'Dr. Feelgood' Why I love Motley Crue so much

'Dr. Feelgood' 

Why I love Motley Crue so much 

By Calvin Parsons 

Dec. 9, 2016 

Back in the day when I was but a wee youngin' I was surrounded by Metal music, but back then I didn't know that there were what seems like almost endless amounts of genres, it was basically Death Metal or just Heavy Metal to me.  I didn’t know what Thrash Metal was, what Power Metal was, or what Progressive Swedish Techno Bombastic Black Metal(too my knowledge I just made this up) was.  Wasn’t until I was about 14 when I learned what the proper names for the majority of Metal Genre's were, by watching the show Metal Evolution, on Much More up here in Canada, and VH1 in the States.  

But anyways, growing up I always listened to Metal, thanks to my father.  When he'd drive us around we'd always listen to stuff like Metallica, Anthrax, Iron Maiden, Guns 'N Roses, and Motley Crue, etc. So I was just always exposed to the stuff and loved it.  During Elementary School and even into Junior High Motley was on my favourite bands list.  The Hair Metal stuff is great when you're young and not an angst filled teenager, which is when I started to gravitate towards stuff like Metallica and Anthrax, just because it had the aggression I wanted from my music, but I would still listen to Motley Crue, and GnR every now and again.  

 Hair Metal bands always looked interesting to me growing up especially Motley Crue, they weren't as girly looking as bands like Poison or Warrant, they looked cool, basically a more colourful version of KISS.  They also personified what it meant to be a Rockstar, banging tons of hot chicks, doing tons of drugs, and drinking lots of whiskey.  What 12-year-old boy doesn’t want to do that.  I always like watching Motley Crue videos because of the hot chicks in 'em.  I loved the long legs and burgundy lips(Girls, Girls, Girls – Motley Crue) with the 80's fashion.  When my ex would ask me what colour lipstick I thought she should get I'd always say burgundy red, because of this, she never did, said it was too fancy(that's why strippers in the 80s wore it). 

So Motley Crue had the look and sound for me, which is probably why, Dr. Feelgood was the first ever CD I bought.  My father had taken my younger sister and myself to a flea market one day when I was still in Elementary School I can't even remember how old I was, would've been at least 10.  I never had the same affection for them as I did with Metallica where when I first really listened to them I had this eye opening experience, but it was just something I always liked.  Except for their Bass player and founder of the band Nikki Sixx.  I don't know why but I've always gravitated towards Nikki.  I guess I just thought he looked cool with the Road Warrior shoulder pads, big boots, and I always thought his hair looked the best, which is pretty important if you're in a Hair Metal Band. 

Among my friends at school when I was in Grade. 12 for another time, because I was bored of just working and wanted to hang out with my friends who were all younger than me the bastards, I was known as the Metal guy and in this time I had my second coming around with Motley Crue, and this is when my obsession with Nikki started to show.  I would sit in the counseling centre, and work on stuff for my Art class and listen to Motley Crue and Iron Maiden.  This was the greatest time of my life, didn’t have anything to worry about except for getting my school work done, and listening to music. 

This was also around the time I started to make my moves on that ex that I mentioned earlier. We hung out quite a bit, we were already really good friends at that point and I just felt that it was the next step in our relationship kinda thing, so when I would drive us and our friends around 'cause I was the only one at the time with a license so I would make them listen to Motley Crue because it was easier to listen to, but I did also make them listen to Metallica, and Anthrax from time to time.  There were also times when I would sit in my car with my buddies Connor, and Steve during Steve and I's photography class, and talk about chicks and listen to Motley Crue, good times being a teenager with nothing better to do, which is what the a lot of the music was about, just being young and stupid. 

After all that stuff I started to date that girl and we would listen to Motley Crue all the time, when we would go to the beach, when we would go for drives, or even when we were just chilling at her house.  And when we started dating I knew I was gonna start getting some, and I was like I wanna lose my V-Card while listening to Motley Crue, and I did.  We were at her dad's place over summer break, and things were getting hot not temperature wise even though it fucking was. I managed to undo her bra, keep making out with her, and get my playlist going, I'm very skilled if I do say so myself.  I was more excited about the fact that I was losing it while listening to Motley Crue then actually losing it.  She found it pretty funny that I was like "Hell ya lost it while listening to Motley Crue!"  

I'm such a fucking nerd.  

Other than that I would offer to pick her up at her dad's food truck quite a bit over the course of that summer vacation and I would tell her stuff about Metal Bands, and my experiences with them, and one time I was telling her about how I almost bought "Girls, Girls, Girls" instead of "Among the Living" and her and a friend went to Ottawa, and she was going to get me a replacement copy of "Among the Living" because I foolishly lost mine, but they didn’t have it so she got me "Girls, Girls, Girls" instead which I thought cool, she was actually listening to my dumb stories. 

Then when she broke up with me later on I had trouble listening to Motley Crue, I just couldn't.  But recently I was watching a short documentary on Nikki Sixx(don’t worry my obsession with him didn’t end with my relationship) it made me want to go listen to them again, which I was hesitant of doing but I did anyways.  I went and grabbed my copy of "Girls, Girls, Girls" which I had thrown to the bottom of my bookshelf with the intentions of never listening to it again, I put it in my car's CD player and I went for a drive and listened to Motley Crue, I just didn’t worry about anything.  I was just like next time I'm doing the do I'll do it to Motley Crue. 

Motley Crue is a band I grew up listening to as a child, and listened to as I went into adulthood.  They will always be an important part of my life, and I will never no matter the reason stop listening to them again.f