Vedder vs. Sixx.
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To your corners, hair spray and flannel. Eddie Vedder and Nikki Sixx have been engaged in a war of words for well over a week now, with the two front men eager to play some sort of rock one-upmanship about who has the better band. It all started on January 30, when Vedder, in a New York Times interview, grumbled about how he kick-started his heart and grew to despise Mötley Crüe during his early years as a music-venue worker in the ’80s. “The metal bands that — I’m trying to be nice — I despised. ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ and Mötley Crüe: Fuck you. I hated it,” he explained. “I hated how it made the fellas look. I hated how it made the…
