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Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx is finally going to Bangkok. "I tried to go in '87, and our management wouldn't let me," he says. "They said, 'Bottom line, Nikki -- you'll die. We know you.'"
But instead of traveling to Thailand to slam dope, Sixx will now be shooting photos for National Geographic. Sixx's Nikon D2X is permanently slung around his neck, and a bunch of his pics -- from landscapes to self-portraits -- are popping up on nikkisixx.net. He's also building an enormous photo studio and video-editing facility at his home in L.A. One of Sixx's first tasks will be to transfer footage from the good ol' days.
"Tommy [Lee] has these old Betamax cameras," says Sixx. "I found, like, thirty tapes! One was called 'Mick Pissing on an Old Lady's Leg in Italy' and another 'Robbing Grave in England.'"
Lee suffered second-degree burns after a staging snafu on October 12th, but Sixx reports he'll be fine: "Vince tore up his calf, Mick has the degenerative bone disease and then Tommy. Everyone's taking bets on when I go down."