![]() The platinum blonde singer was the only band member sober enough to come to this conclusion, having been ordered not to drink as part of his probation after killing Hanoi Rocks drummer Razzle in a December 1984 drunk-driving accident. ![]() Their previous album, 1985’s Theater of Painhad gone double-platinum off the strength of hit singles “Smokin ‘in the Boys Room” and “Home Sweet Home” despite being “pure shit,” as frontman Vince Neil succinctly described it in the band’s sordid autobiography, The Dirt. The Crue were riding high commercially as they began laying the groundwork for Girls, Girls, Girls, even as their personal lives were in the gutter. But beneath its slick, hedonistic party-metal facade, Girls, Girls, Girls bristles with depravity and desperation, painting a dire portrait of a band on the brink of self-destruction. It will probably be highly emotional, I’m sure.On the surface, Motley Crue’s Girls, Girls, Girls might not look or sound materially different than their previous three records or the work of their Aqua Netted peers in Poison or Ratt. “I’ll probably have a ton of stuff (I’ll miss). “There will be a bunch of things that we’ll miss, but I think by the end of the tour, I don’t know maybe I’ll have a whole different perspective on a lot of things,” he said. That’s something he said he’ll only know when that day comes. There have already been temporary departures by Neil and Lee before the group reunited for its latest run in 2004, doing several successful tours and making a 2008 studio album, “Saints of Los Angeles,” which was widely praised as a return to musical form for the band.Īt this point, Lee isn’t sure how he’ll feel when the last show arrives or what he’ll miss most about Motley Crue. In 1987, Sixx suffered a heroin overdose that left him legally dead on the way to the hospital before medical personnel were able to revive him. In 1984, Neil was driving when he had a head-on crash that killed his passenger, Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley, drummer of the band Hanoi Rocks. The group took advantage of its success, partying like true rock stars and boasting of numerous sexual escapades. In all, the band has sold more than 75 million copies of its nine albums. Signed to Elektra Records after that, the group broke through commercially with the 1983 album, “Shout at the Devil,” and then reeled off three more consecutive hit albums, “Theatre of Pain” (1985), “Girls, Girls, Girls” (1987) and “Dr. The Motley Crue story starts in 1981, when the band self-released its debut album, “Too Fast for Love,” selling 40,000 copies of the album, according to the band members. ![]() And so to prevent that, before anything bad could happen - Jesus Christ, we’re all still alive and everyone’s healthy - maybe now is a good time.“ That’s just not how we ever envisioned it - ever. We don’t want to end it with one or two guys still out there touring with two other hired guys. “We would constantly ask each other how do we want to, you know, end this thing? I know how we don’t want to end it. We’ve been talking about this for years,” Lee said. The decision to end Motley Crue didn’t happen overnight. The group has done its best to assure fans that the final tour is exactly what it says - even signing a binding legal document at the press conference in which the four band members agreed there will be no further tours in any form as Motley Crue. Lee said the shows will take that tongue-in-cheek attitude and turn it up to 11. Inside, the band members took their appointed seats with their names on faux-tombstones in front of them. The four members - drummer Lee, singer Vince Neil, guitarist Mick Mars and bassist Nikki Sixx - arrived at the press conference in a hearse, with a New Orleans-style band playing the festive music one hears during a Crescent City funeral procession. A press conference at which the band announced that this would be the final Motley Crue tour - it comes to Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Alpharetta on Saturday - hinted at the vibe the group wants to create.
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