What's the very first line on "Appetite For Destruction" ?

"Oh my god".*

Goddamn. You’re the first one ever to get that right. Are you a good girl gone bad, or were you born that way?

Born and raised a hellion. I've tried to be good, but I'm just not built that way, for some reason. My mom is right here and said I was 13 yrs old when she answered the door to the cops saying they picked me up for assault with a shod foot (did I spell that right?), ** and it's just all downhill from there till age 18 when I was old enough for serious consequences, so I stopped the petty bullshit and started  a sleazy rock band.  

I can’t take it out of context, so I'll give ya the whole verse:

"Sittin' pretty in the backseat,

baby, wanna go? Wanna go for a ride?

All the grrrlies want a piece,

One lick on my guitar sends their knees to the sky"

-Baby Kill Grenade

I would say our most triumphant moment would be a former chick guitar player and I going at it on the front steps of the place we recorded the album. It was a rehearsal complex and our producer had a studio in his band's room and we were running around the building drunk, her wearing a green and purple alien mask, inviting cute guys in other bands into the bathroom with us... We made many fans that night.

The most tragic would be our first show. We played a Halloween show put on by the guys in Stars Underground. It was held at this Memorial Hall in Charlestown (MA.- I dropped out of college there- Sleaze), and we were the first band. I was loaded, nobody could hear ANY vocals, and our drummer up and cut a song short. It sucked, so we just got even more drunk and made the best of it, and had fun. Then V wouldn’t stop hitting on my 13 year old cousin who was dressed like a hoe that night (I was a pimp, and she was one of my 2 hoes).

What's the sexiest thing you've ever seen, and what did you do about it?

The sexiest thing I've ever seen was Nikki Sixx in the "Too Fast for Love" days. What did I do about it? Ripped him off.

Have you ever killed anything?

I ran over a frog once on the highway and pulled over and called my boyfriend crying. I felt so bad! I was going on and on in tears about how this frog had a family and I ruined all of their lives.

When's the last time you punched somebody?

The last good punch would probably have been my boyfriend. Knocked him right out. I felt bad after and went back and helped him up. See? I'm really not that bad. He deserved it, though.

Did you go to yr high school prom?

Ha! Fuck no! I didn’t even make it through sophomore year! I went to a tech school and got kicked out the beginning of my second year, and went to a public school...I left that a couple of months after, tried to go back the next year, and got kicked out. Then I gave up. I visited my old school a few weeks ago. I haven't been back there since I got booted. My teacher was very surprised to hear I'm not a drug addicted prostitute. I was his only 16 year old student with tattoos and multiple facial peircings, and I would scribble down lyrics all day long.

If you died tomorrow, who would we have to get to play you in the Nikki Core movie?
Slap some ink on Lori Petty, hand her a bass and a beer, and let the bitch jam with her clam out.

Would  the Kari Nations headline?

Headline? I'd open so I could spent the rest of the show backstage on my knees ready to pleasure as thanks to all of them for existing so I could rip them off.

What are the coolest bands you know, that no one else has ever heard of?
The Paybacks (from Detroit), the Lanternjack (also of Detroit), Rock City Morgue, the Darkness, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, and Betty Blowtorch.

I grew up in Beverly, MA and lived there till I was 19. The weirdest part would be where all of my friends and I would hang out, on Rantoul St. We were a bunch of dirty ass drunk punks who would wreck havoc all over the town, and into Salem. People would drive by wouldn't even look in our direction, scared we would pull them out of their car and stick acid down their throats and use them for cult rituals, or something. In reality, we were just bored, listened to too much of the Misfits, and had a 21 year old friend.

The most dangerous is a part of town called "Gloucester Crossing" (this is the place where the assault with a shod foot incident mentioned earlier happened). A bunch of crackheads and scumbags that live off the government and would take pleasure watching us kids kick the crap out of each other in the streets.

What's been the bloodiest mess yet at the piercing parlor?

Okay, so this chick came in wanting her nostril pierced. So I pierced it, and as soon as I pushed the jewelry through the needle, blood came GUSHING out! I mean, fuckin' flowing! All over the place. I needed paper towels to stop a small 18 gauge hole in her nose from bleeding. Come to find out, she had been drinking up a storm the night before, was rrreeaalllly hungover that day, and took lots of aspirin to try and kick it. Bad idea, kiddies! The good thing that came of that was that I had kept her ID in my copier after printing it for files, and I was under 21 at the time, and she was like 25 - and we looked kinda similar. So I did not feel bad for a year after that using her ID to get into rock shows and make a drunken ass of myself. When I did finally turn 21, I mailed her I.D back to her with a note that said "Thanx for the good times!"

Actually, the enjoyment of inflicting pain on myself came first, then others when I realized the scars wouldn't go away. By age 14, I discovered body piercing. By 19, I was piercing professionally in a shop.

Are  there any piercings you won't do?

There aren't many things out there that I wont do, especially when it comes to body art. Professionally, I wouldn't ever attempt something on someone else that I haven't been trained to do...other than that, I'm an art whore, and I love it all.

Well, this has been a blast. Last question- fill in the blank. "Before there was rock, we only had...

...good-hearted youths. Could you imagine?!

Want more Nikki? You got it, Jack. If yer in town, see the Kari Nations whenever they play. If yer not, buy their record, and hope for a tour.

Not enough? Then check out The Nikki Core website. And if yr still not satisfied? Then join her Yahoo Club. Beyond that, She's gonna have to get a restraining order.

*Axl whispers “Oh, my God” before the guitars kick in on “Welcome to the Jungle”, and with the benefit of hind-sight, it seems awfully prophetic.

** Nikki says a “shod foot” is when you kick somebody when they’re down. Everybody else in the world says a shod foot is a shoed horse hoof, but I’m not gonna argue. 'Cuz she might kick me.

-Sleazegrinder