See Motley Crue Walk Down Memory Lane at the Roxy: Photos

Motley Crue took a stroll down reminiscence lane this week with their “Hollywood Takeover,” a sequence of membership exhibits on Los Angeles’ Sundown Strip the place they obtained their begin greater than 40 years in the past.

The stunt took the hard-living rockers to the Troubadour on Oct. 7, the Roxy on Oct. 9 and the Whisky a Go Go on Oct. 11. You possibly can see photographs from their Roxy efficiency under.

From the start, Motley Crue knew easy methods to make an entrance and captivate an viewers with over-the-top stunts, together with lighting bassist Nikki Sixx on fireplace. They continued this development for his or her first Hollywood Takeover present when a rubbish truck deposited them on the road outdoors the Troubadour earlier than a crowd of a number of hundred followers.

“It was all about music, and placing on the largest present ever,” Sixx advised Traditional Rock in 2020. “From the get-go we have at all times been about style and melody and songs and power onstage. There’s actually early movies of us taking part in the Starwood Membership in ’81 and we’re giving 150%, and that was proper in the course of new wave, everybody was shaking their heads and doing little handclaps. We did not say ‘we’re gonna be completely different,’ we simply have been.”

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Motley Crue’s New Music and Vegas 2025 Plans

Motley Crue simply launched a three-song EP titled Cancelled and will carry out on Sunday at Aftershock pageant in Sacramento, California, for his or her final presently scheduled present of the 12 months. They will decide again up in late March for his or her third Las Vegas residency, consisting of 11 exhibits at Dolby Reside at Park MGM.

“Motley Crue and Las Vegas have at all times been the proper mixture of extravagance and decadence,” the band stated in a shared assertion. “We have at all times cherished the concept of the Vegas residency, as a result of we have at all times cherished the concept of staying in a single location to construct a novel present for the followers. We’re excited to get into rehearsals and work up lots of songs which have been requested by the followers for years.”