This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx

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This is Gonna Hurt is music, photography, and life through the distorted lens of Nikki Sixx, bassist for heavy metal rock band Mötley Crüe’s and the New York Times bestselling author of The Heroin Diaries. A combination of powerful prose and dramatic photographs, This is Gonna Hurt is an arresting, deeply personal look through the eyes of a real rock star at a stark, post-addiction world.
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This is Gonna Hurt is music, photography, and life through the distorted lens of Nikki Sixx, bassist for heavy metal rock band Mötley Crüe’s and the New York Times bestselling author of The Heroin Diaries. A combination of powerful prose and dramatic photographs, This is Gonna Hurt is an arresting, deeply personal look through the eyes of a real rock star at a stark, post-addiction world.
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"Photo sessions for me are like injections of life. I pace back and back forth impatiently, like a man with a machine gun, and trust me when I say I have an itchy trigger finger.....Sucking up my ego and picking up my cameras, I was off to the crack district. It took 10 minutes to get there from our five-star hotel and three hours to get Kimo to allow me to enter the most dangerous alley in Vancouver.... "I had once rented a whole brothel in Thailand just to make some photographs." Nikki Sixx's This Is Gonna Hurt is part pictorial, part journal, and, in every way, a testament to the dark side sensitivity of the legendary Mötley Crüe bassist. Raw, powerful, and strangely piercing.

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"If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt," says Mötley Crüe's Sixx, author of the New York Times best-selling The Heroin Diaries. Here Sixx reflects on his postaddiction commitment to music, photography, and family. The 150,000-copy first printing says it all.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780062061874
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 4/12/2011
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 126,444
  • Product dimensions: 7.90 (w) x 10.10 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Nikki Sixx

Born Frank Feranna, Nikki Sixx grew up in Seattle and moved to Los Angeles at the age of seventeen. There, in 1981, he became the bassist for Motley Crue, the legendary rock band he started with friend Tommy Lee. Today he is the bestselling author of The Heroin Diaries, a nationally syndicated radio host, solo artist, photographer, film maker, and still loyal member of the Crue.

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  • Posted June 14, 2011

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    Fail.

    The photography is something I've seen done before in my high school A.P Art class. It isn't that hard and honestly the editing can all be done on a mac osx without photoshop. He hasn't been doing photography devoted most of his life like he claims. I can't believe that... Not when I saw more shocking images in my College and high school classes. My opinion is he picked up photography after seeing Kat do it and he was inspired by her. (nothing wrong with that) but he has not been doing this for more than 3 years at my guess. The photos are too elemantary and I'm shocked no one else is pointing this out.

    I do like the style and direction he is heading in with his work though.
    Just a little early to be throwing a art book out there.


    His Stories are so out right ego boosting and self rightous. Half of them sound like made up stories. I laughed to myself with some of the things he wrote... Honestly, people belive some of this stuff?

    I do like his writing style, because he managed to get me to read the whole book. so kudos to him.

    The layout looks like it was made on INDesign software; which is what most companies use...but, it looks like he was the one behind the computer laying it out. The font is hard to read in some places due to poor background color pick out; and other novance mistakes.

    all this said. I wasn't amused.. this is obvious. ha!

    -but he got published so who am I to judge. haha

    3 out of 9 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted July 12, 2011

    another great book by such a great author

    Again Nikki doesn't fail his fans. This memoir is great as a way into to his mind to what he believes his purpose in life is. Nikki's way of writing is great for those who like blunt, honest, and straight to the point stories.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted April 29, 2011

    life-changing & eye-opening

    If you've ever hurt, if you've ever suffered depression, felt left out, pushed aside, or felt ugly and unaccepted.... read THIS book.
    Nikki Sixx rips away the ideology of conventional "beauty" and blows away the mass-marketed images we were all drugged into believing all this time. See the world as never before... see it with your HEART instead of your eyes.
    After reading this book, you will never look at things the same way again. I am grateful for all it has taught me about life and about myself.
    5-Star emotion carnival!

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted April 25, 2011

    Excellent Book!

    This is a book you won't put down. Nikki Sixx writes from the heart and captures it in his photography. His journal entry after breaking up with Kat and sitting at Funny Farm is the closest thing I've ever read to capturing that pain.

    There are many emotions you will feel while reading this book, the big one I took away was inspiration. People get so wrapped up in life that they lose focus on what's important and what SHOULD make them happy.

    Wonderful work Nikki, spectacular writing and exceptional Photography. Looking forward to more photos!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted April 8, 2011

    HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!

    I have been a Motley Crue fan since I was 12 years old and while all my friends loved the front man or the drummer or the amazing guitarist I said "what about Nikki? He seems to have something he's not telling." And go figure.... I was right. He is amazing on the inside and out. This book is the most anticipated thing since my wedding and the birth of my children.
    What an amazing time to put it put there when we have have kids dying because others don't want to understand them, as well as the younger generation being roped in by all the press to be prettier, or sexier, or have a more defined shape. Beauty is on the inside!! Look deeper people, this book and album will not only allow you to, but force you to, if your not scared and read it through.
    I can't wait to read it all. (tears while I write)
    Good Luck to you in your future,
    Jamie

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 6, 2012

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    Another excellent book by Nikki Sixx. His photography collection

    Another excellent book by Nikki Sixx. His photography collection is amazing. It is wicked to look at beauty through his eyes. Really makes you stop and appreciate.

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  • Posted April 21, 2011

    Hghly recommend!!!

    This book is so good I am reading it again. Nikki Sixx has some very great insights. He makes you want to look for the beauty in things you would normally overlook or pass off. He has defiantly moved and inspired me.

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  • Posted April 20, 2011

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    Great Book liked it a lot. You will like this book

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