Motley Crue

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An uncensored 2 ½-minute trailer for the forthcoming MÖTLEY CRÜE VH1 documentary, "(Inside)Out: Resurrecting Mötley Crüe", has been made available online. Check it out: Windows Media, Real Media (WARNING: nudity included). An exact air date for the special has not yet been announced.

As previously reported, MÖTLEY CRÜE will be filming their April 27 concert at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, MI for an upcoming DVD, to be distributed on TV as well as DVD this fall. Clear Channel Entertainment, who are promoting the concert, will produce and distribute the TV show and the DVD on their home video label, Clear Channel Entertainment Home Video, from Clear Channel Entertainment TV. Acclaimed award-winning director Hamish Hamilton, who has previously shot concerts by U2, MADONNA and PETER GABRIEL, will be helming the shoot.

The DVD will be released on the Clear Channel Entertainment Home Video label, and distributed domestically by Ventura Home Video.

The band's Hip-O/Island/UME "Red White & Crüe" album, featuring three brand-new songs, debuted at #5 on The Billboard 200, and was recently certified platinum.

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MÖTLEY CRÜE singer Vince Neil has told the Journal Star that the band will definitely release new music in the not-too-distant future.

"We are going to put out another studio album," Neil said. "Then we'll take a little time off, and then we'll probably tour in support of that album."

Neil suggests CRÜE might keep going out of a sense of duty to rock 'n' roll. He can't find anything good on the radio anymore.

"I don't listen to anything (recorded) today," he said. "There's nothing today that inspires me. There's no true rock 'n' roll bands anymore. There's all pre-fab boy bands and girl bands."

As previously reported, MÖTLEY CRÜE will be filming their April 27 concert at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, MI for an upcoming DVD, to be distributed on TV as well as DVD this fall. Clear Channel Entertainment, who are promoting the concert, will produce and distribute the TV show and the DVD on their home video label, Clear Channel Entertainment Home Video, from Clear Channel Entertainment TV. Acclaimed award-winning director Hamish Hamilton, who has previously shot concerts by U2, MADONNA and PETER GABRIEL, will be helming the shoot.

The DVD will be released on the Clear Channel Entertainment Home Video label, and distributed domestically by Ventura Home Video.

The band's Hip-O/Island/UME "Red White & Crüe" album, featuring three brand-new songs, debuted at #5 on The Billboard 200, and was recently certified platinum.

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MÖTLEY CRÜE frontman Vince Neil is the subject of the latest episode of MTV's "Cribs", a show which offers a peek into celebrity homes. A description of the program on MTV.com reads as follows: "Las Vegas is home to the rock star crib of Vince Neil and wife Lia. Colorful guitars and record plaques line the walls leading up the stairs and the theme continues into the game room. When this couple gets tired of playing pool on their leopard skin table with Playboy balls, they turn to their gigantic backyard swimming pool and Jacuzzi. As if that wasn't enough, Vince's car collection looks like it's straight out of 'Pimp My Ride', with a yellow hummer at the center, covered in flames and eye-catching custom rims."

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MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx recently spoke to John Serba of The Grand Rapids Press about the group's outrageously successful "Red, White, and Crüe 2005...Better Live Than Dead" tour, which is scheduled to hit Grand Rapids, MI on April 27.

"If you're spending 50 bucks to go to a concert, you take a date, and you wanna buy a T-shirt, a few beers and parking — for $150-$200, you better get your (expletive) knocked in the dirt," he said. "It's not a passive thing. It's not like sitting in a movie theater and going, 'This is an enjoyable experience.' You gotta walk out of there covered in sweat and spit."

The bassist claims 70 percent of MÖTLEY's audience is too young to remember the band's MTV and commercial radio dominance. In that context, the CRÜE members are elder statesmen of rock excess, the leather-clad professors of rock-show bombast.

"We're educating them on decadence ... on what rock 'n' roll truly is supposed to be," he said.

The band plans to write and record a new album after its extensive world tour wraps up by the end of 2005. But is he worried the songwriting will suffer, what with the band members actually seeing eye-to-eye these days?

"Oh, we can go to the vaults," he said. "We've got some (expletive) stored up. Let's just say all the baggage wasn't left at the door."

Addressing the topic made Sixx's tone of voice sway from serious to silly without notice.

"For me, there's no baggage with the guys. I've always been the good one," he said, laughing. "You talk to the other guys, they'll say, 'Nikki's been a piece of cake for 25 years. He's never been a dictator. He never really had a drug problem.' "

He's joking, of course. Sixx recently finished work on a book, "The Heroin Diaries", a chronicle of his days as a junkie during the late '80s, when an overdose caused his heart to stop until doctors revived him.

But now, he's clean, sober and happily married to former Playboy playmate and "Baywatch" actress Donna D'Errico.

For those reasons, he's shying away from any extracurricular shenanigans on tour.

"I'm actually behaving myself," he said, his grin coming through in his voice. "Mick is single, and Tommy is single, and they're tasting all the fruit. I'm endorsing it highly. Me, I'm sort of like Charlie on 'Charlie's Angels'. I'm the designated driver."

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The Baltimore Sun is reporting that the Victims' Rights Foundation announced Saturday (April 23) a reward of up to $10,000 for information on the whereabouts of Tracey Gardner-Tetso, 32, who has been missing since March 6.

Gardner-Tetso, of the 7800 block of Bluegrass Road in Rosedale, was reported missing by her husband after she did not show up to meet friends at a MÖTLEY CRÜE concert in Washington.

Yesterday, dozens of family members, friends and co-workers searched a wooded area near Curtis Bay, one of a number of county sites they've covered.

Gardner-Tetso is described as white, 5 feet 4, 130 pounds, with long blond hair and blue eyes. She was last seen driving a 1996 black Pontiac Trans Am, with tinted windows and Maryland tags LRN 534.

The reward is being offered by the Victims' Rights Foundation of Gaithersburg, Metro Crime Stoppers and Aggregate Industries, which employed Gardner-Tetso as a dispatcher. Anyone with information should call Baltimore County police at 410-307-2020.

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It's the tour everyone's talking about and it'll be coming to a TV channel and a DVD player near you.
Motley Crue's outrageously successful "Red, White & Crue Tour 2005," which has sold out arenas across the country since its launch in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, on Feb. 17, will be captured for posterity to be distributed on TV as well as DVD this fall.

Featuring the reunited band's original line-up of Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars and Tommy Lee for the first time on a concert for DVD, playing their biggest hits, the show will be filmed when the band goes to Grand Rapids, MI, on April 27, for a show at the Van Andel Arena. Clear Channel Entertainment, who are promoting the concert, will produce and distribute the TV show and the DVD on their home video label, Clear Channel Entertainment Home Video, from Clear Channel Entertainment TV.

Acclaimed, award-winning director Hamish Hamilton, who has previously shot concerts by U2, Madonna and Peter Gabriel, will be helming the shoot.

"This will give our fans a chance to see this fucking incredible show from the safety of their living rooms," said the band's Nikki Sixx. "And let them experience the Crue in concert without ever leaving their couches."

Motley Crue management Tenth Street Entertainment's Jordan Berliant, who helped broker the deal, said: "The level of interest among distributors was unprecedented, but we're thrilled to have Clear Channel Entertainment Television and Home Video as our partner."

The spectacular concert featured a three-ring circus of freaks under a huge big top set, including a fire-breathing midget, sultry acrobats, flying drum kits and enough pyro to light up a small city.

"Clear Channel Entertainment TV is excited to be working with Motley Crue and Tenth Street Entertainment for the worldwide distribution of this incredible show via digital cinema, TV, DVD and other visual mediums, especially with the Crue taking the world by storm as they are now," said the company's Senior Vice President Steve Sterling. "The DVD will bring the Motley Crue show to fans in a way that will prove what DVD is all about."

Entertainment Weekly called the Crue tour the "'Feelgood' reunion of the year." MTV.com raved: "Big, loud and dirty ... Motley -- and their fans -- wouldn't have it any other way." The Toronto Star said the reunited Crue show was "the very embodiment of cool." The Philadelphia Inquirer simply gave it "fourdevil horns," while Associated Press proclaimed: "They snatched the crown back ... and wore it proudly for two-and-a-half hours of power chords, profanity and wardrobe malfunctions." The Toronto Globe and Mail opined: "They came, they saw and they conquered."

The band's Hip-O/Island/UME "Red White & Crue" album, featuring three brand-new songs, debuted at #5 on the Soundscan Top 200, and was recently certified platinum.

The DVD will be released on the Clear Channel Entertainment Home Video label, and distributed domestically by Ventura Home Video.

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Fresh off the first leg of their headlining, sold-out "Red, White & Crüe" tour, MÖTLEY CRÜE has just agreed to be the special guest closing act at the KROQ Weenie Roast 2005 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, CA on May 21. The announcement was made on the station's popular "Kevin and Bean" morning show by the band's Nikki Sixx and Vince Neil. Other groups on the show include AUDIOSLAVE, FOO FIGHTERS, HOT HOT HEAT, INTERPOL, JIMMY EAT WORLD, THE KILLERS, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, MXPX, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, THE MARS VOLTA, ALKALINE TRIO, BLOC PARTY, THE BRAVERY, DEAD 60S and TRANSPLANTS.

The CRÜE's new single, "Sick Love Song", the second track from their platinum Island/UME album "Red, White & Crüe", was premiered on KROQ May 12 and remains in rotation, with the video making its world premiere on VH1. The network will also debut "(Inside)Out: Resurrecting Mötley Crüe" (watch trailer here) on May 30 at 10 p.m. (ET/PT), the documentary which gives the blow-by-blow account of how Tenth Street Entertainment helped reunite the band and book the tour, which has turned out to be the surprise success of the year.

"There's no denying MÖTLEY CRÜE's massive appeal and influence," said Infinity Sr. Vice President Programming and longtime station PD Kevin Weatherly. "They are rock icons in Los Angeles and across the nation. KROQ listeners always expect the unexpected and they have been known to embrace certain bands outside the conventional alt-rock boundaries. KROQ was the first radio station to ever play MÖTLEY CRÜE, and it only took us 20 years to convince them to play the Weenie Roast. I know the other bands are psyched to be sharing the stage with the band that knows how to bring it, MÖTLEY CRÜE."

The choice is reminiscent of METALLICA serving as the surprise closing act for the KROQ Weenie Roast back in 1999, which broadened the band's audience from Active to Modern Rock, and attracted a whole new fan base.

MÖTLEY CRÜE will launch the second part of their tour, the "Carnival of Sins", with special guests SUM 41, THE EXIES and SILVERTIDE, at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on July 26 after a month-long stint in Europe.

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Las Vegas Review-Journal is reporting that a historic 40-week deal that would put the rock group MÖTLEY CRÜE into the Aladdin/Planet Hollywood showroom as resident headliners is being finalized, according to sources.

Clear Channel Entertainment and Planet Hollywood, the Aladdin's new owners, are planning an announcement later this year.

The comeback CRÜE, currently enjoying one of the most successful tours of 2005, would get a reported $10 million each, a madeover showroom and a role in Planet Hollywood's grand opening next summer.

Frontman Vince Neil, who is performing Tuesday at the Pussycat Dolls Lounge (Caesars Palace), has told friends that the new showroom will feature flying motorcycles and dancers on stripper water poles.

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From Blabbermouth.net:

On August 16, Rock N' Roll Books, a new publisher of music-related biographies and anthologies, will release its debut title, "Mötley Crüe in the Studio", focusing on the group's recording process, as well as that of bandmembers for their various solo projects. Featuring exclusive interviews with Tommy Lee and John Corabi, as well as MÖTLEY CRÜE producers like Scott Humphrey and Tom Werman, and songwriter James Michael, among others, this title is the first of its kind, and will give MÖTLEY CRÜE fans a never-before-seen look inside the band's songwriting and recording process. Book author Jake Brown recently released a book in similar vein, "Tupac in the Studio", and has a forthcoming rock producers anthology due in early 2006.

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Launch Radio Networks reports: MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee releases "Tommyland: The Ride" tomorrow, his first solo album since 2002's "Never A Dull Moment". Lee told Launch that he worked hard this time to make sure "Tommyland" was a solid album from front to back. "There's no fillers and there's 10, I think, absolutely amazing songs that I could hear on the radio at any second," he said. "I'm really confident, and I might sound a little cocky about it, but it's that good."

Counting 1999's "Methods of Mayhem", "Tommyland" is Lee's third release outside of MÖTLEY CRÜE.

"Tommyland" features guest appearances by NICKELBACK's Chad Kroeger, GOOD CHARLOTTE's Joel and Benji Madden, SUM 41's Deryck Whibley, BACKSTREET BOYS' Nick Carter, Dave Navarro of JANE'S ADDICTION, Andrew McMahon of SOMETHING CORPORATE and FUEL's Carl Bell.

"Tommyland"'s first single is "Tryin' To Be Me". The next single, "Good Times", is the theme song for "Tommy Lee Goes To College", a reality show that begins airing August 16 on NBC.

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Tommy Lee Goes To College

Tommy Lee from at last finds time for college after living the fast life for two decades. Tommy's former loves include Heather Locklear and Pamela Anderson, but will he rock the college coeds?

Lee enrolls at The University of Nebraska at Lincoln and struggles just like any other (famous rock star) student to balance academics with extra-curricular pursuits, his new roommate Matt and a distractingly attractive tutor named Natalie.

The 1-hour series premiere airs Tuesday, August 16th on NBC. Check local listing for air time.

In other Tommy Lee related news, Tommyland: The Ride debuts next Tuesday, August 9th. This is Tommy's third solo project. Produced by Scott Humphrey, who along with Carl Stubner played an instrumental role with Handleman in constructing the new distribution concept, "Tommyland: The Ride" features guest performances by such established artists as Chad Kroeger of Nickelback, Carl Bell of Fuel, Deryck Whibley of Sum 41, Butch Walker, Joel Madden of Good Charlotte, and Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys.

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NIKKI SIXX DOT NET

Nikki Sixx has a new website - www.nikkisixx.net

Has latest news, online diary, forum, info about Nikki's new charity "Running Wild in the Night," photos by Nikki and lots more. Check it out!

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MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx has posted the following message on his official web site:

"Books are great. I love them, I always have my nose in one and I have to tell you I'm so excited about 'The Heroin Diaries'. With that being said, I've never been one to want to follow the same format that's been done over and over before me, so in looking for a new idea, this is the plan.

"There will be the book. There will be a soundtrack of original music based on the book. There will be a movie shot for each song that will tell the story of 'The Heroin Diaries'. They can have a life all there own or when played all together will be a movie of the book.

"So in the middle of touring, writing new MÖTLEY CRÜE music, this has now become another mission for me to do something totally different in this world. Now the bad news… This is a huge project and there is no way I will rush this. The book is done. The songs are halfway written. Then they will be demoed and we will be shooting the movies hopefully in January. That means probably a July release of everything (in a perfect world). I need to feel creative or I don't feel… Tommy [Lee] said the music reminds him of the 'The Wall' meets 'Alice in Wonderland' gone bad….

"Lovely… Speaking of Tommy, I love his album. Great songs, and in the end, that's all that we can really focus on as writers…. The show is a hit and im fucking proud…"

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While we are waiting for Uncle Snake's pictures with the Crue...

MÖTLEY CRÜE: 'Music To Crash Your Car To, Vol. 3' To Surface In November?

According to MusicTap.net, volume three of Hip-O's MÖTLEY CRÜE retrospective, "Music to Crash Your Car To", is scheduled for release on November 1. No further details are currently available.

MÖTLEY CRÜE had previously announced plans to release their entire catalog in three separate boxes. "Music to Crash Your Car To Vol. 1" covered the band's early days of 1981-1987 ("Too Fast for Love", "Shout at the Devil", "Theatre of Pain", and "Girls, Girls, Girls") while the follow-up set included the finest cuts from "Dr. Feelgood", as well as tracks from the band's self-titled comeback album — which saw singer Vince Neil replaced by John Corabi — alongside bonus and remixed tracks from the "Decade of Decadence" and "Supersonic and Demonic Relics" collections, tracks from the "Ford Fairlane" soundtrack and various benefit albums, and other rarities.

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MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx has posted the following message in his online diary:

"Tomorrow [Saturday, September 10] will be a long day, but a good day. We need to be at CMT studios in Nashville to cut 'Home Sweet Home' live with Chester [Bennington] from LINKIN PARK at 9 a.m. We're gonna have other players as well — piano, a second guitar, strings, choir etc. We're doing this for the hurricane relief fund. Then we go to a recording studio with everybody in tow and cut it proper for a single to be released to raise more money to help the people of New Orleans, then we have a concert that night.

"Tonight was our 100th show so far...

"Got to go to Nashville now..."

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Atlanta's 11Alive is reporting that MÖTLEY CRÜE lead singer Vince Neil broke his knee about 45 minutes into a Friday night (Sept. 16) concert at Philips Arena. He is listed in good condition. [Watch the 11Alive video report on the incident at this location.]

One fan told 11Alive's Blair Meeks that it appeared Neil twisted his ankle.

"They were just performing, doing one of their songs when he just twisted his knee, it looked like, and he just went to the ground," the fan said.

"He started crawling off the stage and they kinda blew up smoke to kind of cover it, and the band kept playing, and they went to an intermission, or so you thought. Then, the rest of band — Tommy, Nikki and Mick — and came back out and said [Neil] broke his knee and the show was canceled," she said.

Although the sudden cancellation of the concert left a little upset and potentially rowdy, Atlanta police managed to get everyone out of the arena in an orderly fashion.

Ticket-holders are advised to hold on to their ticket stubs for word of a refund or possibly rescheduled concert.

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The Associated Press has confirmed that MÖTLEY CRÜE lead singer Vince Neil broke his leg performing at a concert Friday night (Sept. 16).

The band was about five songs into the concert at downtown Atlanta's Philips Arena when Neil leaned over to sing along with the audience and slipped off stage, said Atlanta Police Department spokeswoman Sylvia Abernathy.

He was treated at Piedmont Hospital and released Saturday, hospital spokeswoman Diana Lewis said.

Police also responded to an unrelated incident involving a man who injured himself after jumping from the fourth floor of the arena into the audience. He was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital.

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MÖTLEY CRÜE won't let a little muscle tear get in the way of its rock 'n' roll juggernaut.

Despite an erroneous wire service report that he has broken his leg, the band's lead singer, Vince Neil, partially tore the medial portion of his calf muscle last night five songs into CRÜE's performance at the Phillips Arena in Atlanta, GA. The show was part of the band's ongoing, successful "Carnival of Sins" world tour that began last February.

Vince's leg gave out shortly before intermission, and the band was forced to end the concert early after Neil was taken to a nearby hospital. Although he was in a great deal of pain at the time, Neil is expected to make a full and quick recovery, according to his doctors, who nevertheless urged him to take some time off. The band intends to return to Atlanta to make-up the show. Tickets from Friday night's show will be honored at that time. Ticket holders should contact their point of purchase for more information or refunds.

"I just felt something snap in my leg, like a cramp," recalls Neil. "I just couldn't go on."

Nevertheless, Neil is planning to return to the stage Sunday night (Sept. 18) in Memphis, TN, for MÖTLEY CRÜE's show at Desota Arena, despite doctor's orders. No shows will be canceled. "I'm a trooper," said Neil.

Said the band's Nikki Sixx: "He will be able to perform, but can't really jump around until it heals. Luckily, we have a few days off here and there for him to recover."

The MÖTLEY CRÜE tour has been the unexpected success story of the live concert year. After six years apart, the band reunited earlier this year for a tour that has been one of the biggest box office attractions of 2005.

Following the end of their own U.S. tour in October, the CRÜE will join the ROLLING STONES for shows in Portland and Seattle, then MÖTLEY CRÜE will go on to Australia and Japan.

After their appearance on last weekend's MTV/VH1/CMT "ReAct Now" benefit from Nashville, MÖTLEY CRÜE will release a new recording of their hit, "Home Sweet Home", which they performed on the show with LINKIN PARK frontman Chester Bennington, a gospel choir and string section, produced by Desmond Child. (Watch a Windows Media video of the performance at this location). Proceeds from the song will go to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the efforts to rebuild the affected communities through Red Cross.

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IndyStar.com recently conducted an exclusive interview with MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist Mick Mars. The brief question-and-answer session follows:

IndyStar.com: How did Huntington, Indiana, prepare you for rock stardom?

Mick Mars: "It all started at the 4-H Fair when I saw (country singer) Skeeter Bonn playing at Hiers Park. I was maybe 3 years old. He had on a bright orange suit with a bunch of rhinestones on it, and a big white Stetson hat. I was a little kid, but I was knocked over."

IndyStar.com: How are you holding up physically?

Mick Mars: "I'm OK. What I got — it is what it is, you know? Life goes on."

IndyStar.com: Have the four of you sketched out plans beyond this tour?

Mick Mars: "We're planning on doing an album, which should be out by 2007, a movie (based on 'The Dirt', the band's 2001 autobiography) and another animated movie called 'Disaster'. Plus, a live CD and DVD."

IndyStar.com: "The Dirt" was such a great read. How is the movie going to work?

Mick Mars: "We don't want to come out with something cheeseball like that 'Rock Star' movie. It needs to be real, like the real thing. We're trying to get the right director. There have been a few who wanted to do it. Once we get one in place, then it's going to move very quickly."

IndyStar.com: Are you going to act in it yourself?

Mick Mars: "Oh, no. I'm one of the executive producers. I'm going to be there to make sure that when they depict me, it's going to be accurate."

IndyStar.com: In the book, you implied that some metal bands ruined the 1980s. Do you care to elaborate on that?

Mick Mars: "I think that when any kind of new music comes out, the record companies do overkill. In the 1980s, we had gimmicks like the big hair."

IndyStar.com: By the time it got to bands like BRITNY FOX and SLAUGHTER, it was about done?

Mick Mars: "Yeah, something like that (laughs). In the '90s, it happened with grunge and alternative music. They overdid that crap."

IndyStar.com: The Internet has preserved an interview you and bass player Nikki Sixx gave to a morning television show in St. Louis. You were rather animated when the host asked, "Who rocked harder in the '80s, MÖTLEY CRÜE or POISON?"

Mick Mars: "Well, good Lord. That's a pretty silly question."

IndyStar.com: Aside from one clueless guy on TV, do you think you guys get the respect you're due?

Mick Mars: "Yeah, from the right people. The industry recognizes us. I don't think they put us up there with the ROLLING STONES or anything. But they will. They'll wake up pretty soon."

IndyStar.com: What's it like to have all four of you together, as opposed to some of the later tours with different people in different roles?

Mick Mars: "It's a great feeling, because everybody I talk to at meet-and-greets and at radio stations are so enthusiastic about seeing the four of us together. The shows are doing really well. It's one of the biggest shows out on tour right now. It makes me feel good that we have a lot of support."

IndyStar.com: I have to ask about Tommy and Vince: Do they interact during the course of a day or during a show?

Mick Mars: "In the show, yeah, we all do. When we're offstage, we haven't gotten together and collaborated. But we write music and we do stuff. We all have different agendas. Not saying that we don't get along, because we get along better than we ever have."

IndyStar.com: Do you have a closest ally in the band?

Mick Mars: "It's a toss-up between Nikki and Vince. Tommy and I? I don't know. It's over-the-top with him. We're really close onstage, but offstage I spend more time with Nikki."

IndyStar.com: A lot of the band's mystique was built upon the four of you as a "gang" of sorts. Does it make a difference in the quality of the work if you're not as close today?

Mick Mars: "I think this next album will prove that we're as rude as we ever were. This is going to be the best album. We're not going to sit around and put out a record just to put out a record. We're going to really work and think it out and make it the very best we can. We're still a unit, and our music is still street-level, aggressive and raw."

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Tommy Lee Injured During Concert

CASPER, Wyo. — A pyrotechnic stunt gone wrong apparently injured Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee Wednesday night during the band's concert at the Casper Events Center.

"The lights went out and Roman candles went off," and someone cursed said Del Kinswoman, who attended the concert with her husband, Eddie, an advertising photographer for the Casper Star-Tribune.

They said Lee was taken to the hospital by ambulance.

Lee had been hoisted on a wire and was swinging back and forth between several drum sets perched several feet above the stage when the fireworks went off, said Tom Morton, a Star-Tribune reporter who was at the concert.

Band member Vince Neil told the audience they couldn't perform an encore because Lee was injured and needed medical attention, Morton said.

Kathy Woodward, nursing supervisor at the Wyoming Medical Center, could only give out the number for the band's publicist, who could not immediately be reached.

Motley Crue was scheduled to perform in Bismarck, N.D. on Friday and in Sioux Falls, S.D. on Saturday, according to the group's Web site.

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Image Entertainment will be issuing MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee's reality TV show, "Tommy Lee Goes to College", on a single-disc DVD on April 25, 2006, according to TVShowsOnDVD.com. Video is full screen and audio is English 2.0 Stereo. No information is currently available regarding the pricing and cover art (and extras, if any).

"Tommy Lee Goes to College" premiered on August 16 with two back-to-back episodes on NBC. The six-episode show follows Lee's studies and extracurricular activities at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, such as finding a roommate, trying out for the marching band and cramming for finals. Lee is also one of the producers of the series.

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In the spring of 2006, Rock N' Roll Books will release "Mötley Crüe: In the Studio" to retail, but currently it is exclusively available for pre-order through both Nikki Sixx and Vince Neil's official webstores, as well as through MÖTLEY CRÜE's at this location. This is the first and only title devoted to the making of every MÖTLEY CRÜE studio release, as well as band member solo projects.

Featuring exclusive interviews with band members Tommy Lee and John Corabi, as well as producers Bob Rock, Tom Werman, Scott Humphrey, and co-writers/producers Dave Darling, James Michael, and John Purdell among others, "Mötley Crüe: In the Studio" gives fans a first-ever complete behind-the-scenes look at the CRÜE's life in the studio, from 1982 all the way through present day.

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MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx has told Doug Podell of Detroit's WRIF 101.1 FM that the band will commence the songwriting/demoing process for their new studio album on May 1, 2006. Joining the group for the new album sessions will be producer Bob Rock, who previously worked with MÖTLEY CRÜE on their "Dr. Feelgood" and self-titled albums, as well as the three new tracks that appeared on CRÜE's two-CD "greatest hits" collection, "Red, White & Crüe", which came out in early February.

"We are definitely gonna make a new record," Sixx told WRIF earlier this month. "We go back out on tour in February. We tour into the first week of April. May 1st we start writing and rehearsals for the new music, probably demoing stuff up. We're doing the new album with Bob Rock. And then when it's ready, we're gona cut it. Our intention is to make the greatest record we've ever made. With that being said, we also believe that if we overthink it, it will lose its rawness, so we wanna get in there and just terrorize the music and then just get it on tape. That's the idea, but that's more of in a perfect world. In a MÖTLEY world, we will probably get closer to getting the album done and then go, 'You know what? We're missing one or two songs,' or something, which we do a lot. We did that… 'Kickstart My Heart' was the last song written for the 'Dr. Feelgood' album.

"We are very excited about making a new record. I think new music is so important. We have a great catalog of music — people love to hear all the hits, and we've been playing obscure songs as well — but new music is really the lifeblood of any rock 'n' roll band. And you have to do it, you have to forge forward. Especially for bands like us and AEROSMITH and AC/DC that have been around for so long. We have to keep making new music or we become nostalgic. Which is, I think, what we all felt about KISS. We go, 'God, we love KISS, we love the show, but it's only trading on the past and not moving into the future.' So that's where we're at."

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MÖTLEY CRÜE To Receive Star On HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME In January

MÖTLEY CRÜE will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this coming January 25 in front of the Musician's Institute in Hollywood, California. The band were among a number of entertainers in motion pictures, television, radio, live theater, and recording that were selected in June 2005 to receive stars on the Walk of Fame by the Walk of Fame Committee of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. These individuals were chosen from among hundreds of nominations to the committee at a meeting held June 20, and ratified by the Chamber's Board of Directors.

BLABBERMOUTH.NET has received the following letter from a CRÜE fan by the name of Liz Gannon who was instrumental in getting MÖTLEY CRÜE nominated for a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame:

"My name is Liz Gannon from Texas, and I, along with my two daughters, Patricia and Michelle Gannon, are the ones who got this thing started/responsible for getting MÖTLEY CRÜE their well-deserved star on the world-famous Hollywood Walk Of Fame!



"This whole wonderful thing started about three years ago and [we] wanted to keep everything quiet until MÖTLEY finally got it... for everything they have done for music and people, why didn't they have a star?? I then proceeded, with the help of my daughters, to work with the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, to follow their procedures to nominate MÖTLEY CRÜE for their well-deserved star on Hollywood Walk of Fame. A LOT of hard work went into this and had to follow a lot of the rules and [regulations] as well, including getting 10th Street Entertainment's [CRÜE's management company] blessing and agreement to have the members of MÖTLEY CRÜE be at the ceremony. I have been working with Mr. Varner at 10th Street and he has been so wonderful! He got me everything I needed... It was a lot of fun, but also a lot of hard work!

"My daughters and I worked so hard for about three years for this and we believed in the CRÜE so much!! So much hard work and dedication, it all paid off when I got the call in June of 2005 from Ana Holler at the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce that MÖTLEY CRÜE had been voted in for the 'Class of 2006'. We were so ecstatic!! Ana was so excited to tell me this news! I still get really emotional when I think about it.

"MÖTLEY so deserves this honor — I was so passionate about this, and Ana knew it!

"I received a letter in the mail from the Honorary Mayor of Hollywood, Mr. Johnny Grant, congratulating me on my nomination, MÖTLEY CRÜE, being chosen to receive a star on the Walk of Fame.

"The location for their star is perfect.... I am also getting my speech ready to make and hope that you are all excited about this like we are! :-)

"Well, the date has finally been set and now I (well, the person who makes the 'star' items) would like to ask/tell you about some official star' news/items that they are asking.

"The person who makes the replica plaques and who will be making the CRÜE's star . . .would like to see/spread the word if anyone/any CRÜE fans would like to purchase a unique and special replica MÖTLEY CRÜE star plaque, identical to the one MÖTLEY will be receiving, but a smaller version, of course... They are priced at $75.00 each and make a great memento of their special day. They would have to be ordered and then delivered after the ceremony."

MÖTLEY CRÜE will launch their Carnival of Sins 2006 tour with a New Year's Eve show on Saturday (December 31) in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The band have 30 North American shows booked between now and early April.

The group plans to hit the studio on May 1 to start working on a new studio album with producer Bob Rock.

MÖTLEY CRÜE played to nearly a million fans in 2005, grossing $33 million in 81 shows.

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Muthagoose Says: One can only hope that fearless reporter Mav Himself will be on the scene to see The Crue get this honor. Should he accept this "Field Trip Challenge", he should bring donuts for Vince and not touch Mick to avoid breakage!

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Launch Radio Networks reports: MÖTLEY CRÜE is back on the road and planning to record a new studio album this year. But the CRÜE's other major project, a film adaptation of its 2002 autobiography, "The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band", is still in the works. Bassist Nikki Sixx told Launch the movie is making significant progress. "The movie is getting some legs," he said. "The script's done. I mean, the people in Hollywood, the movie companies, are just freaking out over the script. They love it. Rick Wilkes wrote it, who wrote the 'XXX' movie."

There's no word yet on when the film version of "The Dirt" will go into production.