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Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin vocal Academy where the
proof is in the singing. I wanted to do a vocal coach reacts to
Motley Crue and I chose the song "Kickstart My Heart". I have a couple
little intersections with the band. Way back when Vince Neil left the band I
was asked to audition for the group and you know the lifestyle just wasn't for
me, that's not what I'm about. John Kuraby wound up taking the gig they did a
record that was very unlike their original stuff and so it didn't fly so
well because they were trying to do more of an alternative thing and they went
back to their roots but I'd like to say a few things about the band before I do
a reaction is I have a had a client Kat Von D, you guys might know her that was
the tattoo artist on the show LA Ink and has a big makeup line and stuff in
Sephora but anyway Kat was one of my clients and she was dating Nikki Sixx
at the time so I got to hear a lot of different intimate stories and I want to
share one story about the band. Now I know there's different versions of this
story that's printed online but this is what Kat had told me and she had said
that he Nikki was obviously in heroin at the time and that's why this
"Kickstart My Heart" was and I want to say I got two different versions of it, it
one from Kat and one from another friend. I'm gonna say UK cause that's was my
understanding of it but it might have been LA or somewhere else where he
overdosed, he was in a drug dealers house and he was really impressed with how
clean the needles were and this and that whatever and so he got all blue in the
face and then supposedly when the drug dealer saw he was overdosing
he took a baseball bat to him and threw him in a dumpster. I kid you not and then
when someone found him or heard him calling out or whatever they called
paramedics, paramedic guy showed up recognized him as Nikki Sixx said you're
not gonna die on my watch, shot him with a bunch of adrenaline, took
him to the hospital and you know he made it through. In fact I think that's one of
the main reasons that he's not a drug addict to this day or it does I don't
think that he drinks alcohol. So which is great um so that's the back
story of "Kickstart My Heart". I know there's other versions of the stuff
floating around but I thought I would share that with you because I got it
straight from the horse's mouth from more intimate things than just reading
it on the Internet so with that said let's get started.
"Kickstart My Heart", let's rock.
Oh wait sorry, the the beginning of this I have
to add one more thing, I'm gonna back this up so my editor won't have to redo
this but um the begg.. when they go to (sounds)
Right they have this motor scooters sort of thing. Well
actually that is, I think I'm almost certain that they kinda say word stolen
but they borrowed that from an old Montrose tune might as you guys know I
keep repeating this I'm sorry I'm not trying to be braggadocious my cousin
Sammy Hagar was in a band called Montrose, look up the band Montrose and
look up the song "Bad Motor Scooter" and listen to the intro and then listen to
the intro of this. Now they didn't steal the song, it was just the idea and maybe
someone else had done it before but I wanted to make that also as a side
comment, here we go.
Good song.
Poor Vince sounds out of breath, I mean he's trying to hold it together he is
hitting the notes which is cool. You know there's two things Nikki Sixx is a great
songwriter and he's always just really been a phenomenal songwriter and it's
interesting that the bass player is writing you know the songs for the band
whatever and in this case you know he's writing stuff and the band's all keeping
up with him but you know you've got a bass player directing the band rather
than a guitar player. In the seventies is more like the guitar player wrote this
stuff and then the bass player came along for the ride, to keep a groove.
Right but it's the opposite in Motley Crew and there's a quite a few other
bands like that but I just want to point that out because he was the main
songwriter for the band, here we go.
Whoever filmed this did a great job man.
Nice tight group.
So okay picture this for me. I am in France, I'm on tour you know these guys
say you know, I'll tell you exactly what happens I'm watching MT.. I couldn't
sleep I'm watching MTV France and they're on, on an interview and Nikki Sixx
is out you know the whole band's on and Nikki Sixx says you know hey we never
thought of ourselves as a great band we were in it for the chicks and the drugs
and the party and this and that whatever. I mean maybe okay maybe that's the rock
and roll thing to say maybe and maybe it's true. I don't know a lot of those.. Poison
said the same things and a lot of LA bands but at the time that I was
watching them, I'm looking at this and I'm going you know Tommy Lee is just a
phenomenal drummer in his just... drum risers spinning in arenas and stuff
like that. You can't say that if you're writing
great songs like this and you're playing.. the band's playing super tight and you
didn't just get in it for the chicks and the this and that whatever you're
propagating some thing that's of the rock.. the Kiss rock and roll statement to
make or whatever it is and in their case you know I've never been a big fan of a
lot of the LA singing that was.. again I like Coverdale and Lou Gramm, Paul
Rodgers you know Mickey Thomas guys like that. So this kind of singing you know
bands like Rat ya know Stephen Pearcy and all these different bands that came
out of LA were not my thing but the band kicked major major butt and the
songs were great and I just have to kind of point that out as I go.
Sorry another Ken Tamplin rant. Personal stories I should like have this diary
the diary of Ken Tamplin. Here we go.
What a killer stage man, wow.
Wow
I love this part nice breakdown man.
There's Tommy
Gosh what a stage that is, man holy cow can you believe it and then here we got
the...he's on her risers he's going up check it out.
You know I have a side another side note. I've got a chance to play in a lot of good-sized
stages right and um everyone uses wireless right now. Back then you know
I was one of the first few guys that we're using like headset wireless,
wireless guitar and stuff and then you know way back when. Again grandpa's been
doing this a long time stuff but what's interesting is there's a delay that
happens on a wireless system and the farther you are away from you know from
transmitter to receiver if there's a delay like five milliseconds, ten
milliseconds, like really weird. So you have to, you're not only concentrating on
your playing but you're concentrating on it being tight with the band and you
strike up (sounds) like depends on how far away
you are from something. So like all these guys and I've seen Trans-Siberian
Orchestra a few times. My student Gabriella Guncikova used to sing for
them so I've seen quite a few and they go so far out on these risers and this
and that whatever and it is so hard to lock into the band, stay tight, remember
your parts. You know have this you know wireless system that you're getting this
delay up. You have to like get in front of it in order to make it to work, make
it work and this is what's going on here with these guys going out. I mean I'm
assuming because I know the drill. Here we go.
And only someone that's done, that's been out there could understand what I'm
talking about.
They are as tight as heck man.
Gosh, man look at that stage wow just incredible stuff guys. Ken Tamplin Vocal
Academy where the proof is in the singing.
and I hope you guys enjoyed that and until next time peace out.
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