![]() ![]() So when I’m talking to my aunt and uncle, they were like, “Something happened and your dad left.” This was not the story I was told and I wanted to be transparent about that discovery. She was (home) 11 months and then she was gone and my dad left. Even my sister (Lisa) with Down syndrome - she was born and they took her away. ![]() Sixx: I never really had 100% of the story of the early years because my mom was not truthful and downloaded a lot of info into my head that I found out during this book was not even close. I went inside and wrote this little couplet that turned into a poem for my family, and one of the lines was, “Once I learned to fly, I forgot how to stop.” I wanted to do this book right up to the day I changed my name to Nikki Sixx. Sixx: I was sitting out on the land – 20 acres of my property look down into a gulch – and I was looking at the mountains and where I grew up and having these thoughts about my childhood and fishing. Why did you want to look back to those really early days now? Q: “The First 21” is technically your third book, but really your first memoir. Ruby is a bit of glue between the kids and us. Then we sold our house and moved to Wyoming. house for three months and it got us closer. (At the start of the pandemic) I pulled everyone into our L.A. When my other kids come to visit – they’re all in college and working – we go out on the lake and hiking. Q: And how does being a dad again at 62 factor into your stamina level? (Sixx and wife Courtney Bingham welcomed Ruby Sixx on July 27, 2019.) Nikki Sixx, bassist for hard rock superstars Motley Crue, releases the memoir "The First 21" on Oct. I start physically training the first week of December. The bigger question is, what does ‘23 look like? Can we go to Europe or South America? Right now, our eyes are on the tour starting in June, band rehearsals in May and all the set design starting months before that. But we’ll have to do the best that we can do. Do I believe COVID will still be here next year? Yes. We didn’t want to go out this past summer because we didn’t want to expose our fans to possibly getting COVID, and 80,000 people all with their mouths open singing “Shout at the Devil” doesn’t sound like we would be doing the right thing for our fans and our crew. Do you think it’s going to happen next summer? (Note: this interview was conducted before singer Vince Neil injured his ribs in a fall off a stage.) Question: You start the book talking about the now twice-postponed Stadium Tour. In a lively conversation with USA TODAY, Sixx talked about fatherhood in his 60s, what he learned about his family history, and why he’s stayed sober for 21 years. He is not, as detailed in the book, a Rush fan. Aerosmith tops his list, followed by Cheap Trick. He also wants fans to understand the depth of his own musical fandom. More 'Dirt': Outrageous tales from the Motley Crue movie But it’s a story that Sixx shares with humor and honesty. The journey from Feranna to Sixx – a name he maybe, sort of, stole from another local musician who had dubbed himself Niki Syxx – is a fraught and complicated one. ![]()
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