I'm a huge Crüe fan and I'm really interested in the strange case of the Nikki Sixx doppleganger MAtthew Trippe. At first I din't believe it, but the more I get into it the more doubts I have. I've been reviewing a lot of material from '84 and '85. In that era, Nikki wore all the make up, big hair, sunglasses and full glam costume and it could be him or anyone else. But if you look closly to some videos or pictures, there are strange things. For example, in most of the pictures you can see Nikki is a big guy, as tall as Tommy, and towers above Vince. In the end of this concert, at the curtain call, you can see this "Nikki" is the same heigh as Vince, and he has small shoulders. The same happens in some late Shout at the Devil and Theatre of Pain tour pics. I dunno what to think. Maybe Matthew Trippe was just an obsesed guy who created a fantasy, or maybe he indeed replaced Nikki for some shows. Some of you guys know something about it?
You realize Nikki was wearing, like, 6 inch platform boots in the early days? Not surprising he ditched them after having to run around in them for 2 hours every night. Also the Shout costume had big shoulder pads lol.
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I saw this tour March 18, 1984 opening for Ozzy in salt lake City Utah at the young age of 13, thanks Dad 🤘🤘🤘
I was also 13 when my dad took me to see this tour in January '84 at Nassau Coliseum. My first concert of countless that followed.
WOW this is so much better than the US Festival performance a year earlier. Vince's voice was unfortunately shot that day.
Tommy doing his thing.
I'm a huge Crüe fan and I'm really interested in the strange case of the Nikki Sixx doppleganger MAtthew Trippe. At first I din't believe it, but the more I get into it the more doubts I have. I've been reviewing a lot of material from '84 and '85. In that era, Nikki wore all the make up, big hair, sunglasses and full glam costume and it could be him or anyone else. But if you look closly to some videos or pictures, there are strange things. For example, in most of the pictures you can see Nikki is a big guy, as tall as Tommy, and towers above Vince. In the end of this concert, at the curtain call, you can see this "Nikki" is the same heigh as Vince, and he has small shoulders. The same happens in some late Shout at the Devil and Theatre of Pain tour pics. I dunno what to think. Maybe Matthew Trippe was just an obsesed guy who created a fantasy, or maybe he indeed replaced Nikki for some shows. Some of you guys know something about it?
Depends on the shoes hes wearing if he has high heels he will look as tall as tommy...
He isn't as tall as Tommy
You realize Nikki was wearing, like, 6 inch platform boots in the early days? Not surprising he ditched them after having to run around in them for 2 hours every night. Also the Shout costume had big shoulder pads lol.
The crue sucked after shout at the devil album and tour,went glam!!!