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MÖTLEY CRÜE Guitarist Wants To Record 'A Sgt. Pepper' Next Year

MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist Mick Mars and bassist Nikki Sixx recently spoke to MTV.com about the group's plans for a new studio album, the much-anticipated follow-up to 2000's "New Tattoo".

"There is a new album in the works, but we're taking our time on it," Mars told MTV.com. "For me, I would like to see like a 'Sgt. Pepper', an 'Electric Ladyland', something really outstanding and new. I have a zillion ideas and I'm sure Nikki and Tommy [Lee] and Vince [Neil] do, as well. We just haven't sat down and started working together yet, because the tour's been so extensive."

Nikki expects to begin work on a new album in May 2006, after extensive touring in the U.S., Japan and Australia.

"We did some pretty diverse records throughout our career," Sixx told MTV.com. "We've gone from 'Dr. Feelgood' to the [1994 self-titled] John Corabi record to 'Generation Swine', and it was all based on us just being creative. Some of it was more accepted, some of it was less accepted, but if you look at the history of the band, from the first record on, we've always done something fresh."

Regarding the musical direction of the upcoming album, Sixx said, "I don't want to be part of that trend where bands that have been around for more than 20 years become mellow," he said. "Even with U2, a band I respect, everything has this older, mellower feel to it. You hear that in a lot of rock bands. I don't mind having ballads and medium tempo songs — I just hope we never become a bunch of pussies.

"It's just amazing to see a younger audience out there," he continued. "When we made a decision to be a band again, a lot of people were saying, 'You guys are like DEF LEPPARD — your audience is going to be, like, 40-year-olds.' And we were like, 'What the *****?!' The most exciting part of this has been seeing new faces as well as the original faces — our original fans are wonderful. But as a band, you want to reinvent yourself and you hope you get rediscovered. BLACK SABBATH is a great example; U2's evolved. They have a new audience and kept the original audience. That's our dream."

That is one thing I do give the Crue credit for, throughout the peak of their career, they were constantly changing, not to follow trends, but to set them. They'd do something new, and 3 months later, everyone else was copying THEM.

CaptainP wrote:That is one thing I do give the Crue credit for, throughout the peak of their career, they were constantly changing, not to follow trends, but to set them. They'd do something new, and 3 months later, everyone else was copying THEM.

Not sure what you're getting at here. Though it may have seemed groundbreaking at the time, they certainly weren't the first to wear make up. They were also big with the power ballad "Home Sweet Home" but they were far from the first to do that. Mind citing some examples of what you're referring to?

Jahfin wrote:

CaptainP wrote:That is one thing I do give the Crue credit for, throughout the peak of their career, they were constantly changing, not to follow trends, but to set them. They'd do something new, and 3 months later, everyone else was copying THEM.

Not sure what you're getting at here. Though it may have seemed groundbreaking at the time, they certainly weren't the first to wear make up. They were also big with the power ballad "Home Sweet Home" but they were far from the first to do that. Mind citing some examples of what you're referring to?

I was thinking more stylistically. Listen to each of their albums. Different sound each time. They just always seemed to be on the leading edge of the changes in metal.

Or maybe it just seemed that way since I was a stoopid teenager....

I kinda met Nick Mars backstage at a show several years ago. He was playing with Vince Neil's band (Crue was not together at the time) and he seemed nice enough. Vince Neil on the other hand was a jerk to my friends and myself. We were guests of the co-headlining act, and when Vince got there he asked that the entire backstage area be cleared out. Since the other bands had already played and left (Vince's flight was really late) the venue complied, and kicked us out. To be fair, he was so late that the guards had started lettign their friends backstage, but they could have just kicked out their friends instead of those of us that had a reason to be there. Then Vince only got to play like four songs before the event was shut down due to local noise ordinances. I don't think he'll be back this way any time soon.

Sixx said, "I don't want to be part of that trend where bands that have been around for more than 20 years become mellow," he said. "Even with U2, a band I respect, everything has this older, mellower feel to it. You hear that in a lot of rock bands. I don't mind having ballads and medium tempo songs — I just hope we never become a bunch of pussies"

How true

CaptainP wrote:

Jahfin wrote:

CaptainP wrote:That is one thing I do give the Crue credit for, throughout the peak of their career, they were constantly changing, not to follow trends, but to set them. They'd do something new, and 3 months later, everyone else was copying THEM.

Not sure what you're getting at here. Though it may have seemed groundbreaking at the time, they certainly weren't the first to wear make up. They were also big with the power ballad "Home Sweet Home" but they were far from the first to do that. Mind citing some examples of what you're referring to?

I was thinking more stylistically. Listen to each of their albums. Different sound each time. They just always seemed to be on the leading edge of the changes in metal.

What particular changes? I'm honestly not trying to nitpick, I'm just trying to understand. I was never a fan of the Crue but I do recognize they were more than just your typical hairband, at least up until "Girls, Girls, Girls".

just saw the Crue last night, I can honestly say that every trailor park in southern Michigan must have been empty for a couple of hours. One guy with a deep southern accent must have yelled "free bird " a hundred times, dude it wasnt funny 10 years ago!!!!

I needed a shower and one of those lice combs when I got home.


The crue sounded good though