I know that some of you are die-hard metal haters, and this is definitely not for you. For those, however, who used to rock hard in the 80s, and continue to do so today, despite the lack of hard rocking music, this is definitely for you. The Crue are back, and they're hitting the road for a huge tour. here's the article, from www.motleycrue.com -

MÖTLEY CRÜE REUNITES ALL ORIGINAL MEMBERS AFTER MORE THAN SIX YEARS TO ANNOUNCE
“RED, WHITE & CRÜE TOUR 2005… BETTER LIVE THAN DEAD,”
PRESENTED BY VH1 AND VH1 CLASSIC

All Four Original Members of The World’s Most Infamous Rock Band
Release New Single and Video While Also Heralding New Anthology Album


Los Angeles (December 6, 2004) – The raucous rulers of the sex-and-drugs-fueled nightlife on L.A.’s Sunset Strip have returned to their old stomping grounds. All four original members of Mötley Crüe, the glam-metal gods who’ve sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and who paved the way for other seminal rock acts, have reunited for the first time in six years, announcing a new world tour – VH1 & VH1 Classic Present “Mötley Crüe: Red White & Crüe Tour 2005…Better Live Than Dead,” – and giving their fans a live taste of it. Tickets go on sale this Saturday, December 11th at Ticketmaster and VH1.com.

The event at the Hollywood Palladium began at 6:00 p.m. with a press conference announcing the tour, a new anthology album and the debut of a fresh single and video, “If I Die Tomorrow.” The new tour, it was revealed during the press conference, resulted not only from strong demand by homegrown audiences, but was largely fueled by the diligent efforts of Mags Revell, a UK promoter with Metropolis Music Group, who launched his own grass-roots campaign in the UK designed to get the band to reunite. Taking the unprecedented steps of placing advertising in UK media and putting a hold on concert venues in the UK for June, 2005, Revell’s efforts quickly gained traction with fans all across the world who added fuel to the fire by taking to the internet and spreading the word.

Said Revell, “I honestly did not know until now whether Motley Crue would respond to our efforts. With the help of tens of thousands of fans in the UK and around the world, I wanted to show the band that there was a real demand for their reunion and I took a big risk. This is the band that we all never thought we'd have the chance to see live again and I strongly admire them for responding to their fans. It is the realization of a dream for so many people for whom Motley Crue represents what rock music is all about.”

"Mötley Crüe are a gang of musicians that climbed the mountain of rock to success," Allen Kovac, CEO of Tenth Street Entertainment, said in a statement. "This tour and new music delivers to all those who love one of rock's most passionate and aggressive bands."

Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Tommy Lee, the original members of MOTLEY CRUE, whose stature as the world’s most infamous rock band was made legend in their NY Times best-selling autobiography ‘The Dirt’, will be touring the world in 2005, beginning with arenas in the US and Canada in February. The US portion of the the world tour, dubbed RED, WHITE AND CRUE TOUR 2005—BETTER LIVE THAN DEAD, is being presented by VH1 and VH1 Classic and goes on-sale to the general public this weekend. Beginning today, however, VH1.com are offering a limited number of seats on their website to fans wanting to beat the box office rush.

For dedicated Crüe fans it’s all about the live show. In a marathon Motley Crue Style, the band will launch its world tour in February, starting in U.S. arenas and coming back for an amphitheater tour in August and September. The first leg of the tour will run as follows (* indicates a tentative date):


The first dates to be announced are as follows:


Date City, State Venue On Sale Date / Time

Feb. 17 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Office Depot Center Dec. 11- TBA
Feb. 18 Tampa, FL St. Pete Times Forum Dec. 11- Noon
Feb. 20 Greenville, SC Bi-Lo Center Dec. 11- 10 a.m.
Feb. 22 Cleveland, OH Gund Arena Dec. 10- 10 a.m.
Feb. 23 Toronto, ON* Air Canada Center Dec. 10- 10 a.m.
Feb. 25 Detroit, MI The Palace Dec. 11- 11 a.m.
Feb. 27 Ottawa, ON Corel Centre Dec. 11- TBA
Feb. 28 Hartford, CT Hartford Civic Center Dec. 11- TBA
Mar. 3 New York, NY Madison Square Garden Dec. 11- 9 a.m.
Mar. 4 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Spectrum Dec. 11- 10 a.m.
Mar. 5 Boston, MA Fleet Center Dec. 11- 11 a.m.
Mar. 6 Washington D.C. MCI Center Dec. 18- TBA
Mar. 8 Columbus, OH Schottenstein Center Dec. 11- 10 a.m.
Mar. 10 Chicago, IL Allstate Arena Dec. 11- 10 a.m.
Mar. 12 Milwaukee, WI US Cellular Arena TBD
Mar. 14 Minneapolis, MN* Target Center Dec. 11- 1 p.m.
Mar. 15 Kansas City, MO* Kemper Arena TBD
Mar. 17 Dallas, TX Nokia Live TBD
Mar. 19 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Pavillion Dec. 11 - TBD
Mar. 20 Las Vegas, NV* The Joint TBD
Mar. 22 San Diego, CA Coors Amphitheatre TBD
Mar. 23 Los Angeles, CA The Forum (tentative) Dec. 11- TBD
Mar. 25 Reno, NV Reno Events Center TBD
Mar. 26 Oakland, CA Oakland Arena Dec. 11- TBD


The rest of the 2005 world tour is scheduled as follows:

§ May – Latin America (exact dates to be announced shortly)

§ June –UK Arenas & European Festivals:

Date City, State Venue On Sale Date / Time

June 7 Helsinki, Finland Icehall Monsters of Millenium Dec. 13
June 8 Turku, Finland Rock in Turku 2005/Ellysee Arena Dec. 13
June 10 Oslo, Norway Spektrum Skooks Out 2005 TBD
June 11 Solvesborg, Sweden Sweden Rock Festival Now
June 12 Bologna, Italy Gods of Metal January, 2005
June 14 Glasgow, Scotland SECC Dec. 7
June 15 Manchester, England Evening News Arena Dec. 7
June 17 Birmingham, England NEC Dec. 7
June 18 Cardiff, Wales International Arena Dec. 7
June 19 London, England Wembley, Arena Dec. 7

Killing Joke are announced as the opening act for the five UK dates. Additional dates in Europe will be announced shortly.

§ Aug./Sep. – Amphitheaters in 43 North American cities including Albany, Albuquerque, Atlanta, Birmingham, Boston, Buffalo, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Concord (CA), Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Hartford, Holmdel (NJ), Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Nashville, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Raleigh, Sacramento, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Scranton, Seattle, Tampa, Toronto, Virginia Beach, Wantaugh (NY), Washington (DC) and West Palm Beach

§ Nov./Dec. – Southeast Asia, including Japan, Australia/New Zealand (exact dates to be announced shortly)


In conjunction with the tour, the band’s US & International record labels also announced the release of a definitive 2-CD Greatest Hits collection that chronicles the band’s entire career. Scheduled for release on February 1st, the set, entitled Red, White & Crue, includes three brand-new Crue songs including the first single “If I Die Tomorrow”, which features a highly stylized and autobiographically-driven music video.

The Mötley Crüe saga began in a musical era when rock was still recovering from the emasculation of disco and the punk rebellion has already begun to take root. In 1981, bassist Nikki Sixx left his glam-rock band London and met drummer Tommy Lee, both strung-out adolescents with a penchant for the party life and a knack for creating fist-in-the-air anthems. With the recruitment of guitarist Mick Mars and singer Vince Neil, the band adopted the moniker Mötley Crüe and recorded their first album, Too Fast for Love, a paradigm-shifting effort which
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stoked the growth of the glam-metal movement based in Los Angeles. Picked up by Elektra, the Crüe released a string of classic albums through the 1980s: Shout at the Devil, Theatre of Pain, Girls, Girls, Girls and Dr. Feelgood, generating hit singles from most of their cover tracks as well as “Smokin’ in the Boys Room,” “Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)” and many others. They were also selling out stadiums, eventually to the tune of over 10 million concert tickets.

Yet the forces that made Mötley Crüe’s kick-ass music so authentic, namely their own reckless lifestyle of excess, gradually took its toll. In 1989 Nikki Sixx was revived after flatlining from a heroin overdose, the most extreme example of the band’s indulgences. The band’s current reunion comes at a time of re-growth for all of its members: Tommy Lee is currently shepherding his best-selling biography, Tommyland, along with a new NBC reality show to debut in 2005; Vince Neil, having toured continuously as a solo artist, has appeared on several TV sitcoms as well as the WB reality series “The Surreal Life”; Nikki Sixx has been touring and recording with Brides of Destruction, writing songs and is preparing to release his autobiographical The Heroin Diaries; and Mick Mars, having struggled since his teens with the chronic, degenerative illness ankylosing spondylitis, has been successfully recovering from hip replacement surgery.

Fans can see performances by Motley Crue on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Friday, December 10th and The Spike TV Video Game Awards on Tuesday, December 14th. A feature film based on the band’s best-selling autobiography, The Dirt, is currently being developed by the band in conjunction with MTV Films/Paramount. The screenplay is being written by Rich Wilkes (XXX).


(Track Listing for Red White & Crue Anthology Attached)

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DISC ONE
1. Live Wire
2. Piece of Your Action
3. Toast of the Town
4. Too Fast For Love
5. Black Widow
6. Looks That Kill
7. Too Young To Fall In Love [remix]
8. Helter Skelter
9. Shout at the Devil
10. Smokin' in the Boys Room
11. Use It Or Lose It
12. Girls, Girls, Girls
13. Wild Side
14. You're All I Need
15. All In The Name Of...
16. Kickstart My Heart
17. Without You
18. Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)
19. Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)
20. Dr. Feelgood

DISC TWO
1. Anarchy In The UK
2. Primal Scream
3. Home Sweet Home ['91 remix]
4. Hooligan's Holiday [Brown Nose Edit]
5. Misunderstood [Successful Format Version]
6. Planet Boom
7. Bittersuite
8. Afraid [Alternative Rave Mix]
9. Beauty
10. Generation Swine
11. Bitter Pill
12. Enslaved
13. Hell on High Heels
14. New Tattoo single version
15. If I Die Tomorrow (new)
16. Street Fighting Man (new)
17. Sick Love Song (new)


I, for one, can't wait. BRING IT ON!

lyricsdaddy said:

thats awesome! thanks

My bro will be thrilled.

FUCKING A!


I can't wait! I've got my NIkki Sixx autograph on my desk at work...

I STILL wonder though if VInce and Tommy really HAVE put their differences aside...i mean $$ will do just about anything-even if you still hate your bandmate.

i would go to this show just out of nostalgia and for a laugh if someone wanted to go with me. as it is, i think i'll have a very hard time finding someone who is interested, lol. especially when they charge 75 bucks for decent seats

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I like metal, and I grew up listening to Crue, but...hell no I ain't interested! This would be one pathetic show given that Vince's last "gig" was The Surreal Life.

The Crue are a major guilty pleasure for me. Their first two albums are pure, hard rock bliss!!

I've outgrown this band (like 15 years ago with girls, girls, girls) and I'm wondering if anybody cares? Also, it's pretty arrogant to play arenas but I guess ticket sales will dictate that.

how funny, i was going to start a thread on this! i can't wait to see them in concert! i was all about the hair metal back in the day and they are one of the only bands i still have not seen. i'm so happy they're making a come back!

dancerella said:

I'm pretty sure it's gonna be awesome. They were really good on the 'New Tattoo' tour (without Tommy), and I'm sure that it'll be even better with.
I'm glad to see that most of the responses have been positive, not people posting all kind of unnecessarily negative crap.
Rock On, everybody!

The tracklist for the Greatest Hits still includes remixes instead of the superior versions that became hits. I only own one Crue CD (and I'm sure it's all I'll ever buy), but I can't say I'm satisfied with it. If I wanted a lame mix of 'Shout at the Devil '97', I would've bought the album it was on. This CD makes 3 Crue Greatest Hits collections with this mistake.

I will def. see them but I just don't buy that Vince and Tommy are 'so happy together.' They really hated each other and couldn't even be in the same room together...they must be getting an obscene amount of money to act like they're friends again.

Axchi696 said:

I agree with you in regard to the first two greatest hits collections (both of which royally sucked). This one looks like they are only remixing "Too Young To Fall In Love" from the classic stuff (I really don't give a shit about the remixes of later stuff like "Hooligan's Holiday").

If memory serves (and I could be completely wrong about this) the remix of TYTFIL in from the SATD sessions, and is actually just a different mix of the album version, slightly less slick. I still would prefer the version off SATD, but I can live with this.

LatinaAngel7 said:

Angel you're a Crue fan too? wooooohooooo!!

Natisse said:

Yes!

LatinaAngel7 said:

SO COOL! I was like this when I heard about all this on TV this morning!

Natisse said:

No prob. Again, I'm actually surprised that there's quite a bit of positive response to this thread.
I haven't heard any of the new track yet, but I'm really anxious to. I'm going to try to catch the Feb. 20 Greenville, SC show, if I don't make that one I'll have to wait until Aug. for Charlotte, NC.
I'm just really psyched, this is the second best news since Judas Priest got back together (and we should be getting their CD about the same time as the Crue's (it's just too bad that Motley's only giving us 3 new tracks))

lyricsdaddy said:

ooooh Judas Priest are back together too? oooh my Dad's gonna LOVE that!

...yeah heard a bit of "If I die tomorrow" and it ROCKS! it's an awesome song and they sound real tight still can't wait! I need to look more into the dates to see when I can go - they go on sale real soon but I can't get mine yet so I just hope I don't miss out I could catch them in the US AND in the UK in June if I was prepared to financially - we'll see it all, unfortunately, depends on how I go with my visa etc and the travel plans I make in the US...

ooooh Judas Priest are back together too? oooh my Dad's gonna LOVE that!

...yeah heard a bit of "If I die tomorrow" and it ROCKS! it's an awesome song and they sound real tight still can't wait! I need to look more into the dates to see when I can go - they go on sale real soon but I can't get mine yet so I just hope I don't miss out I could catch them in the US AND in the UK in June if I was prepared to financially - we'll see it all, unfortunately, depends on how I go with my visa etc and the travel plans I make in the US...[/quote]
Yeah, Priest got Rob back almost a year ago, and they did Ozzfest this past summer. They're supposed to have a new CD in Feb. with a DVD included of a show they did in Spain this year.
I'm going to have to hunt around to see if I can hear some of "If I Die Tomorrow".
What other 80s metal bands are you into, Natisse?

Ok, I found a couple things. Here's the new promo photo -

and here's the full-length (with aol promos) track "If I Die Tomorrow" - http://search.aol.com/aol...search.jsp
It's a ballad that actually rocks, pretty damn cool, I say!

Natisse said:

i'm a crue fan too and i plan to go to the oakland show! can't wait!

lyricsdaddy said:

oh wow! I had no idea...I'm gonna send an email to my Dad right now and tell him

oooooh old rock is my absolute favourite! my fave band is Kiss, a close second with Queen and Prince, but I love Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Poison, Skid Row, Warrant - so much more! I love to Rock

lyricsdaddy said:

hell yeah! I can't wait till it's released I'm gonna go buy it - I love it straight away!

That has-been is broke, of course he needs 2 get back with his old band... Pamela ain't around to feed his ass no mo'

Natisse said:

Hell Yeah!, girl. You definitely haven't forgotten how to rock. Keep the fire burning!

lyricsdaddy said:

I LOVE IT LOUD

Natisse said:

i hear that! i love old skool metal. i love all the bands you mentioned and many more. faster pussycat, l.a. guns, etc! all these bands should make comebacks!