Mick Mars could be prepared to put in writing new music for Mötley Crüe – regardless of his ousting and authorized wrangle along with his former bandmates.
Mick Mars is open to writing new music for Motley Crue
The 72-year-old axe-slayer was shocked when Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee and Vince Neil issued a press release asserting he had resigned from the ‘Ladies Ladies Ladies’ group when in truth Mars had retired from touring.
He is unable to speak an excessive amount of about his exit, after he filed a lawsuit at Los Angeles County’s Superior Court docket in April 2023, by which he claimed his bandmates had been “gas-lighting” him and belittling his musicianship.
In his authentic submitting, he accused the glam metallic band of attempting to power him out after he needed to step again from touring as a result of longstanding well being points which have worsened.
Mars – who has simply launched his debut solo album, ‘The Different Facet of Mars’ – claimed he would have remained a member of the band no matter his retirement from touring due.
And talking in a brand new interview, he admitted he would pen new tunes for the group in the event that they wished him to.
Requested about why it took him 4 many years to go solo, he instructed ‘Audacy Test In’: “Nicely, it took me 40 years ’trigger Mötley was precedence… and now that I’m retired, I’m simply me.
“I imply, if Mötley wished me to put in writing songs with them once more, after all I might… However proper now, I’m simply me, so I’m writing, and it’s not Mötley, and it’s how I really feel — my concepts and my type of factor and type of attempting to reinvent myself or convey myself updated.”
In a latest interview with Guitar World, he mentioned of his retirement: “I could not do it anymore – the travelling half. I imply, I am 72 and I’ve this c***. It will get somewhat bit strenuous for me to journey around the globe and maintain doing that for months at a time with a two-week break. It is simply gotten to be an excessive amount of for me. So yeah, that is about it.”
On them utilizing “resigned” as a substitute of “retired”, he mentioned: “Two completely different phrases, two completely different meanings. It was simply retiring from the touring half. I might actively be concerned in each entity of Mötley Crüe. I would not be right here at this time if it wasn’t for them. I do not remorse something we have ever accomplished – good, unhealthy or ugly, no matter. My physique simply could not do it anymore.”
Mars insists he was good mates along with his bandmates, regardless of the drug and booze-fuelled antics they obtained as much as, together with allegedly setting hearth to his doorways.
Requested in the event that they have been greater than colleagues, he mentioned: “Yeah, at one level. It is like, I do not hate anyone. Within the band there’s a variety of stuff that I wasn’t notably keen on that might occur by the years. Wiping your [butt] on my doorknob wasn’t precisely enjoyable. That type of stuff – lighting my doorways on hearth. And like I mentioned, once I look again at it now, it is type of comical.
However this occurred, and it wasn’t humorous on the time.”
Mars has been changed by John 5.