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Carl was a defensive end. Alan played defensive tackle. Together, they taught me to play chess. They had all the patience in the world for me, and I've always been grateful. Whenever my band played in Minneapolis, I'd get a Minnesota Vikings jersey and put it on for the encore.
I used to get razzed for it. People would say, "We don't even like the Vikings here in Minnesota!"
I'd go, "You'll never understand."
— Mar 18, 2022 12:38PM
Carl was a defensive end. Alan played defensive tackle. Together, they taught me to play chess. They had all the patience in the world for me, and I've always been grateful. Whenever my band played in Minneapolis, I'd get a Minnesota Vikings jersey and put it on for the encore.
I used to get razzed for it. People would say, "We don't even like the Vikings here in Minnesota!"
I'd go, "You'll never understand."
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Jeff formed Squeeze and gave himself a stage name: Niki Syxx.
I loved that name right away - even though it was missing that sweet extra k. Then and there, I decided to steal it.
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"Okay," I told Angie, "I'm just going to be Nikki Sixx."
"Frank!" she said. "You can't just be Nikki Sixx! That's Jeff's stage name."
"Whatever," I said. "He's never going to make it."
— Mar 19, 2022 10:27AM
I loved that name right away - even though it was missing that sweet extra k. Then and there, I decided to steal it.
[...]
"Okay," I told Angie, "I'm just going to be Nikki Sixx."
"Frank!" she said. "You can't just be Nikki Sixx! That's Jeff's stage name."
"Whatever," I said. "He's never going to make it."
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A few months after that, I was doing something in my room and Nona called out to me, "Hey, Frankie, that guy you like, Peter Cooper. He's on TV."
I knew what she meant. […] We had a little TV on one of the small TV stands you can roll across the room and there, on The Merv Griffin Show, I got my first glimpse of Gene Simmons from Kiss. Not Alice Cooper.
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This part made me laugh
— Mar 18, 2022 01:22PM
I knew what she meant. […] We had a little TV on one of the small TV stands you can roll across the room and there, on The Merv Griffin Show, I got my first glimpse of Gene Simmons from Kiss. Not Alice Cooper.
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This part made me laugh
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[…] I knew Jerome was small. It was idyllic. But something about it rubbed me the wrong way.
I wouldn't have been able to articulate it at the time-[…]-but I knew I had to get out.
A big part of that had to do with Uncle Don and with the records he'd started to send me. But some of it has to do with the fact that I'm an artist--and an artist is a little like somebody born with no skin. You feel everything.
— Mar 18, 2022 01:08PM
I wouldn't have been able to articulate it at the time-[…]-but I knew I had to get out.
A big part of that had to do with Uncle Don and with the records he'd started to send me. But some of it has to do with the fact that I'm an artist--and an artist is a little like somebody born with no skin. You feel everything.
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But no one understood the black lines under my eyes either. I could have trademarked those lines--they were as much a part of my look as David Bowie's lightning bolt was part of his. People called them war paint. But not one person I met in the eighties ever thought to connect them to football.
— Mar 18, 2022 12:38PM
But no one understood the black lines under my eyes either. I could have trademarked those lines--they were as much a part of my look as David Bowie's lightning bolt was part of his. People called them war paint. But not one person I met in the eighties ever thought to connect them to football.
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And I don't think they would have. It was something I'd carried from way, way back. Something that meant so much to me then that I was going to carry it with me for the rest of my life. It was a loyalty thing.
— Mar 18, 2022 12:38PM
And I don't think they would have. It was something I'd carried from way, way back. Something that meant so much to me then that I was going to carry it with me for the rest of my life. It was a loyalty thing.
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Carl was a defensive end. Alan played defensive tackle. Together, they taught me to play chess. They had all the patience in the world for me, and I've always been grateful. Whenever my band played in Minneapolis, I'd get a Minnesota Vikings jersey and put it on for the encore.
I used to get razzed for it. People would say, "We don't even like the Vikings here in Minnesota!"
I'd go, "You'll never understand."
— Mar 18, 2022 12:35PM
Carl was a defensive end. Alan played defensive tackle. Together, they taught me to play chess. They had all the patience in the world for me, and I've always been grateful. Whenever my band played in Minneapolis, I'd get a Minnesota Vikings jersey and put it on for the encore.
I used to get razzed for it. People would say, "We don't even like the Vikings here in Minnesota!"
I'd go, "You'll never understand."
