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Hinder: Take It to the Limit
4/11/08:
Hinder's
second album Take It to the Limit is released and features
a lead guitar solo from Mick Mars on the title track. Drummer
Cody Hanson says, "He actually called us up and wanted to do
some writing and we were like, 'Yeah, of course, I mean, would
you be interested in playing some guitar on the album? And he
was like, 'Absolutely,' you know. So we sent him the track and
he loved it, and we ended up going up to his house. And, you
know, he laid down a few different passes of the solo on Take
It to the Limit. So it was an amazing experience, you know,
getting to meet one of your idols, I guess."
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CrashDiet: Unattractive Revolution
3/10/07:
CrashDiet's album
titled The Unattractive Revolution released in Europe on Universal Records, featuring
a guest appearance on two tracks (I Don't Care, Alone) by Mick
Mars, who flew into Stockholm, Sweden in June to help CrashDiet
write some of the new material.
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Drowning Pool:
Full Circle
7/8/07:
A song called Reason I'm Alive that was
written and produced by Nikki Sixx and DJ Ashba is
released on the new Drowning Pool album titled Full Circle. Another track
titled Light Another Candle and co-written by the pair doesn't make the final cut of songs.
This unreleased track also features Nikki's son Gunnar playing
didgeridoo.
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Marion Raven:
Set Me
Free
1/5/07:
The title track that kicks off Marion's album was
written by her with Nikki and DJ Ashba.
The
album also includes the song Heads Will Roll that was co-written
by Marion with Nikki and James Michael.
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Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell III - The Monster is Loose
31/10/06: Mercury Records released of Meat Loaf's album Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose, the long-awaited third installment to rock music’s most successful series of all time. The title track was co-written by Nikki Sixx with John 5 (guitarist for Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie) and Bat Out of Hell III producer, Desmond Child.
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Rob Zombie: Educated Horses
28/3/06: Rob Zombie's new album Educated Horses is released on Geffen Records, featuring the drumming of Tommy Lee. more >> |
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Jack's Mannequin:
Everything in Transit
23/8/05: Jack's Mannequin, the
angst-flavoured, SoCal-vibed side project of Something Corporate's
singer-song-writer Andrew McMahon, releases their debut album
Everything in Transit. Produced by Jim Wirt (Incubus, Alien Ant
Farm), the album also features Tommy Lee on drums.
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Brides of Destruction: Runaway Brides
27/9/05: Whilst the Brides of Destruction sophomore album does not feature the playing of Nikki Sixx, as he left to return to Mötley Crüe, it does feature
three tracks with Sixx credits for co-writing - Blown Away, This
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Marion Raven: Here I Am
29/6/05: Former M2M member Marion Raven released her first solo album. This young artist plays piano and both electric and acoustic guitar on the album, and has collaborated with great producers, singers and songwriters like Max Martin and Rami, Chantal Kreviazuk, Raine Maida, and Art Alexakis of Everclear. Nikki Sixx and James Michael co-wrote a few songs for her, including the tracks Heads Will Roll
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Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz: Crunk Juice
16/11/04: Tommy Lee provides the grit for the 'crunk rock' mix of the Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz track Roll Call on their album Crunk Juice released via TVT. Other artists to guest on the album include Bad Brains, Lil Scrappy, R. Kelly, Ludacris, Nas, T.I., Jadakiss, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Sugar Free, Trillville and Jazze Pha. Their previous album Kings of Crunk peaked at No. 14 on The Billboard 200 in 2002 and has sold 2.1 million copies in the United States. more >> |
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Bruce Kulick: Transformer
3/8/04: Former Mötley Crüe front man John Corabi sings the track It's Just My Life on the new album Transformer from his former union and Kiss band member Bruce Kulick, released through Perris Records. more >> |
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PBR Allstars: Buck & Roll 1
2/3/04: Nikki Sixx co-wrote the third song, Stop Til I Drop, on this album of various artists performing rock'n'roll songs with country lyrics. The album serves as the official soundtrack of the Professional Bull Riders as a tribute to the riders and the sport itself, capturing the spirit of bull riding. Professional bull riding is a fierce, rough and grueling sport with roots deep in American culture, often referred to as the original extreme sport. Sixx co-wrote the track with Kenny "Borgeois" Alphin, James Otto and John Rich. more >> |
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Professional Murder Music: Looking Through
21/10/03: Professional Murder Music release Looking Through on their label Wormhole Records via distribution through Underground Inc./ Caroline. The album features a guest appearance by Tommy Lee, drumming on track 4, Disconnect. more >> |
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Meat Loaf: Couldn't Have Said It Better
23/9/03:
Meat Loaf's album Couldn't Have Said it Better is released in the USA on Sanctuary Records, and features the title track, Love You Out Loud and Man Of Steel written by Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx with James Michael. The latter is likely to be a single and is a duet with his daughter, Mötley back-up singer, Pearl Aday. It's Meat Loaf's first all-new studio album since 1995 and his eighth studio album overall. more >> |
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Saliva: Back Into Your System
12/11/02: Saliva's second album Back Into Your System is released. Produced by Bob Marlette who produced the last Union album, the album includes the track Rest In Pieces written by Nikki Sixx. more >> |
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Butch Walker: Left Of Self-Centered
9/7/02: Former Marvelous 3 front man Butch Walker released his first solo album titled Left Of Self-Centered on Arista Records which features Nikki Sixx playing bass on the track Into The Black. Butch also adopted umlauts on the album cover logo as a tip of the hat to Mötley. more >> |
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Rob Zombie: The Sinister
Urge
13/11/01: Rob Zombie's
sophomore solo album The Sinister Urge is the follow-up to his
1998 Hellbilly Deluxe album. The new Geffen Records album includes
guest appearances from Tommy Lee, Beastie Boy's Mix Master Mike,
and Ozzy Osbourne on track five titled Iron Head. Slayer's Kerry King and Limp Bizkit's DJ Lethal also guest on the album. more >> |
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Spiders
& Snakes: London Daze
27/6/00: Nikki Sixx's
pre-Mötley Crüe London demo tape
is released as bonus tracks on Lizzie Grey's group Spiders
& Snakes album London Daze. This songs feature Nikki,
Lizzie and Nigel Benjamin (ex-Mott The Hoople) doing three tracks:
Nobody Loves You Like I Do, Straight From The Heart and Dream Girl. Lizzie Grey was also the co-writer of the track
Public Enemy #1 from the debut Mötley album. more >> |
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Laidlaw:
First Big Picnic
26/10/99: The first album on
Sixx's Americoma Records is Laidlaw's First
Big Picnic, also produced by Nikki Sixx. The
album cover depicts a 50's style family picnic
scene and features Nikki Sixx's daughter Storm and his step-son Rhyan. The band formed in 1990 in Orange County, CA by
slide guitarist Buzzy James and guitarist Craig DeFalco, who
supported himself during leaner years of the band as a guitar
tech for Tesla, Kiss and Van Halen. His last tech job was for
Nikki Sixx. When DeFalco gave Nikki a demo of Laidlaw, he
subsequently listened to it then saw the band at a showcase
before signing them as the first artist on his new
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Rob
Zombie: Hellbilly Deluxe
25/8/98: Rob Zombie's first
solo album Hellbilly Deluxe is produced by Rob with Scott
Humphrey (Co-Producer of Generation Swine) and features Mötley
Crüe's Tommy Lee on drums
on two tracks Resurrection Joe and Meet The Creeper.
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Nine Inch Nails: Downward
Spiral
29/5/94: The new Nine Inch
Nails album The Downward Spiral is released. As a good
friend of front man Trent Reznor, Tommy plays drums on the song
Big Man With A Gun. He also drums on two mixes of Closer, even
though he’s not mentioned for credit. T-Bone is a fan of the
underground techno/industrial scene, an influence that shows
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Alice
Cooper: Hey Stoopid
7/91:
Nikki and Mick co-wrote the awesome song Die For You on this
album. Mick plays guitar on the
track while Nikki plays bass on the track Feed My
Frankenstein. Nikki was really chuffed to work with one of his
heroes. He even phoned Alice and asked if he was thinking of doing
a video for Feed My Frankenstein. Alice said he was thinking
about it and if he did Sixx would be the bass player in it. Other
guests on the album are Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, Steve Vai, and Joe
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Stuart
Hamm: Urge
4/6/91:
Tommy drums on the title track The Urge on this Stu Hamm’s
third solo album. He also contributes backing
vocals to the track If You're Scared, Stay Home. The liner
notes of the album read, "Tommy Lee appears courtesy of
Elektra Records and Heather Locklear".
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Frank
Zappa: Joe's Garage Act 1
14/10/89: When Mötley's Dr. Feelgood tour started in Germany,
the Frank Zappa track Crew Slut
from his Joe's Garage Volume 1 album was played to the
audience before Mötley enters the stage. The Crüe also play
it on the Maximum Rock 2000 tour before they hit the stage every
night.
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Steve Jones:
Fire And Gasoline
mid 89: Former Sex Pistol
guitarist Steve Jones releases his new album titled Fire And
Gasoline. The second track called We're Not Saints is written by
Nikki Sixx with Steve Jones, along with his bass player Terry
Nails.
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Fabulous
Thunderbirds: Hot Stuff-Greatest Hits
10/88:
Mötley record a song for the Tom Cruise film
Cocktail soundtrack called Powerful Stuff.
Production with Tom Werman didn’t work out so they canned the
project which is picked up by The Fabulous Thunderbirds.
The song doesn’t appear on the soundtrack but is released by
The Fabulous Thunderbirds (featuring the lead-guitar work of
Jimmie Vaughan - Stevie Ray's brother) a year later and reaches
#65 on the charts. That song is included on this album.
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Poison:
Open Up & Say Ahh
4/88:
Vince married Sharise Ruddell after they met at The Tropicana Club
when she was mud wrestling. You can see pictures of Sharise posing in the pool with Bret Michaels
on the inside sleeve of this Poison album.
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Lita
Ford: Lita
late 87:
Nikki co-wrote Falling In and Out Of Love with
ex-girlfriend Lita Ford on this her self titled album. Working in the
studio next to her, Lita came in and they sat at a piano together
and started playing and humming the tune.
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Aerosmith:
Permanent Vacation
8/87:
Aerosmith released their ninth studio album Permanent Vacation
which included a track called Dude (Looks Like A
Lady) which was written about Vince Neil. Aerosmith front
man Steven Tyler saw Vince in a bar from a distance and thought
he was a woman until he noticed a lot of girls coming on to
him. Intrigued at how he picked up chicks while looking like
one, the two met and chatted. The Crüe's repeated use of the
Californian word 'Dude' was noted and taken as inspiration for
the hit song.
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Lita
Ford: Dancin' On The Edge
84: Randy Castillo plays drums on, then tours
behind this second solo album Dancin' On The Edge by Nikki
Sixx's girlfriend at the time Lita Ford. He was introduced to Nikki and
Tommy at Lita's Los Angeles concert and they quickly became
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W.A.S.P.:
Last Command
1985: The first track on this
album is called Wild Child.
Blackie Lawless approached the Crüe mid 1983 with the song but Nikki felt the vocals were out of Vince's
range, so Blackie retained it as a song for WASP. It was
included on this album.
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Dokken:
Breaking The Chains
12/82:
Mötley included the title track of
this CD on an old vinyl LP produced for Fan Club members, which
was widely bootlegged. There has been conjecture for many years
whether it's actually the Dokken version or Vince Neil singing the
song from the Shout At The Devil recording sessions. This is
certainly the original version here.
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