In a new conversation with Bad Brad, James Michael shared a disappointing update on Nikki Sixx’s Sixx:A.M.
“The part that I found the most stressful and the most nightmare-inducing was when there were political differences within the ban,” the singer revealed. “When Nikki and I weren’t getting along or when DJ and I weren’t getting along or when all of us weren’t getting along.”
He added, “That was the stuff that just killed me because we were all friends and I could just see the pressures of the industry making us all behave differently than I think we would have liked to behave. And that’s the part that I look back on with great regret.”
“I look back on those times and I think I wish I would have handled that better. I wish I would have been a better person in that situation. I wish I wouldn’t have let these outside pressures turn me into something that I wasn’t or make me say things that I didn’t mean and things like that,” Michael further stated.
The rocker concluded, “I think that that the lesson that I took away from all of that is while it might be challenging, it might seem impossible just be a good guy just be the kind of guy that you want to hang around with because that’s really what this is.”
Sixx:A.M.’s last studio record ‘Prayers for the Blessed’ arrived in 2016. In 2022, Michael spoke about his work with Sixx on the In the Trenches podcast with Ryan Roxie. He said, “To answer the question of what it’s like to work with Nikki and DJ It’s that chemistry that you hope you find when you are in this music industry.”
“You hope you get lucky enough to meet a guy or a couple of guys you jell with and can work with on every level — professional and personal. And that’s what it’s been like,” he also noted.
Besides Sixx:A.M., Michael also worked with Nikki in Mötley Crüe. The singer wrote songs for Mötley Crüe’s 2000 record ‘New Tattoo.’ In 2008, he worked on their album ‘Saints of Los Angeles,’ producing it with Nikki Sixx and DJ Ashba. He also helped write songs for this album.
