Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Mick Mars further opened up about his bitter split with Mötley Crüe. The guitarist says he doesn’t ever want to speak to his former bandmates again.

Mars said the following:

“Nobody spoke to me in 2022 [during ‘The Stadium Tour’]. A lot of the time felt like I was just playing by myself. You know how you can be in a crowd of people and still feel alone? That’s how I felt that whole tour. I felt used, sad, and inferior. When we played the last show [in Las Vegas on September 9, 2022] I felt relieved. A lot of the pressure was gone. But I was very emotionally wounded. They weren’t just shallow wounds. They were deep ones; the kind you can’t get over.”

He also added the following about not wanting to talk to Mötley Crüe anymore:

“I think all of us would be okay with that. And I don’t just mean me with them. I mean them with each other. I don’t plan on having a funeral. If I did, I think maybe they’d show up for that just out of courtesy. But for me, there’s no funeral. There’s no nothing.”

Mars also told Rolling Stone that Mötley Crüe are trying to steal his legacy:

“When they wanted to get high and fuck everything up, I covered for them. Now they’re trying to take my legacy away, my part of Mötley Crüe, my ownership of the name, the brand. How can you fire Mr. Heinz from Heinz ketchup? He owns it. Frank Sinatra’s or Jimi Hendrix’s legacy goes on forever, and their heirs continue to profit from it. They’re trying to take that away from me. I’m not going to let them.”

He went on to say that he wasn’t allowed to contribute much to the group’s last three albums:

“I don’t think there’s one note that I played [on ‘Generation Swine’]. They didn’t want my guitar to sound like a guitar, basically. They wanted it to sound like a synthesizer. I felt so useless. I’d do a part, they’d erase it, and somebody else would come in and play.”

The situation was similar with “New Tattoo”:

“I didn’t write any of those songs, since I wasn’t invited. I think I got one lick on that album.”

However, bassist Nikki Sixx disagreed:

“Mick played lead guitar, rhythm guitar, and any other guitar that’s on that record.”

Despite this, Sixx did admit that “Saints Of Los Angeles” was a different story:

“Mick was struggling to play his parts. So there’s [a] mixture of DJ [Ashba] and Mick, and we would always make Mick the center focus unless, of course, he couldn’t play his parts or remember his parts.”

On another note, Mars also revealed that he sold his publishing rights to Mötley Crüe’s catalog:

“The deal was just finalized. Now I can relax and don’t have to worry about anything, since, like I said, I’m probably just going to live another seven or eight years.”

He also added the following about his mortality:

“I’m old enough, man. I’m not going to live to be 85 or 90, I just have a feeling. I don’t want to, either. My brain doesn’t want this ugly-ass body that’s all fucked up to keep going. I wish I could just take the information out of my brain, put it on a chip and into somebody else, or a robot. There’s still a lot of stuff going on up there.”