Don Dokken Says “F*** You”, Claims Mick Mars Was A “Huge Factor” In MÖTLEY CRÜE’s Success, “It Was Mick!”

Don Dokken has a few things to say when it comes to his old friend Mick Mars, after having known Mars for more than four decades, since he was in the pre-MÖTLEY CRÜE band VENDETTA. Dokken during a new Artists On Record Starring ADIKA Live! interview went on to call Mick the “most underrated guitar player.”

“Forget about chops. Forget about fucking hammer-ons and Eddie Van Halen copies. His rhythm playing, man, it’s the shit,” Don explained. “Mick Mars wrote a ton of MÖTLEY CRÜE songs. He is an amazing rhythm guitar player, and he wrote all those great rhythms in MÖTLEY CRÜE.”

“Nobody talks about Mick because he’s a very private person,” Dokken added. “Anybody ever says [MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist] Nikki Sixx wrote all the songs, and [MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer] Tommy Lee… Fuck you. Mick Mars was a huge factor in MÖTLEY CRÜE‘s cool, groovin’ cool riff uptempo songs. It was Mick.”

Mars filed a lawsuit against his former bandmates for ripping him off and for using backing tracks at last year’s The Stadium Tour that Mars called “The Worst 36 gigs” he ever played with the Crue in 41 years.