Dirt Confessions of the World`s Most Notorious Rock Band Paperback – January 1, 2001

I'm a big Mötley Crüe fan. In fact, watching the Looks that Kill video on MTV back in 1984 turned this average football loving eleven year old into a crazed headbanger and sent me on a lifelong quest for the loudest, heaviest, hardest hitting music possible.So, fitting squarely in the target group this book's aiming for, I really doubt that I can write a fair, impartial assessment of the book.For heshers like me, who grew up rocking endlessly to tunes like Looks That Kill, Shout at the Devil, Red Hot, Too Young to Fall in Love, Bastard, Ten Seconds to Love, Wild Side, Girls, Girls, Girls, and ...All in the Name Of yet still have a soft spot in their hearts for a schmaltzy power ballad like Home Sweet home, this book is like a dream come true.The astonishing rise of the band, from local LA glam metal misfits to worldwide hard rock juggernaut is told both with graphic detail and candid detachment, keeping the narrative flowing and the reader hooked with these lecherous lunkheads' exploits, while their failings as human beings and subsequent fall from grace are dealt with a brutally honest style. The story is told by multiple narrators, most of the time the band members adding some important collaborators here and there. Even if this technique might bring contradicting versions on some incidents, it makes for a truly interesting and entertaining read.This book is not for the squeamish. Much like Led Zeppelin, Queen and Van Halen before them and Guns 'n Roses after them, the Crüe built a bad boy reputation based on their sexually decadent behavior and drug excesses, but unlike the aforementioned bands, their music didn't prove to be strong enough on the long run to stand on it's own outside the band's image.That said, Neil Strauss manages to weave the story in a way that it ultimately becomes a tale that anybody can identify with: a scarcely talented yet very driven group of misfits pay their dues and achieve their dreams of rock 'n roll stardom, succeeding despite their life threatening drug and alcohol addictions yet ultimately loosing it all to their own hubris and fighting to rise from their own ashes.Yes folks, this is the formula both for a Greek tragedy and a Behind the Music special, and that's the main reason this book works so well regardless if the reader is interested in the band or not.For big fans of the band like me, this book delivers most of the dirty details we already knew and delivers a few we missed over the years.I mean, before reading the book I already knew that Vince Neil's a selfish alcoholic bum who's only in it for the girls and the money, that Nikki Sixx's an immature drug addict incapable of confronting his problems who will always blaming his failings on childhood issues and that Tommy Lee is little more than a stupid and violent manchild, but on the other hand, I didn't know about Mick's health or personal issues and was shocked about how much his fellow band members kicked him around over the years.During its 80s heyday, fans perceived the band as an airtight unit, an unlikely yet unbreakable brotherhood of wild, unpredictable rock misfits united by music, tragedy and success. True, with Vince Neil's sacking in 1992, this perception began to crumble, but the author doesn't pull any punches at exposing the band's feuding and backstabbing, proving that said brotherhood was nothing but a carefully cultivated image.One interesting point the book doesn't address is Mick's real age: despite the claim that he's about five years older than the other guys, there's a persisting rumor among hardcore Crüe fans that he was actually in his early forties when the band fame's exploded, which doesn't seem that implausible after all if you look at old band photos.In the end, The Dirt is that rare rock biopic that not only delivers all the sordid details the band's fandom expect, but also manages to build an engaging human interest story that can appeal to anyone interested in rock music.

Haven’t read all the reviews but wanted to highlight something that is the real story of this book:The spiritual aspect of this tale.It’s subtle and not often referenced, but it’s undeniably what the book is REALLY about: the very real battle between good and evil playing out in the lives of the band.It’s straight up acknowledged in the parts about the supernatural manifestations at Lita and Nikki’s house — and the fact he was dabbling in satanism. Also in the part about Mick and the ghost of his disease. If you read the book with eyes toward that angle, you see the cause and effects of everything in their lives logically laid out.Let’s get this part straight first: even the Bible says satan is the ruler of this world, and even Jesus didn’t deny it when satan asserted that fame and riches was his to distribute. All you have to do is worship Satan and you can have what is his to give.Whether they took it seriously or not, the Crue actively worshiped satan through their lifestyles. They’re whoremongers, drug users (sorcerers), adulterers...and actively promoted this lifestyle through their fame. They did the devil’s work and he rewarded them.Of course, a deal with the devil is never a good one. Despite all their dreams coming true, they all had to pay horrible prices for what they got. Once again, the Bible says sin is pleasurable for a season. And the wages of sin is death.No matter what “good” you got out of your deal, it still costs too much. All that breaking of God’s laws throughout the season of fame IS the selling of your soul. Satan hopes you’ll be so far alienated from God and your conscience seared that you never realize YOU CANNOT SELL YOUR SOUL BECAUSE YOU DON’T OWN IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. But it’s just like the devil (the Bible calls him The Enemy) to make you think you’re too far gone to ever be forgiven. The devil is also called “The Father of Lies” — and his biggest lie is that anyone is too dirty to ever be washed in God’s word and be saved from Hell.Motley Crue is no different than any of us. We’re all sinners. There isn’t a single person alive who is free of sin — only Jesus was a perfect human.The greatest battle of all time is between God and Satan and they’re battling for the souls of men. Everything we can perceive with our senses is temporary, the Bible tells us. Everything we DON’T see is what’s eternal and REALITY. And there is a war in the spirit world constantly happening around us. What we do — whether it’s praising and praying to God or committing sin and therefore worshiping satan — gives power to either side.Sickness is a spirit like Mick saw supernaturally. And like Vince saw in the cancer of Skylar when he said looking at her tumor was like looking at “the face of evil.” He was discerning the ACTUAL EVIL SPIRIT OF DISEASE behind that organic mass that killed his daughter. Our battle is NOT with flesh and blood but SPIRITS, the Bible assures us.My prayer and hope for them and anyone reading this is that they understand the victory can be snatched from satan — that we don’t have to take the easy broad road to hell not even realizing we’re being led down it — Being led by people like Motley Crue, who are victims themselves, but used by Satan because of their natural GOD GIVEN talents and abilities. They can sway the masses down that road of sin with their natural talents and charisma so satan hires them!!The Bible gives away the ending of this battle between Good and evil. God wins. The battle is reaching the final stages, we’re living in the end times, no doubt.But while you still have breath in your body, you can get on the winning side by asking Jesus Christ to come into your heart and make you brand new. He can take away addictions, depression, suicidal tendencies instantly — I’m a witness. No matter how lost you think you are, Jesus can come in and make you and your life brand new. Just listen to the millions of testimonies of people on YouTube — people just like you got their lives, minds, bodies — everything — completely made new by the power of Christ.All you have to do is humble yourself and admit you need help. The best thing that can happen to anyone is to reach the end of your rope and FINALLY set your pride aside and cry out to God for help. Good for you if you don’t need to hit rock bottom first. But most people do.And when you do, when you ask Jesus to show you he’s real and to come into your life and heart — that tiny drop of faith it takes to say such a thing will be rewarded — everything old will be stripped away and you’ll be made BRAND NEW. You’ll lose everything, pretty much, including most of your friends (except the real ones). But that’s what happens in a life renovation.This life is a puff of smoke, the Bible says. It’s a 70-80 year (if you’re lucky) audition for ETERNITY in one of two places: heaven or hell. Now is the time to choose. We’re not promised another second. Jesus said “ “No man comes to the Father (God in heaven) but by (through) Me.” Jesus is the Door to Salvation. Make the single most important decision in every human’s life: CHOOSE CHRIST NOW!God bless you.

L'histoire de Motley Crue est pleine de rebondissements. Un livre captivant, beaucoup plus détaillée que le film.

Actualmente tengo 17 años por lo que no me tocó vivir esta época y tampoco era muy fan, pero aún así disfrute enormemente este denso libro.Es un obra que abarca todo lo que simboliza ser una estrella de rock desde los glamurosos excesos, todas las implicaciones del negocio de la música -como engranes de una máquina regida por el dinero que nunca para-, hasta el cómo su estilo de vida se infliltra en sus relaciones personales para contarnos como sufren las mismas aflicciones que todos el mundo: problemas amorosos, legales, perdidas de seres queridos, o la falta de los mismos.No solía leer mucho antes de este libro aún así atrapó mi atención por lo gracioso que es, pero sin duda fue una gran primera experiencia con un libro, lo recomendaría para adolescentes que quieran sembrar un hábito de lectura.Este libro tiene un mensaje muy especial que hace que dejes de ver cómo ídolos a los artistas y los veas como humanos normales explotados por una industria ambrienta de talento para exprimir.Mi capitulo favorito es el capítulo de Vince sobre la muerte de su hija; cuando lo leí por primera vez llore en cada página y aún después cuando lo recuerdo me parece sublime el como Vince describe ese dolor.Esta demás decir que amo este libro y que lo recomendaría a cualquier persona dispuesta a reír, llorar y rockear con un libro entre sus manos.

I absolutely love the cover and everything if your looking to get the book keep in mind to get hard cover since its better value and has a cuter box

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Libro increíble en todos los aspectos. De obligada lectura aunque no seas fan de Mötley Crüe o del Rock. Innumerables anécdotas. Te lleva al Subset Strip de los 80.