MÖTLEY CRÜE’s NIKKI SIXX Looks Towards Band’s Final Show – “I Just Hope I Don’t Cry During ‘Shout At The Devil’”

Billboard caught up with Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx to gauge his past, hard partying days and the early times of Mötley Crüe and also looks ahead to the band’s final show on New Year’s Eve tomorrow night at Los Angeles, CA’s Staples Center.

“I don’t know how we’re gonna feel,” says Sixx when asked about the final performance. “We’ve been kind of dodging that question for two years and now there’s no getting out of it. We’re pretty rough-and-tumble dudes, but even the toughest guy going in for his last fight is going to feel a pang in his heart, and I’m guaranteeing that something’s gonna happen up there that I don’t know about and I probably don’t want to think about until it happens. I just hope I don’t cry during ‘Shout At The Devil.’ “

Entertainment Weekly recently caught up with Sixx to take a look at the story behind the band’s biggest hits.

About “Girls, Girls, Girls”, Sixx says: “It was also sort of mirroring the lifestyle of the band at that time and the underbelly that is part of Hollywood. So if you dig a little deeper in the lyrics, they actually have a little bit of a story to them as well. I’ve been to a strip club in every country in the world when we were younger, and that song is always played in every strip club around the world. It’s kind of impressive, I’ll be honest with you!” That song will be ingrained in every young man’s brain forever.”

“I remember walking down the stairs onto the stage and hardly knowing Tommy and Vince and Mick,” Sixx says, reflecting on Mötley Crüe’s first-ever gig, in West Hollywood on April 24th, 1981. “But at the same time feeling like I’d known them my whole life. Breaking into that first song, I remember just feeling at home.”