Motley Crue Add 21 More Tour Dates
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 12:01AM Due to demand, Motley Crue just announced 21 more dates to their farewell tour. Canada gets some decent love here.
Mötley Crüe have revealed 21 more dates for their final tour and tell us about numerous new stage features: http://t.co/d06KMv51Td
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) April 20, 2015
Here's the dates:
October 5 – Hidalgo, TX @ State Farm Arena
October 7 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
October 8 – Little Rock, AR @ Verizon Arena
October 10 – Evansville, IN @ The Ford Center
October 11 – Lexington, KY @ Rupp Arena
October 13 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Van Andel Arena
October 14 – Buffalo, NY @ First Niagra Center
October 16 – Bridgeport, CT @ Webster Bank Arena
October 17 – Manchester, NH @ Verizon Wireless Arena
October 18 – Bangor, ME @ Cross Insurance Center
December 4 – Lincoln, NE @ Pinnacle Bank Arena
December 7 – Sioux Falls, SD @ Denny Sanford Premier Center
December 8 – Grand Forks, ND @ Alerus Center
December 10 – Saskatoon, SA @ SaskTel Centre
December 12 – Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Place
December 13 – Calgary, AB @ ScotiaBank Saddledome
December 15 – Portland, OR @ Moda Center
December 19 – Phoenix, AZ @ U.S. Airways Center
December 20 – San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena
December 22 – Anaheim, CA @ Honda Center
December 27 – Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Arena
Reader Comments (19)
p.s. I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking as long as Mars wants to keep getting out on stage, they should keep it going.
So it makes sense for them to just tack on even more dates.
I'm sure Vince's voice is just getting warmed up.
Why bother going out with a bang & making one last badass CD (featuring only songs written by the four band members, stay home James Michael) Kinda like what Ratt did with "Infestation"!
I love Motley Crue (my all time favorite band) but I just want one last full new CD or even just a compilation of some kind w/rare unreleased songs and/or some sort of official real release (something I can actually hold in my hands) featuring the songs "Sex" & "All Bad Things Must End".
Year after year, every time the Crue has "big news" 90% of the time it's about another tour/more concerts.
I last saw them in 2008 & have very little desire to see them live again.
Beyond the cool visual effects & theatrics, all they are really doing is putting a lot of make up & sexy lingerie over the same old TIRED setlist (sans "All Bad Things Must End").
I just want a DVD of a concert from this last tour (which I believe they said they would be doing?) & I'll be more than happy.
I almost can't wait til they play their last show...
Hopefully it will result in them just unleashing the vaults on us fans with tons of rare unreleased songs/demos in a boxset???
DVD's of vintage concerts from the 1980's & 90's or whatever else cool stuff they have stashed away.
I pray they release something like I mentioned.
I would hate for my last memories of the almighty Crue to be of a seemingly neverending 8 year tour...
Or the extremely outside writers heavy 'Saints Of Los Angeles' CD.
It doesn't suck but it has very little input from any of the band members not named Nikki.
90% of the album is Sixx AM written B sides recorded by Motley Crue.
Just looked and I've seen the Crue 17 times...12 of which have happened since '05. They've toured in some capacity every year since the '05 "reunion."
They were the first band I ever went to see in concert (can't say they were the "first" band I saw since Whitesnake opened the show). I'm ready for it to be over too, but I still like to hang on even if for nostalgia's sake. Honestly, I still enjoy seeing them or I wouldn't go, kinda like I feel about KISS these days. Regardless of all the backing tracks and sloppy performances, a Crue show is still a fun time. If I wanted perfection, I'd go see Dream Theater!
I've already got my ticket to Sweden Rock and hope to catch them at Download as well, plus I'm sure I will see a couple more shows in the States this summer/fall. Who knows, I may even go absolutely apeshit and try to catch one of the final L.A. shows. Merry Christmas to me. Haha.
All that being said, I have no desire for a new Crue album, regardless of who writes it. There's only a handful of original bands from this genre who can still write a great album, and I don't feel Crue is one of them. I'm all down for some unreleased gems, but only if they're released as they are. I don't need them tinkered with or remastered. Even then, there can't be whole lot that's not already out there in bootleg circles. Probably not a lot worth hearing anyways. Who wants those unreleased demos from 'New Tattoo'? Not me.
Still, and I am no "rose-colored glasses" sorta' fan, I totally get the point of milking the ever-living "meh" out of this last tour. If the demand is there, so too are the Crue to supply the response.
And I agree with you on their output in the last decade-plus. Lackluster and inconsistent, from a band that was never that consistent once you got past the first two albums.
Those two issues--the endless tours with not much new to offer (and not much new that fans want to listen to, with exceptions) and the newer albums with a few diamonds and a lot of dogs--places them squarely in the nostalgia business. And there is nothing wrong with that. Many a beloved band happily traffics in that sort of thing. Fewer are capable of putting it all together (Accept, Ratt, Saxon) for a few more stabs at greatness or the closest approximation they can muster. Far fewer (Motorhead, AC/DC) make it look effortless even into their golden years.
So let's not fool ourselves even if the Crue think they are fooling others: they are not "going out on top." They are not still hitting, consistently, on all cylinders. No amount of carnival barking hides the fact that, for a few years now, all the strings and stitches have been exposed. This is about the fans. But it is more about their pockets. And there are still enough fans that want to see them. So see them they shall. But the Crue are a painted lady now, not a sleazy glam siren. They are vapin' in the boys room now, trying and occasionally succeeding in making it look cool.
I just want the boys to stop. Full stop. And I want Mars to make that solo album happen, preferably with Corabi in tow. Lee? Who knows? He turned his back on turning his back so many times he is like a cat video on the internet. So perhaps opera or narco-corrido. Sixx? More time to craft loving tunes of woe with his friend DJ Asshat, while giving us his best impression of a petulant public intellectual with no Twitter filter. Neil? Football with bumpers, liquor within limits(?), and a show at the nearest First Nation casino.
And I meant full stop. Stop hedging on limited new releases and one-off shows. Release some gems from that era that most of us still care about. Don't pull a KISS, or a Scorpions. Keep the last few shreds of dignity, keep your promise. That would be giving the fans what they really want.
"More time to craft loving tunes of woe with his friend DJ As*shat"! and "Neil? Football with bumpers, liquor within limits(?), and a show at the nearest First Nation Casino"!
Oh, SO PRICELESS!
Not one to be topped, Neil could also go out on tour playing 1992's one last pearl of Glam, "Exposed" with Stevens and all the rest of the original line-up in tow. THAT would blow Sixx's A.M., as in comatose, out of L.A. Harbor. THAT would be the move to make!
Then come out with another album even better! That would ace out Sixx for turning the band into a Carnival of Sinners for being uninspiring, instead creating halfa*sed approximations with the Assh*t (God, I love that, HIM!) collaboration!
I think I jab at Neil so much because he gave up so much promise in pursuit of Earthly delights. In his prime, he could control a stage and make up for any deficiencies with being exciting to watch. He was somewhere between Pearcy and DLR on their best nights.
And I think you lay the blame on the right doorstep, Metalboy! I think Sixx is the culprit in Crue LLC's musical decline. Which isn't to say that Mars's health doesn't play a part, or that Neil's employee status and Lee's lack of focus aren't contributing factors. Sixx wants to think he thinks and acts and creates like a youngster (exhibit a: Sixx A.M.). But he wants to be treated like an elder statesman. Working at cross purposes dilutes both objectives.
Crue, at their best, were always more than the sum of their parts. Now they are less than such. Pity too. Gary's right . . . they were slamming on that CoS tour. Jason is right too . . . if it still strikes your fancy, then get them while the getting is so-so. These sorts of diverse reactions speak to just how important they _were_. As for myself, I will just focus on the band's history (Corabi, Primal Scream, those first two albums) and be happy to have had them in my life.
Just rather me being disappointed by them.
I absolutely love every album they released from 1981 to 1997.
But since 'New Tattoo' (right around the same time Nikki met James Michael).
They've only released at best a dozen or so songs that could actually stand up to some of their previous songs.
Personally, I find James Michael to be a terrible songwriter (& vocalist).
'New Tattoo' & 'Saints Of Los Angeles' could have been so much better had they involved all of the band members in the songwriting process (without James Michael's "help").
All four original Crue members have a tremendous track history of writing amazing songs together.
Hell, I would have even been satisfied if every single song on those 2 albums were all only written by just Nikki.
James Michael has more songwriting credits on the last 2 albums than Mick, Vince & Tommy combined.
He might as well have been in the band photos in the booklet.
James Michael is pretty much the sole reason why I've been disappointed by the mostly lackluster songs Motley has released over the past decade.
I have nothing against Vince, Mick or Tommy.
I'm just annoyed by Nikki because he's so enamored by James Michael & I can't fathom why.
Regardless, I still love Motley Crue, still my all time favorite band (mostly because of the 7 killer albums from 1981 to 1997).
They are the first band that got me into music when I was 7 years old.
When I first heard them as a kid I instantly loved them & they have always been my #1 fav.
I still had a blast last time I saw them in concert in 2008 & I have several excellent quality bootleg DVD's of concerts from the past 8 years that I really enjoy as well.
...But the allure of seeing them live again in person has greatly diminished for me cause of the constant touring w/no new album to promote.
It sucks that they are going to stop preforming live but the same old tired setlist (sans "Sex" & "All Bad Things Must End") & that they've been on tour in some from ever since 2005 has soften the blow tremendously.
I wouldn't dare lump you in with me on this one, Jakki. But, like you, I don't really think I was hating on the Crue either. I was just trying to be realistic, a bit more realistic than they have occasionally been when selling what the fans are buying.
EddieLH (you don't mind me calling you EddieLH, do you?), what I wouldn't give to have some hair to do a quick "touch up" on! Even "hair in a can" can't make the large crop circle atop my dome look like it did back in the day.
I get it. We get old. It is just a question of _what_ we do as we age (at least, for me). Not a single passionately loyal fan (I think bkallday fits, and argues his point earnestly), nor any member of said band, gives a squat about what I think. Which is fine by me. I just have occasion to raise an issue or two when a band of my youth tries a bit too hard to act like they are still bringing it. And Jakki did a much more eloquent--and nuanced--job of pointing to some of the factors that would lead a solid fan to bemoan their last decade or so.
I hope the concert went well, EddieLH. You should post your observations and let us all know.
Only complaint: it wasn't _all_ those years, though they lived off the first decade or so, and brought it for nearly twenty (at least live, and not on wax). _The Dirt_ suggests a steep slope and a rather rapid decline, even if one decides to take away a bit given the artistic license.
And, like you, they are still a favorite of mine. I just--and I am not saying this is your position, Dj--don't trap them in amber and squint when what I see in front of me is less than the best and, even then, less than what they are capable of bringing even at this stage in their career.
Jaxxi points towards it. If they wanted to, they could obtain a level at least close to "Primal Scream." And that, to my mind, was a kick ass suggestion of what never was with this version of the band. It was a return to form after lapsing into a sorta' foggy "here is our 'Black Album' for the masses" slop fest (obviously, prior to that descent into sad metalliocrity).
I defy the best of fans to compare RxF (read: Dr. Feelgood) to the first two albums. I'd go further and ask: which songs on that album do you regularly hum along to in your El Camino, wind whistling through your skullet? No offense, a solidly produced album, geared to bringing in the same general audience that made Lars and James get slick in their pants. But, again, what is it about that album that catches your fancy? To me, "Come On and Dance" (an odd song) still sounds more vital than "Kickstart my Heart."
I still think that Werman was better at capturing their ebbs and flows (as their logo goes, so too their sound), than Rock, Clink, or the blender of ideas that came thereafter . . . which also relates to Jakki's comment about outside writers if one wants to track back through the shift in being a band of writers (namely, Sixx and Mars) into a corporation, esp. _NT_ and _SOLA_ that finds what it can where it can, so long as it is "Sixx" enough.
Broken record. I will stop. Everyone knows my position. Apologies.
T'was fun reading your comments.
:)
P.S. I love Dr Feelgood!
Oddly enough, I was just listening to it in my car yesterday.
So much of this is an "eye of the beholder" sort of thing. So I never begrudge another fan who spends their cash, sees a band they like, and gets a great performance.
Again, really appreciate you taking the time to write back.