Matt Kelemen of Las Vegas Magazine spoke with Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil. Excerpts from the interview appear below.
LVM: Are you starting to count down the shows toward the final concert New Year’s Eve at the Staples Center?
VN: It’s going to be weird because we started in LA and we’re going to end it in LA. That last couple of weeks, it’ll probably really sink in that this is really it and probably get really emotional for us, I’d think.
LVM: You’re playing for audiences who know they’re seeing you for the last time.
VN: It really hasn’t kind of sunk in yet because we have so many more shows left, but when we’re here in Vegas and Los Angeles, and like Arizona and San Diego, it’s really going to sink in that it’s over. That last note of Home Sweet Home New Year’s Eve, that’s it.
LVM: Has there been talk about when work will start on the Mötley Crüe biopic after the tour is finished?
VN: That’s making movies. Making music and making movies is two different things. We’re involved in it, but … we just got a new script about three or four months ago, the rewrite of the old script, and it’s way, way better. It’s such a great script. This movie should be out in the summer of 2016. It does stay pretty close to The Dirt, so if you’ve read The Dirt it’s really something to look forward to.
LVM: How does it strike you that you’ll be seeing an actor playing you on screen?
VN: That’s gonna be strange. It’s funny, I saw the table read of the last script. They have these different actors playing each person, and even just the table read of the script was weird when the Vince guy was talking (laughs). It wasn’t the guy that’s gonna play me, but it was just kind of weird hearing somebody say your words. It’s a bit of a trip.
LVM: The success of Straight Outta Compton probably has the studio looking at a Mötley Crüe biopic as a little more lucrative than they did before. Does it start with the beginning of the band?
VN: It starts just like The Dirt. The first scene is the first pages of The Dirt, in our apartment in Hollywood. There’s a party going on. That’s where the book starts.
LVM: I know the band has a “cessation of touring” agreement, but there’s nothing stopping Mötley from playing one-off shows or parties, right?
VN: Mötley Crüe will be done. Of course when I go out on tour, I play Mötley Crüe. I play solo stuff and cover songs, and a little bit of everything. But, when Mötley Crüe the band is done, yeah, we won’t make any more music.
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source: lasvegasmagazine.com
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Depending on how much of The Dirt is adapted to the film, the public reaction to this film could be really bad. 80s fans are pretty much inured to rock excess, but is the general public really going to chuckle at the Crue breaking a whisky bottle over a Japanese salaryman’s head or slugging a female Swedish cyclist?
Thank you for reminding me of those details, I read that book so long ago, I did not recall those stories. All I remember was Tommy Lee’s story about his first girlfriend and his van. LOL!
I remember when they were first having discussions about making the movie, they were considering casting Ashton Kutcher as Lee.
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And wasn’t there something about Ozzy sniffing ants and something involving urine? Yikes!
Yes Doug, indeed.
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For some reason, Ashton Kutcher has always reminded me of Tommy Lee.
Anyway, having my own KISSMAS party today! 😉
(“You wanted the best, and you got it! The hottest band in the land… KISS!”)
“Whoa! How ya doin’? Oh yeah! It looks like we gonna have ourselves a rock and roll party tonight!”
MERRY KISSMAS! 🙂
It sounds like a direct to video release to me.
As far as Motley being done, I’ll believe it when I see it, or don’t see it. Vince will continue to “sing” those songs, just with a different band. I’m still a fan of early Motley, but after they got Vince back their music was never the same, or of course, maybe I grew up. They were my first concert circa 1985-86.
I still prefer the Corabi disk over anything they’ve done since. It had a depth and a rawness to it that was different.
Somebody mentioned KISS and somebody else mentioned Direct to Video. Does this mean Shannon Tweed will be playing the sexually active heroine? Anybody remember those movies from the 1990s? Terrible, but she is definitely a beautiful woman. As far as STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON goes, did you know out of fear of being labeled a racist, not one single critic or publication gave that film a bad review. It is like the top reviewed movie of all time. Ridiculous. As far as THE DIRT goes, shooting dope, beating up women and killing a guy is nothing to be proud of. MOTLEY CRUE’S music holds up very well and they were great throughout their history but why would they want to relive that past. Give it a rest boys, and leave the movies to Martin Scorsese and the Coen brothers.
They’d really have to tone down the movie to get an R rating.
I think for the Motley Crue story, I’d rather see a good documentary done on them rather than a biopic. Sam Dunn did a great one on Rush a few years ago.