Former Mötley Crüe singer John Corabi fronted the band from 1992 to 1996 and sang and played guitar on the group’s highly underrated and often celebrated self-titled album. A rock ’n’ roll journeyman, Corabi has played for Ratt, Brides of Destruction and The Dead Dasies in addition to his solo work.
Corabi insists he has no beef with Mötley Crüe, but earlier this year he dissed the “Pam & Tommy” series on Hulu saying on Twitter: “Ok….just my opinion here on something that’s been bugging me. The Tommy And Pam miniseries on Hulu, is so full of bullsh*t, it’s ridiculous!!!! I can honestly say about 98% of this ‘FICITIONAL’ take on T&P’s life is CRIMINAL. I shared 5 years of my life with Tommy and although it was at times INSANITY it’s sooooo overblown in this SH*T they call TV entertainment! Tommy never walked around in a Speedo, didn’t act at all they way they portray him, and now I see that THIRD EYE BLIND ‘bumps’ us from a studio, because they’re more relevant???? DID NOT HAPPEN…!!! “Shame on EVERYONE involved…” Corabi ended his message by including four middle finger emojis.
Corabi also wasn’t happy with his portrayal in the biopic of “The Dirt,” and now speaking to The SDRShow, he claimed that the book, “The Dirt,” falsely portrayed him as a hard drug user. “It’s funny — and I think this is part of the reason why Nikki is so butthurt with me right now, for the last 10 years or so,” Corabi said. “But I wasn’t taking a slag out of the book. I was like, ‘Hey, it’s a good read!’ You know what I mean? …And to be honest with you, I’ve never done — people laugh, but I’ve never done cocaine, meth, heroin, like none of that shit. So when the guy asked me — I don’t know if the guy was baiting me or what the deal was – he asked me a question. And I said, ‘Well, parts of the dirt were colored,’ right? Absolutely colored. And I said, ‘So I would imagine…’
“I didn’t mean it to be a dig — and he took offense to it. And — I sent him an e-mail back, because we had this little beef via e-mail. And he sent me this thing, and he’s like, ‘I don’t appreciate you f*cking slagging my book and blah, blah, blah.’ And, I just told him, ‘Did you read the whole interview?’ That’s all. And then the second thing I said was, ‘Why do you give a f*ck about anything I have to say?’”
Corabi previously explained to Brave Words that he wished the reference to his era in Mötley Crüe had been left out of the Netflix film. “It may not seem it, but I don’t have any issues with the guys in Motley at all,” he said. “I love those guys. I don’t know why Nikki’s had a hair up his *ss about me in recent years. I couldn’t tell you…don’t know, don’t care. My only beef with those guys, is I wish they left me out of The Dirt movie. I don’t know if it was intentional or unintentional…but my portrayal in the movie made me look like a f*cking babbling moron. They also made it look like we were playing high school gymnasiums for five people. It wasn’t great, but the attendance wasn’t that bad. I wish they would have left me out of the movie all together. It is what it is though.”
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