{"id":973878,"date":"2019-12-04T18:16:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T01:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=922496"},"modified":"2019-12-04T18:16:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T01:16:41","slug":"motley-crue-on-summer-tour-with-def-leppard-poison-we-missed-being-in-a-band-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/motley-crue-on-summer-tour-with-def-leppard-poison-we-missed-being-in-a-band-together\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce on Summer Tour With Def Leppard, Poison: \u2018We Missed Being in a Band Together\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The full lineups of Def Leppard<\/a>, M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce and Poison<\/a> \u2014 all 13 members \u00ad \u2014 were assembled in a small room at SiriusXM\u2019s Los Angeles headquarters for the official announcement of The Stadium Tour<\/a> on Wednesday. The 22-date trek in the summer of 2020 will unite the three titans of glam-metal\u2019s circa-1987 peak along with fellow travelers in riffs, Joan Jett<\/a> and the Blackhearts.<\/p>\n

Fellow MTV-era icon Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats peppered the artists with questions and assembled members of the press snapped cameras. Beyond the anticipation for the rumored trek, many headlines have focused on the re-emergence of M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce, who supposedly signed a \u201ccessation of touring agreement\u201d that kept them from reuniting after their Final Tour ended in 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey, can I step in a second?\u201d Poison bassist Bobby Dall interrupted when M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce were asked about it. \u201cContracts are meant to be broken.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, plus you know we like to blow shit up,\u201d Cr\u00fce drummer Tommy Lee interjected.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, I don\u2019t think any of us thought, when we were on the final tour, we would ever get back together,\u201d Cr\u00fce bassist Nikki Sixx said earlier in the afternoon. \u201cWe weren\u2019t really getting along at that point. We had been together 35 years and it\u2019s been a lot of years on the road. I don\u2019t think we took a lot of time for ourselves off. We were just constantly touring for all that time. And when we came to the end, we broke the band up and everybody went their own ways. I think we really needed that break.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd it was during the making of The Dirt<\/em> movie \u2014 we started working on the script, we started being on the set and we started hanging out again together,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd I think we sort of realized how much, without even talking about the music, how much we missed each other\u2026 We missed each other to be honest with you. We missed being in a band together.\u201d<\/p>\n

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However, no one in that room seemed more excited about the tour than Poison frontman Bret Michaels. Michaels pumped his fist when Def Leppard\u2019s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction was mentioned and fanboyed over the idea of new Lep material. At the end, he started personally moving chairs so everyone could get a photo together. \u201cBrett was saying to me a little while ago,\u201d Sixx said, \u201c[if] he wasn\u2019t on the bill, he\u2019d be going to the show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just telling you that it is going to be not just \u2018The Stadium Tour,\u2019 it is the party of the summer,\u201d Michaels said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s six hours of Top 10 hits,\u201d Dall added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf [the other bands] cut half their set, there\u2019s still nothing but hits,\u201d Michaels said.<\/p>\n

Visibly absent from the conference was tour opener Joan Jett, whose name was repeatedly mentioned by the assembled artists, making it very clear that she\u2019s an important, if not equal, part of this journey.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just put those four names on a piece of paper and look at \u2019em, whichever way \u2019round they look at it, it\u2019s a big statement really,\u201d Def Leppard leader Joe Elliott said. \u201cAnd you know, the Eighties get mocked a lot. There is a lot of people that still think of the Eighties as a mockable decade, and we\u2019re about to prove that it\u2019s not. It\u2019s last man standing to a point, maybe, but we have survived\u2026 You can sit and analyze it all you like, but at the end of the day, if the songs are still getting played on the radio, there\u2019s a reason for that. It\u2019s because they were good songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t think, like Cr\u00fce\u2019s contract, that these tour dates are the final word. \u201cThere\u2019s 22 stadium shows, so it\u2019s pretty much most major territories. And in fairness it seems to be growing and there\u2019s more interest before it\u2019s even gone on sale,\u201d Elliott said. \u201cSo it may extend one way or another, even in the next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

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