19 Things We Learned Hanging Out Backstage With Mötley Crüe

It's four hours before Mötley Crüe hit the stage at the Pepsi Center in Denver, and Nikki Sixx is sitting on his tour bus, leafing through a book about the 1936 Olympics and talking up his badass Uno game. "Last night I played with my wife and daughter until 1 a.m.," says the bassist, 55. "I'll play anyone in Uno and crush them."

This guy was declared dead after a heroin overdose in 1987, but a lot has changed for all four members of the Crüe since those crazy days. "When you're young, you drink all night, fuck a thousand chicks......