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From page 68 of Classic Rock Magazine October 2007
Cover of October 2007 issue.
The Heroin Diaries
Fleven 'Sever)
'I didn't have a very good time/Boo-hoo/Will this do?' Drug memoirs are, by the nature of the habit they describe, solipsistic things. A certain level of insight and artistry is required to transcend the essential selfishness and boredom of the experience of being a junkie. Only the very best and most daring writers, from William Burroughs to Jerry Stahl, have succeeded. Whether Nikki Sixx, with his forthcoming Heroin Diaries, will join them is another matter. On the strength of the lyrics of this accompanying soundtrack, perhaps not. The music is surprisingly oldschool AOR, while the words are a mix of workaday couplets ('You know accidents can happen/it's okay, we all fall off the wagon/it's only one day/You haven't thrown everything away'), clunking metaphors ('I'm face down on the tracks/ and the train is coming fast') and the glaringly obvious ('Smack ruins people's lives). You don't say. Hope the book's better. •••••
Jon Hotter)
