Motley Crue Making Rock History

One of the bands that have been drawing a lot of attention in the music scene again is Motley Crue. The band with its original line up, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars, Tommy Lee and Vince Neil, released this year the CD ‘Saints of Los Angeles’ -- after 10 years of silence – created the Crue Fest in 2008 and it already has a 2009 version coming up, played in Hollywood this month for the last time in 2008 before a well deserved vacation that will resume in February 2009, when they go back on the road with the ‘Saints of Los Angeles Winter Tour 2009’. Besides all the above they also chose nationally the band that will open their tour in 2009, in a contest sponsored by the Guitar Center that picked ‘Last Vegas’ as the winner.



The Palladium show in Hollywood was very energetic and Motley Crue played their biggest hits as well as some songs from their new CD as ‘Saints of Los Angeles’ and ‘Muther F*ucker of the Year’. The stage design and effects was amazing. The lights were bright enough to light up a whole city, fire effects everywhere and a big screen behind the drums showing porn movies and graphics. The audience was divided in two types: the old time fans that were happy to see the band back after so long and the new fans that I like to refer to the ‘MySpace generation’ being, to my surprise, a little more aggressive than the average hard rock crowd, making one wonder if the attraction was Slayer instead of the one time considered ‘glam’ Motley Crue.



The band did not disappoint anyone in terms of energy and charisma. Singer Vince Neil had fans singing along and dancing during the whole show. Nikki Sixx was the highlight of the night as the same charismatic and wild Nikki from the old times on stage.



Drummer/celebrity Tommy Lee and his tattoos also had the opportunity to show up in a duet with guitarist Mick Mars, and when the rest of the band left stage leaving Tommy alone to have a deep felt conversation with his crowd. The conversation consisted in the majority of anything including the word F*ck and all of its imaginable derivatives, but nobody seemed to notice, people wanted more music and Crue.





The songs highlights go to ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’, ‘Dr. Feelgood’ and the ballad ‘Home Sweet Home’ showing on the big screen the various phases of their career up to nowadays with the four veterans together again and conquering young fans that were probably not even born when the band started back in the 80’s. This is Motley Crue making rock history again!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cBkLruHG6c

Text: Silvia Mendes
Photos: Luciana Mendes