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Speaker 1: Disgraceland as a production of Double Elvis. The stories about

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Speaker 1: eighties LA metal band Motley.

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Speaker 2: Crue are totally insane. They had a violent, fucket all

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Speaker 2: approach toward anything in anyone who got in their way.

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Speaker 2: Bass Player Nikki six once hammered a nail through a

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Speaker 2: so called poser's ear board. On tour, the band would

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Speaker 2: break bottles over each other's heads and see who could

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Speaker 2: would pimp out their seventeen year old drummer Tommy Lee

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Speaker 2: for beer money. In studio time, they had sex with

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Speaker 2: or tried to have sex with anyone in anything that moved.

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Speaker 2: Nicki once went so far as to try to bed

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Speaker 2: Tommy's mom, and of course they all slept with each

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Speaker 2: other's girlfriends, beare behind each other's backs. And when they

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Speaker 2: made it big, they took their earnings and bought a plane.

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Speaker 2: But it wasn't enough just to own their own jet.

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Speaker 2: Motley Crue had to paint a giant dick and balls

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Speaker 2: on the tail so that when they landed, it would

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Speaker 2: The excessive sex, drugs, and violence led to several near

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Speaker 2: death experiences multiple car crashes, fires, fights, drownings, and drug overdoses.

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Speaker 2: Yet Motley Crue made a habit of cheating death and

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Speaker 2: made some great music along the way. That music I

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Speaker 2: played you at the top of the show. That wasn't

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Speaker 2: great music. That was a preset loop from my melotron

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Speaker 2: called Vienna Waltz Marimba Low MK one. I played you

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Speaker 2: that loop because I can't afford the license for Faith

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Speaker 2: by George Michael. And why would I play you that

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Speaker 2: specific slice of Didley esque Pleathan Cheese? Could I afford it?

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Speaker 2: Because that was the number one song in America on

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Speaker 2: December twenty third, nineteen eighty seven, And that was the

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Speaker 2: day of Nikki six bass player Motley Crue died, And

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Speaker 2: of course it was also the day he came back

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Speaker 2: to life. On this episode Pleasant Cheese, Waltzon, Marimba's Cheating

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Speaker 2: Death and Motley Crue, I'm Jake Brennan and this.

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Speaker 3: This disgrace man.

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Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy seven, Frank Farrana was a seventeen year

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Speaker 2: old teenage Deliquo. He was a pill popping weedhead and

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Speaker 2: devoted Johnny Thunder's wannabe. Frank Farana was a vacuum cleaner

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Speaker 2: salesman who dealt coeludes on the side with his next

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Speaker 2: Frank Farana was also a punk, a fiend, a single

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Speaker 2: minded rock and roll animal whose one ambition was to

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Speaker 2: baddest rock band. Frank Farana was Nicki six. Frank stole

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Speaker 2: his stage name from a childhood musician friend whom he

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Speaker 2: deemed unworthy of such a badass moniker. So Frank did

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Speaker 2: what came natural to him. He saw what he wanted,

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Speaker 2: and he took it, and voila, Nikki six was born.

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Speaker 2: Fuck that other guy. So Nicki six took to the

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Speaker 2: streets of late seventies Hollywood hell bent for action. Unlike most,

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Speaker 2: he didn't see his idols as people to live up to.

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Speaker 2: He saw his idols as people to outlive for. Niggi

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Speaker 2: Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls and Sid Vicious

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Speaker 2: of the Sex Business were warm up backs for the

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Speaker 2: Heavy metal heat punk rock was burning out of the

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Speaker 2: as were the New York Dolls. Bands like The Clash

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Speaker 2: seeming smart rather than being rock and roll. Too clever

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Speaker 2: by half fuck that Nicki envisioned a world where the

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Speaker 2: began dressing the party with scripting for himself. Silver studs,

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Speaker 2: skin tight black jeans, capezio boots or beverriette capezios with

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Speaker 2: It was part Bleaker and Bowery punk and part spiders

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Speaker 2: It was tough and it was sexy. You didn't know

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Speaker 2: it didn't matter. The look was meant to confuse, to compel,

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Speaker 2: The hell is he? Shock? Aw? That was the idea.

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Speaker 2: a buzz or regrettably working. And Nicki hated work, but

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Speaker 2: Nicki was regularly skimming off the top to buy drugs, boos,

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Speaker 2: Musicians from bands playing and hanging out at nearby clubs

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Speaker 2: The Starwood, the Rainbow Room, and the Troubadour were always

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Speaker 2: types who wouldn't know sweet from cheap trick, But Nicki

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Speaker 2: was optimistic. One of these nights, a like minded rock

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Speaker 2: it didn't matter, because in it could have said John

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Speaker 2: gods Jagger and Ronson before him, his name was Mick,

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Speaker 2: Mick Mars, and he was perfect and always but one

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Speaker 2: with his lame band Shit. Nicky wasn't deterred, though, He

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Speaker 2: Tommy was young, but he had chops and he was

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Speaker 2: they started combing recycler magazines classifieds. Tommy spotted the listing first.

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Speaker 2: It read loud, rude and aggressive guitarist available. And there

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Speaker 2: one with even more spot on descriptors extraterrestrial guitarist available

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Speaker 2: for any other aliens that want to conquer the Earth.

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Speaker 2: Tommy couldn't get the little wheel on the rotary telephone

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Speaker 2: Nicky could not believe his eyes. It was a universe talking.

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Speaker 2: Mick Marrs had arrived. Three down, one to go. They

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Speaker 2: maybe even cooler than Nicky and Mick. But Nicky and

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Speaker 2: Mick didn't give a fucking really, what's cooler? They're not

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Speaker 2: a local band that jammed on cheap trick and arrowsmith

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Speaker 2: Not that the singer who Tommy coveted needed any help.

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Speaker 2: He was gorgeous. He had that Spacoli look before that

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Speaker 2: this band, so a rehearsal with Tommy, Nicky and Mick

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Speaker 2: trailed by his very attractive, very rich, older girlfriend, the

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Speaker 2: schnapps was shared, as were a few words on musical

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Speaker 2: references in the usual Suspects, the Dolls, the Pistols, Sweet Sabbath,

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Speaker 2: and when they got down to it and picked up

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Speaker 2: their instruments, the chemistry was instant. Tommy's energy pulled Nicky's

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Speaker 2: provided a dark platform for Vince's anthemic voice, and they

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Speaker 2: quickly demonstrated a knack for making powerful, electrifying music. And

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Speaker 2: in no time Motley Crue was born, and throughout their

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Speaker 2: life as a band, they would demonstrate an uncanny knack

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Speaker 2: for cheating death. Everyone knows vampires aren't real, everyone except

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Speaker 2: Angelino's La residents have a special relationship with the creatures

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Speaker 2: of the night, a weariness, almost like an acceptance that, yeah,

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Speaker 2: if vampires exist anywhere, and they probably exist here in

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Speaker 2: La up the road in Sacramento. In the late seventies,

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Speaker 2: Richard Chase and enterprising twenty seven year old serial killer

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Speaker 2: drank his victim's blood before cannibalizing them. He was known

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Speaker 2: publicly as the Vampire Killer, and in Hollywood there'd long

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Speaker 2: been rumors of secret vampire societies where members were known

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Speaker 2: to subsist on raw filet mignon and to drink the

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Speaker 2: blood of teenage girls during sex. Whenever residents read in

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Speaker 2: underneath the bridge down in the valley, they couldn't help

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Speaker 2: but think about the lost boys out in Venice, or

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Speaker 2: the bad boys out on the strip, standing in the

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Speaker 2: shadows with designs in the blood pumping through the good

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Speaker 2: girls with broken hearts. Dom Menendez was a god fearing man,

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Speaker 2: and he was outside his apartment complex watering the flowers

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Speaker 2: before Church. Went out of the front door stumbled what

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Speaker 2: Dom believed to be one of Hollywood's rumored creatures of

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Speaker 2: the night in the flesh before his very own eyes.

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Speaker 2: Could it be tall menacing, dressed like an extra from

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Speaker 2: and one tattooed arm shielding his eyes? But what was

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Speaker 2: most telling and most frightening was the blood. It covered

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Speaker 2: his face, and it was most intense around the vampire's mouth.

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Speaker 2: Fresh from a feeding frenzy in Dom's apartment building on

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Speaker 2: passed out, face down in his petunias, and Nikki six

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Speaker 2: Pacific Ocean from the sandy shore below Vince Neil's Redondo

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Speaker 2: to quiet finally, and then blackness. Where's Mick, Tommy asked

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Speaker 2: anything for his friends. The Hanoi Rocks guys are in

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Speaker 2: The party was epic, even by Motley Crue standards. Not

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Speaker 2: Hollywood Hills party impresario Roy Thomas Baker was hanging out.

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Speaker 2: He'd been the first to show Motley Crue how to

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Speaker 2: onto Vince's lap. Blood. Razzle's blood was everywhere. The impact

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Speaker 2: was too much. Razzle, Dingley, drummer for promising heavy metal

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Speaker 2: him back out. Death, it seemed, didn't want him on

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Speaker 2: But death hadn't quite made up its mind yet about Nicky.

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Speaker 2: lying unnaturally still under a sheet atop the gurney he'd

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Speaker 2: The EMTs quickly made the scene and strapped Nicky to

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Speaker 2: now here he was dead. He could see the commotion

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Speaker 2: unfold below him. He was content for the first time

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Speaker 2: in his life, except he wasn't alive. He was dead,

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Speaker 2: lying on a gurney under a sheet with his eyes closed,

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Speaker 2: yet he could see everything around him. He felt nothing

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Speaker 2: but peace. He had no sense of guilt or ego

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Speaker 2: or addiction, just calm. Then the worst pain he'd ever

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Speaker 2: was part lightning bolt, part Peterbilt tracted trailer growth and bamed.

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Speaker 2: Nicki opened his eyes and bolted upright on the gurney,

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Speaker 2: back to life, but feeling like a truck hit him.

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Speaker 2: The pain was immense, his headache was blinding, his eyes burned,

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Speaker 2: his stomach nod she itched all over. He was admitted,

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Speaker 2: given a room, and questioned by police who wanted to

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Speaker 2: know who gave him the heroine. Nicki asked if he

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Speaker 2: was under arrest. The cop said no and pressed him

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Speaker 2: again to give up his dealer. Nicki told him the

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Speaker 2: fuck off, ripped the ivy needles out of his arms,

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Speaker 2: pulled the tubes out of his nose, and walked out

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Speaker 2: of the hospital shirtless in just his leather pants and

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Speaker 2: motorcycle boots. Said Vicious died of a heroin overdose. Pussy

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Speaker 2: Johnny Thunders also died of a heroin overdose, also a pussy.

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Speaker 2: Nicky six a mortal death cheating rock god. In his

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Speaker 2: mind at least, Nicky Six, like Tommy Lee, Micmars, and

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Speaker 2: Vince Neil were more like complete degenerates, doing anything at

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Speaker 2: the expense of anyone, even themselves, to live the rock

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Speaker 2: and roll animal life to the fullest. Vince's behavior, of course,

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Speaker 2: resulted in the loss of life of a friend in

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Speaker 2: a stupid and careless accident and Motley Crue lived hard,

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Speaker 2: so hard that death just wasn't deadly enough. Or maybe

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Speaker 2: they're actually the undead, immortal creatures of the night, eating

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Speaker 2: death from its due, you know, kind of like those

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Speaker 2: rumored Hollywood vampires. Of course, they could have just been

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Speaker 2: batshit crazy and a little bit lucky, insatiable rock and

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Speaker 2: roll animals determined to outlive, out drug, out brawl and

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Speaker 2: outball their heroes. But I don't know. I say it's

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Speaker 2: even on sayre vampires. Has anyone ever seen Mick Mars

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Speaker 2: in the Daylight?

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Speaker 3: I haven't.

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