Mick Mars – Motley Crue Are ‘Trying to Take My Legacy Away’

The ongoing feud between Mick Mars and Mötley Crüe continues to warmth up, because the ex-guitarist not too long ago claimed that his former bandmates are trying to erase his “legacy.” He additionally revealed that he was barely concerned with the group’s final three studio collections: 1997’s Generation Swine, 2000’s New Tattoo and 2008’s Saints of Los Angeles.

In Rolling Stone’s new exposé (printed on June 24), Mars – who’s within the means of suing Motley Crue for “unilaterally” eradicating him from the band, amongst different assertions – talked about notions that he and/or the opposite members had been utilizing prerecorded tracks in live performance. He additionally acknowledged accusations that he couldn’t bear in mind how to play the fabric correctly, surmising [via Rolling Stone]: “When they wanted to get high and fuck everything up, I covered for them.”

Mars elaborated [via Rolling Stone]:

Now they’re attempting to take my legacy away, my a part of Mötley Crüe, my possession of the title, the model. How are you able to hearth Mr. Heinz from Heinz ketchup? He owns it. Frank Sinatra’s or Jimi Hendrix’s legacy goes on without end, and their heirs proceed to revenue from it. They’re attempting to take that away from me. I’m not going to allow them to.

Further into the article, Mars acknowledged that he was “squeezed out of the decision-making process” for Generation Swine (which noticed the return of frontman Vince Neil following his 1992 departure). He confessed: “I don’t think there’s one note that I played. They didn’t want my guitar to sound like a guitar, basically. They wanted it to sound like a synthesizer. I felt so useless. I’d do a part, they’d erase it, and somebody else would come in and play.”

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Regarding follow-up New Tattoo, he stated he “didn’t write any of those songs, since [he] wasn’t invited,” adding: “I think I got one lick on that album.” In the identical Rolling Stone piece, nevertheless, bassist Nikki Sixx disagreed: “Mick played lead guitar, rhythm guitar, and any other guitar that’s on that record.”

That stated, either side appear to agree that an uncredited DJ Ashba dealt with a lot of the guitarwork on Saints of Lost Angeles. Sixx defined in the identical write-up: “Mick was struggling to play his parts. So there’s [a] mixture of D.J. and Mick, and we would always make Mick the center focus unless, of course, he couldn’t play his parts or remember his parts.”

In any case, the varied disputes between the 2 events present no indicators of stopping anytime quickly.

In associated information, Sixx not too long ago contributed to “Bygones,” a track from Dolly Parton’s upcoming LP – Rockstar – that additionally sees her collaborating with Judas Priest’s Rob Halford and Mars’ Motley Crue alternative, John 5.