John Corabi on Motley Crue's Drug Use During 1994 Album, The Dirt Embellishments - Interview 2021
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2021
- This excerpt was taken from a full in bloom interview with John Corabi.
John talks about the return of Motley Crue's partying ways during the making of the 1994 self-titled album, The Heroin Diaries & The Dirt embellishments, Nikki Sixx's issues with John, and Generation Swine.
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I met John on an airplane this past Thursday. My daughter has autism and told him how cool he looked and he was so incredibly kind to her. She said “mama, he looks like a real life rockstar”
John Corabi is a real dude. I love hearing this because he doesn't hold back. I just heard this thing on the radio where Nikki issued an ultimatum to Vince to get in shape or they were bringing John back, and John basically said, "No, you're not!"
I think this is been embellished greatly. I love motley Crue right from the beginning. I don't need somebody to preach to me.AMEN I just don't mind or care. Philadelphia USA
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Nikki sixx is a bullshit artist anyway........
@@realsinisterminister Nikki couldn't even play bass in the early days! He auditioned for Quiet Riot & didn't even know how to play an "F" note. He tried out for Blackie Lawless's early bands such as "Sister" with the same results. He lasted in "London" for a short time only because they were inexperienced & badly needed a bass player. When he plays live with Motley Crue these days, sometimes he isn't seen even playing his bass yet you hear the bass backing tracks blaring through the PA speaker! A bullshit artist? Yeah, I would think so.
@@ericmantel111 yea just seen that........Motley Cru are interesting to read about but their music is shit
Saw him live at a club in North Carolina. He opened for 3 bands . Definitely best on the bill and I told him so . Crappy crowd but he performed like it was 20k people there . Thank you man !!!
I have ALWAYS been a motley fan...
But MY GOD THAT ALBUM KICKED ASS!!!! THANKYOU JOHN!!!!
you have the VOICE !!!!
Great interview! The Mötley 94 album is my fave! I love the hard, raw sound. Listen to it still several times a week. Can't wait to hear the rest of the interview 🤘🏻
by far one of the best Motley albums. Super underrated, and very heavy. Tommy's drumming on that album is phenomenal.
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Absolutely!! Just an Amazing album! Corabi is heads above Crue on talent!
Damn right!!
Tommy's drumming is always top notch. Shout at the Devil should make any pro drummer blush!
By far nothing close to their best album
Great tune. Thanks for the link!
Can't wait for more of this interview. Love Crab!
What a great interview. Definitely looking forward to his book.
Makes sense. Great interview. This channel gets better and better.
Also had to add, at the end of the day, with that self-titled 1994 Motley Crue album, John gave the band a heaviness and legitimacy they never had before or since.
Yup!!!
They flopped with him.
But it still was a crap album .
@@handsomerube Yeah they have been doing so bad since they let corabi go. Several new worldtours ,several books,a netflix movie and gaining a whole new fanbase .
It was a great album.
John Corabi was the best thing that ever happened to Motley Crue. Amazing, total musician.
But this album sucked
No. It was Mick Mars.
Excellent interview, John is a real guy. Much respect for how he handled his turbulent time with Crue and the fallout after parting ways.
My old roommate “Barry” was the runner / studio assistant for Scott Humphreys who produced Generation Swine and a few other records. Anytime Barry messed up the Crue would tally it up and each mistake equaled another In & Out patty and at the end of the week he would have to eat a 10 x 10 burger in reprimand sitting in the tub. True story-
I love it.
Complete psychopaths.
Thank you so much for posting this interview. Corabi sounds like he makes a great band member and friend. For those who have not yet, I read Nikki's, Slash's, Steven Adler's, and Duff's books. All were absolutely excellent and could not put those books down. The Corabi Motley Crue was really good and super heavy. Thank God we have some of those performances with Corabi on video. Going to have to buy Corabi's book and The Dirt next.
Met him in Georgia years ago. Really nice dude. He sang with my bosses band and did 70's covers and killed it! Old Aerosmith and zztop etc. Answered all our questions bout crue. Great guy.
Man I wish there was more right now! Lol.. this was a great interview.. I can’t wait for the rest 👍
JC Is a stand up guy..God Bless Him!
The more I hear from Corabi the more I like the guy; too bad he was too real for the Crue, that one album was killer
@Brian Hess I like how everyone online says "that one album was killer" now, yet no one bought it or tickets to their shows.
Sure, ‘Hooligan’s Holiday’ always rounds out everyone’s too 20 list of Motley songs. 😆
Smoke the sky is the hardest rocking song I've ever heard
@@johndeaux3703 🎶 Everybody wants a piece of the action!!
@@jasonmorgan8110 Absolutely!🤘🍻
Excellent interview. Straight up dude.
I like this guy. He's a solid talent and a super honest guy.. gotta love a person like that
Corabi is very talented, he deserves more credit than what he gotten! Met him a few years ago & he is super nice, down to earth. 🖤❤🖤🤟
*than what he has received. not gotten.
All True, and you Never know what state, town, venue, or guitar store you will run into John.
Hell we were walking into a po dunk Mississippi guitar store...there's Corabi. When walking into KISS Alive 35 in Nashville 2010, we walked right into John Corabi, then Jeff LeBarr.
Corabi is a class act! He is as cool in person.
He has a great voice. Very talented.
What a normal, cool dude. Great interview, thank you sir!
Love the channel man, thank you.
Thank you. It all makes sense. Stay strong John!
Probably the best interview yet
94 is the greatest record of the 90s. No comparison. Play that fuxker right now and you'd say the same thing. It's a fuckin monster of an album.
I just loved this album, I still listen to it this day. It's one of my favorite motley albums. It has hard punch 👊 to it, mixed with some melodic blues sound. I highly recommend it 👌.
I did too!! That Motley record still kicks ass and holds up today. Tommy just killed it and the drum sounds were incredible along with John's work on the guitar & vocals. I believe Mick Mars said it was his favorite Motley record & that he hated the Generation Swine POS that followed.
I think it's one of there best to be honest I get shit for that and liking generation swine.
It says everything about American society and culture in the late 1980s that bands like Motley Crue and Poison ruled the airwaves.The ‘80s started out with the potential to be very cool and avante garde,and wound up the way it did….
He made a fantastic album with Cruë, it still slams.
best one they ever did
he made 2 fantastic albums with them. Best stuff they ever did! Still sounds fresh today.
Badass album, he killed it!
It's a great album, one of their best.
He’s the better of the two singers by miles.
What a missed opportunity! Having John on rhythm guitar and back up vocals in Motley Crue would have been epic!
Nikki Sixx has a LONG history of embellishing the truth. xoxo The Clarences
Corabi is a immensly talent frontman.
One of the.best natural voices in hard rock. I.wish Motley could have carried on with John as a rhythm player and Vince back on vocals.
That one record he did with Motley is steller.
The Dirt ranks right up there with Dracula, To Kill A Mockingbird and A Tale Of Two Cities as one of the greatest works of fiction ever written! LOL!
It was a movie, so it’s glamorized, and some of the details with like Greg Leon, the true first guitar player for what eventually would be motley Crue. But I was there, that’s pretty much how it was.
I don’t know if I could sit through this interview, I don’t know what he said that people are pissed about in the comments. But other than that, what parts really stuck out to you as fiction?
I actually know their first drummer, Bill Snyder too, the one with the first drum set to go perpendicular. Bill liked Tommy, who was maybe five years younger than them. He just quit the band at some point also. They were all still pretty unknown at the time. Greg Leon was in Dolken before George Lynch also.
I’ve heard recently (that the first guitar player they showed in dirt), would’ve really been Greg Leon. Who was a great guitar player and singer. So Mick certainly didn’t come in and blow him away, ha ha. I’m not sure who the guy in the movie was depicting. Maybe there was a different guy after Greg that was kind of that doofus in the movie. But I believe Greg just quit the band before Mick joined. Not exactly sure of the timeline, I could check. Just thought I would chime in. 😝🎸🤘🏻
I've heard plenty of bands talk about Motley Crue, seems like The Dirt was pretty accurate. The only person I've ever seen repudiate it was Andy Mccoy from Hanoi Rocks. Of course he's a pretty biased source
I’ve heard several interviews with MC over the years, so the movie was very predictable, every scene I had heard about already.
Nikki (Frank Ferrano) has always been a phony from the beginning, so I don't know why it would be a surprise that he "colored" ANY thing he has ever written !!! Unoriginal bastard has continuously copied lyrics and songs . Gotta give him credit though , he's cultivated a whole persona and career and plenty of money, so hats off to Phony Sixx !!
million year yea McCoy talks about having to carry Nikki's heavy ass into the tub or something..says he was trying to be a big boy and do some strong stuff
What a great job you do and have interviewing rockers and making sure that the content is interesting and cool to listen to really good stuff…:)
I appreciate that, Scott. Thank you!
@@fullinbloom You're better than Eddie Trunk! You know-The dude that loves to keep on ragging on KISS... and Paul Stanley in particular! You stayed on point, and that's totally cool with me!
@@ronaldshank7589 Thank you, Ronald.
John is one of the nicest, hilarious and genuine rock musician's I have ever met. No offense to Crue fans, but I've never been a fan. Not from the start. But John is a big figure for me. I love his voice, and The Scream album is a timeless collection for me. I was just singing to it the other day.
This was a really cool interview and hearing John's insights were really great. I enjoyed Corabi's one record w/the Crue but I much prefer Vince's voice for the band. I look forward to reading John's book when it comes out to truly hear his point of view.
"greeted with a tequila and a corona"
has a totally different meaning nowadays
I think Corabi nailed it - anyone in the midst of a debilitating heroin addiction, fighting off dope sickness every fucking day with every second and every penny, is not likely to have the wherewithal to write this experience down in a fucking diary. Most addicts don't have the resources to spring for the pen and paper. If Nikki had spent any time talking to people at the methadone clinic he claims to have attended, he would know as much. Almost every addict has the same tragic tale of wrecked lives and dreams. Sure, Nikki Sixx dabbled for a couple of years and ODd in his mansion after selling millions of records, but by and large, his heroin days were manaufactured. Everything about Motley Crue was manufactured and planned out. Ask anyone who knew them in the early days. The dude has NO IDEA what heroin addiction is really like for most people.
Adults are responsibile for making their own decisions, but imagine how many kids were influenced to use heroin because their hero and rock star inextraordinaire, Nikki Sixx, glamorized it? The dude published a book and crafted a band around exploiting it. Between heroin and Tommy Lee's home porn, they have managed to sustain a career post-Dr. Feelgood, which was the their last commercially successful studio album with hits. That was what - 1989??
Nikki Sixx should donate every fucking dime he has to helping heroin addicts through recovery. He's a grifter who has contributed to the death and destruction of many lives.
This post is spot on. Grifter is the best word to describe Sixx, along with pathological liar, & narcissist….basically, he’s an all around shitty human being.
I think you nailed it. I'm 57 and grew up on British metal. The LA based "hair bands" of the 80's were more about image than talent. Sure, some had some great songs, but you wonder how much of that was production and how much was talent. It took Axl Rose firing the whole band and hiring a bunch of studio pros to play like he wanted the songs to sound. I also think rock is a young man's game. These old farts standing in front of a teleprompter in their Depends singing songs from the1970's, come on!
Agreed as a past Heroin addict I read his stories from a Girl who adored Nikki and as I read it I just didn’t believe the stories now I’m sure he was using but when your on that shit that’s all your thinking about your not thinking about “can’t wait to write in my journal today” mind you if your not nodding out all day.I’m not buying a lot of his stories it’s almost like he heard of some woes and he amped them up
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@@juanelorriaga2840 dude I did heroin for 10 years You can do anything normal people do you just need to make sure you keep dope on you. You really couldn’t write down what you did for the day because you were high on dope all day? I don’t know any addicts that aren’t able to write words on a piece of paper.
John always keeps the discussion classy
I've always been a fan of John.
Every story is embleshed in one way or another,like a fisherman "I caught a 🐠...this big"
Agree 100%. I bought that record back in the day when it was released and nobody had ever heard of it. It kind of still seems that way unfortunately haha
Great interview...John Corabi is quite articulate. I wonder.if he still writes and tours...
This was one of the best Crue Albums. I love it. Songwriting and musically it was the best IMO
Hell yeah it is!! This album prooved and I believe it earned them the respect of being serious musicians.
I miss The Scream. Killer band.
Now you're talkin'. The Scream was incredible. Wish that band got resurrected.
@@DirtyBlues8 they'd literally have to resurrect Walt Woodward. He dead. I did totally love The Scream. Remnants of Racer X. 🤘😛🤘
I just hope Corabi and the crue can be friends... they did a masterpiece together. Thank you John, that album was ahead of its time
This album features all their peak playing, especially Tommy who went to the next level. Corabi's involvement enabled that as that material would never have been possible with Vince. Still sounds fresh nearly 30 years later.
I already pre-ordered his book and can't wait to read it in June.
John has more class in his fingernail than Nikki has in his whole being.
Motley Crue is bad for Nikki you don't think he's turned into a decent person. More people think that then this guy. What bloody happened to what stays on tour. Have a cry mate you're no longer in Motley Crue. Boo hoo, Nikki is still going. Next, bitching about James and Lars. Motley crue's worst album. This guys ones
@@New_Zealand_Music what the fuck did any of THAT mean? LOL!
Amen
@@Whateves73 I think what he's trying to say Nikki is a d-bag POS who'd drown a bag of kittens for a dollar.
Meh
He's no Nikki Sixx and he definitely wasnt there on their best albums (any before 1994)
Corabi, the best Motley singer who was part of the best Motley album as well.
lol
Get off the pipe
I can see why you would say Corabi was the best singer but Vince was & is special also. The 1994 album was brilliant
Corabi is an amazing musician.
That Motley Crue album with him is great
Nikki sixx smokes heroin once....writes a book about addiction and starts a band singing about it. Rides that wave for life
Yeah back in the days when it was in style to dress up like a chick and drink and do drugs. I miss those days
Yep! Nikki was never strung out on heroin during the girls girls girls tour or any other time.
And it pisses me off that he wants to capitalize on a story about fake addiction as if its true.
Many people know it's all bs. Adrean Vandenburg said he didnt see any signs of Nikki being on heroin during that tour. And nobody else did either. I saw that tour in 87. Nikki seemed fine. Also there has been many claims from people like Slash that said Nikki was never a full-blown heroin addict. Nikki just wants to feel cool so he says he was hooked. What an idiot! Because anybody that has been a full-blown heroin addict can tell from a mile away that Nikki is full of shit.
What are you talking about?. You may think some of the tales of the band and Nikki's debauchery and addictions we're embellished and maybe (to an extent) they were, though there are plenty of people/bands around during those years that state the band and their excesses we're Exactly how they were told!. Have you never heard of "Jim Carroll, William Burroughs, or functional addicts?".. Heroin/opiate addiction is a Hell I would wish on no one, but there are Plenty of functional addicts that you would never guess in a million years had a habit!.. Unfortunately I know this from experience and while most do fit the stereotype of a junkie, it is definitely Not the case for everyone, so to assume Nikki wasn't a junkie is both unfounded and ignorant!.. Nikki also states in "The Heroin Diaries & The Dirt" that he was only hooked as a regular user for only 1 year and prior to that flirted with pills and then dope and did the "merry-go-round"(no pun intended) for a few years prior to the drug consuming him!.. Heroin affects different people differently and can make "one person nod and give another focus and energy" it depends on many factors, length of use, if other drugs are involved, your genetics, why you're using, etc. Nikki started the same time with dope as Robbin Crosby of RATT and you have two entirely different outcomes..One guy got clean before it completely destroyed and bankrupted him and one sadly did not and followed the more typical outcome of heroin addiction!.. If you read the books/did the research, etc you would know that Nikki drank and did coke far more often and for far longer than he did junk!... Excuse the rant for anyone that may read this, but I hate reading comments on here and hearing opinions based on ignorance and the trolls that don't like the band (or especially Nikki) that come on here and post petty BS about not believing he was an addict/alcoholic, completely not understanding the disease of addiction and bashing the guys importance in the band due to his simplistic and straightforward bass playing, regardless of Nikki being the primary songwriter and lyricist of the band!.. Someone will post a response to my comment about drugs or Nikki's contributions to the band without doing any research, to which I will Not respond!....
@@dgenerated 🔥🤘🔥🤘🔥 by the way addiction is hell personal triumph story myself great comment by the way
To this day, the full length Corabi Crue album is my favorite. IMO the songs seem written, arranged, and produced better.
🤘Great f'n Album!! 🤘
Was my favorite Crue album. When he left i was bummed. Crue finally a singer worth his salt and their first album with massive amount of punch and substance. A musician and front man! When I heard Swine I was done with them.
I love the album he did with Motley Crue! Listened to it yesterday. Probably their heaviest or close to it next to GENERATION SWINE
Neil Strauss (author of the Dirt) is known for his embellishments. Used to know someone who was portrayed in his “Game” book and boy did he have stories to tell
Curious to know what stories he had on Neil haha
I met John in March 2020. He was an incredibly nice and humble guy and a very talented guitarist. Motley Crue doesn't deserve him.
Motley sound is Vince Neil, and always will be. But that album with John was fn great!
I lobe motley crue, but Vince Neil sucks live. He cannot sing a lick
Great interview! I wasn't a fan of Corabi until now! A fan of old Crue from the very beginning now their a band I despise. Tommy and Nikki think they're God's gift to everything and I knew Nikki's drug use was stretched miles long & Corabi stated facts not bullshit to "seem cool"
Being an ex addict of everything- with all due respect to Corabi- no one sees from the outside looking in, how fucked up an addict gets but the addict themselves. So much is done on the sly, rite under people's noses. Unless yr with em 24/7, the only one who know is the addict.
SAW LAST SHOW of '94 Tour Hollywd Palladium 🤯MINDblowing! John's voice phenomenal and brought old material to new level. WISH proshot was available of that tour only bad bootlegs that I know of. That eponymous titled 1994 Album had best songwriting band ever wrote.. because THEN and only THEN they were a true band, each contributing to the process.
-Side Note: I'll NEVER forget backwardsstage dive Nikki did durin new song Hammered and his bass solo as the audience carried him around!!
when they opened the show with HOOLIGANS HOLIDAY... well suffice to say it was the beginning of some amazing live music.
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The 1994 album is my favorite Crue Album. I share that sentiment with Mick Mars. My favorites list basically starts with that album and goes backwards: "Motley Crue", "Dr. Feelgood", "Girls, Girls, Girls", "Theater of Pain", "Shout at the Devil", "Too Fast for Love". 🤘🏻
Ill take the first 3 and the 94 record. Didn't care for feelgood much other than Kickstart. I'm a huge fan but they haven't done anything since 94 that was good. Just my opinion. Wish mick would get that solo record out, would love to hear what he's doing.
@@otisdriftwood8469 totally agree, girls girls girls was only album before generation of swine I don't like much
@@V0liathon i like wildside and girls but the rest is filler.
...and The Mighty Van Halen was even bigger than all of them.
He mentioned working on Swine...I wonder are there any demos w John? I would love to hear him on some of those songs!
Love the album with John (Motley Crue)
When r u releasing the rest of the interview brother? I’ve been waiting for this all week?
That album was and still is awesome! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Hes completely right. I was on dope for a few years and there's no way 1. Youd remember anything and 2. You'd be nodding off while writing. And addicts have no routine except for using. So for him to sit down every day in the midst of a huge habit seems made up. Good book though 🤷♂️
That Corabi album is their best album, hands down!
Nikki slams Corabi because he KNOWS corabi made that album better. It wasnt all about nikki writing all the songs
John was put in a impossible situation,an if the bands name was changed it would have had more success an longevity w/John. I feel for him because he is very talented and everyone knows him for being Vince's replacement.
As a former iv smack user, everything he wrote about is very plausible, you can actually function quite well being strung out, now the book is it true, I never questioned it really until now, who knows, its a great read though, highly recommended
@Gerry Roberts 100%- sometimes even longer, and if you get into a funk, you can hear in the distance " ....one more time, come onnnnn.."
Down to earth dude and best singer crue ever had. He can actually sing for starters
Hope they pull off a reunion with John. I would go to a few of those shows.
It would have been nice to see what would have become of the band Scream which John fronted. That bands debut should have soared as it is loaded with excellent songs. I have it and still listen to it. Great band.
This Crue album that came out in 94 is still my favorite by far! I was a huge fan of Corabi when he was with The Scream so you can imagine my excitement when I heard he was going to be with Nikki, Mick, and Tommy. A lot of people did not like this album but I freaking loved it! Honestly, I love anything that Corabi does. Honestly, Generation Swine is probably the worst Crue album EVER. There, I said it. lol
Mr Corabi is extremely intelligent, no doubt
Corabi is the man... that album was killer..
I've always thought Nikki's number one rule for himself and "his band" is to portray an image. I do not believe half of what he says. Extreme exaggeration, or straight up lie
Nikki is or was the biggest narcissist to walk the face of rock..
@@TVoltG I get that impression too.
Dont be jelly
@@sasha_sash9660 OKI'll be honest I AM jelly of his jet black palm tree wig. And his open mouth and teeth in every band shot. And the elephant in the room, his bass playing. Guy is a virtuoso
@@karlsalocks Just like tought .Your hate says it all .
Somewhere on UA-cam there's a John Corabi solo concert where he plays the entire 1994 Crue album in chronological order with a few of previously unreleased songs at the end. John Corabi's son is on the drums. It was pretty cool to watch.
He deserved to sing on generation of swine considering he helped write most of the songs.Such a shame Sixx screwed him of writing credits.
"Most people that does heroin don't bring a diary with them."🤣that sounds like something this generation would do!!
Great story!
Corabi is amazing. Love Motley 94.
Loved the album with him!
Do you put the complete interviews anywhere else on Spotify?
Sold interview.
Great interview….
The Dead Daisies aren’t the same without him.
I just saw them in Ohio a few weeks ago and they were fantastic. Great vocalist, great guitarist. Best band I've ever seen in a small venue
corabi's crue record is the most solid front to back crue album ever. i love the crue but most of their albums have a bunch of filler songs... not the corabi record...
100% agree. I love every single Motley album up to and including the Corabi album. I spent hundreds of hours listening to all of them in the 90's. He (along with Bob Rock) was the best thing to ever happen to that band. Generation Swine with Vince is still to this day the worst album I've ever heard in my entire life.
I agree with you whole heartedly on that the album is one of the best ever hard rock album, but its just not a Mötley Crüe album. Without Vince its not Mötley Crüe. Period. It was a good band with Corabi and the album deserved a much better reception but it flopped because its not a Mötley Crüe album...Flopped because the audience wanted a Crüe album.
Definitely NOT, any true crue lover will not agree with you, yes john is talented, that album had some OK songs. But doesn't even come close to comparing with any other albums with Vince, hey I'd be even willing to say, if john was a part of the band the whole time. He could mabey have sung the classics better then vince. But that album just wasn't good.
say what you want about the line up but the band was solid with Corabi different but solid the Record is awesome ....love Razor blade voices!!!!
Most underrated and heaviest Motley album.
Why did John quit the band The Scream? Really good band!
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Interviewer: “It’s said that you guys cut the Motley Crue record on no drugs, alcohol, red meat, or caffeine is that true?”
John: “No.”
Funniest shit I’ve heard in a while 😂
As far as rock albums go, it is a great one. I’m sure even Vince liked at least one song on it.
john would be the guy i would ask to front my band if i had a band worth being in.
It's a shame....when you listen to almost ALL of these 80's bands (particularly the L.A. one's) the ego, greed, and entitlement is off the charts. It's a wonder these guys lasted as long as they did. Notice the British bands rarely had those problems.
Met John around this album with Tommy Lee at the Whisky Bar Hotel bar, great guy.
Get the Scream album! You can't blame, Craby...but damn we missed out on some great music from the Scream
John, how honest is your book? Did you color it in any way?
The 1994 self-titled album is still my absolute favorite by this band. Heavily UNDER-Rated. So much balls