Mötley Crüe and Mick Mars seem to be in the news weekly thanks to their ongoing legal issues. Every week, we seem to learn a new nugget of drama. This week is no exception.
In his recent interview with Rolling Stone, Mars said his bandmates didn’t talk to him at all during the Stadium Tour in 2022. He said that sense of being alone made him feel “used, sad, and inferior.” Mars also said when that tour wrapped in September 2022 in Las Vegas, he felt “relieved.” He added, “I was very emotionally wounded. They weren’t just shallow wounds. They were deep ones; the kind you can’t get over.”
The interesting thing about Mars’ comments about Mötley Crüe not talking to him during the Stadium Tour is that there seemed to be a lot of anti-social behavior on the road, but for good reason. Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott said back in February that due to the tour being postponed so much because of the pandemic, every act on the Stadium Tour was social distancing the whole time. The singer noted, ” … All of us in Leppard traveled separately, which is the smartest decision we made. I didn’t stay in hotels. I lived on the bus, just me and Dale, my driver, in total isolation.”
Furthermore, Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx took to social media in May 2022 to explain that none of the bands on the tour were having guests hang out backstage. He wrote, in part, “Our fans have waited almost 3 years for this tour. If one of us got Covid and had to cancel the show can you imagine the disappointment?”
