Cruecial Location

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In 19981 while still a club band in the Coffmann Coffmann Stall Nikki was getting close and personal friends with Alan Coffmann right hand business man when it came to Crue. Michael. One night as Nikki had started doing drugs he said to Michael that he met these two or three girls that wanted to have sex with him in return they would give him all the drugs he wanted. Nikki wanted to go and arranged and agreed with Michael to outlive it. Michael himself was on drugs back then. IN the afternoon Michael called it off and never went with Sixx. Today it is so covered in greens it is very hard to see anything from the street. Sorry bout the poor pictures. But it ones belonged to the world famous magician Houdini. He died in this very same house too.
 

Starting a filmed interview and a chat out doors he shows me what is unbelievable. The original first ever on planet earth drum spinner piece now placed outdoors rusting the original metal framing pieces and the drum seat with the seat strapping. God damn that is a highly valued thing right there is he sold it. Shit. Jack opened up with a lot and had o limits to what I could ask about he never said I can not tell you this and not tell you that. I loved it.
Again a business contact and office to a member of the band, Nikki Sixx still has active businesses here as of 2007. After having lost about 50% of his belongings from a divorce the second time in his life he has changed some of his business ways that these days seems a little more “protected”. Beverly Hills in many ways holds Sixx name these days . A place he used to want to be away from. 
While Tommy lived with Pamela in the infamous house with birth of their first son the spousal abuse that led Tommy to jail and the drowning of the neighbour’s son this is where the family Lee did their daily grocery shopping a lot. At “Ralph’s” in Malibu only a good 10 minutes from the infamous house. 
The infamous house of Tommy and Pamela. The sex video, birth of first born child, Methods Of Mayhem recordings and more. Today a rehab center house not allowing any in from the public. Located Malibu.
After some time together Tommy was locked up after Pam turned Tommy in for spousal abuse. He was in jail for a longer period of time in down town L.A. (look else where for that in this section). The trial between Tommy and Pam was carried out in Malibu Courts.
At the mid tour of Girls Girls Tommy moved into his first closed area of the rich and famous. He lived and had this house sadly not pictured in the area where this gate was the entrance for all that lived or visited the ones living there. It was not possible for no one to get in and still is not. You have to show a card or have an agreement with somebody and they will be called to before you are let in.
Tommy has as most Crue or Tommy fans knows this summer bought a huge multi million dollars home behind the hills of Malibu This is the latest and new gated area also holding a lot of famous people His house is in the back of the area but still can not really be seen from any highway. Extremely nice area and kind of a city in a city. 
This is Tommy`s bank where everything financially part from with his record company and management takes place. This is a place where you can actually see Tommy come and go from time to time. Sorry cannot give away the bank location as with most other things on here. 

In 1997 as the world saw the return of Vince Neil on vocals of the band he with the three others held  press conference at an extremely none typical location. You pass this place a seafood restaurant on your way to Malibu from Los Angeles. It has kind of an outdoor sitting place and a lot of the pictures you may have seen in magazines from back then was taken here. It looks like a dump but has not changed since the days. Really smart move. No one would ever have thought the Crue would do anything here. No way. But the “Reel Inn” was the place that year to introduce the world through the press to the returning of Motley Crue.
 
The yearly Vince Neil Golf tournament in Malibu is located a short car ride outside Malibu. In the valleys. It is a great located place and it is a place that kind of holds NOTHING but the golf house and courts, I think you could enjoy swinging by here but really not much to see. Still it deserves a spot on here fro its yearly activity one that Vince holds close to his heart.  
Another business location holding Sixx activities like the Dragonfly clothing line and Americoma Records. This was a place Nikki started doing businesses with in 1997 and it ended in 2003. What ever he chose to do at these times wanted to be more personally involved with. Location – and exact address sorry!!
In the 1980s Nikki lived various places and this one in Encino housed him for an unknown period of time. The house itself is placed away from the road. It is a very quiet road these days. Can not say how it used to be. Sorry about only having this one to add right now. The house number by the entrance to the driveway.  

The probably most talked about home of the members of Crue. Also he biggest mystery to its location. But finally we found it. It has been a fairly tough one to track down. Everybody have heard about it and it is in the first official video release “Uncensored”. It is were Mick is interviewed also with his red corvette. And a that time living with one of the Nasty Habbits. A female duo backup singers of the Girls Girls and Dr. Feelgood tour. Emi Cannin. She later divorced Mick and he quickly there after moved out of this house. It is a house that used to be the single only castle on the mountain hill. Or rather mountain top. Really tough to find of have never heard about it. It is now one gated home surrounded by plenty of house owners but even today you can actually drive all the way up to the gate and be fairly close. Still holds its original colours too. Amazing place. 
 
There area couple of things or homes that does not really have a history or fact to them that I know about. One of them is this beach house. Venice Beach 1988. Did he actually live here himself? Did he rent to for a friend or rent it for himself as a hiding place or renting it for a family member? No matter the facts Mick was the name of the renting lease that covered the monthly expenses. Today it is a locked front door place I guess for the wealthy and there for we could not get in and go to the door.  

Here is the other in extreme close distance to the first beach place he had.
Drunk a lot of times here even trying to kill himself. Who does not know about the story of him drunk as a cat going all dressed up into the sea and feeling convinced that as he returned to shaw he was already dead. Manytimes have Vince and Nikki laughed about this one. But; Did he actually live here himself? Did he rent to for a friend or rent it for himself as a hiding place or renting it for a family member? No matter the facts Mick was the name of the renting lease that covered the monthly expenses.  
 
Mick Mars first home as the guitar player of Motley Crue. Seeing where this is located and yes it is still the same unchanged since then. If you know where to find this you could be wondering why h lived there when they so often had so many Hollywood gigs and gigs in the Valley. Mick had a long way to go to get to the gigs set up. This was his first after he joined Crue and had gotten out of what was supposed to be his big break as a musician in the pre Crue band Whitehorse.  
 
Another home owned and lived in for a period of time by Mick Mars. Again uncertain if this house of his in 1990 was the one he moved into alone after the divorce from Emi? It is located in an area where there is no fancy stuff around yet more than likely highly expensive houses though. He has not talked about this place a whole lot. Not any where near as much as he has of “Mars Mountain” 
There have been a ton of places holding Mick´s name over time. This is the latest one. This is where he lives now This is where he spends his time. Driving up there you can not really get a full input of what this place is like, three quarter of the house is kind of hanging on the side of the mountain side. So only the top level of god knows how many floors can be seen and the roof top is kind of in the heights of your own eyes. Man that gotta be an awesome place though.  
The 1970s when Mick was a guitar player owning nothing and trying to make it he was with Whitehorse a band that played a ton of gigs and holding some rather harsh road stories he borrowed all or was giving all stage gear by his band mates at the time. This is his most known platform shoes from the gigs also holding the worlds  first upside down drumming in concert. My now good friend and original drummer of Whitehorse Mr. Jack Valentine.  

While Mick was almost homeless and the present and new guitar player of Whitehorse he lived with some of the members incl my friend Jack in a house where Mick had his “room” on the first floor of this house. Back then this house was the one closest to the beach sand and ocean. Going here today the house on the outside looks the same but there are build a ton of houses and more in front or next to it so many, many more are now closer to the beach than this particular house will ever be. Funny note; the band sometimes tried to skip paying taxes off of their pay checks from gigs so they invented a fictive band name to tour with sometimes. Guess what it was? Motley Crue only not spelled the same. SO Jack has ones driven by the house here and talked to the ones living there and said “do you know that you actually live in the first and original Motley Crue house?” And of cause the person kind of freaked or thats how the story goes anyway. The balcony on top right was the one Mick often stood out on getting fresh air while living here owning nothing. And was a nobody..
 

The place that made Mick even getting involved in Whitehorse was this one. A place a highly talked about and active live gig night club in the 70s called “Pier 11”. This was the place where Mars often as often as he could came to see the band and looking so intensely at the bands guitar player then that Jack for one was sure Mick was guy. Funny. This was also the only place on earth that has had Motley Crue (Whitehorse) and Van Halen names up on the same bill only playing each their level section. A basement band and a groundfloor band. How cool is that?? Van Halen back then was also just a band wanting to make it. Cool. Today this is not a live club no more. They turned into a shoe store but today selling carpets.  
 

There are plenty of reasons to why I want to ad Jack Valentine in on here. He was a huge probably the biggest reason and close friend in Whitehorse as they were around,  he also earlier on this year released a book about the Whitehorse days with Mick. You ought to get it. I am pressuring the man to do a follow up lol. Here he shows us the golden box of all the old original paper clippings and photos. I am hopeful for getting a good amount of it from him later. This was a thrill and a treat like you can not even believe. Thanks jack for showing it.  
 

¨The single most unique thing and center of attraction itme in the bok written by Valentine if the Whitehorse / Motley van. Jack still has it. In its original form Nothing has changed inside really. It is a seriously amazing piece of automobile. IT should have been buried goes ago. But it still runs. My god this is the one that took Mick on his ways to becoming a well known guitar player. Cause trust me people were talking back then about the awesome guitar player of Whitehorse. One night in this very van Mick was sleeping on the tiles floor in the back of the van. At a place where it was extremely cold outside. As he woke up he could not get off of the floor. He had literally frozen himself to the floor. He was often laying on top of the gear while the band drove cause he was the smallest of all the guys in the band and there was so little space. A ton of Mars stories is in this van. You can only be guessing.