Talk About Rock Music

Motley Crue seem to be making the news for different reasons over the last week.

First of all, Tommy Lee has responded to claims the local police ordered his helicopter to land after erratic behaviour.  He has claimed that no laws were actually broken and all he was doing was to have a close look at a house that was on fire.  Tommy stated,

“There was nothing scary about it. Motley Crue did a show in Palm Springs, out in the desert, and we were flying the helicopter back. This house was on fire about 30 minutes outside of Van Nuys airport, where we were going to land. So there was this house on fire, you could see all this smoke coming up. And I said, ‘F—! Let’s go over there and check it out.’ We flew close to the house to check it out, and apparently we got into the police’s airspace. But we were so far away from them. I still don’t understand. Like, there was no way we (were) that close.”

“We were on the ground, and I had in my backpack a bottle of vodka mixed with lemonade. As soon as we landed my pilot, Dave, said, ‘Hey! Where’s that vodka?’ I grabbed it, and he takes two big giant sips straight out of the vodka bottle. Right when he was drinking it the cops walked out and said, ‘Who’s the pilot of that helicopter?’ And he’s like, ‘That would be me.’ So they thought he was drinking. But he doesn’t drink and fly - ever. That’s stupid. So that’s what the whole deal was. They gave him a sobriety test and all that. He’s like, ‘Guys, I just had two shots of vodka after we landed, now it’s a little late to be testing me, do you know what I mean?’ So that was it. No big deal.”

Next up would be Motley Crue are playing  at the Rock On The Range festival this year in Ohio, along with the likes of Alice in Chains and Slipknot.  NIkki Sixx commented on the upcoming festival.

“We try to listen to our fans and they’ve been saying for years that we should play at Rock On The Range.  We’re really excited to play one of America’s great rock festivals.”

Third on the list is guitarist, Mick Mars.  He has finally won the default judgement, worth $212,000, against his ex who he said had violated the palimony settlement.

Second to last on this list has to be NIkki Sixx again.  He has recently spat at a female fan for throwing a bottle of water at him and then gave her verbal abuse and made her cry.  There is a video of it but who wants to see that!  You do?  Here it is. . . (About 1:55 into the film)

Finally, I am pleased to announe that Motley Crue will be at Download 2009.  Check out the latest news at the official Download site but there will be more to follow on the latest Download news soon.