MTLEY CRE's NIKKI SIXX: 'We Honor Being A Rock N' Roll Band'

April 23, 2008

Sean D. Fitzgerald of the National Post reports: MTLEY CRE last week delivered a Los Angeles press conference to announce the next step in the group's decadent rock career the announcement of Cre Fest, a summer music festival.

The festival's organizers plan to incorporate a Rock Band stage at the event, so CRE fans can flaunt their gaming skills before a large audience. Gamers can even practice their chops beforehand: last week, MTLEY CRE was the first group to release a new single through the popular video game. The song, "Saints of Los Angeles", details the band's rise to fame.

"We're coming out of the bowels and the gutter of Los Angeles and we're taking off, and we're saying to everybody, 'someday you will confess, and pray to the saints of Los Angeles,' " bassist Nikki Sixx explains. "For everyone that was trying to hold us back, we did it."

The song is the first single from their upcoming album, also called "Saints of Los Angeles", which will hit stores in mid-June.

While some music fans might question the CRE's relevance to the current musical climate especially since drummer Tommy Lee and singer Vince Neil have dabbled in reality TV over the past few years Sixx says he wants the group to age gracefully.

"We honor being a rock n' roll band," Sixx says. "Just like the (ROLLING) STONES do, just like AEROSMITH does. We don't turn our back on who it is we are."

Read the entire article from the National Post.

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