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Post by Admin on Nov 18, 2019 21:34:04 GMT
Mötley Crüe released a video Monday officially announcing their upcoming reunion. In 2020, they’ll be kicking off a U.S. stadium tour with Poison and Def Leppard. While specific dates and venues have yet to be announced, the three acts will perform at stadiums around the country.
The band doesn’t appear in the video, but Machine Gun Kelly, who portrayed Tommy Lee in the movie adaptation of The Dirt, announces that they are blowing up their “cessation of touring contract” because the fans demanded a reformation.
“I never thought I would see the day when this would become a reality,” Kelly says in a press release. “But the fans spoke and Mötley Crüe listened!” The video shows this supposed legal document bursting into flames on a desk.
Mötley Crüe played 158 shows on their 2014-15 Final Tour, wrapping up with a hometown show at the Forum in Los Angeles on December 31st, 2015. Prior to the tour, the band claimed to sign a “cessation of touring agreement,” which they said was a binding document that would prohibit them from ever playing again after the tour ended. At the time, the group’s management failed to produce this alleged document despite repeated requests.
“Legally, we can’t play again,” bassist Nikki Sixx claimed to Rolling Stone backstage at a 2014 show in Denver. “The only loophole is if all four band members agreed to do it, we could override our own contract. But we know that will never happen. There are people in this band who will refuse to ever do it again, and you’re talking to one of them. There is no amount of money that would ever make me do it again because I have such pride in how we’re ending it.”
“If anybody ever — and I don’t believe anybody ever would — would call any other band members and say, ‘Hey, it’s been 10 years, let’s just do 10 shows. A million a pop,’ it could never happen unless all four band members agreed,” Sixx added. “And if we did agree, the way we’ve set it up — including this conversation right now — we’d have so much egg on our face. We have so much pride that that alone would stop it.”
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Post by Admin on Nov 20, 2019 4:12:17 GMT
After vowing five years ago never to play together again, the heavy metal maniacs announced in a video released Monday they will be touring in 2020 with fellow hair metal veterans Def Leppard and Poison. Machine Gun Kelly, who played drummer Tommy Lee in the Mötley Crüe Netfix biopic "The Dirt," announced in a video that the band was reneging on the infamous cessation of touring contract they signed in 2014 on the eve of what they claimed then to be their final go around.  “I never thought I would see the day when this would become a reality,” Kelly said. “But the fans spoke and Mötley Crüe listened!” No strangers to controversy, Mötley Crüe found themselves back in the news this year when Netflix debuted a movie based on the band’s scandal-packed autobiography, “The Dirt.” While the film was a hit for the streaming service, the band found itself having to answer for passages from the 2001 book on which it was based that described two of them possibly sexually assaulting a fan. Sixx claimed that the story was “possibly greatly embellished” or outright “made up.” “The book was written in 2000 during a really low point in my life. I had lost my sobriety and was using drugs and alcohol to deal with a disintegrating relationship which I still to this day regret how I handled...I honestly don’t recall a lot of the interviews with [author] Neil [Strauss],” Sixx told Rolling Stone. |
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Post by Admin on Nov 26, 2019 18:42:51 GMT
 Last week, the internet seemed to break at the notion that Motley Crue are getting back together. The rumors started, and were later confirmed by inside sources that Motley is planning a touring package with Def Leppard and Poison. Seeing the internet firestorm that was created, Motley themselves confirmed that they indeed would be reuniting, but no shows have yet to be announced. Maybe that's because of the band's asking price? A new report from Iowa radio station KRNA notes they spoke to a local promoter who said the tour package's asking price is north of three million. The guarantee would be split as follows, according to the report: Mötley Crüe: $2 million Def Leppard: $1 million Poison: $250,000 Again, this is per show. So, if the average ticket price would be $70, it would require at least 46,000 people to break even. I doubt even the nosebleeds would be $70 for these shows. |
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Post by Admin on Dec 27, 2019 1:31:26 GMT
POISON singer Bret Michaels says that he is excited about the band's upcoming "The Stadium Tour" with MÖTLEY CRÜE, DEF LEPPARD and JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS. "I can't wait," he tells Digital Journal. "Almost all of the stadiums are selling out in record-breaking times. We will truly have 'nothin' but a good time' and we will go out there with POISON and make it amazing."
"The Stadium Tour" will kick off on June 21 in San Antonio, Texas and will include newly announced gigs in Kansas City, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Nashville, Cincinnati and Cleveland. The trek marks CRÜE's first live dates since wrapping its 2014/2015 farewell tour. The band toured with POISON back in 2011 and DEF LEPPARD teamed up with POISON for a string of road dates in 2017 — but the upcoming jaunt marks the first time all four acts have hit the road together for an extended tour.
Produced by Live Nation, "The Stadium Tour" was announced on December 4 at SiriusXM's Hollywood Studios live on the Volume Channel 106. The trek reportedly sold more than 700,000 tickets and grossed over $90 million at the box office in the first weekend of sales. The tour saw the fastest sellout in Miller Park history in Milwaukee, according to a press release. Additional shows sold out instantly in Atlanta, Seattle, Charlotte, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago and Denver.
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Post by Admin on Jan 1, 2020 2:05:28 GMT
Motley Crue singer Vince Neil has canceled his upcoming show at MGM Northfield Park in Northfield, Ohio. Vince Neil was recently photographed with a large cake.  MGM Northfield Park posted, “Due to circumstances beyond the artist’s control, the Vince Neil concert scheduled for Friday, January 10 has been cancelled. Refunds are available at the point of purchase. Fans who purchased online at LiveNation.com or Ticketmaster.com will automatically be issued a refund.” Chris commented, “Jennifer, now you know why I said no to going to this – they probably did only sell a handful of tickets. Let’s hope he gets in shape a bit for the stadium tour.” Kim responded, “Look at that. He can reunite with Motley Crue but can’t play this show. Hmmmm……” Don chimed in, “I gave up after Ticketmaster screwed me out of the front row tickets in my cart. Serves them right.” Rob wrote, “That’s what happens when you can’t sing anymore.” Michelle said, “I’m sure it got cancelled like the week of gigs right before the announcement did. Would you take a pay cut after signing a multi million dollar deal? Besides, I bet he can’t play solo per the contract. |
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