Motley Crue and Sixx A.M’s bassist Nikki Sixx had a dose of his own Dr. Feelgood while under a two-hour hip replacement procedure. The physical damage was a result of too much Rock n Roll over the past decades.

Sixx confessed on his syndicated podcast Sixx Sense:

There’s so much about it that I was excited about, and then there was parts of me that I was a little bit freaked out about. The thing that was interesting is, at first, when I heard that I needed that, I had that feeling, ‘Oh my God! That’s like an old person thing.’ And I started getting a lot of feedback from our listeners and people in their 30s and 40s that have had hip replacement. In fact, I was just talking to a friend of mine, and his wife, who is 38, just had it done. So it’s actually more common than not. And especially because people are more active now.”

At 58-years-old, Sixx can’t slow down. He says of his recovery:

It’s amazing what they can do with modern medicine. I have to tell you, I was up, I was walking. The next day, I walked three hundred feet, and the next day, with only a cane, I walked up a flight of stairs, they showed me how to get in and out of a car, and they sent me home. And I’ve been here in the house pretty much ever since then. I went out a little bit yesterday, and I kind of took it too far. But I just wanted to be active.

Sixx openly speaks and encourages those who are also suffering from hip pain: “for anybody out there that has to go through a surgery like this, it’s probably the best thing you’ll ever do for yourself, ’cause I’m really feeling a lot better than I was before I went in for surgery.”

According to Blabbermouth, Sixx is recuperating in his LA home and developing a Broadway production on his memoir “The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star.”