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Vince Neil: “I Cut a Nun’s Head Off With a Chainsaw - Bands Don’t Do That Anymore”

Photo: Harrison/Getty Mötley Crüe released their first album of new material in nearly a decade this past summer, but that’s business as usual for singer Vince Neil. “We stop touring and don’t put a record out and everybody says we broke up, and it’s not really true,” Neil insists. “We were just taking a vacation.” That break fully came to an end this year. The veteran glam-metal act celebrated the release of Saints of Los Angeles with the inaugural Crüe Fest, a traveling multi-act hard rock roadshow that also included Sixx A.M., the side-project of Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx (with producer-vocalist James Michael). Crüe Fest 2 is already planned for summer 2009. And last week, Mötley convened again for a special show at the Hollywood Palladium in preparation for a 2009 U.S. arena tour that begins in San Diego on February 2nd. That concert marked the debut of a new support act, the Last Vegas, a band chosen in a nationwide competition sponsored by Guitar Center to open the show every night on tour (along with Hinder and Theory of a Deadman). The Palladium gig also brought the four members of Mötley Crüe back to L.A.’s Sunset Boulevard, where the band notoriously began its career more than two decades before. “We walked down the street with our high heels on — stiletto heels — and dog collars,” Neil remembers with a laugh. “We didn’t have any money, so we looked cheap, but it was good cheap.” Why choose an unknown band to open for the tour? Kiss took us out when we were just playing clubs, and then when Ozzy took us out it really broke Mötley Crüe. Those bands took chances on us. So why not give back and take a chance with a new unknown band? The Last Vegas are young and aggressive, their songs are good and they look good. If you could go back and see Mötley from the early days, how do you think you’d react to them as a new band? I’d probably go, “What the fuck are these guys thinking about, man!” Bands don’t do what we used to do. Bands don’t have the theatrics. We wer

Published: 2008-11-18
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News

Theory of a Deadman

Theory of a Deadman pictures from Rolling Stone

Tour Tracker: Rocklahoma, Lupe Fiasco and Massive Attack

Vince Neil: “I Cut a Nun’s Head Off With a Chainsaw - Bands Don’t Do That Anymore”