John 5 - Guns N' Roses + Motley Crue Tour Would Be a Perfect Fit

Motley Crue have been touring with Def Leppard for effectively over a yr now, they usually’ll quickly head over to Japan and Australia for a few extra present to shut out 2023. But as for the long run, there’s a band that John 5 thinks can be a “perfect fit” to tour with Crue.

“Well, if you were to ask me in a reality sense, like bands that are touring and bands that I love, my No. 1 would be Guns N’ Roses,” the guitarist stated in a new interview with the Appetite for Distortion podcast, including that he had beforehand talked about it with Nikki Sixx.

“Someone was asking us, and we both said, ‘Oh, Guns N’ Roses.’ And just because it’s such a perfect fit. We both love them very much. And we’re friends. I mean, I love all the guys so much and I’ve been friends with them for a very long time. I mean, a long time.”

The dialog doubtless happened over the summer season after a fan requested Sixx on social media which band he’d like Motley Crue to tour with sooner or later. “I think us and Guns would destroy the world,” the bassist responded.

John 5 then recalled getting to hang around with the members of Guns N’ Roses again within the day after one in every of their early exhibits, proper across the time when “Welcome to the Jungle” first began enjoying in rotation on TV.

“But that’s when I met them, and I would see them. ‘Cause I was getting tattooed at Sunset Strip Tattoo, and I would always see them, and I would see them at the Cathouse,” the guitarist continued. “So I’ve known them for that long. And I just think it would be a wonderful, wonderful tour.”

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The rocker did not contact on whether or not or not Vince Neil and Axl Rose are on good phrases after the spat they obtained into over 30 years in the past, which noticed each vocalists publicly problem one another to a bodily altercation. But as acknowledged, he and Sixx would really like a tour to occur. Guns N’ Roses have not performed any co-headlining exhibits since Slash and Duff McKagan rejoined in 2016, so it will be fascinating to see how that may play out if it did.

Crue play in Japan this Friday (Nov. 3) and Saturday (Nov. 4), then head to Australia for a string of exhibits that kick off Nov. 8. See all the dates on their web site.