Mick Mars Wants His Band Back: “I am MÖTLEY CRÜE!”

After naming MÖTLEY CRÜE and scoring the glam metal band their first producer, ousted guitarist Mick Mars feels he deserves a bit more respect.

“I am available to write songs and do one-off shows and a residency…”

Mick Mars’s lawyer has confirmed that the issue of whether the guitarist was illegally severed from MÖTLEY CRÜE is heading to private arbitration later this year.

When Mars, a co-founding member of MÖTLEY CRÜE, announced his retirement from touring the world with the group in October 2022, he maintained that he would remain a member of the band, with John 5 taking his place on the road. However, he filed a lawsuit against the band in April 2023, saying that, after his announcement, the rest of CRÜE tried to remove him as a significant stakeholder in the group’s corporation and business holdings via a shareholders’ meeting.

Specifically, Mars claimed he was asked to sign a severance agreement that would divest him of his 25 percent stake in the band’s various business interests in return for a 5 percent stake in the band’s 2023 tour. This stake, the lawsuit alleged, would be reduced to 0 percent for future tours.

Mick claimed CRÜE’s management later upped the offer from 5 percent to a 7.5 percent stake in the band’s 2023 tour, which would remain contingent on Mars divesting himself from the band and their businesses. When Mars refused to sign the papers, the band took the dispute to arbitration “rather than a public lawsuit so that the public would not be aware of the deplorable manner in which they treated their ‘brother’ of 41 years,” Mick claimed in the lawsuit. “When they wanted to get high and fuck everything up, I covered for them,” Mars told Rolling Stone in an interview last year. “Now they’re trying to take my legacy away, my part of MÖTLEY CRÜE, my ownership of the name, the brand. How can you fire Mr. Heinz from Heinz ketchup? He owns it. Frank Sinatra’s or Jimi Hendrix’s legacy goes on forever, and their heirs continue to profit from it. They’re trying to take that away from me. I’m not going to let them.”

With the outside shot that he could be granted forfeited shares due to legal problems that plague Tommy Lee surrounding the Epstein underage sex tape scandal, the guitar legend could win majority shareholder status and reclaim the band that he created himself, believe it or not.

Mars’s lawyer, Ed McPherson, told Rolling Stone that the judge’s ruling on Tuesday (January 16) that MÖTLEY CRÜE took too long to produce some of the documents he requested confirms his client was mistreated by his bandmates. “Finally, somebody, somewhere told these guys they can’t bully Mick anymore. We’re in the middle of a huge arbitration that will ultimately decide if Mick has to give up his shares or not, if they did things properly or not. Obviously we claim they didn’t do anything properly. But they feel that they’re above the rules. And that’s what this lawsuit was about,” McPherson said.

“This was them feeling they were above the rules, and this judge saying, ‘No, you’re not. And you may have given all the documents now, so there’s nothing left for me to do, but, you’re going to pay for it,” he added. “I think that’s a pretty huge victory for Mick. If they want to claim a victory, that’s fine. But this is someone finally telling Mick, ‘No, you’re not crazy. These guys are bullying you. And we’re not going to let it happen.'”

Mick Mars is exposing the real dirt and TMD has the scoop first, behind the scenes of the MOTLEY CRUE lawsuit. It now seems Mick is calling out his former band mates as being wannabe Satanist’s who took the Crue’s ‘demonic’ stage persona a little too seriously. Mars contends that the phony Devil worshiping image of the band, along with usage of backing tracks during concerts, AI technology and ghost performers brought in on studio albums all did nothing but help ruin the one time Platinum selling Hollywood glam metal act, who are now forced to book State Fair shows due to dwindling concert ticket sales.

This is why they have not been able to release a new studio album in 16 years, according to Mars, who released his debut solo album this year on February 23, at age 72.

“It was over once they stopped creating music, says Mars.

Believe it or not, Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx say that their group influenced all the other dark metal bands that came after them. Well, you don’t have to be very smart to realize it doesn’t get any more delusional than that.

Groundbreaking names like Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper ushered in horror and darker themes into rock music first, paving the way for bands like Crue to exist at all.

In fact, Nikki Sixx says he is not a member of the Satanic Church, that it was all just a big gimmick that he was putting on to sell albums. But is there a chance that by surrounding himself with real hardcore Pagans, and the founder of the American Satanic movement Anton LaVey, who do actually get down with rituals and the occult, Sixx, Lee and Neil could have ‘inadvertently’ attached a demonic entity to the Crue.

As the story goes, the band was made to change the name of their biggest song to “Shout At The Devil” after originally giving it the title “Shout With The Devil” because Mick Mars was afraid that the song was gonna be plagued by evil spirits, and ultimately, that it would curse the band.

Soon after, Vince Neil would go on to kill drummer Razzle of Hanoi Rocks in a tragic drunk driving crash. Mick Mars was there with Al Bowman the Crue’s limo driver that day when it all went down in Redondo Beach, and they tried to stop Neil from driving his Pantera drunk, but the singer declined a ride in the limousine.