SIXX: A.M. Announce New Drummer

SIXX A.M. have hired a new, permanent drummer. Dustin Steinke got the job. He's also the drummer for BLEEKER RIDGE. Steinke will drum on the new SIXX A.M. album which is due out later this year. I guess we'll see him when the band hits the road this summer too!

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Posted by Blabbermouth.net (Official) on Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Comments

[Him]

Just to contextualize things a wee bit (and to have a bit fun): this is what will now stand in for Crue news. This, along with updates regarding Mars and his solo project.

My only hope is that we get more of the latter and less of the former. And please, please, please, please . . . news that the movie is going to be canned. Nothing good will come from a movie version of The Dirt. Nothing. Save this: who should play each of the band members?

You start . . .

[Metalboy!]

Hahaha!!! Total agreement with you, HIM... Who gives a flying f*ck about SIXX:AM? This is THE most boring band ever. The last thing they did that displayed any sort of songwriting prowess by Sixx under this monicker was "Life Is Beautiful" and that was seven years ago.

[Metalboy!]

Okay, HIM... I'll bite... The Cast of "The Dirt"...

Nikki Sixx -- James Franco
Vince Neil -- Amy Schumer
Mick Mars -- Adam Driver
Tommy Lee -- Christian Bale

p.s. You are also correct in your anticipation of the Mars and Corabi collaboration bearing fruit -- Can't wait to hear it. And alluding to the fact that vanity project SIXX:A.M. is a complete and utter yawner.

[Shawn]

I see 6 AM as Nikki's attempt to be relevant but most new metal is boring.. (I didnt say all new metal is boring) and Sixx Am falls into the boring category for me..... I hate to say it I love Metalboys lineup but just let the guys from Steel Panther play the Crue in the dirt....

[JAT]

Vanity Project??? Aren't all bands a vanity project of some sort? Why is it a vanity project, because its Nikki Sixx? Makes zero sense.

[GNR]

Hahaha - Steel Panther to play Crue. That made my day ! Funny but yet in a twisted way it would work. Maybe like a Dirt- Spinal Tap thing going on... who knows ?!? A good laugh is getting tougher to find these days. I would send a few bucks to that Kickstarter idea.

Back to Sixx AM - waiting for that wow tune, or that song you just cant' get out of your head, etc... I don't ever see that happening.

[Jeff]

Shame they didn't announce a new singer.....

[Metalboy!]

Yes, JAT, a Vanity project because it's Sixx, as in SIXX: A.M., whereas he is SO vain, his name is up in lights and those guys are relegated to initials following it and the fact that these guys only have one half decent song, as GNR implies. But don't get me wrong... HUGE Sixx fan but his little VANITY project is one of THE BIGGEST f*ckin' Borefests in Rock & Roll History!

Brace yourself, GNR, but you just hit on a good idea... It's not Crüe who Steel Panther should play, however... Steel Panther should play,... well, Steel Panther! How great would THAT be?

[Dj]

Although I love Motley Crue more than SIXX AM, they have some great songs, I don't think Nikki wants to do something like Motley Crue anymore, hence why they called it quits and left a scar on rock n roll..putting his ego aside, and regardless if you like SIXX AM or not, he still is a great songwriter and still very creative. He is just more creative with Ashba and James Michael, Life Is Beautiful, This Is Gonna Hurt, Lies Of The Beautiful People, Stars, and Gotta Get It Right are great songs amongst others, just very different from Motley. On the Mick Mars side, I absolutely cannot wait to see what he's cooking up, it'll be different from Motley but I have a feeling he is into something really cool. As far as The Dirt goes, I don't know how it'll turn out, but if Crue is involved with it and have Jeff Tremaine working it, I'm pretty sure they'll put together something cool. Maybe I'm wrong about all of this, but I'll still continue to defend one of my favorite bands even though they aren't together anymore, although I do see where all of you are coming from.

[Him]

I see your point too, Dj. But, at this point, no one needs to defend the legacy that The Crue established for themselves.

I just cringe when I think about the movie. I think that there are more possible ways that it will sully, rather than support, that legacy. Things of this sort don't tend to go well. They are either awful hagiographies filtered through the soft glow of nonsense or revisionist twaddle like the recent NWA bio-pic.

I place _The Dirt_ in a small category of (auto-)biographies that read more like fiction rather than truth (note I said _read like_, not _is_). Another one? _Hammer of the Gods_. In both cases, I feel like the attempts at a film treatment would be akin to a film version of, say, King's _The Stand_ (the television version was dreadful) or Pynchon's _Gravity's Rainbow_. In both those literary cases, the visuals you see in your head simply can't be matched by what they would transfer to celluloid (or what have you).

Floyd's _The Wall_ was a pretty good counter-example, even if it was lyrics-and-music-to-film. And Kubrick's translation of King in _The Shining_ was good because you had a loony master behind the wheel, adapting and poking and changing as his tastes suited him. Who is behind the wheel of _The Dirt_ right now? The director of _Bad Grandpa_ and _Jackass_ and one of the writers of _xXx_?!!? Love me some sight-gags and some breezy action films. But, really? Does that make you think this will turn out well?

In other news, I will try my hand at casting the darn thing (and I am just having a bit of fun):

Neil: hologram (younger); Amy Schumer or John Lovitz (older)
Lee: Adam Driver
Mars: Steve Buscemi
Sixx: Liza Minnelli

My hope? That the DVD of the final show(s) is well-received, that the planned box-set is worth the money, and that some great rarities are released sometime down the road.

[Ace Steele]

RE: Dirt Casting.

JONAH HILL as Vince.
CHRISTIAN BALE as Tommy
NICOLAS CAGE as Sixx
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN as Mick

Now THAT I'd go see. *as an extra treat... RUSSELL BRAND, as Nikki's buddy STEPHEN PEARCY of RATT

[Metalboy!]

Hahaha!!! Glad to see you picked up on Amy Schumer's resemblance to Vince Neil, HIM, as that's who I also tapped in your initial casting call at the beginning of this Comments thread.

We've also both got Adam Driver either to play Lee or Mars but Liza Minelli as Nikki? Hahaha!!!

Ace, I actually thought of Jonah Hill, initially, as well to play Vince Neil but figured Schumer could pull it off as both the younger Neil and with some extra padding (though she wouldn't need much) to play him in his later years. And very funny (and inspired) to get Christopher Walken to play Mars.

Also, nice to see we both selected Christian Bale to play Tommy Lee.

A special Kudos to HIM for a truly inspired idea of casting "The Dirt". Great fun! I hope more will play.

p.s. Whoa, Ace... I didn't know Pearcy was Nikki's wingman?

[Him]

Yeah, I should have stressed that I was "seconding" your initial post, even if I had to tweak the rest of the choices, Metalboy! Credit where credit is due.

Christian Bale, the method actor; Tommy Lee, Methods of Mayhem. I guess there is some cosmic confluence going on.

And I never imagined that Pearcy and Sixx would hang out either, Ace. Do tell . . . or were you pulling our chains?

I agree: let's hear some more pairings.

[Metalboy!]

"Tweak"? Hahaha!!!

[Mike]

I Really enjoyed the last Sixx:AM album. Bought it on a whim not expecting much (was not big on the previous release), it wound up being one of my favourites of 2014.

Mind you, I like most of what Nikki does, with the 58 album still being my favourite project of his outside CRÜE.

I had really high hopes for Brides Of Destruction back when that was in the early stages (big Tracii Guns fan here) but that album really fell flat.

I am really stoked on this Mars / Corabi project. I really hope when they go looking for a rhythm section they call Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee hahahaha (we can dream)... They could pull a Sabbath / Dio, and call it HOOLIGANS HOLIDAY.

[Metalboy!]

HOOLIGAN'S HOLIDAY in chrome lettering!

[Jack T. Ripper]

MARS IN GOLD LETTERING!

[Metalboy!]

METALBOY! in Titanium Lettering!