{"id":793183,"date":"2019-02-19T09:42:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T16:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=796301"},"modified":"2019-02-19T09:42:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T16:42:05","slug":"flashback-motley-crue-play-kickstart-my-heart-at-their-2015-farewell-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-motley-crue-play-kickstart-my-heart-at-their-2015-farewell-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Motley Crue Play \u2018Kickstart My Heart\u2019 at Their 2015 Farewell Show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce released a trailer for their upcoming biopic The Dirt<\/em><\/a> this morning, and as expected it touched on everything from Nikki Sixx\u2019s heroin overdose to Vince Neil\u2019s fatal car crash, Mick Mars\u2019 battle with bone disease and Tommy Lee\u2019s marriage to Heather Locklear. It\u2019s unclear at this point if Pamela Anderson will make an appearance and how the film will handle the band\u2019s tumultuous Nineties when their recording career tanked and Vince Neil was sacked in favor of John Corabi. And while It is highly<\/em> unlikely that The Dirt<\/em> will rack up Oscar nominations like Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em> somehow did, it is likely to be a huge hit for Netlix.<\/p>\n

The real M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce went back into the studio to record new songs for the soundtrack, but don\u2019t expect them to launch any sort of tour to promote the movie. Not only did they wrap up a farewell tour in 2015, but they signed a \u201ccessation of touring\u201d agreement before it began that supposedly legally prevents them from playing again. \u201cThe only loophole is if all four members agreed to break the contract,\u201d Nixx Sixx told Rolling Stone<\/em> in 2014. \u201cThere is no amount of money that would ever make me do it again. We\u2019d have so much egg on our face.\u201d (Here\u2019s video of them playing \u201cKickstart My Heart\u201d at the final show in Los Angeles.)<\/p>\n

Nearly every band on a farewell tour says something like that while it\u2019s actually happening, only to change their minds just a few years later when the money starts drying up or they simply get bored. And even though nobody has actually read the \u201ccessation of touring\u201d agreement, it seems like M\u00f6tley might actually honor it. There aren\u2019t even tiny hints that they plan on touring again in any form, even if some sort of one-off performance around the release of the Netflix movie seems like a possibility.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re also willing to play again should they ever get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That seemed like an extremely remote possibility until very recently, but over the past few years the Hall has inducted Journey, Bon Jovi and Kiss, and Def Leppard are getting in next month. None of those acts come quite as close as M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce to being labeled \u201cHair Metal\u201d (even though Bon Jovi and Def Leppard detractors might disagree) and there\u2019s almost nothing that rock\u2019s critical establishment hated more than Hair Metal, but if the Hall of Fame takes just a single band from the Eighties Sunset Strip scene, it will be\u00a0M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce. Their music has aged much better than everything produced by their peers and the public can\u2019t seem to get enough of their saga, which is why Netflix is unlikely to bankroll a movie about Winger, Dokken or Ratt anytime soon.<\/p>\n

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M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce released a trailer for their upcoming biopic The Dirt this morning, and as expected it touched on everything from Nikki Sixx\u2019s heroin overdose to Vince Neil\u2019s fatal car crash, Mick Mars\u2019 battle with bone disease and Tommy Lee\u2019s marriage to Heather Locklear. It\u2019s unclear at this point if Pamela Anderson will make an […]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 06:18:49","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}