nobody does sex, drugs and red sox n roll quite as enthusiasticically as motley crue and tonight they promilessed to teach me a thing or two. this could get messy. motley crue, one night only, this is "peers morgan tonight." ♪ kickstart my heart, ooh, are you ready girl ♪ here i am the world famous whiskey and go-go club in hollywood where it all started to are my guests tonight, motley crue. they literally lived here for six months. this was their home. gentlemen, you're still alive. let's start on a positive note. >> oh, man, we are barely. >> 30 years after you lived in this very establishment, i did a quick count really of what's happened in those 30 years and it could be sum vialsed as drug-fueled rampages, hotel trashing, self-destruction, bankruptcies, broken marriages, near death, arrests, incarcerations, endless fighting, near deportation. thoughts? >> sounds like a good time. >> if you. you the it that way. >> what a movie. wow. >> how do you feel? being back here? it must benostalgic thing for you guys. >> we were talking when we were younger we thought this place was huge and we walk in, oh my god, this place is so little. >> really small. >> how did we get on that stage? >> it's very intimate and very, i mean it feels historic, doesn't it? you look around the walls, all the greats played here. >> yes. >> what was when you first played here what was the experience like for you? >> it was pretty exciting. you know, because all of us grew up here, and so you want to play the whiskey and go-go, the roxie, the troubadour, gazarie's when it was there. when we played here we thought we made it. >> that was the slot. >> that was it. that means you're big time. >> three nights here. >> friday, saturday, sunday. >> there was a picture somewhere of that, it said "sold out, friday, saturday, sunday" how much bigger do you get than that? that was it, we made it. >> we were so naive, oh my god we've made it. >> yeah, we made it. >> mick, you seem slightly less excited by this whole experience at the moment. does it not bring back quite the happy memories as it does for the others? >> let me see, i remember back when the birds played here, the doors played here, all that stuff, and you know, driving by and seeing all the bands and i'm like one day i'm going to be there. always, always thought i was going to be here. >> what was it like to realize that dream? >> you know, like it was like a dream come true. i mean, you know when you're a little guy, and you go by and you see all these people, you see david crosby and stuff and you go like whoa! you know, and it's like i'm going to be there. >> but it's almost impossibly glamorous if you're a rocker to be on sunset boulevard in hollywood in the whiskey & go-go. even now it feels glamorous to me. if you were scripting, creating for a movie, a rock band, you guys, you've done everything i would always want to do if i was in a rock band. >> could you join our band. >> i would love to join your band. >> there you go. >> seriously. i could do a bit, play a bit of piano and sing badly. i would fit in quite well. >> you know, i was just thinking that there was a line down the middle where the stage is over there, and there was the punk rockers that were sort of left over, there was new wave that was left over, and then on this other side, there was these new kids coming to see motley crue and it was all kind of meshing but there was a moment where they wouldn't hang out together so we had like the polinsil fans and heavy metal and this glam rock we were doing and set the stage for everything we did in the future. >> do you feel lucky to be serious for a moment, do you feel lucky that you're all still here to remember the early days in the sense that so many of our contemporaries didn't make t you know, the ones who lived the life. do you feel lucky? >> i think we're very lucky. but it was kind of like the right time. we were the right time at the right place for us, and we've just kind of done it right. we've always done it our way in the last 30 years, and you know we've always kind of tried to reinvent ourselves and the main thing is we got the younger fans now, like we have the 12-year-old kids in "shout the devil" shirts and their dads with their 5-year-olds up on their shoulders for their first concerts. it's really cool. >> like trainers. >> now three of you are 50 and one, tommy, you're 49. >> i'm 49. >> you're 49. >> i'm 48. >> you're 50. >> i'm 60. >> you're 49, right, the rest of you are 50. this is like a tipping point for many bands. >> yeah. >> are you feeling easy, unanxious? does 50 mean anything? mick jagger is still bouncing around in his six 60s. >> he can do it, the stones can do it, the list goes on. >> grow out disgracefully? >> yeah, disgracefully. >> the cliche of being the big rock band is the sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll. i can't think of any band in history that has lived up to this expectation better than you guys. is it all it's cracked up to be or when you look back do you wish you'd been slightly more temperate? >> i think we just had fun. you know, i mean when you first had like a little bit of fame and a little bit of money and there's girls and you know you get a little crazy and that's where all of the mainly stories when we were first starting out in the early 80s, but i think every band does that. you know, they just, we just have better stories. >> you guys did. >> mick i've always seen you as the charlie watts figure looking on. >> eight ball. >> i was always -- >> he just doesn't talk about it. >> he was its worst out of all of us. >> no, i wasn't. >> absolutely. >> this guy had just turned, just, he was just only 18, and in february -- >> 18? >> in february he turned 19. this guy had just turned 17. this guy was barely 21. i was already 30. >> you were not. he was not. he always says that. >> he doesn't even know when his birthday is. he has two birthdays. >> what i'd like to do is you have this brilliant enscription in the book "the dirt" and i'll just go through with you each one by one to see if you agree with the assessment of you individually. vince, managing this band was never easy, four damaged individuals. vince is a california surfer rock guy, the peacock of peacocks who never really had to work for his fame." >> i disagree with that. >> in what way? >> i had jobs just like everybody else. i used to build freeway bridges. i was a pizza delivery guy. i had jobs, you know. electrician. but you know, this was a job that wasn't really a job. because when this band first started, i was working. i think you guys were all working doing something, too. i was electrician at the time. >> what were you doing, mick? >> i remember i was selling light bulbs. >> he was. >> you were building bridges. what were you doing? >> painting houses. >> mick? >> i was repairing motorcycles. >> amazing. amazing sort of sequence of events that brings you together to become this huge band. you said about you, mick, you were the exact opposite of vince, a guy who had wiped [ bleep ] off his head for his whole life and was thankful just to have a moment in the sun even if it ended the next day." apart from you looking like you've never seen the sun in about 40 years, would you agree with the rest of his assessment? >> yeah, of course, yeah especially the whitest part. because i haven't. i go the my studio tan on, you know. >> you're the best behaved of the band, right? you always have been. the least naughty. [ bleep ]. >> we can put it this way, i'm the most secretive guy. >> exactly. >> that's more like it. >> exactly. >> the classier end of the bad boy mark, the less demonstrative? >> well, you know -- >> the darkest. >> that's why i wear black. >> i went to mick's house once and tried to open the door and the door went crr, he goes just come in and i go i can't and he moves a box in a rocket launcher he had delivered so don't let him tell you he's the well behaved one. >> nikki, doug said you were basically a nerd which i found extraordinary description of you except when you had jack daniels inside you which was just about every night. >> that's about right. >> i think i grew up in idaho and looked up to the bands, aerosmith and kiss and the stones and i always wanted to be like them and it was my fantasy that i really wasn't that. i lived on a farm in idaho. how is that going to happen and i came to los angeles and i started to kind of take on that persona and just started songwriting and copying my heroes and just kind of once motley crue happened, it's like i felt like i was really myself but definitely came from a nerd background. definitely. >> and he described you as a little kid, running around looking for mother and father figures, he could be the sweetest, most big-hearted kid in the world or the most spoiled, temperamental brat." >> i choose number two. >> that's a pretty good overall description. >> temperamental, fiery, unpredictable? >> you know, i don't know. i don't know about that. i'll go with -- >> just agree with me. >> sure, whatever. >> ozzy osbourne, you toured with him. i was trying to imagine who would have won that particular -- presumably when you tour with ozzy both at the peak of your powers, these are some heavy nights going down. who won? let's cut to the quick here. who was the bigger hell-raiser? >> well, i think ozzy did win in the end but it was a good fight. >> sharon would come out and she'd threaten to kick us off the tour, i remember, so we were some pretty bad influences. >> for sharon to do that you must have been despicable. what were do youing? >> when she would leave he'd ride on our tour bus with us. he'd be on the bus the whole time. >> they'd come knocking on our doors to empty our mini bars. >> ozzy would show up at the bus, knock on the door and you'd look out and ozzy in a dress and just come in, sit down and do a line of coke and have a drink and talk to you like nothing was wrong and then leave and we would be like, ozzy was just in a dress. how do you top that? >> i can't remember, i think one or two of you recently described a kind of average day at the height of motley crue mania, in the party phase. and it was just utterly compelling. every detail was compelling. have you ever been on the dark side of rock 'n' roll. at your peak. performance peak, i mean party peak, how would it go? >> it was just one big day, you wake up 1:00, 2:00 in the afternoon, and get a bottle of jack daniels. >> first thing do you? >> first thing you do, yeah. we were making -- we had like -- >> oh, god. >> we made tuna and the ball still had toot inside of it, sitting there for three days and grabbed cereal and didn't have any milk so used jack daniels. >> yeah. >> with your captain crunch. >> you intravenously injected jack daniels, is this true? come on, one of you. hold your hands up. >> dumb and dumber. we thought it was a good idea. >> was it a good idea? >> we thought it was a good idea. i went to sleep really quickly. >> let me just, bigotry, do not try this at home. >> do not. >> how many times did you do it? >> actually it only happened once. >> it happened once and that's for me personally i went wait a second, we could have just easily drank this. this has gone way to too. >> there was really no reason to inject it. >> no, that's what we were like what are we doing. >> did it taste any better coming through your veins? >> exactly the same, drips down the back of your throat. >> without the pleasure of the sip as it were. >> i think that's the problem with this band, always trying to top ourselves. so that was one of those moments where we went, that was just stupid. >> that was stupid. >> midafternoon, you've got the bottle of jack daniels, some of you intravenously injected it, you're drinking jack daniels and corn flakes and then what happens? >> at the gig. >> you head down to the stadium. >> down and get some girls, and start all over again. >> we had a pretty organized way of getting girls, too. >> explain to me. there were sections, right, and you would basically call out to your guy a section in a row. >> bingo. g4. >> and his guy would go out, while vince was singing, he would give them a yes or a no if he got near the fat girl, it would be no, and yeah. >> oh. >> hey, that was then. >> terrible! terrible! >> so this is fascist bingo basically. >> and then there was a room. >> did women ever say no when they got the tap on the shoulder? >> the boyfriends would say no. >> standard. >> that so made it difficult. >> and so now what, sort of 8:00, 9:00. >> here is the best thing. >> go. >> i'm on stage, i drank straight vodka, right? so i have a glass about this big, full. right? this guy is thirsty, he comes over to my place, and drank it and he thought it was water. >> you have a sign that said "mars aid" and it was a giant thing. it was a splash of gatorade for color. >> what sort of drugs knocking around there? >> kind of everything. >> there was the bottle caps, remember the bottle caps? >> what were the bottle caps? >> along the stage. >> after you drink the beers we would collect the bottle caps and put a little powder in the bottle caps and put them around the stage so if you needed a boost because of too much mars aid, you would just grab a bottle cap and flip the battle cap into the crowd. >> of course. >> now the gig ends. he's on a two-hour show on average? >> on average two hours. >> it would be heinous back stage i imagine. >> like the shower rooms and -- >> clarify? >> it would just be girls and drug dealers and just alcohol and -- >> just wild. how many women are back stage? >> there was always enough. usually started out with like 30 or 40 girls and then weed them down to -- >> what? >> 10, 15. so three or four each. >> he'd take six. >> you'd take six. >> yeah he always took more and i sought resentment toward singer. he would always be the first one to get cleaned up and go in there and pick the cream and then leave. >> he'd beat us into the room and leave with some of the best ones. we're like dude! >> he he never played fair. >> because you guys never showered. >> selfishness. >> true. true. >> what were we doing? >> yeah, vince was smarter than us. >> any part of you slightly regret the manner that you treated these ladies or did they not care? >> well they didn't have far to walk home, i'm sure i got that right. or toss them out in the hallway with the $20 bill and go -- >> any of them feel used or was it more this is the best night of their lives, you know? >> i think the '80s were the '50s and then you got the '60s, and then it was the '70s, we're topping that, and our intention was to top everything that we had seen before. >> to be the most excessive band ever. >> and that's what the audience was in for the same thing. it was a wild experience, and i think everybody knew what they were getting into. >> people weren't worried about diseases. if you were to wear a condom you were wearing it to not get someone pregnant, not to prevent a disease. it was a free-for-all. >> remember we had girlfriends come out, line up in the showers and we would of a doctor come and give everybody a big shot of penicillin just in case. >> but the thing is he would say -- >> precautionary penicillin. >> you know you can't drink on this and we would have our bottle of jack and that was the hard part. >> let's have a break, mainly so i can recover from the sheer xast rated jealousy i'm now experiencing towards you for the lives you've led. we'll be back in a moment. ♪ i'm such a good, good boy ♪ ntals. analysis. information. i trade on tradearchitect. this is web-based trading, re-visualized. streaming, real-time quotes. earnings analysis. probability analysis: that's what opportunity looks like. it's all visual. intuitive. and it's available free, wherever the web is. this is how trade strategies are built. tradearchitect. only from td ameritrade. welcome to better trade commission free for 60 days when you open an account. yeah! this is it! home sweet home. >> yeah. this is where it all began. >> should we go check it out? >> my special guests motley crue, very entertaining romp through the good old days there. do any of you still drink? >> occasionally i drink. >> the rest of you it's all over? no drugs anymore? >> nope. >> no. >> no. >> you've cleaned up basically? >> yes. sad, isn't it? >> i had to. >> it is really sad. do you feel sad or is it like one of those things that eventually that's it. >> i mean for me, it just quit working, it started to go the other way, wasn't fun anymore. once i got it out of my life things got better. >> you had the most hideous experience, you nearly died. >> yes. >> you were almost dead for a couple of minutes after a heroin overdose. tell me about that. >> heroin was like pills was like cocaine, was like alcohol, was like girls. it was just there. especially in hollywood it was everywhere and you could pick it up and use it or not, and we were kind of into seeing, we wanted to experience everything really, to be honest with you and i have a very addictive personality and those two things don't go together good. i ended up strung out and bad and then i got away from it and i had to get away from alcohol and it's all turned out great. all of that stuff kind of makes you who you are today. >> with you, even after that experience, you still carried on but what was the moment for you, when you finally kicked heroin? because it's a hard drug to get rid of. >> you know, i went to rehab. i left rehab, i went back, got on drugs. i did some just cold turkey stuff, and would last a couple of weeks but it was really, god, it was 20 years ago or so, i had a really bad overdose, ended up in the hospital, came out, shot overagain and the next morning i woke up in the hospital and the light was on and i never picked it up again. it was hard to go through withdrawal but i knew in my head i don't want this because i loved my band. i didn't have a family then so the band was the only family i had and i didn't want to throw the band a with a, the music away for that. it wasn't worth it. >> this arthritis that you have, how does that affect your life? >> you know, it's more of an inconvenience than anything else for me, because it's like you know, standing up straight is a little tough for me, because just to make a long story short, when i'm on stage, this is the most worst part, walking in to things. >> really? >> walking into microphones, walking into the drum riser, walking into like things that i want to see on stage that move and do things is like i can't see it. i can see about the first four or five rows of people. i don't think that they clearly have found an answer for what starts a.s., but they're getting close. i've read that they found a lot more different genes that work with the hlav 27. i sound like a doctor, huh? >> you do, yeah. i'm almost surprised. this is a chronic condition, isn't it? >> yes, yeah. >> do you all suffer from other weird side effects of being rock stars? i mean, the classic i guess the ears, i mean you go to bed, do you have ringing ears now, do you have the permanent thing with it? >> yeah, right now. >> do you? are you kidding? >> no, i mean we all, i think we all have hearing damage for sure. >> yeah, absolutely. >> mine worse on my left side than my right. it's just part of it. i have a lawsuit pending against tommy lee for his cymbal. his right cymbal is always in my ear because i'm on this side, yeah. >> chang, chang! >> it's hard. >> any other side effects? what are the other side effects from being rockers? i mean you all are reasonably healthy. >> you know what? just getting older is hard and doing this gracefully is really important to us. i just had to have one of my knees, meniscus was torn, i had to have surgery and have to have the other one, mick's had his hip replaced. we've been doing it for a long time and