Mick Mars lyttää Mötley Cruen tuoreessa haastattelussa: ”Kannoin noita paskiaisia vuosien ajan”
Julkaisimme sivustollamme hiljattain uutisen, jossa kerroimme Mötley Cruen kitaristin Mick Marsin aikovan haastaa yhtyeen oikeuteen ja bändin julkaisseen Marsille varsin tylyn vastineen aiheeseen liittyen. Nyt Mick Mars on tuoreessa Varietyn haastattelussa kertonut yhtyeen pyrkineen pääsemään hänestä eroon aina vuodesta 1987 lähtien mutta koska Mars on keksinyt yhtyeen nimen sekä auttanut bändiä varsinkin alkuaikoina erittäin paljon taloudellisesti ei tästä eroon pääseminen onnistunutkaan bändiltä niin helposti. Mars totesi haastattelussa kantaneensa bändin paskiaisia vuosien ajan ja vaikka nämä nyt haukkuvat kitaristin muistia huonoksi ainut syy miksi tämä jättäytyi pois kiertueilta oli selkäreuma, joka kitaristilla on ollut jo vuosikymmenien ajan. Mars kertoi ajastaan Mötley Cruessa seuraavaa:
”Those guys have been hammering on me since ’87, trying to replace me. They haven’t been able to do that, because I’m the guitar player. I helped form this band. It’s my name I came up with [the MÖTLEY CRÜE moniker], my ideas, my money that I had from a backer to start this band. It wouldn’t have gone anywhere. And then to be hearing stuff from people like Bob Daisley from Ozzy Osbourne’s band, when we were touring with them, and Carmine Appice…”
”The thing that they keep pushing, for many years, is that I have a bad memory. And that’s full-blown, out-of-proportion crap. Around 2012, when they first started saying that my memory was bad and I didn’t remember the songs, I came home and saw all my doctors, because I keep myself together, because I’m an old bastard. They had all the 10th Street people there [from the band’s management] — probably about five or six people — [versus] all my doctors going: ”There’s nothing wrong with him.” And now they’re still playing that game with me.
”So, no, the truth is: I want to retire from touring because of my AS [Ankylosing spondylitis, an inflammatory, arthritic disease that causes vertebrae to fuse]. I don’t have a problem remembering the songs. I don’t have a problem with any of that stuff. But I do have a problem with them, constantly, the whole time, telling me that I lost my memory. No. Wrong. That’s wrong. Absolutely wrong.
”But my stupid body is telling me ’No, don’t do that’ [stay on the road]. You know, I’m gonna be 72 years old, and I’ve been touring with these guys 41 years, helping build the brand, helping do this and that. And you’re served with papers and going, this is crazy. This is stupid. I mean, come on.”