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Producer blasts 'deluded' Nikki Sixx book
Published Thursday, Feb 28 2008, 15:30 GMT | By Beth Hilton
Motley Crue's ex-producer has described Nikki Sixx's new autobiography as "totally deluded".
Tom Werman told the New York Times that the bassist's memoir Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star was "stunningly inaccurate".
He agreed with a review by rock journalist Alan Light which labelled Sixx "bratty and self-destructive", saying: "[That's] on the money, but having been there and having read the book, I would go with 'totally deluded' or perhaps 'stunningly inaccurate.'"
He also hit out at the book's claim that he had left Sixx in charge of recording albums Theatre of Pain and Shout At The Devil.
He said: "As the producer of three Motley Crue albums over a four-year period, I found Sixx's allegation that in the recording studio he did 'all the work' with Vince Neil's vocals while I chatted idly on the phone not only humourous but pure fiction.
"If this distortion of reality is the result of Sixx's past heroin habit, then his diary is truly nothing more than a pipe dream, and the events to which this book refers may simply be the needle-induced fantasies of an attention-starved junkie."
Tom Werman told the New York Times that the bassist's memoir Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star was "stunningly inaccurate".
He agreed with a review by rock journalist Alan Light which labelled Sixx "bratty and self-destructive", saying: "[That's] on the money, but having been there and having read the book, I would go with 'totally deluded' or perhaps 'stunningly inaccurate.'"
He also hit out at the book's claim that he had left Sixx in charge of recording albums Theatre of Pain and Shout At The Devil.
He said: "As the producer of three Motley Crue albums over a four-year period, I found Sixx's allegation that in the recording studio he did 'all the work' with Vince Neil's vocals while I chatted idly on the phone not only humourous but pure fiction.
"If this distortion of reality is the result of Sixx's past heroin habit, then his diary is truly nothing more than a pipe dream, and the events to which this book refers may simply be the needle-induced fantasies of an attention-starved junkie."
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