I'm pretty sure every member of the band has hated every other member at some point. Tommy and Vince's relationship never really recovered from when Vince was originally fired from the band. Tommy grew close with John Corabi, the replacement singer, and really wanted to "update" Motley Crue's sound. If you've ever heard Tommy's solo album or Methods of Mayhem, you're painfully aware that he should stick to beatin' the drums, because his songwriting skills suck dick. When Vince returned, their relationship only worsened on tour because Vince is basically a drunken ******* and Tommy had his own set of issues. Eventually they had a big fight and Tommy quit the band. The moral of the story is, when your band consists of 3 huge assholes and a crotchety geezer and you mix in more booze and hard drugs than anyone should take, there's gonna be some hatorade drunk all around. Basically, they're doing this tour because the fans wanted it and the promoters wanted it and they wanted to end the Crue on a good note rather than a lame one. Plus, Mick's just not going to be able to tour in a couple more years. His disease is degenerative.
i love you, Freak!!!! you know i'm just kidding, right?? i don't like this music, but i really don't care if others do. you know that right?? just getting a reality check in.
I am SO TEMPTED to change my signature line to this!!!!!!!!! Max, I love ya, but Freak....this is BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!
You might be right but a lot has happened to him since that was filmed. Divorce, lawsuits (didn't a child drown in his pool a few years back?), failed album, etc. I thought he bought that crib when MC was still going strong. On another note, I'm not a big MC fan or a big Tommy Lee fan (although he is good at what he does) but I gotta tell you... That upside-down drum solo is still one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Yeah I know ... you don't care if others like it, you just like to make fun of it everytime a thread pops up about it. It's cool though- you're still a wonderland in my book.
I grew up on this stuff and I just cannot consider Motley Crue as 'glam' or 'hair' metal. I hate those words. They just seem derogatory somehow. Its just '80s heavy metal. Period. This is what it looked like back then, much like Black Sabbath was the face (and the inventors) of metal in the '70's, and bands like Metallica and Pantera were in the later '80s and '90s. Motley was HUGE from 1981 'til well into '90s, and they were still rocking into 1997 when they played at the VMAs with a remix of Shout at the Devil. Metal has evolved in one way or another over the decades, but metal is metal is metal. In L.A. back then, the metal scene blew up when bands like Motley Crue and Quiet Riot got signed....So all those big haired, theatrical bands with screaming guitar riffs were basically copying Motley. I do like a lot of other bands from back then, but Motley was one of the major catalysts for what came to define heavy metal in the 1980s. Record companies took a cookie cutter approach a few years later after MTV was born while Motley was just beginning their rule of the world. Whoever did what in that era, Motley Crue did it first, including the first "power ballad," which has come to define '80s "hair bands," in Home Sweet Home. I still love that song. The Dr. Feelgood tour in 89-90 at The Summit was my first concert ever. Motley Crue rules.
this is my favorite term ever!! power ballad!! i don't say power ballad enough. i resolve to use the phrase, "power ballad," more in my day to day activities.
I received this email today: "THE WORST LIVE TV PERFORMANCE BY A ROCK BAND EVER!! Motley just finished out the 2004 Video Awards on Spike TV and looked like the BIGGEST IDIOTS EVER. It's no secret that MC uses prerecorded backing vocals and Tommy plays along to a click track. Well for some reason they thought could do an improtu jam with Snoop Dogg coming out during "Girls, Girls Girls" and while they started playing some sort of break-down, the fake "chorus" vocal tape kept playing and afterwards, the band was completely lost in the arrangement and couldn't figure out where to go. As Mick decides to start playing his outro solo, Tommy Lee just ends the song! Just when I thought they would leave the stage to try to save face, they go ahead and play "Dr. Feelgood." Well, it started off OK, but Tommy must have missed his cue on the click track because the backing chorus vocals came in half a measure too soon, completely ****ing everyone up! Then the sound kills the canned vocals and Nikki tries to actually sing them and his mic isn't even on!!! Then the background vocals came back on and cut in and out for the rest of the song! It was terrible!!! The band looked completely embarrassed as it was clear that they were using "help" in the vocal department and it completely destroyed their performance." video: http://home.comcast.net/~sthorn73/files/MotleyCrue-SpikeTVawards.wmv
That video of the Crue playing on Spike TV....oh my God that was horrible. The whole band sounded like crap. They are all messing up. That is pretty funny. The bad Crue looks like poo. Go back to the garage and play those songs for the next few days. You need to rehearse. That is some sloppy ass guitar work. Just a total mess if you ask me. Yikes! They came back to soon!
