Motley Crue to re-group only to say farewell....hadn't they already left?

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This just in from the new issue of Rolling Stone (why do I buy this rag?)

"Motley Crue will reunite for a farewell tour in 2005!"

They're obviously taking yet another page from the Kiss playbook (a ragged tome they've rifled many pages from already), but I mean.....why bother? You're already gone! The first reunion album tanked, you've released a greatest hits album, re-releasd a back catalog, another shitty live album, a rareities disc and a completely needless boxset containing most of same....why bother milking it further?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

cuz Tommy Lee doesn't have anything else to do now that his solo album bombed...? (isn't this the only real reason reunions happen, because no one's making any money off their solo careers?)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't Nikki Sixx just start a new band? The Brides of Needless Redundancy or something?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

best name ever.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Remember that unbelievably big contract that Elektra gave the Crue around 1990-91, that worked out well...what a bad business move. It is no wonder that big labels don't make any money.

What is funny is that these guys have probably BLOWN most of the cash they made, except Mick Mars. That guy was 40 old when they started having hits and was from Huntington, Indiana. He probably has a million bucks buried in Mason jars in his yard.

― earlnash, Friday, 21 May 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

The first reunion album tanked, you've released a greatest hits album, re-releasd a back catalog, another shitty live album, a rareities disc and a completely needless boxset containing most of same....why bother milking it further?

Because I guess of the people who are aware of all this stuff might go?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

ten years pass...

So anyway, on this farewell farewell tour, a smashing start:

It trainwrecked three times, actually, the first coming less than 20 minutes into the show, when drummer Tommy Lee blew out his kickdrum during the closing moments of "Primal Scream." While crew members scrambled to repair the broken drum, guitarist Mick Mars filled the dead air by cranking out an ear-splitting guitar solo at airplane hangar volume (seriously, it was so loud). But the repairs took longer than he was able to noodle, and he eventually stopped and left the stage along with the rest of the band members as house music came up in the arena.
That’s fine, technical problems happen, even though as far as momentum killers go, this was a biggie. But 10 or so minutes later, the band stumbled again, when Mars botched the intro to “Too Fast for Love,” halting the show dead in its tracks again. “You know what’s (expletive) cool? When you watch a band forget their own song,” a frustrated Nikki Sixx bellowed into his microphone. “It’s ‘Too Fast for Love,’ it’s only 35 (expletive) years old.”
By this point, the band members were clearly frustrated, and were shooting glances and gestures at one another on stage. The tour has been positioned as a funeral for Motley Crue, and in the crowd Wednesday it certainly felt like one.
Then just a few minutes later the Crue melted down a third time, when Mars flubbed the intro to the new song “All Bad Things Must End.” The show stopped, again, and Mars complained into his microphone about his in-ear monitors. That marked three derailments in less than an hour, and fans showed their disapproval by loudly booing the band. It takes a lot to make a crowd boo — especially an opening night crowd on a high-profile tour — but the Crue was dealing with more than technical difficulties. They looked sloppy and unrehearsed, and weren’t in anything resembling tour shape.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:05 (eleven years ago)

Wonderful.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:08 (eleven years ago)

what was the thread where roxy posted a really hilarious account of a motley crue show years ago?

― some dude, Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:16 (eleven years ago)

"GOD BLESS THE TITTIES OF AMERICA!" -- Roxymuzak meets Motley Crue

― how's life, Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:26 (eleven years ago)

haha classic

― some dude, Friday, 4 July 2014 00:53 (eleven years ago)

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