Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars was a recent guest on Kalamazoo’s WRKR‘s, The Rocker Morning Show. Snippets of what was discussed appear below as transcribed by blabbermouth.net.
When asked about the variety of sounds, and musical styles, covered on his debut solo album, The Other Side Of Mars. He said , “I think that me being on my own really doesn’t give me any boundaries or any restrictions or stuff. I can take it to wherever I would like to have it. My album is pretty diverse. It shows different sides of how I write or how I approach music — just a lot of different things.”
Regarding how long it took him to put together the material, he said, “Some of [the ideas] I had for a while, but it took me a good four years to get out what I really wanted to. ‘Cause I listen back to some of my older stuff and I go, ‘Ugh’, and I get rid of it. ‘Cause it sounds dated. I didn’t wanna sound like, ‘Here’s an old rocker that’s playing 1980s music still.’ And not that that’s a bad thing, but I couldn’t stay there. I needed to get something different or something people wouldn’t really expect from me.”
Mars went on to say that he is able to have more freedom with his solo project than he would have been able to with Mötley Crüe. “I can play anything,” he said. “I played everything, from country music to a lot of different things, a lot of different influences, a lot of people that I listen to, everything from classical, Mozart, Beethoven, and all those people, and country music, and all sorts of stuff. I fell in love with the blues.”
The Other Side Of Mars was released on February 23rd, click on the highlighted song titles, to hear previously released songs: Loyal to the Lie, Right Side Of Wrong and Undone.
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Mission accomplished, Mick! I think your new album sounds great!
Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, Vince Neil……those guys are the “heavy metal” representatives that Joe Elliott correctly refers to as “morons”.