Nikki Sixx’s ‘Mick Mars Tattoo’ Means Nothing to the Guitar Hero, Because it is a Fake Sign of “Loyalty”

MÖTLEY CRÜE is at war with Mick Mars. The problem is that the veteran guitarist is not going to roll over so easy, and his main enemy is Nikki Sixx, who as the band’s leader spearheaded the attack against Mars to diminish his great reputation in every way possible. This all came to a head when Carmine Appice spilled the beans to the public that Mars was ultimately decided to battle against his bandmates because they were behaving like spoiled and overindulged children.

The Crue’s manager Allen Kovac thinks Nikki Sixx getting a tattoo of Mick one time proves his loyalty, and that there were no ill intentions on the band’s part in seeking to oust Mars as an equal shareholder in the band the guitarist helped to create and make world famous.

Okay, so what Sixx and Kovac are doing is leveraging a tattoo of a person – wherein the one wearing the face of that person tattooed on their body, in his twisted ‘baby man’ mind somehow now guarantees that there will be loyalty with Sixx, the insane person who got the tattoo of Mick’s face on himself to use against the elderly shredder later on during a corrupt move to oust him from the Crue. That’s a new one.

To Mick and his legal representation that doesn’t count for much today. Says the guitarist’s attorney via Variety: “Just because you get a tattoo of someone does not mean you get to oust them from your band’s corporations and LLCs 41 years after they start with you.”

It has been Mick’s intention all along to remain a member of the Crue, and still record in the studio with them, so what is the problem? Many bands use ‘hired guns’ on tour with bigger acts when there is a problem with one of the original members. That does not mean you take most of that member’s profits away. Mick earned his keep with the Crue long ago, and it’s flat out wrong to take away what Mick Mars is rightfully owed. Without his epic guitar playing on the first two Crue records nobody would even care about them right now.

The Variety article continues:

The filing by Mars’ lawyer Thursday had at its core a simple request:  The musician is asking the court to compel Crue’s team to produce records and documents they’ve been unduly sluggish about turning over, in Mars’ view, prior to arbitration that is likely to settle their core disputes. But the main legal purpose of that writ was of far less interest to the band’s millions of fans than supporting documentation that included a long accounting of Mars’ disputes with the other three members and their management.

Sixx and the Crue contend that Mars was making so many mistakes during rehearsals that the other members needed to rely on using pre-recorded backing tracks during the actual concerts.

Sixx and Co. two months ago purportedly began gathering witness statements from the glam metal band’s stage crew that was to confirm Mars was indeed having issues, which is obviously totally bogus because these are “canned” statements taken from current employees of the Crue who fear getting fired, so they will say anything to keep their bosses happy.

The funny thing is that it was Mars who first went public with an accusation that the other guys in the band were not doing their part. This is after other notable rock musicians began exposing the truth about Sixx using pre-recorded tracks at concerts for his bass guitar, such as Stephen Pearcy of RATT fame. The suit Mars filed last week goes deeper into how other band members accused him as the 2022 tour went along of not being able to remember or “flubbing parts”, and that they had their own ignorant belief this was evidence of cognitive decline.

In his Variety interview, Mars admitted to the occasional “brain fart” he says every so often, blaming any more serious issues on bad monitor mixes that “included distorted pre-recordings.” But Mars was most adamant about saying that “100%” of Nikki Sixx’s bass parts were on tape at all of the Crue’s comeback concerts, and that substantial parts of Vince Neil’s singing and Tommy Lee’s drumming were pre-recorded, in contrast to his own (he says) 100% live playing.

They are now shamelessly using Mars as a scapegoat, because TMD exposed the truth.

TMD was the first metal news site to catch drummer Tommy Lee last year fake drumming during the Stadium Tour, and this is what kicked off Mars’ frustration with the Crue, because the whole idea of fake playing is to not get caught fake playing in front of a paying crowd. It’s not that difficult to do, yet Lee managed to drop the ball. There are many in the rock media who feel Lee did this on purpose as a way to sabotage the shows and get revenge vs. Mick Mars.

Tommy Lee Caught Faking It – Rock 94

TMD was also the first metal news site to report that singer Vince Neil was going to lip-sync during all of the Crue’s comeback concerts and that is exactly what he did. Neil is so horrendous at singing for real nowadays, most assuredly, but his god-awful attempt at fake singing and walking away from the microphone while his voice somehow soars loudly over the PA is the biggest joke of them all.

March 13, 2022: Vince Neil Is Going To Lip Sync All Of MÖTLEY CRÜE’s Songs At “The Stadium Tour” https://themetalden.com/?p=91229