{"id":973572,"date":"2019-11-18T07:10:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T14:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=913823"},"modified":"2019-11-18T07:10:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T14:10:50","slug":"motley-crue-def-leppard-poison-set-2020-stadium-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/motley-crue-def-leppard-poison-set-2020-stadium-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce, Def Leppard, Poison Set 2020 Stadium Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce are ripping up their \u201ccessation of touring agreement\u201d and hitting the road next year for a U.S. stadium tour with fellow hard rock acts Poison<\/a> and Def Leppard<\/a>, sources confirm to Rolling Stone<\/em>. While specific dates and venues have yet to be announced, the three acts will perform at stadiums around the country.<\/p>\n

M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce played 158 shows on their 2014\/15 Final Tour,<\/em> wrapping up with a hometown show at the Forum in Los Angeles on December 31st, 2015. Prior to the tour, the band claimed to sign a \u201ccessation of touring agreement,\u201d which they claimed was a binding document that would prohibit them from ever playing again after the tour ended. At the time, the group\u2019s management failed to produce this alleged document despite repeated requests.<\/p>\n

\u201cLegally, we can\u2019t play again,\u201d bassist Nikki Sixx claimed to Rolling Stone<\/em> backstage at a 2014 show in Denver. \u201cThe only loophole is if all four band members agreed to do it, we could override our own contract. But we know that will never happen. There are people in this band who will refuse to ever do it again, and you\u2019re talking to one of them. There is no amount of money that would ever make me do it again because I have such pride in how we\u2019re ending it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf anybody ever \u2013 and I don\u2019t believe anybody ever would \u2013 would call any other band members and say, \u2018Hey, it\u2019s been 10 years, let\u2019s just do 10 shows. A million a pop,\u2019 it could never happen unless all four band members agreed,\u201d Sixx added. \u201cAnd if we did agree, the way we\u2019ve set it up \u2013 including this conversation right now \u2013 we\u2019d have so much egg on our face. We have so much pride that that alone would stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reports of a possible M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce reunion have been circulating the past few weeks, with the official M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce Twitter account sharing a fan petition calling for the band to reunite and adding \u201cThis is interesting\u2026\u201d (The Tweet was later deleted.) Reps for M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce, Def Leppard and Poison did not immediately reply to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

Def Leppard remain one of the most popular touring acts in rock. They stayed largely out of the U.S. this year with the exception of their Las Vegas residency where they broke out extreme rarities like \u201cDie Hard the Hunter\u201d from 1983\u2019s Pyromania<\/em> and \u201cHave You Ever Needed Someone So Bad\u201d from 1992\u2019s Adrenalize<\/em>. In 2018, they played a highly-successful co-headlining tour of U.S. arenas and stadiums with Journey. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are having an Indian summer and it\u2019s because we have this integrity,\u201d guitarist Phil Collen told Rolling Stone<\/em> the night of the induction ceremony. \u201cWe never stopped actually in the 40-odd years that the band\u2019s together. We just keep going through thick and thin, all the bad stuff, good stuff. And I think that shows, and we\u2019re just enjoying this Indian summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Def Leppard toured with Poison in 2017, which marked the first outing by the Bret Michaels-led band since 2012. In 2011, they toured with M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce and the New York Dolls. It was the first time to two biggest bands of the hair metal era hit the road together. Unlike nearly every other act from that time, both bands still have all of their original members.<\/p>\n

M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce will join a long list of acts that continue to tour after farewell tours including Kiss, the Who, Black Sabbath, Phil Collins, Ozzy Osbourne, Tina Turner, Cher and LCD Soundsystem.<\/p>\n

In February, Sixx reiterated to Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> that the group had no plans to reform even as he expressed doubts about the decision. \u201cSometimes I look out at my friends, like the guys in Aerosmith and Metallica, and I\u2019m like, \u2018God damn it, did we retire too soon?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cBut there will be no one-offs in our future. Maybe we\u2019ll just get together and jam in Mick Mars\u2019 front room.\u201d<\/p>\n

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M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce are ripping up their \u201ccessation of touring agreement\u201d and hitting the road next year for a U.S. stadium tour with fellow hard rock acts Poison and Def Leppard, sources confirm to Rolling Stone. While specific dates and venues have yet to be announced, the three acts will perform at stadiums around the country. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 18:31:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}