vocals and the prettiest don't give a fuckiest player 59 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: on the LA scene Frankie Ferana aka Nicky six on bass. 60 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: Nigel Benjamin's previous gig had been with Mott, the post 61 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 1: Ian Hunter version of Mott the Hooples, so he had 62 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:43,159 Speaker 1: legit glam rock credibility, but the newly christened Nicky six 63 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: was making his own credit, a new breed of LA 64 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: rock and roll that was heavily indebted to the likes 65 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 1: of The Raspberries, the Sex Pistols, and the New York Dolls, 66 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: but drizzled all over with an unhealthy dose of Hollywood sleeves. 67 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: At least that's what Saul had heard. Typically, the way 68 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 1: Saul got into these shows that the star Wood was 69 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: by selling whatever drugs he could get his hands on, 70 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 1: thus endearing his underage punk ass to the less discerning 71 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: clientele of a hard rock nightclub circa LA in nineteen 72 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: eighty Tonight, however, he wasn't holding, and the fake ID 73 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 1: he'd long ago conjured up had gone missing. But there 74 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:23,160 Speaker 1: was another way. Saul motioned to Stephen, and the two 75 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: of them grabbed their boards and walked around to the 76 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 1: back of the venue, where Saul opened an unlocked door 77 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: that wasn't being monitored. In an instant, the thunderous noise 78 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: of London rattled their skulls. They creeped closer in the darkness, 79 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 1: fumbling their way to a spot off to the side 80 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: of the stage where London was playing and where Saul 81 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 1: and Stephen could catch a glimpse of the band and 82 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,040 Speaker 1: not get pinched by one of those lou Ferigno wanna 83 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: be bouncers out front. London was both sound and vision. 84 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 1: Nicky six and guitarist Lizzie Gray looked like towering gods 85 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: on either side of the stage, with big hair and 86 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: long legs, each of them framed by a giant light box. Literally, 87 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 1: these huge rectangles lined with at least sixty light bulbs 88 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 1: each vanity mirrors come to life. And the music was fun, 89 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: it was stupid. It was ninety nine percent rockers and 90 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: one percent balance, just how Sal liked it and just 91 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 1: how Nicky six liked it too, And Nicky liked what 92 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 1: he liked, getting high, getting laid and rocking out, though 93 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 1: not always in that order, And most importantly, Nicky didn't 94 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,600 Speaker 1: apologize for any of it, and standing on the sidelines, 95 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: fourteen year old saw Hudson, the drug dealing skateboarding kid 96 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 1: the world would soon know better as Slash, along with 97 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: his buddy Stephen Adler, both of them just years away 98 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: from starting their own band, Guns N' Roses. The two 99 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 1: of those dudes were watching Nicky six and taking notes. 100 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 1: Nicky six put his back into it and mopped up 101 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: the noxious puddle of pukes splattered on the floor of 102 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 1: the Starwood Nightclub. He didn't know what was to deal 103 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: with the vomit, the piss or the blood. It was 104 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 1: all a part for the chorus of the star Wars 105 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: Punk Knights, where violence and uncontrollable bodily functions were as 106 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: much a part of the game as was a fast 107 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: tempo three cord tune. For all Nicky knew, that was 108 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: some of his blood on the floor. He'd been here 109 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: last night, not as a performer, but as a fan 110 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: watching the band fear Lay Waste to the place, and 111 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 1: Nicki had been wearing heels, which he didn't do on 112 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: Punk Knight unless we wanted to be pummeled by the 113 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: fist some dude with a shaved head and a bare chest. 114 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: But Nicki could take the heat, and he could hold 115 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 1: his own so no one was going to keep him 116 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: and his band London from their beloved Star Wars. Some 117 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: nights they played and other nights they watched, and during 118 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: the day they picked up odd jobs cleaning and repairing 119 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: the place just to earn a little extra money. Struggling 120 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: musicians that they were, but London was starting to really 121 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: come into their own. But once it became Star Wars 122 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: weekend headliners, they were pulling down something like one to 123 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: two thousand dollars a night, which Hey sput five ways 124 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty. That wasn't too shabby. There was just 125 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: one problem. They still hadn't been paid the two thousand 126 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: dollars that they were owed for last weekend show, and 127 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: they had more shows coming up the following weekend, not 128 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: to mention more puddles of puke to wipe up. So 129 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: before they left any more of their own blood, sweat 130 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 1: and tears on the starboard floor, Niki wanted to get paid, 131 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: which meant that he, Nigel, Lizzie and the boys had 132 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: to track down the Star Warards elusive owner in order 133 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: to do so. And now here's the thing about all that. 134 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: The guy who owned the star Ward was this dude 135 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: named Eddie Nash. Eddie Nash had a number of Los 136 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: Angeles rock clubs, nightclubs, and strip clubs in his portfolio, 137 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 1: places like the Kitcat Club, The Sold Out, The Paradise, 138 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 1: and a tiki bar called the Seven Seas. Eddie Nash 139 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 1: was a Middle Eastern businessman with leged ties to the 140 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: Israeli mob. Eddie Nash had a steel plate in his head, 141 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: in one lung in his chest, and he was missing 142 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: part of his sinus cavity, probably on account of how 143 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: much cocaine he did. Because Eddie Nash was a blue fiend, 144 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 1: he was also a straight up gangster, a racketeer, and 145 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: he oversaw a majority of the night life illicit or 146 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: otherwise that was currently going down in and around the 147 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 1: Greater Hollywood area. Nicky and his band had heard some 148 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: of the stories about what happened to the poor sons 149 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 1: of bitches who were dumb enough to cross Eddy Nash, 150 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 1: but Nicki didn't see his particular predicament as a conflict 151 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: worthy of kneecap breaking retribution. He just wanted the money 152 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: that was rightly owed to him, So Nicki and the 153 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: other guys in London tracked Eddie Nash down at the 154 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 1: Seven Seas tiki bar, where he was holding cord. Upstairs 155 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: in his office, flanked by a couple of pituitary cases 156 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: with cheap suits and loaded guns, Nash sat in a 157 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: very fancy and very large leather chair behind his desk, 158 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 1: stoned out of his gourd and in full on Gangster lean, 159 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: what can I do for you? Boys? He asked, you 160 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 1: owe us money for last Saturday show at the star 161 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 1: Ward Nikki responded, cognizant of the two big dudes with 162 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 1: their pieces bulging from their waistbands, but nonetheless feeling secure, 163 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 1: surrounded as he was by his own posse, Nash laughed. 164 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: It started small, and then it grew to comic proportions. 165 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: His two bodyguards were laughing too, and NICKI looked at 166 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: Nigel and the others, but no one else in the 167 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: room was cracking a smile. And then suddenly Nash stopped laughing. 168 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: I don't believe I owe you boys anything, came to 169 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: Gangster's cold butter response, how about that? One year later, 170 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty one, an LAPD swat team kicked in 171 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: the front door of Eddie Nash's home following a brutal 172 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: quadruple murder at a Wonderland Avenue townhouse, seizing a million 173 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 1: dollars worth of cocaine in the process. That didn't stop 174 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 1: Nash from being the badass thug that he was, Just 175 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 1: like getting stiff by Nash didn't stop Nicki six. The 176 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 1: same year that the Star Wars owner got himself tangled 177 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 1: up in the infamous Wonderland murders, Nicky ditched London and 178 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:03,320 Speaker 1: formed a new and Motley Crue along with singer Vince Neil, 179 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 1: guitarist mcmars and drummer Tommy Lee, with the stated goal 180 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: to rock even harder and to be even more fun 181 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:13,679 Speaker 1: and more stupid, even if that inherents stupidity men playing 182 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: more gigs at the Star Wars. Nicky knew when to 183 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: back down and take the punch, But there was one 184 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:51,439 Speaker 1: thing he didn't do. Nicky six did not apologize. When 185 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 1: it comes to the nineteen eighties and the debauched world 186 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:57,959 Speaker 1: of so called glam metal in Los Angeles, it's super 187 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: cliche to talk about all the cocaine and heroin that 188 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: everybody was doing. I guess that's cliched because it's true. 189 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,959 Speaker 1: I mean, this was a time when dealers drove around 190 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:13,319 Speaker 1: in sports cars with personalized license plates that said DA 191 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: l e Er. But still it feels like such an 192 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 1: obvious transgression to talk about, and in a way a 193 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 1: lazy thing to talk about as well, because yeah, no 194 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: shit Rat and Wasp or Motley Crue and later GNR. 195 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: They were snorting and shooting and smoking all kinds of 196 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:33,679 Speaker 1: illegal drugs like there were handfuls of Skittles. And yet 197 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: deep within that well worn history of lines of blow 198 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:42,079 Speaker 1: and syringes of junk, there was something truly shocking and 199 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: anomaly that existed in a higher gear, and its name 200 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: was Nikky six. Nicky's addiction drove him to psychosis, to madness, 201 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 1: but not at first. You don't just go crazy overnight. 202 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: You start out just another fiend, just another guy who 203 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: has more in common with the Eddie Nashes of the 204 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: world than your mother would perhaps like to believe. One 205 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:08,439 Speaker 1: day you're copping a fix in a Denny's bathroom with 206 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: a Pepsi bottle cap as a makeshift spoon, and the 207 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 1: next you're in a London taxi with Andy from Hanoi 208 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: Rocks after a show at the Hammersmith Odeon. On Motley 209 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,200 Speaker 1: Cruz nineteen eighty six theater a pain tour pulling up 210 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:23,440 Speaker 1: to an apartment building in some shady part of town, 211 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 1: and inside the dealer shoots you up, and as soon 212 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 1: as the heroin hits your bloodstream, you're out. Andy from 213 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 1: the dealer and everyone else there, they all think you're dead. 214 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: The dealer grabs his baseball bat, raises it above his head, 215 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:40,839 Speaker 1: and brings it down, swinging it directly into your chest. 216 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: Nothing the color drains from your skin. He does it again, 217 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 1: this time driving it straight into your back. Again, and 218 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 1: again he beats you where a baseball. 219 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 2: Bat, not because he's trying to hurt you, but because 220 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 2: he's trying to bring you back to life, because you're 221 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 2: so zonked on heroin. But it doesn't work, and now 222 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 2: the dealer pissed oi he shuts throwing your limb body 223 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 2: over his shoulder and walking out the front door, outside 224 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:10,720 Speaker 2: around back and tossing your overdosed junkie ass into a dumpster. 225 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 2: Months later, you're still feeling the pain from that one, 226 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 2: still feeling like the walking dead. You do a bunch 227 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 2: of cocaine to take your mind off of it, but. 228 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 1: The coke makes you paranoid, so you shoot some heroin 229 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: and that calms you down. And you don't know it yet, 230 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: but the madness is coming. It's looming there in the 231 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: dark corners of your house on Valley Vista Boulevard and 232 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 1: Van Nys. Soon you'll be home bound, freaking the fuck 233 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: out in your bedroom closet. But right now you still 234 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 1: have some autonomy left in you. So you hop on 235 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 1: your Harley Davidson China White as your trusty coal pilot 236 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 1: and drive over to Vanity's house. Vanity as in Vanity 237 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: six the female pop groups Bengali by none other than Prince. 238 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: But Vanity doesn't fuck with the Purple one anymore, or 239 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 1: so you think she fucks with you when she feels 240 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: like it. You two are like a moth in a flame, 241 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: though you never know which one is which. Usually it 242 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 1: goes down like this. She cooks up some bass, you 243 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 1: guys get high, and then more often than not, she 244 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 1: gets crazy and it starts ranting about Jesus and God 245 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: and you can't handle it. When she does that. You 246 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 1: think of what your grandfather used to say, who needs God? 247 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: And you have a Chevy pickup truck and a twelve 248 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 1: gay shotgun. You've got the shotgun at home, not the truck, 249 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: but your Harley David said. It's what God himself would ride, 250 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: isn't it. But tonight Vanity is still prepping the base. 251 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: When you see them there on her dining room table, 252 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: something like two hundred roses inside the biggest vase you've 253 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 1: ever seen. Who the hell are these from? You ask, 254 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 1: She doesn't answer. She's either too busy cooking up your 255 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: next fix or she's ignoring you. And there's a card 256 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 1: there next to the flowers, so you pick it up, Vanity. 257 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 1: It reads, drop them, take me back, Prince. Your blood 258 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: boils that fucking backstabbing midget. You'll fucking murder him. You'll 259 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: break his knees, just like you try to break Jack 260 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: Wagner's knees. You never did get to finish the job 261 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 1: on the General hospital, pretty boy who fancied himself a singer. 262 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 1: You were ninety nine percent sure that this other girl 263 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: you've been seeing, this chick Nick Cole, that she was 264 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: cheating on you with Jack Wagner while you were on 265 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 1: tour with Motley Crue. Not that you weren't cheating on 266 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: her at the same time, but in your drug addle brain, 267 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 1: you felt disrespected your macho fucko. Glenn went into overdrive. 268 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: You called in a favor from some biker friends, the 269 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: kind that would have run security at Altama back in 270 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: the day. He told him where Jack Wagner taped General Hospital, 271 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: and then further told him to bust his kneecaps when 272 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 1: he came walking out at the end of the day, 273 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 1: and then when he was writhing about on the ground 274 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: crying like a little bitch, to tell him Nikki six 275 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: sends his love. But they never get the chance because 276 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 1: Jack Wagner, the klutz that he was, tripped over himself 277 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 1: while filming his TV show and broke his own fucking knee. 278 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 1: N Cole thought you did it. She never forgave him whatever. 279 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: You try your hardest to forget about that shit show 280 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: and passive aggressively take a hit off Vanity's pipe instead 281 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: thinking the whole time, I'm about taking out Prince with 282 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:05,959 Speaker 1: a fucking golf club that you didn't even golf. You 283 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 1: ride back home and feel like having some company. You 284 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: call up some friends and soon your house is full 285 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: of people in cocaine and whiskey, and your boys Slash 286 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:19,439 Speaker 1: and Stephen Adler are there. Hooligans that they are the 287 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:21,439 Speaker 1: same kids used to sneak into your shows back in 288 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: the day, and now they want you to produce their 289 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 1: debut album. You're flattered, but your habit is overtaking you, 290 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 1: and while you don't have many of your wits about you, 291 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 1: you at least recognize that you're in no state to 292 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 1: produce anything, never mind anyone's record, not that Guns and 293 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 1: Roses are in any better state. The next morning, you 294 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 1: wake up to find that Stephen is fucking some chick 295 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: on your toilet, and Slash has pissed in the guest bed. 296 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: Soon your place is empty again and you wait impatiently 297 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 1: for your dealer to show up. He's there right on time, 298 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:54,399 Speaker 1: with the goods and the gear, and once he leaves, 299 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 1: you shoot coke into your leg or maybe to your arm, 300 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But unlike any other time you've done that, 301 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 1: this time it's different. Perhaps it's the accumulation of your habit, 302 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: perhaps it's the miles you've logged, so to speak. But 303 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: as soon as you do it this time, you get 304 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: an overwhelming feeling that someone is in your house. You 305 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,439 Speaker 1: run to your bedroom to hide, and as you do so, 306 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,240 Speaker 1: you pass by a window and you see people outside 307 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:21,159 Speaker 1: in the trees staring in it. You holy fuck you 308 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: jump into your bedroom closet and slam the door behind you. 309 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 1: You're shaking. You've got your shotgun on one side of 310 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 1: you're in your three fifty seven on the other. They're 311 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 1: coming for you, man, They're fucking coming for you, coming 312 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 1: for your cocaine. Fucking dea FBI fucking tree people. You 313 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:36,399 Speaker 1: gotta get rid of the drugs, even though you just 314 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:39,479 Speaker 1: have them delivered thousands of dollars down the drain. You 315 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 1: take a deep breath, throw open the closet door, make 316 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: a mad dash to the bathroom, and flush the rest 317 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 1: of your stash into the toilet. Thankfully, no one saw 318 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,199 Speaker 1: you do it, or did they. You're back inside your 319 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 1: closet now, and you look down and realize that you're naked, 320 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: which whatever, Man, you're in your own house. You can 321 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:00,440 Speaker 1: be naked if you want to be naked. But now 322 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: you're hearing more noises in the house, coming from the 323 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 1: living room, the dining room. You can't be too sure. 324 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:08,400 Speaker 1: You just hear people talking. Is it those damn tree 325 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 1: people that they get in my fucking house. They're gonna 326 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 1: find you here eventually, even though the drugs are gone, 327 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:13,640 Speaker 1: and then. 328 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:16,679 Speaker 3: What you pick up the three fifty seven magnum. You 329 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 3: check the cylinder to make sure it's loaded, and then 330 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:24,160 Speaker 3: flick it shut. Another deep breath. It's go time, motherfuckers. 331 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:27,640 Speaker 1: You bust out of the bedroom closet, buck naked, every 332 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:29,879 Speaker 1: tattoo on full display, tearing through the house with the 333 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 1: butt of the three fifty seven pointed straight out like 334 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:34,120 Speaker 1: a magnet. The gun pulls you into the living room, 335 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 1: screaming at the top of your lungs, or you instinctively 336 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,879 Speaker 1: squeeze the cold trigger, firing off multiple rounds that seemed 337 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:45,440 Speaker 1: to burst your ear drums wide open. Nikki six stood 338 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 1: alone in the middle of his house. Smoke billowed from 339 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:51,159 Speaker 1: the muzzle of his magnum. He just shot up his 340 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,920 Speaker 1: front door in his stereo, which seconds before had been 341 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: on the sound of which he mistook for the sound 342 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: of people invading his private residence. And now he had 343 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: no two uns, no drugs, and a front door with 344 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 1: bullet holes in it. He also soon realized that he 345 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,639 Speaker 1: had no nemesis in Prince because the flowers in the 346 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 1: car that Nicky found in Vanity's house, these were bought 347 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: and written by Vanity simply to fuck with him. It's 348 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,439 Speaker 1: easy to understand on an intellectual level that your addiction 349 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 1: is quite literally destroying your life, and Nicky six, writing 350 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:26,679 Speaker 1: in his own diaries at the time, did understand it 351 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,639 Speaker 1: that way. He also understood, at least in his sobering moment, 352 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 1: that not only was there no beef with Prince, but 353 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:36,879 Speaker 1: that there weren't people climbing in the trees outside his house, 354 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:39,959 Speaker 1: that no one was coming to get him, not tonight. 355 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: But make no mistake, death was coming for Nicki six. 356 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this. 357 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 3: We're were were. 358 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:04,639 Speaker 1: It wasn't just Nicky Six's days that were numbered. At 359 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 1: the end of nineteen eighty seven, glam metal or hair metal, 360 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,120 Speaker 1: the sub genre turned money making machine by the likes 361 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 1: of Nicki's band Motley Crue, was living on borrowed time, 362 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 1: but nobody knew it. Hair metal was actually entering a 363 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:21,119 Speaker 1: new phase of its life thanks to Motley Cruez disciples 364 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:24,399 Speaker 1: and Guns N' Roses. In a little more than three years, 365 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,679 Speaker 1: Nirvana's smells like teen Spirit would flick on a light switch, 366 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,679 Speaker 1: and suddenly Big Hair and Spandex would appear to be 367 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 1: far more schlocky than they were a trend setting but 368 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: right now. In December of eighty seven, hair metal still 369 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:42,160 Speaker 1: ruled the airwaves. White Snakes, Here I Go Again, bon 370 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,479 Speaker 1: Jovi's Living on a Prayer, def Leppards, Pour Some Sugar 371 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:49,359 Speaker 1: On Me, and Motley Cruez Girls Girls Girls, the lead 372 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: single from their fourth studio album of the same name, 373 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: an arena rock owed to one of the CRU's favorite 374 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: groups of people strippers. By December, the album Girls Girls 375 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 1: Girls had already gone double platinum, and Motley Crue had 376 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,119 Speaker 1: taken their hard living, always partying, mega hedonistic rock and 377 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,159 Speaker 1: roll lifestyle as an export from Los Angeles all the 378 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 1: way to Japan. That lifestyle, for Nicki six at least 379 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 1: for the time being, meant kicking junk, which would explain 380 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 1: the routine visits he was making to the bathroom on 381 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: the bullet train they were riding from Osaka to Tokyo. 382 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: Nicki puked in shit, his brains out, and then returned 383 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 1: to his seat next to Motley Cruz drummer Tommy Lee, 384 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 1: who was already half in the bag on pills and booze, 385 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,440 Speaker 1: and Nicki joined in and caught up fast because although 386 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: he may have been abstaining from heroin and cocaine as 387 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 1: much as possible. That didn't mean he was actually sober. 388 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 1: From a few rows down, a Japanese businessman dressed to 389 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: the nines was giving Nicki a look. It was a 390 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: look that said, check out these Hollywood freaks with their 391 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: women's clothing and loud, disruptive behavior. It was bad enough 392 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 1: when they let the Beatles play Buddhakan some twenty years ago. 393 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: Now they're taking junkie shits and our bullet trains like 394 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,919 Speaker 1: their king in the castle. And Nicki locked eyes with 395 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,639 Speaker 1: the stone faced Japanese gentleman. He knew that if the 396 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 1: guy wasn't bound to his own cultural decorum, he would 397 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: spit in Nicki's face, make him feel sorry for himself, 398 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 1: make him feel regret. But he couldn't squeeze regret from 399 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 1: Nicki six, just like he couldn't wring or drop of 400 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 1: blood from the stone. Fuck regret, fuck being dope, sick, 401 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 1: and fuck this guy. Nicki grabbed the Jack Daniels bottle 402 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,359 Speaker 1: he was passing back and forth with Tommy and hurled 403 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: it in the man's direction. It exploded on the wall 404 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: above the man's head, sending shattered glass and brown liquor 405 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 1: all over him, and Nicki laughed as the man leapt 406 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: from his seat and ran down the aisle screaming. But 407 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,679 Speaker 1: when the Bullet train pulled into the Tokyo station and 408 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:43,960 Speaker 1: Motley Cruz stepped off their train car to find one 409 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 1: hundred Japanese police officers waiting for them, Nicki six wasn't 410 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,119 Speaker 1: laughing anymore. Actually, yes he was, because Nicki was fucked up, 411 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 1: drunk on whiskey, high on pills, reveling and being stupid 412 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: and engaging in his definition of fun and not making 413 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 1: excuses for any of it. But He's man whom Nicky 414 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 1: had hurled the Jack Daniel's bottle at was there too, 415 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: pointing at him, outing him to the cops, and they 416 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 1: put Nicki in handcuffs and took him in immediately to 417 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,640 Speaker 1: the police station, where he was tossed into a cramped cell. 418 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: It wasn't long until Tokyo's Chief of Police made an appearance. 419 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: And this guy didn't want an autograph, and he didn't 420 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: want to keep Nicki locked up forever either. Polly wanted 421 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 1: was an apology. The translator sitting between Nicki and the chief, 422 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 1: communicated this request to Nikki and Nicki moulded over for 423 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 1: a moment and then said to the translator, ask the 424 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,879 Speaker 1: chief this, ask him if my balls were on your chin, 425 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 1: then where would my dick be. The translator blushed and 426 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: Nicki grinned, and the police chief followed his brow and 427 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 1: asked what Nikki had said. The translator composed himself, turned 428 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 1: to the chief and told him that Nicki had said 429 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,879 Speaker 1: he was very sorry for what had happened and didn't 430 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 1: mean any disrespect. The chief gave a curt nod. He 431 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: was satisfied, and Nikki six was set free on an 432 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:03,359 Speaker 1: apology he never made. Within a few days after playing 433 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: to thousands of screaming fans in Japan, Nicki six and 434 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 1: Motley Cruze were back home, back in Los Angeles, where 435 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 1: the familiar sights and smells brought out familiar urges, strippers, 436 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 1: porn stars and boku, alcohol at Ricky Ragman's cathouse, Club, 437 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 1: cocaine and the limousine, tooling up to the sunset strip, 438 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 1: and heroin courtesy of a friend. Nicky's friend slash in 439 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 1: the logic of an addict choosing to not hit up 440 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,679 Speaker 1: your own dealer and instead procuring heroin from a dealer. 441 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: You don't know a dealer who provides goods to your 442 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 1: friend's friend. It's logic that says, hey, you're just ordering 443 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:42,400 Speaker 1: something on the side here, because if you order from 444 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,920 Speaker 1: your guide, then of course that's a rabbit hole where 445 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,160 Speaker 1: you start ordering on the regular again and then before 446 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 1: you know it, you're hallucinating people who aren't there. But 447 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,280 Speaker 1: this having your boy Slash talk to this guy and 448 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: then scoring from Slash his dealer, that's just a one off, brother, 449 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 1: that's a lark. This was a logic that led Nicky 450 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: six into Slash hotel room at the Franklin Plaza just 451 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:05,440 Speaker 1: two days before Christmas on December twenty third, nineteen eighty seven, 452 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 1: along with a group of friends, including Nicky's limo driver 453 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 1: and Slash, his girlfriend at the time, Sally. Nicky wasn't 454 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: already fucked up to begin with, so he had the 455 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 1: dealer shoot him up, and the junk turned him catatonic. 456 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:19,919 Speaker 1: Nicky curled up into a fetal position on the floor, 457 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 1: a skinny ball of hair and tattoos. The dealer then 458 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 1: noticed that Nicky's skin was turning blue. He kneeled down 459 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,120 Speaker 1: for a better look. He checked for a pulse oh shit, yo, 460 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,880 Speaker 1: the dealer cried out, Nicky's dead. The dealer jumped out 461 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: of the hotel window and I mean that literally, go 462 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:39,400 Speaker 1: look it up, and disappeared down the street. Sally started 463 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: giving Nicky mouth to mouth and it did nothing, so 464 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 1: she dragged his body into the bathroom, hoping to get 465 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 1: him into the shower and blast him with cold water. 466 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,679 Speaker 1: But Slash, helpless and drunk, went into a blind rage 467 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 1: and punched out the shower's glass door, so instead of 468 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,880 Speaker 1: water from the shower head, Sally and Nicky were showered 469 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,119 Speaker 1: with broken glass. In frustration, she yelled for someone in 470 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: the room and call nine to one one, as it 471 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 1: was obvious that even such a simple task was impossible 472 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,439 Speaker 1: for Slash carry out. At the moment. Seconds later, Sally 473 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,160 Speaker 1: could hear someone else screaming Nicky six is dead into 474 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 1: the phone, and looking at Nicky's lifeless body, she couldn't 475 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:38,719 Speaker 1: help but agree. It's a strange feeling to wake up 476 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 1: in a place you don't recognize, surrounded by doctors and 477 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 1: cops and wearing nothing but a pair of your tight 478 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 1: leather pants and hooked up to machines that are beeping 479 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,920 Speaker 1: and humming. You're so disoriented that you rip the tubes 480 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: and wires from your body, and you yank the ivy 481 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 1: from your vein and swing out of bed and on 482 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,640 Speaker 1: to your feet. You stumble through the halls past nurses 483 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: and first responders, pass some dude with a bleeding head wound, 484 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 1: and another complaining about a car that ran over his foot, 485 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,680 Speaker 1: and you do it all with one goal in mind, 486 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,640 Speaker 1: to get yourself out of there. And as you make 487 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 1: your way through the darkness of this place, through the 488 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,679 Speaker 1: smell of death and disease, all the way to the 489 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,199 Speaker 1: front door, where you finally burst outside, the bright la 490 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:23,280 Speaker 1: sunshine suddenly blinding your eyes. You gotta admit it feels 491 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:27,680 Speaker 1: like you've just been reborn. Nah, that was a bunch 492 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:34,199 Speaker 1: of horseshit reborn to fucking cliche. But then you are 493 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: a cliche, or more accurately, you're dead, a dead cliche, 494 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: at least you're supposed to be. That's why there are 495 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 1: two teenage girls sitting outside the hospital holding a candlelight 496 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 1: vigil in the middle of the day. But you don't 497 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 1: know that's why they're doing what they're doing. They see 498 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 1: you wobbling forward, no shirt, just those leather pants that 499 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 1: lead absolutely nothing to the imagination, and suddenly they stop 500 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,320 Speaker 1: crying and look like they've seen a ghost. You don't 501 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: get what all the fusses about, because well, you also 502 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 1: didn't bother to check yourself out of the hospital. He 503 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 1: asked the girls to give you a lift home in 504 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 1: their little mobs the shipbox, and they gladly oblige, and 505 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 1: as they drive you back to Van Nuys, you get it. 506 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 1: You listen in complete shock as a DJ on the 507 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 1: radio gives a full report on the sudden and tragic 508 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: death of you, Nikki six, at twenty nine years old, 509 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: And for two minutes Niki six was dead. Depending on 510 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,840 Speaker 1: which version of the story you believe, he was either 511 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: brought back to life by Guns and Roses drummer Stephen Adler, 512 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 1: who said he revived Nikki by getting him in the 513 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 1: shower inside Slash's hotel room, or as Nikki himself tells it, 514 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 1: he was brought back to life in truly dramatic fashion 515 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 1: by the paramedics who rammed syringes loaded with adrenaline into 516 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: his chest in the back of an ambulance as it 517 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 1: raced through the streets at La en route to Cedars Sinai. 518 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: Just like young Slash once raced on his skateboard down 519 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,680 Speaker 1: Santa Monica Boulevard to catch Niki's show in London at 520 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 1: the Starward. Look, I'm not suggesting that hustling to a 521 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 1: rock show involves the same stakes as getting a dead 522 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: or dying heroin addict to the hospital. But where a 523 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 1: Slash little saw Hodson had once craved the stupid and 524 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 1: fun aspects of the rock and roll that London and 525 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 1: later Matt mccou dished out, Nikki six two found himself 526 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:23,800 Speaker 1: in this predicament because of his devotion to the stupid 527 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 1: and the fun. And just like there's a fine line 528 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:31,080 Speaker 1: between the two, there's an even finer line between stupidity 529 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 1: and disgrace. 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