It took a couple of decades, but another glam band bites the
dust! Legendary ‘80s rock band Motley Crue is calling quits after their upcoming
tour. And it’s not just lip service with the chance that they’ll change their
tune and play a reunion tour someday. According to Rolling
Stone, the band went so far as to sign a
"cessation of touring agreement," which forbids the group from
touring after "The Final Tour." The legal filing that will go into
effect at the end of next year.
Drummer Tommy Lee – who always did have a way with words
– said the band had always planned to go out with a bang, “not playing county
fairs and clubs with one or two original band members.” The 52-year-old year rock star added, "Our job here is
done."
While the band members are known for their wild onstage
antics, the end of the Crue’s touring days doesn’t necessarily mean they won’t
entertain us in the future. In fact, some of our favorite Motley Crue moments
have nothing to do with their music and everything to do with reality TV.
Tommy Lee is known for his reality TV resume. The drummer
was a judge on “Rock Star: Supernova,” and in 2005 he starred in the NBC
reality show “Tommy Lee Goes to College,” which took him to the University of
Nebraska where he even tried out for the marching band.
The rocker told ESPN
that while he did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school,
doing it at the college level was a whole different thing. He also explained
why he did the show, saying, “At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of
high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out
on the college experience. When this opportunity came along, it sounded like a
really cool thing to do.”
Lead
singer Vince Neil shacked up with fellow celebs on the first season of VH1’s
“The Surreal Life” (MC Hammer and Corey Feldman were just two of his roomies),
but he really stepped outside of his comfort zone in 2010 when he competed on
ABC’s “Skating With the Stars.” The rocker, who only lasted two weeks in the competition
(soap star Rebecca Budig won the thing), told Billboard
that rehearsals were “grueling.” He even threw shade to those wimps over at “Dancing
With the Stars.”
"Y'
know, I look at the 'Dancing With the Stars' thing and I'm like, 'How easy is
that?’’” he said, “You're not on ice. You're actually on your feet in a nice,
warm environment. We're on ice, on a blade, trying to do things to dance on
ice. It's a whole other ball game."
And in 2008, bass guitarist Nikki Sixx appeared on then-girlfriend Kat Von D’s reality
show “L.A. Ink,” where the cameras followed him as he got a tattoo on his leg
of band mate Mick Mars. According to Blabbermouth.net, Von D said, "At first,
when Nikki brought the idea of getting this tattoo done, I thought
how cool it would be to celebrate a friendship between two people over three
decades!”
She
provided the ink, and Sixx later surprised Mars with his permanent portrait at
the Los Angeles Crue Fest show.
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