Motley Crue

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No wedding will ever top being married by MC Hammer, and having Mr. Belding from Saved by the Bell, Jay Fiedler and Dennis Rodman in attendance. That sounds like that show where they take the has-beens/never-weres and stick them in the house together (Surreal Life, I think?). Sweet Jesus. Does anyone know where to get photos of this? Plus, I'm starting to think that Vince Neil and cars should not go together-someone always ends up hurt or dead. God rest the soul of Saigon Kick.

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: MC Hammer: Crime Story

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MÖTLEY CRÜE are finalizing their "Red, White & Crüe" tour set list which currently runs over two hours long, according to a statement posted on the band's web site. The show will include many of the group's current and classic hits from the past 24 years but will also include many songs the band has either never played live or has not played live in many years.

Due to the length of MÖTLEY CRÜE's set list, the band is debating whether or not to include an opening act on the bill this spring. The "Red, White & Crüe" tour may turn out to be an intimate evening with MÖTLEY CRÜE.

MÖTLEY CRÜE will play the first official reunion show with the group's original lineup on February 14, 2005 at Coliseo De Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The band's tour will kick off three days later — on February 17 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

[stallion]

Man does he look wasted. Must have had some of Hammer's holy water n' vodka.

[muthagoose]

Well put! hahahhahahah

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MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx took part in an MSN online chat Tuesday night (Jan. 11). Several excerpts from the chat follow:

Q: Will you be changing the set list from town to town?

Nikki Sixx: "Originally we were going to have a loose set, but in talking more and more about what we want to do visually, we decided to nail it down to a two-hour show. Most shows go for about an hour and a half. We will be playing old and new stuff. The thing that has changed is the encore part of the show."

Q: Nikki, what are the chances we will hear any songs from the '94 album (I'm hoping for "Smoke The Sky") on the tour?

Nikki Sixx: "We haven't really talked about it. That was an album we made that we really liked but Vince wasn't the singer so it might be disrespectful to bring it up. This is MÖTLEY CRÜE with the original four band members."

Q: Can we expect a live CD and DVD from the upcoming tour?

Nikki Sixx: "We've never done a live DVD with the original lineup. We've been talking to management and to our label and everyone seems pretty excited to get us to do that."

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Jill Kipnis of Billboard is reporting that MÖTLEY CRÜE action figure sets will be up for grabs in a promotion for the band's reunion tour this spring.

Global Spectrum and McFarlane Toys are teaming to offer concertgoers at five venues the chance to win a set along with a pair of concert tickets.

The promotion is part of Global Spectrum's effort to explore more creative marketing tools, while McFarlane Toys is seeking to expand its customer base.

"This is a way to draw attention to our venues," Global Spectrum COO John Page says. "Traditional forms of advertisement aren't having the same impact they used to."

Page also notes that because consumers enter the contest online (through each venue's Web site), the promotion will enlarge Global Spectrum's database.

One winner will be randomly selected through each site, and prizes likely will be distributed at the venue the day of each MÖTLEY CRÜE show.

The action figure set is based on the band's 1983 Elektra album, "Shout at the Devil", and features members Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars. The set is available at select retailers for $50-$60.

McFarlane has official league licenses to create toys for the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL, and is known for its horror/fantasy and film lines.

Global Spectrum and McFarlane Toys have explored promotional giveaways before. Global Spectrum worked with a number of its venues last year to give away copies of BON JOVI's CD "This Left Feels Right: Greatest Hits With a Twist" and the group's boxed set, "100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong!" Island Records released both sets.

Rachel Carasso, promotions manager for McFarlane Toys, says that previous deals with Clear Channel Entertainment and Ozzfest have proved to be successful.

"We've made figures of KISS for years and have worked with Clear Channel to offer giveaways at their venues," she says. "This past summer, we debuted our second Ozzy Osbourne figure and worked closely with Ozzfest."

The MÖTLEY CRÜE sets will be given away at the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia (March 4); Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo. (March 15); Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Des Moines, Iowa (April 11); John Labatt Center in London, Ontario (April 26); and the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland, Colo. (May 1).

[LotB]

I wonder how Vince came to be friends with "Mr. Belding?" Then again, it's no stranger than Tommy Lee hanging out with a Backstreet Boy.

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MÖTLEY CRÜE fan site ScrueYou.com has uploaded the brand new Vince Neil single "Promise Me" at this location:

www.scrueyou.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1106203180&archive=&start_from=&ucat=3&

"Promise Me" was written and produced by Desmond Child (BON JOVI, AEROSMITH, RICKY MARTIN) and was recently described by Neil as "a pretty fucking cool song. It doesn't sound like MÖTLEY. It sounds like, I don't know, it kinda has a U2 feel."

The song was alos featured on VH1's "The Remaking of Vince Neil".

Neil's last solo studio album was 1995's "Carved In Stone". He also released a live album called "Live At The Whisky: One Night Only" in 2003.

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BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION/ex-L.A. GUNS guitarist Tracii Guns has commented on the new MÖTLEY CRÜE song "Sick Love Song", which is featured on CRÜE's upcoming two-CD "greatest hits" collection, "Red, White & Crüe", due on February 1 via the Hippo/Motley/UTV imprint.

Said Tracii: "Wow… I wasn't sure if MÖTLEY was puttin' this song out or not. I haven't really heard it yet. Nikki [Sixx, CRÜE bassist], James Michael and I wrote that song. I am surprised, because Tommy Lee [CRÜE drummer] didn't want me involved . Someone just actually e-mailed me and said that song was Tommy's favorite out of the new songs (what a fuckin' weirdo)."

In addition to "Sick Love Song" and CRÜE's new single, "If I Die Tomorrow", "Red, White & Crüe" will include a cover of the ROLLING STONES' "Street Fighting Man", featuring A PERFECT CIRCLE drummer Josh Freese.

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MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx has posted the following message in the "Diary" section of CRÜE's official web site:

"The rock 'n' roll circus is about to hit the road and rehearsals are sounding and looking really good.

"The lights are being programmed. The drum solo is being built. The freaks are hired and are working on their stunts. The special pyro effects are being practiced...

"What can I say?! Time to bring the freakshow back to rock 'n' roll.

"This show is bigger than 'Dr. Feelgood' at this point... and we can't wait to bring it to your town.

"P.S. It's so cool to be playing songs we haven't played (or ever played) in years....

"The countdown has begun... Nikki, Vince, Tommy and Mick."

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MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx recently conducted a question-and-answer session with Rolling Stone for the magazine's latest issue. Several excerpts from the interview follow:

Rolling Stone: You mention in MÖTLEY CRÜE's bio "The Dirt" that curly-haired guys can't rock. What about Robert Plant?

Nikki Sixx: "You know, I'm not the biggest fan. Why aren't QUEEN and AC/DC thought of on the level of ZEPPELIN? ZEPPELIN were derived from the blues and really didn't go much farther. AC/DC carved out an original, never-heard-before sound. And QUEEN — goddamn, man, fucking 'Queen II' will knock your dick in the dirt every time."

Rolling Stone: Do you and your wife have a song?

Nikki Sixx: "You're gonna get me in trouble — we don't really have a song. Well, I guess our song is between the sheets."

Rolling Stone: You mean the moaning? Or the ISLEY BROTHERS tune?

Nikki Sixx: "The music that's coming from between the sheets."

Rolling Stone: So you do it with the music off.

Nikki Sixx: "It goes in phases. There was a while when we were in a ROOTS phase, y'know, and MAXWELL and stuff like that. My wife can tear it up. She's the wildest one in the house, and we get into the hard stuff sometimes. Nothing like a little HATEBREED when you're getting it on!"

Rolling Stone: If you were to go to hell, what song would be playing over and over?

Nikki Sixx: "Anything by Ashlee Simpson."

Rolling Stone: What's the craziest thing you've seen, looking into an audience?

Nikki Sixx: "Dead animal parts. That's the sure sign that things are going awry. It's usually in Europe, and you look out and there's some guy waving a fucking cow leg.

Rolling Stone: Do you have scars that remind you of specific moments with the CRÜE?

Nikki Sixx: "No, but I'm pretty fucking scarred up from bashing myself onstage. My hands are fucked up. But nothing like Tommy [Lee]. He's a war zone. He puts so much into his drumming that his body is thrashed."

Rolling Stone: Given his recent hip-replacement surgery, will Mick Mars be able to make it through the tour?

Nikki Sixx: "Our show is over two hours long. First, it's a big portion of the first two records, then an intermission. Mick called me last night and said, 'I don't know about this fucking intermission shit! Once we get rockin', I don't wanna stop!' He wants to work up a twenty-minute guitar solo. There are no worries there. Mick Mars is ready to fucking crush!"

Rolling Stone: There's a great photo in "The Dirt" of a fat line of coke you formed into the shape of Texas. Did you make any other cool coke designs?

Nikki Sixx: "We used to have a dealer who followed us anywhere, with four or five ounces. We'd make these power rails: six feet long and two inches wide. People would be like, 'You're out of your fucking mind!' We'd see how much we could do."

Rolling Stone: Oh, my God! You've done your height in coke?

Nikki Sixx: "Yeah!"

Rolling Stone: How much makeup will you be bringing on tour?

Nikki Sixx: "You gotta wear makeup. You gotta look like a wreck. That's the purpose. Anyone who thinks makeup is to look pretty is a fag."

Rolling Stone: Did you keep all your old CRÜE outfits?

Nikki Sixx: "They're in a storage unit. When you open the wardrobe case, that funk will knock you to your knees. What we were sweating out of our system should have deteriorated the clothes. Maybe it preserved them, but that shit has not been washed in twenty years."

Rolling Stone: Exactly what does it smell like?

Nikki Sixx: "Have you ever smelled a dead animal?"

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According to MTV.com, MÖTLEY CRÜE's scheduled appearance on NBC's "Last Call With Carson Daly" was cancelled following last week's announcement by NBC/Universal president Jeff Zucker that the CRÜE are banned from the network as a result of singer Vince Neil's dropping of the f-bomb on Jay Leno's live New Year's Eve show. The band's management said it had been booked on Daly's program, but a spokesperson for "Last Call" denied that the appearance was ever confirmed.

CRÜE are expected to announce plans for a major multi-act summer tour on March 3 in New York.

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In an unlikely pairing, Cirque de Soleil is rumored to have designed the stage and is producing a portion of the forthcoming MÖTLEY CRÜE "Red, White, and Crüe 2005...Better Live Than Dead" tour, which kicks off on February 14 in Puerto Rico.

Although there has been no official confirmation on the matter, a brand-new MÖTLEY CRÜE press release issued Thursday (Feb. 3) calls the group's production for the upcoming tour "a three-ring circus with plenty of surprises."

According to Hits Daily Double, the companion web site of music industry tip sheet HITS, MÖTLEY CRÜE's two-CD "greatest hits" collection, "Red, White & Crüe", is poised to bow in the Billboard Top 10 next Wednesday (Feb. 9) as the biggest debut of the week, with expected sales of 75,000-80,000 copies.

This marks the multi-platinum metal rockers' seventh album to crack the sales Top 10, highlighted by 1989's chart-topping "Dr. Feelgood".

The disc's first-week sales have been the result of steady Active Rock, Heritage and Mainstream airplay for "If I Die Tomorrow", one of three new songs on "Red, White & Crüe", which has been hovering near the Top 5 with Modern Rockers such as GREEN DAY and 3 DOORS DOWN, along with a year-long marketing campaign.

Commented CRÜE bassist/co-founder Nikki Sixx: "That's just fucking incredible. Can that quote get us banned from the Billboard chart, like NBC's Jeff Zucker did to us? And how come he hasn't done the same to John Mayer and Bono? Didn't they both use a four-letter word in prime time? At least Vince's came after midnight."

The first MÖTLEY CRÜE world tour in six years, "Red White and Crue Tour 2005.... Better Live than Dead", presented by VH1 and VH1 Classic, hits the U.S. mainland on February 17 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. When tickets went on sale in December, the tour quickly rose to #1 on Pollstar by year's end. The shows in Chicago (Allstate Arena, Feb. 19), Detroit (The Palace of Auburn Hills, Feb. 26) and New York (Madison Square Garden, Mar. 3) are already sold-out, with brisk ticket sales in other markets.

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ContactMusic.com is reporting that MÖTLEY CRÜE frontman Vince Neil and drummer Tommy Lee will head off on the group's reunion tour as enemies later this month — because neither one wants to forgive and forget.

The rock act split largely because of the feuds between Lee and Neil, and the singer admits their relationship is still hindered by the very negative feelings they have about each other.

He tells men's magazine Blender, "I don't like Tommy and Tommy doesn't like me. Tommy doesn't care to resolve things. I don't care. I have no feelings about it either way.

"You go to work and there's a guy in the office you don't like. You still do your job, huh?

"The secret is to think of the EAGLES. They toured forever and they fucking hated each other."

Meanwhile, Lee insists he isn't going to let his temper get the better of him backstage on the upcoming tour — because he has learned to control it.

He says, "My anger management classes have taught me there's always a way out. I don't like to make too much of a big deal about this because it sounds gay, but if I feel angry, I like to go for a walk and look at trees."

To ease possible tensions on the volatile tour, each group member will hit the road on his own tour bus.

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According to MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee's official newsletter, "when [Tommy] has a night off on the [CRÜE] tour he won't be sitting in the hotel room or sleeping on the tour bus — he'll be bringing the crazy bumpin' beats to the hottest clubs around the country!"

Lee's first scheduled DJ performance with DJ Aero will take place on February 19 at Compound in Atlanta, Georgia.

MÖTLEY CRÜE currently has dates booked through mid-June in North America and Europe.

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: Planet Boom - Motley Crue

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Hits Daily Double reports: When the MÖTLEY CRÜE "Red, White, and Crüe 2005...Better Live Than Dead" tour officially launches February 17, the coveted opening slot will be.. a movie? Each show will open with a 20-minute animated feature, "Disaster!", featuring the band and hand-picked by Nikki Sixx, who knows the filmmakers. The short, a claymation parody of action films like "Twister" and "Armageddon", was directed by Roy Wood, who was part of the team behind MTV's "Celebrity Death Match".

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ContactMusic.com is reporting that MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx fears his upcoming autobiography will be too much for fans to handle because it details his sickening life as a freebasing junkie.

Sixx, now a family man, insists he won't be reliving his hedonistic 1980s days while touring with the reunited group this spring, but he's revealing all about his worst moments in a new book.

He says, "Some of this shit is so fucking insane, it will make your skin crawl because I was not only a junkie, I was a freebaser, and I injected coke all the time, so I had psychosis.

"I was shooting the walls because I was sure that the cops were on the other side of them, saying, 'We're coming to get you.' And then I'd fucking come to and there'd be nobody there but the fucking holes in the wall."

Sixx, real name Franklin Carlton Feranna, planned to base the autobiography on diary entries he made during the height of his heroin addiction in 1996 and 1997, but has since expanded the project, entitled "The Heroin Diaries", to include poetry and interviews with bandmates and famous pals.

Writing the book has made Sixx, who actually died briefly after one heroin-fuelled night, realise that he'll never return to the days when he was forever high or really low.

He explains, "I fucking died and came back, and you can't top that. I beat God at his own game."

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On Wednesday, March 2 at 11:00 p.m. EST, VH1 will debut "The Fabulous Life of Mötley Crüe". An episode description on VH1's web site reads as follows:

"In 1980, Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars and Vince Neil were just four guys living in a trashy apartment off the Sunset Strip. By 1987, they were rock gods who could afford to trash anything they wanted. From their personalized tour jet to their vintage guitars to their all-access groupies, nothing was off limits to MÖTLEY CRÜE. If you think bling, Gucci and Maybachs are Fab — think again. Meet the four metal maniacs who invented fabulous: MÖTLEY CRÜE.

"When you're a famous rock star, your life is one big world tour. And no one's world was more intense than the CRÃœE's. Their stages were powered by 100,000 watts of sound, 11 tons of equipment and 2,000 lights. And their spandex ensembles? They were the custom-designed to be the pants everyone wanted to get into.

"An all-star band needs an all-star ride. When they weren't on the MÖTLEY CRÜE signature jet, they toured in their 1986 Eagle bus — a tricked-out ride with only one rule: female fans had to enter in the nude. An when they weren't cruising the states in their mobile bachelor pad, the boys were riding in black and tan corvettes and customized Harleys.

"The band eventually tired of the Playboy mansion and the hoards of eager groupies, so they headed down the aisle for wedded bliss. Mud wrestler Sharisse Rudell, who married Neil, and 'Baywatch' beauty Donna D'Errico, who wed Sixx, were not your average desperate housewives. And nothing compared to Tommy Lee's rock star wedding to 'Dynasty' diva Heather Locklear, where the groom wore white leather and the bride dressed in a skin-tight mermaid suit.

"In 2005, after two decades and 13 albums, MÖTLEY CRÜE is back and bigger than ever. Prepare yourselves for the tour of the 21st century. From Milwaukee to Manchester and San Juan to San Diego, the 'Red White and Crüe' Tour is going to rock our world stadium-style. And come February, MÖTLEY's signature arena rock will be blasting in every home across the country with the release of their double-disc greatest hits album. The capper? The CRÜE's even hitting the big-screen with a movie version of their best-selling tell-all book 'The Dirt: Confessions of The World's Most Notorious Rock Band'. Get ready for the biggest comeback in rock and roll history. You won't want to miss The Fabulous Life Classic: MÖTLEY CRÜE."

"The Fabulous Life of Mötley Crüe" show times:

Wednesday, March 2 at 11/10c p.m.
Thursday, March 3 at 11:30/10:30c a.m.
Saturday, March 5 at 1:30/12:30c a.m.
Sunday, March 6 at 1/12c a.m.
Monday, March 7, 2005 2:30/1:30c a.m.

[Stomper]

So we doing tickets for this Nissan show? Let me know if we are going to do that crazy ass ticket package.

[Üncle Snake]

Those ticket packages went on sale earlier this week. If it's like the first time around they're probably sold out already. I got mine for the Allentown, Pa., show. (I won't be in town for Nissan.)

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MÖTLEY CRÜE singer Vince Neil recently spoke to Steve Morse of the Boston Globe about the group's "Red, White, and Crüe 2005...Better Live Than Dead" reunion tour.

''Many bands today have no sense of entertainment," said Neil. ''And if you're going to pay $70 a ticket, you need to be entertained, rather than going to see a bunch of guys just standing around."

Tickets have been selling briskly, according to the band.

''We've added another 50 shows and [promoters] want us to add another 50 after that," said Neil. ''That would mean we'd end up with 152 shows in the U.S. alone. It's been pretty amazing. A lot of the fans grew up with us, but they're also bringing kids who are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The kids are dressed in MÖTLEY CRÜE shirts and are curious about what this thing is all about."

Tabloid writers have tried to stir up gossip by saying the band members are traveling in separate buses, portraying it as a sign of friction. ''Separate buses are just more comfortable," said Neil. "Nikki [Sixx, bass] has five kids and he needs some space. And Tommy [Lee, drums] needs space when his kids are out with him."

So is there a future for MÖTLEY CRÜE?

"Right now, we're just touring — and this tour could last as long as three years," said Neil. "After it ends, we'll take some time off, then decide if we want to do a new record. That would be great, but if not, we at least had a fun tour."

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[Stomper]

I have ordered 3 tickets to the Nissan show. So far Goose and I have been confirmed.

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MOTLEY CRUE singer Vince Neil and bassist Nikki Sixx spoke to The Orange County Register about the group's "Red, White, and Crüe 2005...Better Live Than Dead" tour, which hits L.A.'s The Forum tonight (March 23). Several excerpts from the interview follow:

On how the band is getting along on the road:

Vince Neil: "Things are great. We're getting along better than we ever have. We're having a lot of fun out here."

On the fact that many people seem to be waiting for the tour to unravel:

Vince Neil: "I guess so, but they're gonna be really disappointed. We have been through everything — deaths, lawsuits, jail, anything you can imagine. It's amazing we're still alive. But we're blessed.

"A lot of people have tried to read things into that that aren't really true. The main reason we have separate tour buses is because we can, you know what I mean? Tommy's [Lee, drums] kids are out with us right now. Nikki's got five kids that come to visit. Mick [Mars, guitar] has a special bed. It's mainly for comfort — and, besides, we can afford it."

Nikki Sixx: "Give us time. There's no way this machine's gonna run smoothly. Trust me, something will happen.

"It's like ... I've been watching the Michael Jackson case, OK? And I kept going, `When's this guy gonna pull a bonehead move?' And then today he shows up in his pajamas - there ya go! Same thing with MOTLEY CRUE. It's only a matter of time before someone shows up in their pajamas."

"You know, all these rumors about us, it's become a marketing factor. It's what people like to talk about. At times I've felt frustration that it wasn't more about the music, but at the same time I'm probably just as guilty as anybody else in the band for being always on the edge of doing something stupid that keeps us in the public eye, and not for musical reasons."

On Vince Neil's fistfight with Tommy Lee back in 1999:

Vince Neil: "Oh, man, I get asked about that every day. And I explain to people that the band's been together for 25 years. When I was 16, I was sleeping at Tommy's parents' house on the floor next to his bed. When you're friends with somebody like that for 30 years, you're bound to fight. You yell at each other and battle, but you get over it and you can't even remember why you were arguing in the first place."

On the fact that no one else is keeping the spirit of Sunset Strip '80s hair metal alive:

Vince Neil: "We're one of those bands that fills a void. We put excitement back into rock `n' roll again. Bands just forgot about that stuff. Most of the people making it lately look like they just walked out of the audience and put on a guitar. They're not real rock stars, you know?

"I think this tour right now is shutting up a lot of critics. When you walk into Madison Square Garden and it's sold out, who cares what critics say? People are finding it harder and harder to find things to use against us now. Success is the best revenge, I guess."

On the possibility of another MOTLEY CRUE studio album:

Nikki Sixx: "Another album is gonna happen, for sure. So in Motleyland, that means maybe."

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Hits Daily Double, the companion web site of music industry tip sheet HITS, reports: Things have gone relatively smoothly on MÖTLEY CRÜE's first headlining tour in six years, but there was one "small" snafu as the band attempted to cross the Canada-U.S. border last night to do a show in Grand Forks, ND. Seems traveling circus that makes up the CRÜE's current "Better Live Than Dead" tour was temporarily sidelined when border authorities detained Mighty Mike, the troupe's resident "little person," emcee and fire-breather. Seems Mike, a Canadian, didn't have his papers in order for the crossing back to the U.S.; however, things are expected to be worked out "shortly," according to a band spokesman. "This could set U.S.-Canadian relations back a couple of weeks," the CRÜE's Vince Neil was heard to say.