Andy McCoy , guitarist for the defunct hard rock band Hanoi Rocks , accused Mötley Crüe of distorting the death of drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley in the Netflix film The Dirt , based on the band's collective biography.
On December 8, 1984, Razzle left Vince Neil to buy drinks. Although the store was nearby, they went by car, with Neil already drunk at the wheel, causing an accident on the way back that killed Razzle and seriously injured two passengers in the other vehicle.
The scene of Razzle's death wasn't left out of the movie The Dirt , but McCoy offered a different version in a recent interview on the show Waste Some Time With Jason Green (via Ultimate Guitar ). “Like the party at the mansion in that movie. You know what really happened? We were in a two-bedroom apartment. There were five people there. When I saw the movie, or parts of the movie, I thought, 'I don't want to see this in its entirety,'” he pointed out. “That's Hollywood garbage. (…) The movie is just pure lies and more garbage. And I can't swallow that kind of crap, I want the truth to be told.”
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Regarding the victims in the other car involved in the accident, the guitarist stated he would “never forget” them: Lisa Hogan , 18 years old at the time, who went into a coma after the accident, and Daniel Smithers , 20 years old. “People tend to forget them. And that was awful. It was just wrong. Fifty meters to the liquor store, I thought they would walk. But no, that son of a bitch – I don’t care to mention his name, you know who he is – had to show off his ugly second-hand Pantera, which isn’t even a good car to me.”
In the same conversation, Andy McCoy also criticized the band for making an apparent joke about the tragedy in a compilation called Music to Crash Your Car to in 2003. " Michael Monroe [vocalist of Hanoi Rocks] and I thought that title was tacky, in very bad taste if you think about what happened… If you're European like me, you don't do that. You respect other people," he said.
Watch the film clip and the interview below.
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