{"id":111403,"date":"2024-03-18T09:42:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=111403"},"modified":"2024-03-18T09:42:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:42:44","slug":"mick-mars-calls-out-motley-crue-says-he-is-available-for-new-songs-short-tours-one-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=111403","title":{"rendered":"Mick Mars Calls Out M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE: Says He is &#8220;Available for new songs, short tours, one-offs!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">In a new interview conducted with\u00a0Riff X&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Metal XS&#8221;<\/strong>,\u00a0ex-<strong>M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE<\/strong>\u00a0guitarist\u00a0<strong>Mick Mars<\/strong>\u00a0unloads more of the Dirt behind his waging a legal battle with the glam metal legends, insisting that the group is pushing him out after he announced his retirement from doing world tours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"METALXS - \u00e9pisode 5 saison 3 \u2022 MICK MARS &amp; MYRATH\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xW_TQxuf-Zs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Regarding his current status with\u00a0<strong>M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Mars<\/strong>\u00a0is very blunt with his words: &#8220;I can&#8217;t say it&#8217;s the end of my association or even being in the band. When I retired, I still made myself available for new songs, short tours, one-offs or residencies and stuff like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Mars contends that his profits are being ripped off, and that he was the only real musician performing live at concerts for <strong>The Stadium Tour,<\/strong> exposing <strong>Nikki Sixx<\/strong>, <strong>Tommy Lee <\/strong>and <strong>Vince Neil<\/strong> for relying on backing tracks. His legal team believes the 72-year-old rocker was being gaslighted and sabotaged, along with the rock media turning on him after he announced his debut solo album, which insiders feel was also the victim of &#8220;chart manipulation&#8221; on Billboard&#8217;s charts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mickmarshear2zen2024_420x237-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"420\" height=\"237\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mickmarshear2zen2024_420x237-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-111428\" style=\"width:322px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mickmarshear2zen2024_420x237-1.jpg 420w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mickmarshear2zen2024_420x237-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">There is an outside chance that Mick could score a legal upset with his lawsuit against his old group and gain what is called &#8220;Majority Shareholder&#8221; status in the band and essentially take control of the act he named in the first place and helped to get off the ground by finding the group&#8217;s first producer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Mars believes that the band needs to focus more on creating new music for the fans and playing more important gigs at select historic rock venues. He feels the band is hurting itself by staying out on the road without any new material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The Crue has yet to produce a new studio album in sixteen years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Ticket sales for the band&#8217;s concerts have dropped off dramatically, and the band minus Mars is booking gigs at State Fair&#8217;s this summer and Winstar Casino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Mick released his debut solo album, The Other Side Of Mars, last month via his own label 1313, LLC, in partnership with MRI. Visit his <a href=\"https:\/\/mick-mars.com\/\">website<\/a> to order your copy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTheMetalDen%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0rzXS7ZBi546SLsBTfFEWMcd2XCMHikXesHG8HjVjsp4KtTpDFWrkizu2upLtHJpwl&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"648\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\">\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u00a0Mars recently told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/national\/music\/join-us-for-an-audacy-check-in-with-mick-mars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Audacy Check In<\/a>\u00a0that it took him more than four decades since\u00a0<strong>M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE<\/strong>&#8216;s inception to release his debut solo album because &#8220;<strong>M\u00d6TLEY<\/strong>\u00a0was priority\u2026 and now that I&#8217;m retired, I&#8217;m just me. I mean, if\u00a0<strong>M\u00d6TLEY<\/strong>\u00a0wanted me to write songs with them again, of course I would\u2026 But right now, I&#8217;m just me, so I&#8217;m writing, and it&#8217;s not\u00a0<strong>M\u00d6TLEY<\/strong>, and it&#8217;s how I feel \u2014 my ideas and my kind of thing and kind of trying to reinvent myself or bring myself up to date.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mick-mars.com\/\">Mick Mars Official Website \u2013 The Other Side of Mars (mick-mars.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/center>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new interview conducted with\u00a0Riff X&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;Metal XS&#8221;,\u00a0ex-M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE\u00a0guitarist\u00a0Mick Mars\u00a0unloads more of the Dirt behind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111403"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111436,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111403\/revisions\/111436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}