"Nikki Sixx memoir is inaccurate"

Former Motley Crue producer Tom Werman has called bassist Nikki Sixx's recently published memoir, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star, "totally deluded" and "stunningly inaccurate," according to Blabbermouth.net. Werman leveled his criticisms in a letter to the New York Times, taking issue with Sixx's claims that the bassist did all the work in the studio on the Crue albums Theatre of Pain, Shout at the Devil and Girls, Girls, Girls while Werman chatted on the phone.

The producer wrote in his letter, "(New York Times writer) Alan Light's description in his review of The Heroin Diaries of the heroin-besotted Nikki Sixx as 'bratty and self-destructive' is on the money, but having been there and having read the book, I would go with 'totally deluded' or perhaps 'stunningly inaccurate.' As the producer of three Motley Crue albums over a four-year period, I found Sixx's allegation that in the recording studio he did 'all the work' with Vince Neil's vocals while I chatted idly on the phone not only humorous but pure fiction.

Werman added, "If this distortion of reality is the result of Sixx's past heroin habit, then his diary is truly nothing more than a pipe dream, and the events to which this book refers may simply be the needle-induced fantasies of an attention-starved junkie."

Werman also lashed out in 2004 at Twisted Sister over comments the band made regarding his contributions to their breakthrough 1984 album, Stay Hungry.

The producer retired from music in 2002 and opened a bed and breakfast in Massachusetts.

Sixx recorded an album under the name Sixx A.M. with longtime friends James Michael and D.J. Ashba as a "soundtrack" to The Heroin Diaries.

Sixx A.M. is planning a short tour and is letting fans vote at votesixxam.com on which cities the group should play in. The date on which the winning cities and tour schedule will be unveiled is February 28th.
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