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Motley Crue - "this day is about eight men getting together in a room and doing the right thing, man."
The
Motley Crue band includes Vince Neil, vocals - Mick Mars, guitar - Nikki
Sixx, bass - Tommy Lee, drums
Motley
Crue's
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Girls, Girls
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Kickstart
My Heart 6:25
Home Sweet Home 5:50
Dr. Feel Good 5:54
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Motley Crue at Live 8
Mötley Crüe (Pronounced Mott-Lee Crew)
is an American rock band whose members include Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee,
Mick Mars, and Vince Neil.
Motley Crue formed in January, 1981 (see 1981 in music) in Los Angeles,
after bassist Nikki Sixx left the band London, (a band he and Lizzie Grey
started in 1979 when he was fired from Blackie Lawless' band Sister).
The band London would also be the first band for the later Guns N' Roses
guitarists Izzy Stradlin and Slash and for Cinderella drummer Fred Coury.
Sixx inquired with his London bandmate Greg Leon as to whether he knew
of any musicians who could join the new band he was intent on forming.
Leon recommended the drummer of one his previous bands, Suite 19; its
drummer... Tommy Lee.
According to Mick Mars, it was he who thought up the band's name - Motley
Crue. While in his former band, White Horse, one of the band members walked
in and called the group "a motley looking crew". Mars copied
the name down on paper, with the original spelling Mottley Cru. The name
was later applied to the band he was to join in 1981 with Nikki Sixx and
Tommy Lee.
Motley Crue met guitarist Mick Mars through an L.A. music newspaper classified
ads section. His ad said "Loud, rude, aggressive guitarist available".
Nikki's first reaction? "I can't believe it! Here's another one like
us!" Mars' equipment was quickly set up and, shortly after he was
played the opening riff to "Stick To Your Guns", Mars proceeded
to, according to Tommy Lee, "play the shit out of his guitar."
After getting drunk and jamming for an hour, Mars fired the band's former
guitarist, a musician only known as Robin.
Tommy Lee and Vince Neil originally knew each other through high school.
They had performed in different bands in the garage band circuit. Before
hiring Neil, the band hired a singer by the name of O'Dean. O'Dean did
not stay iwith Motley Crue long. After complaining how O'Dean was not
right for the band, Mars suggested that the band hire Vince Neil; he had
previously seen Neil perform in the band Rock Candi.
Neil at first rebuffed the band when they asked him to audition. Then,
as fate would have it, Rock Candi dissolved, and Neil broke down and agreed
to audition for Motley Crue after Tommy called him once more.
Now the four original members were together. They played in Los Angeles
and Hollywood for a while, catching fire wherever they went. Motley Crue
soon met their first manager, Allan Coffman, who was a former Vietnam
vet. The band's first release was the single "Stick To Your Guns/Toast
of the Town", which was released on their own label, Leathür
Records. In November, 1981, their debut album Too Fast For Love was self-produced
and released on Leathür Records, selling 20,000 copies. Their success
in the Los Angeles club scene earned them a recording contract with Elektra
Records in early 1982. The debut album was then remastered by producer
Roy Thomas Baker and re-released on August 20, 1982.
In 1982, Motley Crue changed management, from Allan Coffman to Doug Thaler
and Doc McGhee. McGhee is best known for managing KISS, starting with
their reunion tour in 1996.
After playing the US Festival, Motley Crue took the United States by storm,
known as much for their hedonistic lifestyle and seemingly endless abuse
of alcohol and drugs as for their music. Their mixture of metal and glam
rock stylings produced several massive selling albums during the 1980s,
including Shout At The Devil, Theatre Of Pain and Girls, Girls, Girls.
Motley Crue has also had their share of scrapes with the law and life,
first with Vince Neil's auto accident in 1984 (which had a fatality; Razzle
Dingley, drummer of Hanoi Rocks), then later when Nikki Sixx died and
came back to life after a heroin overdose in 1987. The band's decadent
lifestyle almost shattered the band, until Doug Thaler and Doc McGhee
pulled an intervention. Shortly after, all the band members entered rehab,
except for Mars, who cleaned up on his own.
After finding sobriety, Motley Crue reached its peak popularity in 1989,
with the release of their fifth album, Dr. Feelgood, released on September
23, 1989. On October 14 of that year, it became their only No. 1 album,
and stayed on the charts for 109 weeks after its release.
Doc McGhee was fired in 1989 after breaking several promises to the band
that were in relation to the Moscow Music Peace Festival.
Changing trends in music and the temporary departure of Neil from the
band in February 1992 caused a decline in Motley Crue's commercial success,
although a self-titled 1994 release with new frontman John Corabi (formerly
of The Scream) made the top ten. Doug Thaler would manage the band alone
until 1994, after the band did a mass-firing when their album, Mötley
Crüe, failed to meet expectations commercially.
Motley Crue reunited in 1997, after their current manager, Allen Kovac
and Vince Neil's manager, Bert Stein, set up a meeting between Neil, Lee
and Sixx. Agreeing to "leave their egos at the door" the band
recorded Generation Swine. Although the album debuted at #4, and despite
a performance at the American Music Awards, the album was a commercial
failure. This was due to their label, Elektra Records, lack of support.
The band soon left Elektra and created their own label, Mötley Records.
In the 1990s, Motley Crue was perhaps better known for the women married
by three of its members. Both Lee and Sixx married former Playboy Playmates
and stars on the TV show Baywatch, Lee to Pamela Anderson and Sixx to
Donna D'Errico. Not to be outdone, Neil married former Playboy centerfold
Heidi Mark. However, only Sixx's marriage has endured the test of time.
More tragedy would hit Motley Crue in the 1990s. In 1994, Neil suffered
perhaps his most crushing blow; losing his daughter, Skylar Neil to cancer.
Neil (along with former wife, stripper and mud wrestler Sharise Ruddell)
would later sue the company Rocketdyne for dumping cancer causing chemicals
near his former Simi Valley home. Soon after, Lee would go to prison for
six months, after being accused of abusing then-wife Pamela Anderson.
In 1998, Mötley Crüe's contractual ties with Elektra Records
are no more, putting them in total control of Motley Crue's future. The
Crüe have all their album masters as part of their deal. In announcing
the end of its relationship with Elektra Records, the band becomes one
of the few groups in history to own and control its publishing and catalogue
of recorded masters. The band re-releases all of their albums in 1999,
dubbed Crücial Crüe. The limited edition digital re-masters
include demos & unreleased tracks.
In 1999, Lee left to pursue a solo career, and was replaced by Randy Castillo,
the drummer on several Ozzy Osbourne albums. Castillo died of cancer on
March 26, 2002. No replacement had been named and Motley Crue went on
hiatus following a 2001 tour in support of their most recent studio release,
New Tattoo. New Tattoo charted at #41 and sold less than 150,000 copies.
Drummer Samantha Maloney filled in on drums during their tour in support
of this album. Maloney is perhaps best known for her work with Courtney
Love. Maloney replaced original Hole drummer Patty Schemel in 1998, and
then later toured with Love in support of Love's solo album America's
Sweetheart, in 2004.
Within the following six years, Sixx played in the bands 58 and Brides
of Destruction, Lee in Methods of Mayhem and as a solo artist, and Neil
touring on an annual basis as a solo artist, singing mostly Mötley
Crüe songs. Mars, who suffers from a degenerative back condition
called ankylosing spondylitis, went into seclusion in 2001.
A 2001 autobiography entitled The Dirt told their full story. The book
made the top ten on the New York Times best seller list, and it also introduced
Motley Crue to a whole new generation of fans. A later book, "Tommyland"
(which was written by Tommy Lee) was released in 2004.
It would be a promoter in England, Mags Revell, that would start the ball
rolling for their reunion, when said promoter started a promotion that
basically revealed that fans wanted Motley Crue to reunite. After meeting
with management several times, in September 2004, Sixx announced that
he and Neil had returned to the studio and had begun recording new material.
In December 2004, the four original members announced a reunion tour which
began February 14, 2005 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The bands latest album,
released in February 2005, is Red, White, & Crüe. The album features
three new songs, "If I Die Tomorrow", "Sick Love Song",
and a cover of the Rolling Stones' classic, "Street Fighting Man",
along with the band members' favorite original songs. Red, White, &
Crüe charted at #6, & has since gone platinum. The tour would
become one of the biggest in 2005, taking many in the media by surprise.
The band had to add a second leg of sixty additional dates to meet fan
demand.
This ongoing tour included performances at the KROQ Weenie Roast and Live
8. A DVD of tour highlights is due to be released later in 2005, along
with Sixx's long awaited book "The Heroin Diaries".
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