Which, you know, not to say I'm a particular Frankie Valli fan - even when I was a pre-teen in the 1970's, Valli back THEN was before my time - but...yeah, seeing those recent clips of him live...
My instinct would be to think that he's suffering from diminished capacity not only physically in terms of being able to sing (clearly in those clips he was miming to his originally recorded vocals) but perhaps mentally in terms of cognition, e.g. perhaps he's being kept on tour more by family or management desires rather than any of his own.
But Valli apparently addressed those clips a few days ago, releasing a statement that he's doing what he wants to do, isn't being forced or coerced to perform and intends to keep on going as long as he can. Better that than wasting away in a nursing home somewhere if that's what he wants to do. Were I paying to see Valli, I can't say I wouldn't be disappointed. Then again, how high should expectations be for a guy who is 90 years old?
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Linkin Park’s Emily Armstrong Is Accused Of Singing To A Backing Track
During the final chorus of ‘Heavy Is the Crown,’ Armstrong sings, ‘Fire in the sunrise,
ashes raining down / Try—’ and holds the mic out to the crowd. The rest of the song,
‘…to hold it in, but it keeps bleeding out,’ continues to play in her voice. She brings the
mic back to her mouth, stumbles through a line, then finishes strongly with, ‘Heavy is
the—heavy is the crown.’
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If there is anyone still out there in denial about Sixx miming this one is as clear cut as you will ever get...
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Hey I admit Taylor Swift has more talent than the aggregate of MÖTLEY CRÜE. But she plays it safe. There's something to be said about a Hair Metal band in the middle of a trainwreck while performing rock and roll. Wait, never mind, does that apply here if MÖTLEY is using pre-recorded... that's pretty safe too.Leave a comment:
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Bob Rock clarified his comments above by saying that Nikki Sixx during the rehearsal/pre-production sessions for Dr. Feelgood had said to Rock that [Sixx] was fucked up on drugs to the point where he didn't remember playing bass on the earlier Crue albums. Obviously, different from Sixx flat-out saying someone else played bass on the earlier Crue albums.
It wouldn't have been shocking to find out that someone else had played on the earlier recordings in and of itself had that been the case, but rather that it took a few decades for that info to have leaked.
I mean, Sixx is a meathead and marginally talented to be sure but doubtless I'm also sure he had the ability to play the bass parts on the Motley Crue albums. It's not like said bass parts were Jaco Pastorius-level playing...or even difficult within the realm of rock bass.Leave a comment:
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Producer BOB ROCK Reveals Someone Else Replaced NIKKI SIXX’s Bass Playing On First..
If this is a shocking revelation, I pity thy fool who is shocked!
During his work with MÖTLEY CRÜE on new material, producer Bob Rock shared that Nikki Sixx had doubts about his involvement in the first four albums of the band. Rock disclosed this information during an interview on Chris Jericho‘s “This Is Jericho” podcast.
Additionally, Rock mentioned that he made Sixx play every note on the 1989 album Dr. Feelgood, and when they worked on the demos for The Dirt, Sixx had become an exceptional bass player after taking bass lessons for five years.
Rock recalled: “He goes, ‘I don’t think I ever played on any of the MÖTLEY CRÜE records. I think somebody came in at night and replaced all my parts.’ He says, ‘So I don’t really know how to play bass.’ And I said, ‘Too bad. You’re playing bass on it.’ So I worked with him through Dr. Feelgood, did a lot of edits and made him play every note.
“But when we did The Dirt, I went to see him and we started working on the demos. He picked up the bass and started playing, and I said, ‘Woah, woah, woah. What’s going on here?’ He had been taking bass lessons for five years. All of a sudden he’s an amazing bass player. And I think that’s so cool, in that point of his career, he wanted to be better. You know what I mean? I admire that.” (OK, this sounds like Bullshit)
Last month, Mars gained attention as he filed a lawsuit against the band, alleging widespread use of backing tracks during live performances and accusing bassist Nikki Sixx of manipulating him into thinking he had lost cognitive abilities and guitar skills.
In the lawsuit, Mick alleges that MÖTLEY CRÜE reduced his share of earnings from 25 percent to a mere 5 percent after revealing his decision to withdraw from touring. Additionally, he states that the group’s attorneys made him feel as if he should appreciate this minimal portion, as they believed they had no obligation to provide him with anything. Mick also asserts that a complete band gathering took place where they chose to “unilaterally” exclude him from MÖTLEY CRÜE.
Mick consistently alleged that bassist Nikki Sixx was “gaslighting” him by suggesting his guitar abilities were declining, even though Sixx didn’t “play a single note on bass” throughout a recent tour, as stated by the guitarist. Mick asserts that all of Nikki‘s segments were pre-recorded.
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I watched some of this and it's strange how many of the comments think it must be more live because it's a smaller venue.
I would definitely rather see them mime in a small club than a stadium or a big field in the rain like they did here tonight but it's still shit.
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Mick Mars Never Wants to Speak to Mötley Crüe Again — and 14 Other Things We Learned
Yes that Rolling Stone article is worth pasting right here the 15 things we learned from Mr. Walking Death himself, Mick Mars! I have no skin in the game but it's a good read for rock & roll lore.
1. Power ballads like “Home Sweet Home” and “Without You” helped Mötley Crüe’ widen their fanbase beyond traditional metal fans, but Mars wasn’t a huge fan.
“I got tired of the power ballads pretty quickly,” he says. “I know a lot of people really loved them, but I wanted to hear more soul coming in. Maybe I just think of music in a different way. And after a few power ballads, all these other bands acted following suit. I remember thinking, ‘Okay, okay, okay. Enough.'”
2. He only tried heroin once.
“It wasn’t on purpose,” Mars says. “We were debuting Theatre of Pain on one of those old radio stations. I was so hungover and I went, ‘I don’t know if I can do this. You got a bump?’ That’s because we did coke. Nikki goes, ‘Yeah’ and he gives me a guitar pick with this white horse heroin on it. I went, ‘What did you give me?’ He goes, ‘Smack.’ I hated it. I never did it again.”
3. When Vince Neil killed Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley in a 1984 drunk driving accident, Mars thought the band would be unable to carry on.
“I thought it was over right then,” he says. “And it wasn’t just that one person died. Two other people were really hurt. It was pretty devastating. Right after the accident, some people thought it was me in the car since Razzle and I both had long, dark hair. But the way that whole thing was treated [with Neil serving just 15 days in prison] would have been very different today. I thought he was going away for a long time. It hit Vince really hard though. I think he retains that to this day.”
4. Part of him wishes they changed their name when John Corabi took over for Neil as lead singer in the Nineties.
“If we’d changed our name, that album could have been pretty big,” Mars says. “People would probably have called it New Crue though. We probably couldn’t have done it. But when the album came out, I thought it was going to do great. And it didn’t because people were upset with us. They were like, ‘This isn’t Mötley!’ That was really hard. I guess it was the time for us to pay our dues.”
5. He prefers Mötley Crüe’s 2000 LP New Tattoo to their 1997 album Generation Swine, but he’s still critical of it.
“New Tattoo was written too fast,” he says. “I don’t feel like there was a lot of thought-out music on there. Some parts were cool, but it was all done so hastily. The manager and booking agents and whoever were like, ‘You only get this much time in the studio. We want another album to tour.’ And it wasn’t as good as the records we did before since it was just sort of pasted together.”
6. He’s never read the band’s 2001 group memoir The Dirt.
“Maybe that sound weird or something,” he says, “but there’s parts I didn’t want to re-live or hear.”
7. He did watch the 2019 Netflix adaptation of The Dirt.
“The only time I watched it was the premiere,” he says. “I thought it was okay. You know how movies are. They can’t fit the whole book into an hour and a half. Some of the parts were a little overblown and overdone. But it was a fun movie.”
8. Ozzy Osbourne approached him soon after The Dirt movie came out.
“I can’t remember where we were,” he says. “I think we were playing somewhere near Bakersfield. Ozzy came running into my dressing room. He goes, ‘Mick! Mick! Did I really snort ants?’ I said, ‘Yes you did.'”
9. The band started using backing tracks at their concerts around Dr. Feelgood since the three musicians onstage couldn’t recreate every part of the album live.
“I remember saying, ‘People know what’s supposed to be there,'” Mars says. “‘Will they miss it? Some probably will, but a majority will not. They’ll hear it subliminally the way it was recorded as long as the meat and potatoes are there.’ I didn’t want to fool the audience, but the others wanted to fill in where the holes were. I never liked that garbage.”
10. Despite a nationwide tour in 2022, he says the last time the band really talked was the premiere of The Dirt in 2019.
“Nobody spoke to me in 2022,” Mars says. “A lot of the time felt like I was just playing by myself. You know how you can be in a crowd of people and still feel alone? That’s how I felt that whole tour. I felt used, sad, and inferior. When we played the last show [in Las Vegas on September 9, 2022] I felt relieved. A lot of the pressure was gone. But I was very emotionally wounded. They weren’t just shallow wounds. They were deep ones; the kind you can’t get over.”
11. He stands by his assertion that Nikki Sixx didn’t play live bass on the 2022 tour.
“I’ve been with him a long time, and I got fan-based film of him thrusting his arms in the air and stuff when there’s a bass line playing,” says Mars. “I’m absolutely positive [he wasn’t playing live bass]. I think he did that because he felt too much competition from the other bands on the tour, like Def Leppard. I think they made him feel inadequate about his bass playing.” (Sixx emphatically denies that he faked any part of his bass playing on the tour and the band produced sworn declarations by seven members of the crew backing up Sixx.)
12. According to Mars, the band initially told him he wouldn’t get a dime from their 2023 tour with replacement guitarist John 5.
“Then they bumped it up to five percent and then seven and a half percent,” says Mars.” I was like, ‘No. You’re not going to take that from me. I worked to hard for this stuff.” (Mars attorney Ed McPherson says the proposal also included a percent of any merch featuring images of Mars, and the final offer of 7.5% only applied to the 2023 tour. “It was going to be zero after 2023,” McPherson says. “Nikki was quite adamant about that.”)
13. Mars texted with guitarist John 5 after the news hit he’d be taking over for him in the band.
“He wrote to me a bunch of times and he was worried,” he says. “I wrote back, ‘Don’t worry, you’ll kill it.’ That’s about it…John’s a really good guitar player. He’s schooled. The songs aren’t very complicated though.”
14. To him, the legal fight is about more than money.
“Just let me retire and have my legacy,” he says. “I don’t want to be a drama guy. I want to be a fuckin’ happy guy. But what do I get handed? Plates of shit. I don’t want it. I’m beat up on that shit. Let me have my legacy so that I can enjoy what I’ve done. I own one quarter, or even half, I don’t know for sure, of Mötley Crüe Inc, which trickles down to all the other Mötley Crüe entities. I’m not asking for a right arm or left arm. But dammit man, I’ve never seen anybody have to go through this shit when they want to retire. I’m not an employee of Motley Crue though. I’m an owner.”
15. He hopes to never talk to his bandmates again.
“I think all of us would be okay with that,” Mars says. “And I don’t just mean me with them. I mean them with each other. I don’t plan on having a funeral. If I did, I think maybe they’d show up for that just out of courtesy. But for me, there’s no funeral. There’s no nothing.”Leave a comment:
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