I'm wary of getting into any relationships now." What can I do? It's hard to trust people. "She's suing me because she says I promised I'd take care of her for the rest of her life. Asked why he would put himself through such a gruelling workout each night, he replies: "What else can I do? Sit at home and do nothing? This is what I do for a living." He notes that money is also an important factor since his ex-girlfriend launched a $10m lawsuit. Mars travels with a full-time assistant and has a customised hospital bed on his tour bus. All being well, the plan after that is to record some new material. The band are now committed to two years of touring: Kansas is the penultimate date in their American tour, after which they go to Europe, Australia, Japan, South America and then back to the US. I love to look at ass, but I wouldn't mind seeing some faces too." "You know what I see when I walk? Ass and legs. I don't mind being stiff but I want to be straight," he says blithely. The only way he can look directly at me is to lean right back in his seat and put his feet on the table. The hip operation helped ease the pain in his back, though his neck is still permanently bent forward. Stick-thin and hunched up in the corner of a huge sofa in his candle-lit dressing room, he cuts a sad figure. Lee has just completed his first solo album Tommyland: The Ride, for an autumn release.Īs for the guitarist Mick Mars, the oldest in the band at 54, his time has been spent trying to find ways to live with his illness. Lee and Sixx have kept themselves occupied with musical ventures, Sixx with the now-defunct Brides of Destruction and Lee with Methods of Mayhem. Last year, he bought a wine estate in northern California, Vince Vineyards, through which he is soon to launch his own brand of cabernet sauvignon. Neil, now 44, has been performing as a solo artist and continues to pursue his twin passions of golf and motor racing. In the six years since the band split, they've each found different ways to pass the time. We all look like fuckheads in that book." You can't gloss over the bad parts and make the good parts better. "If you behaved like an asshole, you're gonna look like an asshole. When it came to compiling the book, Neil says, the band made a deal with each other. No detail is spared as it recounts Neil's 1984 conviction for vehicular manslaughter after a drink-driving accident in which his passenger, Razzle from the band Hanoi Rocks, was killed bassist Nikki Sixx's bender in Hong Kong that ended in a near-fatal drug overdose or drummer Tommy Lee's turbulent marriage to Pamela Anderson, during which a tape of them having sex was released on the internet, and which collapsed after three years with Lee serving six months' jail for spousal abuse. Since it was published in 1998, The Dirt has become the most notorious rock biography ever, eclipsing even Led Zeppelin's Hammer of the Gods in terms of sheer depravity. Their story, as detailed in their best-selling autobiography The Dirt, takes in sex, drugs, hospitalisation, prison and death. If ever a band were due a comeback, it's them. Of all the metal bands that dominated the Eighties, Mötley Crüe, once described as "savages" by their manager Doc McGhee, were the loudest, the filthiest, the most obnoxious of them all. It's largely due to the success of The Darkness that glum rock is out and glam rock is back in. The guitarist Mick Mars, who suffers from the degenerative bone-disease ankylosing spondylitis, has had a hip replacement, while singer Vince Neil has a new face courtesy of the VH1 reality show Remaking: Vince Neil.įortunately for the band, musical tastes have changed too.
Much has changed since Mötley Crüe last hit the road. Out the back of one lorry emerge four Harley-Davidsons, each buffed and polished ready for one of the band's many dramatic entries on to the stage.
Instruments are unloaded, banners unfurled and video screens hoisted into place. The cavalcade of juggernauts has already arrived and the crew are working furiously backstage to set up for the night's show. It's a sunny afternoon in Wichita, Kansas and I have a date with one of the most notorious rock bands of the Eighties.
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