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  Nikki Sixx Makes History At Capitol Hill | News @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Sixx spread awareness on the importance of recovery and giving back with the speech he delivered before members of the Congress and Senate in Washington, D.C. last week.
Sixx’s mission for The Heroin Diaries book, and accompanying CD, The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack, (released August 21st via Eleven Seven Music) is to offer insight into, and hopefully steer people clear of, the perils and dangers of substance abuse.
The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack was written and produced by Sixx: A.M. (Sixx, James Michael and DJ Ashba), and was inspired by the dark and crippling diary entries that later became The Heroin Diaries book.
www.ultimate-guitar.com /news/press_releases/nikki_sixx_makes_history_at_capitol_hill.html   (449 words)

  
  Nikki Sixx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sixx was born Franklin Carlton Feranna on December 11, 1958 in San Jose, California.
Sixx has often stated that he would use his body as a human chemistry set, mixing excessive amounts of drugs on a regular basis to search for a new "high".
Nikki was previously married to actress/model Donna D'Errico.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nikki_Sixx   (1095 words)

  
 Motley.com Official Fanclub | MotleyCrue.com | S.I.N.
NIKKI SIXX was born December 11, 1958 at 7:11 a.m.
Nikki learned later he also had a sister, Lisa, whom he was told he couldn’t see because she was placed in a home for the mentally ill. Nikki wouldn’t lay eyes on his sister, who was born with Down’s Syndrome and blind, her growth stunted, until her death more than 35 years later.
Nikki knew it was just a matter of time before he ended up locked up in juvenile detention until he was 21… which didn’t exactly sit well with his dream of becoming a rock star.
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 AskMen.com - Nikki Sixx
Sixx played the bass and also wrote most of the songs for Motley Crue, who sold over 40 million records, and stirred up a lot of attention with arrests, sex tapes and drug overdoses.
Sixx may not be in the media as much as his fellow band members, but that doesn't mean he's been idle.
Sixx, also a member of another band called Brides of Destruction, has been married to Donna D'Errico since 1996, and the couple have five children in all (one together).
www.askmen.com /toys/interview_100/123_nikki_sixx_interview.html   (707 words)

  
 Nikki Sixx - Hair Metal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nikki Sixx usually isn't in the foreground, but he's definitely the brains behind it all.
Sixx began focusing on sharpening his songwriting skills, as he wanted to put together the ultimate "theatrical" band for the '80s — a throwback of sorts to early-'70s glam, but with a more metallic edge.
Despite all the success, Sixx's personal life was spiraling out of control, as he seemed to have a death wish with hard drugs, overdosing several times during this period (he was even pronounced dead by paramedics after one ordeal, but was lucky enough to be revived with adrenaline shots).
www.hair-metal.net /nikkisixx.htm   (773 words)

  
 USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nikki Sixx: As far as heroin goes, once you get away from it, you know you're one of the few that did.
Nikki Sixx: We were rebelling against everything that we felt to be corporate, with no intention of becoming corporate.
Nikki Sixx: Mine's not so much a memoir as it is a year in the life, and a real fly on the wall view of addiction.
cgi1.usatoday.com /mchat/20030411003/tscript.htm   (1089 words)

  
 Nikki Sixx - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nikki Sixx (birth name Frank Carlton Serafino Ferranno) is the bassist for metal bands Mötley Crüe, London and Brides of Destruction.
Sixx was born December 11, 1958 in San Jose, California.
Nikki Sixx is now married (then separated, currently reconciled) to actress/model Donna D'Errico.
voyager.in /Nikki_Sixx   (533 words)

  
 Nikki Sixx News: Nikki Sixx Pleads No Contest To Assault In North Carolina >> liveDaily
Sixx was charged with a felony count of riot with ethnic intimidation, assault and disorderly conduct.
The security guard has filed a civil suit against Sixx, Lee and others in connection with the case, which is scheduled to be heard in May. He seeks more than $75,000 for claims including verbal assault, battery, and intentional infliction of mental distress.
Sixx was arrested following a Motley Crue concert in Raleigh, N.C., last October on an outstanding warrant related to the charges.
www.livedaily.com /news/833.html   (357 words)

  
 Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx: On learning bass guitar, the Gibson T-Bird, the Opti Grab and more
As a tribute to Nikki's sound, style, and influence on modern rock bass playing, Gibson USA has honored Nikki with the their first artist signature bass, the Blackbird.
Nikki and Mötley Crüe have influenced countless modern rock and metal bands for nearly twenty years and are still pumping out classic L.A. metal as witnessed by their return to glory with a new CD, New Tattoo and a national tour.
Nikki Sixx (NS): The bass was to me was the low grind of the song.
www.gibson.com /whatsnew/pressrelease/2000/dec6a.html   (1169 words)

  
 Nikki Sixx
Nikki Sixx is one of the founding members of Motley Crue, and it's principal song writer.
Nikki has always maintained close ties to his fans, and as a consequence they are quite loyal.
More recently Nikki Sixx has teamed up with JVC to launch their Ride the Wild Side promotion, alongside Shaun Palmer.
www.absolute-motleycrue.com /nikkisixx.html   (382 words)

  
 MySpace.com - ★ NIKKI ★ SIXX ★ - LOS ANGELES, California - www.myspace.com/nikkisixx
Together, Nikki, James Michael, who does all of the vocals on the album, and DJ Ashba, who provides the crackling, emotional undertow with his searing guitar work, come together to find the aural equivalent of The Heroin Diaries’ psychic underpinning.
Nikki also reads excerpts from the book, accompanied by some of the most heartfelt and moving music he has written over the course of his remarkable career.
Sixx, who will donate a portion of the proceeds from the project to his own “Running Wild in the Night” initiative for Covenant House, which helps fund creative arts programs around the country focusing on music, says the experience of writing and recording The Heroin Diaries has “grounded” him.
www.myspace.com /nikkisixx   (1864 words)

  
 AbsoluteCelebrities.com: Nikki Sixx Mugshot
Motley Crüe's Nikki Sixx spent the night in the slammer late Wednesday after being charged with disturbing the peace for allegedly inciting a crowd at the band's concert at the Mandalay Bay Event Center in Las Vegas.
The police report is said to contend that the comments were inciting the crowd to riot and that audience members were starting to throw chairs when the officers moved in to stop the show.
Sixx was booked under his real name, Frank Carlton Ferrano, on a charge of provoking a breach of the peace.
www.absolutecelebrities.com /mugshot/nikki_sixx.html   (328 words)

  
 Donna D'Errico divorcing Nikki Sixx
She is seeking physical custody and joint legal custody of the couple's five-year-old daughter, Frankie-Jean, and her 13-year-old son, Rhyan, from a previous relationship.
Sixx was actually pronounced dead in 1987 after a heroin overdose, but paramedics revived him with two adrenaline shots to the heart.
Sixx's relationship with his Motley Cr?e mates has been nearly as rocky as his romantic life since the band formed in 1981, but the explosive quartet--Sixx, Tommy Lee, Vince Neil and Mick Mars--tend to prefer rocking out together, rather than apart.
www.gossiprocks.com /forum/gossip-archive/17669-donna-derrico-divorcing-nikki-sixx.html   (644 words)

  
 Ink 19 :: Nikki Sixx   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Part of the interview took place with Nikki on his cell phone while he drove to some business meeting and the rest happened while he was at his house.
Nikki was really super nice and polite and I got some good dirt.
[Nikki Sixx really did read me a line-by-line account of his Instant Message Conversation with Tracii Guns, but I decided it would be crossing some kind of journalistic line of integrity to really transcribe it here.
www.ink19.com /issues/september2003/interviews/nikkiSixx.html   (3345 words)

  
 NIKKI SIXX of MOTLEY CRUE   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nikki Sixx also has a side project called 58, in which he does some vocal work.
Nikki has always maintained close ties to his fans, and as a consequence they are quite loyal.
I play guitar, but even though Nikki plays bass, he still is one of my personal favorite musicians of all time.
volweb.utk.edu /SCHOOL/sullivan/bluffms/nikkisixx.htm   (259 words)

  
 POPsmear 19.0 | Nardwuar vs. Nikki Sixx   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nikki Sixx: Well, 1958 is the name of a side project I have with a guy named David Darling.
Nikki Sixx: I thought it was closer to the McCartney one, but, you know, all the guy basically wanted was his royalties, which were my royalties, but it was me who was suing me. It's very confusing.
Nikki Sixx: (laughs) Well, I've got to say that even though that probably would have been a great moment in musical history, that it did not happen.
www.popsmear.com /popculture/features/19/nardnikki.html   (2813 words)

  
 Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx
Boy, Nikki Sixx is a busy man! In addition to an album by his side project band 58, Diet For New American, and a new Motley crue album out June 20th, New Tattoo, Nikki and wife Donna D'Errico are expecting their first child together in December.
Nikki and David were hanging out one day and playing each other bits they were working on, when, to their surprise, the combination of one of Darling's hip-hop beats and Sixx's acoustic glam songs made for an enticing hybrid.
Recalls Nikki, "Dave goes, 'Wow, that's really f--ked-up, you hear how that sounds together?' 'Yeah, it's really horrible, huh?' And we just kind of rolled tape." The result became "Song To Slit Your Wrists By." A similar approach was applied when deciding who would tackle which part in any given arrangement.
www.geocities.com /Petsburgh/1982/nikki_sixx.html   (1668 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star: Nikki Sixx: Books
In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself.
Nikki was initially very hostile to me; he tried to get me barred from going backstage or being around them.
Nikki and I slowly formed a relationship, and early in 1986 he asked me for help with his own addictions.
www.amazon.com /Heroin-Diaries-Year-Life-Shattered/dp/0743486285   (1978 words)

  
 MTVAsia.com - Welcome!   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The cut was submitted on spec by Sixx's publishing company, but it was turned down by the Backstreet Boys, who felt it wasn't quite right for them.
Sixx started writing new songs with his friend James Michael, who had worked with him on the last Motley Crue album,"New Tattoo"(2000).
Sixx expected Meat Loaf's management to get back to him to let him know whether they liked the song, but he never expected that not only would it be the first single on the album, but Meat Loaf would ask him to write two more songs.
www.mtvasia.com /News/200207/15004810.html   (840 words)

  
 Nikki Sixx News: Motley Crue Settles With Security Guard >> liveDaily
Sidestepping a trial that was to get underway this week, Motley Crue has reached a confidential settlement with a fl security guard who claimed that Tommy Lee (music), Nikki Sixx (music) and other band members used racial slurs and encouraged fans to attack him during a 1997 concert.
Allen's suit alleged that Sixx shouted obscenities and racial slurs at him, then kicked him, spit at him and told the lighting crew to shine the spotlight on him while encouraging the audience to participate in the harassment, according to the Greensboro News and Record.
Last month, Motley Crue bassist Sixx was handed a 30-day suspended jail sentence in connection with the case and was placed on probation after pleading no contest to misdemeanor charges of inciting a riot and assault on a security guard.
www.livedaily.com /news/802.html   (394 words)

  
 KNAC.COM - News - Nikki Sixx Charity
Sixx has already raised close to $40,000 by selling personal items, autographed merchandise and memorabilia through his website www.nikkisixx.net.
Sixx will continue his efforts for "Running Wild in the Night" by auctioning off a custom, personalized Harley Davidson motorcycle online and teaming up with outside manufacturers to donate musical instruments, musical software and computer equipment to Covenant House creative arts programs designed to promote healing and growth for homeless and displaced young people.
Sixx adds, "A lot of kids on the streets are addicted to drugs, I know what it's like, and I know they can help themselves by finding a Covenant House in their area.
www.knac.com /article.asp?ArticleID=4235   (774 words)

  
 INTERVIEW: Nikki Sixx - Linda Scott   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nikki Sixx, frontman and bassist for Motley Crue, recently consented to an email interview using the Internet.
Nikki says the band is working on the new album right now and the style will be even more aggressive.
Nikki Sixx: Well I got into computers via music - I use them in my home recording studio.
www.westnet.com /consumable/1995/March15.1995/revsixx.html   (584 words)

  
 Nikki Sixx Music - Favorite Songs - Lyrics From   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sixx was born Frank Carlton Ferrana on December 11, 1958 in San Jose, California.
Nikki Sixx, a legend among bassists and one of founding members of Motley Crue, one of the most influential rock bands in history,...
NIKKI SIXX is living in fear on the road with rockers MOTLEY CRUE, after all three of his bandmates have been struck...
www.lyricsfrom.com /artists/n/Nikki-Sixx.html   (1582 words)

  
 Nikki Sixx Signature "Blackbird" Bass
Known for both his hot licks and wild antics, Nikki Sixx has been laying down the bass line for Mötley Crüe for nearly 20 years.
From its sinister fl finish to its iron cross inlays and fl chrome hardware, this bass, like Nikki himself, is built to play hard and sound great.
The "Blackbird" bass features an exclusive "Opti Grab" handle, and off/on toggle switch, a Nikki Sixx "Blackbird" pickguard, and comes with a special Nikki Sixx Signature hardshell case.
www.gibson.com /products/gibson/Bass/nikkisixxbass.html   (111 words)

  
 KNAC.COM - News - Nikki Sixx Sues Vans, Thrasher Magazine
Sixx, whose real name is Franklin C. Feranna, said in the lawsuit filed Tuesday that the defendants used photographs of him with pro skater Tony Trujillo at a San Francisco ceremony, which Thrasher magazine organized and Vans sponsored.
Sixx said he agreed to present Trujillo with a “Skater of the Year'” award at the December 2002 ceremony because he knew Trujillo was a Motley Crue fan.
Sixx also noted that he has a clothing line, “N. Sixx by Dragonfly,” that seeks out the same youthful consumers Vans targets.
www.knac.com /article.asp?ArticleID=2488   (344 words)

  
 Nikki Sixx | The A.V. Club
The book collects Sixx's diary entries from Christmas 1986 to Christmas 1987, a year he spent mostly out of his mind on a variety of substances, primarily heroin.
While Sixx does his share of partying in The Heroin Diaries, he spends more time sitting in a closet with a shotgun, convinced the police are coming—or enduring some other drug-induced psychosis.
Nikki Sixx: We had a really good time, to be honest with you, when we were out there doing what we were doing.
www.avclub.com /content/interview/nikki_sixx   (2155 words)

  
 Nikki Sixx MP3 Downloads - Nikki Sixx Music Downloads - Nikki Sixx Music Videos - Nikki Sixx Pictures - MP3.com
Sixx began focusing on sharpening his songwriting skills, as he wanted to put together the ultimate "theatrical" band for the '80s -- a throwback of sorts to early-'70s glam, but with a more metallic edge.
Despite all the success, Sixx's personal life was spiraling out of control, as he seemed to have a death wish with hard drugs, overdosing several times during this period (he was even pronounced dead by paramedics after one ordeal, but was lucky enough to be revived with adrenaline shots).
The new Crüe stiffed on the charts with only a single album, 1993's self-titled release, and Neil was welcomed back to the fold by the late '90s, resulting in their reunion album in 1997, Generation Swine.
www.mp3.com /artist/nikki-sixx/summary   (1281 words)

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