Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx Open To Band Continuing As Avatars

Rock legends KISS sparked major debate when they revealed they would be continuing in the future as digital avatars. The technology to pull it off successfully still seems a few years away, but bassist Nikki Sixx seems open to the idea at some point for Mötley Crüe.

“I love technology,” Sixx said. “I think as long as it’s coming from an artist that says, ‘I have something I wanna do and this technology is gonna help.’ Like with our video ‘Dogs Of War’. When I think of our first video, I don’t know how much… The video maybe cost a thousand dollars. There was no MTV at the time, so it was, like, how can we shoot a video that when they talk about us on the news when we tour? We used to have a lot of local news stations that would promote artists coming through town — comedians, country, rock, whatever — so we wanted to have a calling card. And we were lighting me on fire on stage at the time and Mick  puked up some blood. And it was just, like, ‘F*ck it. Let’s just throw everything in there.’ And that was what we did to get fans to see what we wanna be represented as. The same as ‘Dogs Of War’.”

Sixx continued: “I don’t know what the future holds. We did some stuff with holograms years ago before the technology was really fleshed out. At some point, we’re not gonna be here anymore. I mean, not to be a Debbie Downer, but it’s just not gonna happen. And how great for your band, or whatever it is that you do, to be able to go forward for generations and generations. So I think when the time is right, put us in a coffin and fire up those avatars.”