Motley Crue To Record New Music
Today's post is from HIM. Let me just say, I'm not one who is stuck on the "no more tours" contract. The band is making new music and not touring but really, who cares? The contract to not tour was with... each other. I'm not really sure how legally binding a PR stunt is, but whatever. Everyone online was freaking out about "the contract" and I say, just enjoy the new music! - Allyson
Crue! Whew! Phew! You?
Yup. The cat is out of the bag, thanks to Crue’s resident Blotz, Neil:
Exciting news! I’ll be going back in recording studio in a few weeks with the boys to record 4 brand new Motley Crue tracks! Rock On!!
— Vince Neil (@thevinceneil) September 13, 2018
So how do you feel about this? Me? Um. Well. Sure. Yeah. Okay. Right. Cool. Whatever.
I mean, nothing since Decade of Decadence mattered much to me, save the ‘oh so controversial’ eponymous 1994 release. Some okay songs. Some fairly good songs. Some other songs.
And I don’t begrudge them a new song or two (or four). They said they wouldn’t tour. What tour means is going to be up for some discussion, I assume, in subsequent years. But they never said they wouldn’t write new songs (under threat of legal penalties given all those documents they signed, legally-speaking).
So let me bring my recent comments (on other posts) to the fore: why? What purpose does this serve? If it is for the movie, then it doesn’t make a lot of sense, since that is about your glory days. If it is, as the article above suggests, a way to cash in (maybe) on a (how many have there been?) new greatest hits album, what is really the point? Who doesn’t own your greatest hits? How many were there, really? And how many times can you repackage them before fans—true fans—start to question your motives?
I love that Motley Blotzer is “excited.” That likely means he is going to dab gravy on his pork pies, rather than slather it on. But it really doesn’t add to the band’s incredible catalog. If anything, this will subtract from it.
I am sooooooooo willing to be wrong on this. Same goes for the movie. But I just don’t see how this turns out being a good thing, for a good band, that wants to maintain its status with those of us who truly appreciate what they did for metal.
Neil says “Rock On!” I say, “Come on.”
For those of you who don’t understand, yes “the boys” means Motley and we signed a contract not to tour anymore. We never broke up or said we would never make music again. Hope this clears it up.
— Vince Neil (@thevinceneil) September 13, 2018
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