Did Motley Crue Really Sign a Contract to Never Perform Again

The Real Reason Motley Crue Broke Their Promise To Fans To Never Tour Again

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Motley Crue is full of surprises — like the time they signed off on a country music tribute anthology with acts like Rascal Flatts, or the fact that they somehow managed to sell over 100 million records according to Loudwire, a number rivaled only by the amount of eight-balls that have passed into their nostrils over the years.

And then it might not come as a surprise that the Crue is surprising fans once more by breaking their hope to never bout over again — a hope they made in 2015, per Rolling Stone. Because how long well-nigh people go cold turkey from an addiction, the fact they abstained from rocking for so long is pretty surprising in itself. So what gives?

Motley Crue promises to never tour again

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It all started on Jan 28, 2014, when the band held a press conference to denote plans for what would end up being a worldwide, 158-prove tour and so signed a "abeyance of touring agreement" to get into effect at the cease of the bout in 2015. In true rock 'north roll spirit, they kept on playing all the way up to New Years Eve, when they held their last prove at the Staples Eye in Los Angeles.

"Nosotros always had a vision of going out with a large [effing] blindside and not playing county fairs and clubs with one or two original band members," drummer Tommy Lee said in a statement. "Our job here is done." Or was it?

Motley Crue legally agrees to never tour again

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By 2018, Crue frontman Vince Neil announced on Twitter the band would be releasing new music, stating "We signed a contract not to tour anymore. Nosotros never bankrupt upwards or said we would never make music again. Hope this clears information technology up." Again, there was no dubiousness. Or was there?

In 2019, the songs were released as part of a soundtrack to the Netflix biopic The Dirt, based on a book about the ring, and by Nov, rumors of a Motley Crue reunion tour began to circulate.

Whether or non the whole "we're never touring again" announcement was a ploy was questionable. For one, Rolling Stone reported that the band had never really produced the "cessation of touring agreement", despite numerous requests to reveal it. Also, there was obviously a "loophole" written into the contract. According to bass guitarist Nikki Sixx: "The merely loophole is if all 4 band members agreed to practice information technology, we could override our own contract. But we know that will never happen. In that location are people in this band who will refuse to ever do it over again, and you're talking to i of them. In that location is no amount of money that would e'er make me do information technology again because I have such pride in how we're ending information technology."

Are you certain Nikki?

"The fashion we've fix it upwards – including this chat correct at present – we'd have and so much egg on our face. We have and so much pride that that lone would cease it," said Sixx.

Motley Crue lied! Cue the Crue!

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Cue the egg, because Motley Crue has just announced a 2020 tour with fellow hair-metal gods Def Leppard and Poisonous substance, promising to bring in the appropriate amount of coin to keep the Crue on the route. And in plumbing fixtures fashion, they announced it by blowing upwards the previously unseen agreement in a video narrated past Machine Gun Kelly, who played Tommy Lee in The Dirt. The video shows the super-official document peacefully sitting on a desk as Kelly narrates, maxim "Destruction has never been an issue for Motley Crue." Cue the explosion, and any promise of ever knowing whether it was for real, or just a really skilful publicity stunt.

According to Louder, they stand to make equally much every bit $150 meg from the tour, which should be more than enough to beget egg-removal equipment, assuming the shockwave from their explosive proclamation didn't take care of it.

Sure, it's a scrap hypocritical, simply rockers are gonna stone, and they're not the first to pull this stunt. Per Rolling Stone, the Crue "will join a long list of acts that continue to tour afterward farewell tours including Kiss, the Who, Black Sabbath, Phil Collins, Ozzy Osbourne, Tina Turner, Cher and LCD Soundsystem."

And besides, it's non similar the fans didn't want it. The band was partially spurred on by a Modify.org petition seeking xv,000 signatures titled "Bring Motley Crue Back!", which hitting its goal in less than a week. They fifty-fifty briefly shared it themselves earlier hastily taking it down — probably because they remembered they'd told everyone they'd never tour once more.

Beloved it or hate it, Motley Crue has outlasted almost all other bands of its era. 2021 would mark the band's 40th year of melting faces and brain cells. If you're a drinking glass half empty kind of person, that might make y'all feel sometime, but if you're more of an optimist, or just a Motley Crue fan, the promise of a quaternary decade for the rockers might just kickstart your heart every bit if Dr. Feelgood himself were operating on you lot.

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