Blabbermouth.net reports:
Motley Crue singer Vince Neil claims that his band “supported” the rise of grunge in the early ’90s and says that Seattle music scene “didn’t seem to kill” Motley Crue the way it affected many of the other so-called “hair-metal” bands who were mega successful in the ’80s.
“We went on [MTV’s] Headbanger’s Ball and we’d had an early pressing of [Nirvana’s] Nevermind,” Neil told Q magazine. “We were talking about a bunch of upcoming bands and told people to check that album out. We supported that whole thing.
I don’t know why people say grunge killed rock. Only people whose careers were on the way out said that. It didn’t seem to kill us.
I was talking to Courtney Love [wife of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain] one time and she told me that one of Kurt’s favorite records was [Motley Crue’s 1981 album] Too Fast For Love.”
Rob Zombie recently told England’s TeamRock Radio that the American rock scene never recovered from the the ’90s grunge explosion. Zombie explained, “When the grunge rock thing hit, with Nirvana and all that, everybody thought it was cool to be anti-rock star. But in a way they sort of anti-rock starred themselves right out the door, because the rap guys came in and they said, ‘Fuck it. We’ll be the rock stars then, if you guys are going to wear flannel shirts and stare at your feet.’ And in the U.S., truthfully, rock music has never recovered from that.”
Zombie added, “A whole generation of kids thought, ‘Fuck this! Rock music is boring. Let’s go listen to rap music.’ And it’s never recovered.”
additional source: blabbermouth.net
67 Responses
Surprise, Vince Neil has a short memory. Does he recall the sections in “The Dirt” on his solo career? He was fortunate to get the opening slot on the Van Halen ’91 tour.
Sorry Bob that was the 93 tour with stevie stevens on guitar, in 91 decade of decadence was off the charts and the motley machine was really going strong the new sound was evolving with the likes of primal scream, angela, teaser and rock and roll junkie. Motley was developing a much deeper harder sound, then ………………………….. the freaking wheels came off due to rock star itest (sp) setting in.
Meanwhile, Motley releases Generation Spineless, trying to jump on the bandwagon with a record so clueless that it made its way straight to the bargain bin.
Speak for yourself bud. I loved the f out of that album. And not that sales matter to me, nor should they you. But Generation Swine sold more than the Corabi album.
John Corabi>Vince Neil.
And I’m not a grunge fan, but anyone who disses Nirvana and their music are flat out idiots. Probably the same people on here who claim Ritchie Kotzen was denied superstardom unfairly lol.
Guess I’m an idiot. I hated Nirvana. Their music made my soul itch like it had a rash.
I guess I’m an idiot too. The first time I heard Smells like teen spirit and saw my roommate get all excited about that lame song I knew metal was in trouble. I knew that MTV was going down the drain too. The only song I ever liked by them was rape me, because I had been raped and could identify with it.
Wow, Ms. Metal,
I am so sorry to read that, what an awful reason to like a song.
Dana from ET.com 🙂
Jimmy,
Hello my name is ABAZ and i’m an idiot too. haha. Nirvana sucks ass.
Ms Metal: Damn.
Nirvana SUCKED
Eazy-E’s music beds manufactured by Dre are killer. Too bad Jerry Heller smoked NWA out of millions….those black Beatles were good fer 4 more albums.
I could see why people thought that grunge killed off the GLAM Bands, a lot of that music was recycled to death and kids wanted something new and got it from the grunge bands and the British Heavy Metal Invasion which lead bands like Metallica and Anthrax, Slayer and Exodus and many others to take over. Which in turn paved the way for many other bands that weren’t GLAM Bands, it was a breath of fresh air.