Guitarist Mick Mars’s above early-’80s “Recycler” classified proved more fruitful than the one he’d previously posted: “Extraterrestrial guitarist available for any other aliens that want to conquer earth.” The second ad caught the attention of a skinny, young drumming badass named Tommy Lee, who’d been jamming with Nikki Sixx, a bassist/songwriter who aspired to the glitter-gutter greatness of New York Dolls and vintage Aerosmith.
Lee called and left a number for Mick Mars. A week later there was a knock at Sixx’s front door. Seeing the guitarist sporting platform shoes and hair down to his butt, according to Motley’s Crue 2001 autobiography The Dirt, Sixx pulled Lee aside and said, “I can’t believe it! Here’s another one like us!”
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After Sixx showed Mars the changes for “Stick to Your Guns,” eventually an early Motley Crue single, Lee said Mars, “grabbed his guitar and played the shit out of it, making the riff so distorted and insane that we couldn’t even recognize it anymore. We picked up a gallon of schnapps at the liquor store, got plastered and jammed for an hour.” That same day Mars fired the guy who’d been the group’s other guitarist. “We didn’t even need to discuss whether Mick was right for the band or not,” Lee wrote in The Dirt. “The dude was already in.”
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