If Motley can do this, what can G N R get?

[Axl In Lafayette]

Robin Leach reports on his blog "Vegas Luxe Life with Robin Leach" that MÖTLEY CRÜE — Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars — signed a $100-million-plus mega-deal last week to produce three albums and perform three world tours for the giant Live Nation entertainment conglomerate.

"We'll actually have been together for 37 years by the time it comes to an end," Vince told Leach.

Vince, who will go off next month on a solo tour of Canada, said that the first of the three long world tours starts this July. The new contract runs for the next 10 years and includes 169 concert dates on the first global journey.

CRÜE is well into the creation of its new studio album, which will be titled "The Dirt" and based on the band's 2001 memoir of the same name. Bassist Nikki Sixx wrote in a new online update, "10 songs done for the new CRÜE album so far, I'm very proud of the songs. I think we're onto some of the better songs we've had in years...Time will tell, of course. A couple of song titles on the CRÜE album are called 'A Scar On Hollywood Boulevard' and 'The Saints Of Los Angeles'... The chemistry in the studio as we're writing is unbelievable."

Nikki Sixx will be featured on a new Fuse TV program called "Live through This" which documents music stars that have made a comeback. The show will air on Thursday, February 21 at 10 p.m.

The Pulse of Radio reported last month that the rumored tour by Sixx's other band, SIXX: A.M., is starting to take shape. The MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist and his new act will likely hit the road in late April and early May for a run through 10 or 12 major U.S. markets. No word yet on exact dates or venues.

Sixx wrote and recorded the album with longtime friends James Michael and D.J. Ashba and has resisted the idea of turning the project into an actual band. But Sixx told The Pulse of Radio that may all be changing. "It seems that people have been able to really feel that it's a band, they really feel that it's something that they can get behind and they can go, 'You know, I really support these guys in what they're doing,'" he said. "It's interesting 'cause we never planned on playing live together, and then we played live together, and that went off so well that I think we accidentally started a band."

Rumors initially surfaced that SIXX: A.M. would tour in February, although Sixx shot down those reports. The project has only played live once so far, last fall at a Utah radio festival.

The SIXX: A.M. album serves as the "soundtrack" to Sixx's recently published book, "The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star".

Twenty-five percent of Sixx's royalties from "The Heroin Diaries" goes to Running Wild In The Night, a charity he established in conjunction with Covenant House to rescue homeless and runaway youth from the streets.

[Pico]

Tommy Lee's back again?

[spaghetti_incident]

You are comparing GNR to Motely Crue?

Edited February 12, 2008 by spaghetti_incident

[JKKDARK]

The label is called Artist Nation, Madonna is also signed there.

This is really great news for the Glam Metal scene.

[Axl In Lafayette]

You are comparing GNR to Motely Crue?

i'm saying if such has beens as the crue can get 100 mil...G N R should be able to do at least as good

[JKKDARK]

You are comparing GNR to Motely Crue?

i'm saying if such has beens as the crue can get 100 mil...G N R should be able to do at least as good

but Mötley Crüe is Mötley Crüe, it's the classic lineup.

I don't think someone will do a deal like this with a band including Axl Rose and other 5 or 6 unknown musicians and spending a lot of years writing an album.

[Incognito]

Is it me or would this thread be more appropriate in a different section of the forum ?

Normally, when I come to this section of the board, it is because I want to talk about Axl Rose and his new guitar players.

NOT because I am interested in what Motley Crue is doing.

[kevdo242]

The label is called Artist Nation, Madonna is also signed there.

Which is part of Live Nation.

[posing Rose]

Is it me or would this thread be more appropriate in a different section of the forum ?

Normally, when I come to this section of the board, it is because I want to talk about Axl Rose and his new guitar players.

NOT because I am interested in what Motley Crue is doing.

You are probabply a completely insane idiot?

The way you act, i´d rater see you posting at "/" s forum.

[Chef Greg]

if mick mars lives to the meet the contract agreement, i will be shocked. never compared motley to gn'r. gnr is a hard rock band, motley is a hair band. like poison. hair bands make cheesy fun songs. not a ride through a gn'r album.

[gunsnmotley]

if mick mars lives to the meet the contract agreement, i will be shocked. never compared motley to gn'r. gnr is a hard rock band, motley is a hair band. like poison. hair bands make cheesy fun songs. not a ride through a gn'r album.

ya, because shout at the devil was a fluff album

and ya...most of you people are the same people syaing Mick wouldnt make it through the 05 tour...and here he is today in better shape than he was in 05

[Powerage5]

Awesome, can't wait to see 'em live again! Saw them open for Aerosmith in '06, the only song I knew was Shout At The Devil and they're one of my favorite bands now, it'll be interesting to see them now that I know the songs

[izbo]

Good news, but GN'R is GN'R

[JKKDARK]

if mick mars lives to the meet the contract agreement, i will be shocked. never compared motley to gn'r. gnr is a hard rock band, motley is a hair band. like poison. hair bands make cheesy fun songs. not a ride through a gn'r album.

Hair Metal is an era, not a music genre. Mötley Crüe is a Glam Metal band.

Edited February 12, 2008 by JKKDARK

[Chef Greg]

if mick mars lives to the meet the contract agreement, i will be shocked. never compared motley to gn'r. gnr is a hard rock band, motley is a hair band. like poison. hair bands make cheesy fun songs. not a ride through a gn'r album.

Hair Metal is an era, not a music genre. Mötley Crüe is a Glam Metal band.

There is no such thing as Hair Metal. If you take Shout at the devil album out of the mix, you have Poison! A Glam Band pardon my FRENCH!

[hitmanhart408]

Motley Crue just posted a bulletin on myspace saying that they have NOT signed ANY deals whatsoever. So this is FAKE according to them.

[bluesy]

These guys can't stand each other and CDs are a dying breed. I doubt they could plan 10 years into the future, all things considered.

[Axlin08]

The new band, would never be offered a deal like that.

A reunion might, even if it were the Illusion band.

[Ant]

I can't believe people pay to go to Motley shows post 1989... at their best they were the top of the heap in a proverbial garbage can of a musical genre. I'd hate to see Vince Neil at 55 after seeing him at 45.

And Mick Mars has been a walking corpse for like 5 years... wtf?

PS. Long live Razzle!

Edited February 13, 2008 by Ant