Nikki Sixx Says Motley Crue ‘Were Forced’ Into Firing Mick Mars

Nikki Sixx has provided additional exposition into Motley Crue’s resolution to separate with founding guitarist Mick Mars.

It was October 2022 when the band introduced Mars was exiting the Crue. On the time, the choice was introduced as amicable — Mars could be concerned behind the scenes, however not tour as a consequence of his ongoing battle with ankylosing spondylitis. Nonetheless, shortly after John 5 was introduced as his substitute, Mars took authorized motion, claiming that he was pressured out of the band.

In keeping with Sixx, it wasn’t a person who pushed for Mars’ dismissal, however relatively the circumstances that pressured Motley Crue into making the change.

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“Hear, we had been pressured,” the bassist defined throughout a latest dialog with Guitar World. “Man’s gotta select: you need to break up? Do you need to fuck over [concert promoter] Dwell Nation? You need to screw [tourmates] Def Leppard? All these tickets, all that planning that we might achieved as a result of one in every of your band members is just too in poor health to carry out reside?”

Although the choice wasn’t a simple one, Sixx insists his band made the proper name.

“We actually had to consider it,” the rocker continued. “Like, do you suppose we needed to take the grief we took, and find yourself in a lawsuit? However what had been we speculated to do? Go dwelling and fucking mow the garden? It is like your fucking soccer group; if one in every of your guys cannot play anymore, they bring about in one other man.”

Motley Crue Has Been Busy Since John 5’s Arrival

Motley Crue has remained energetic since switching guitarists, embarking on a world tour and acting at lots of rock’s high festivals. The band additionally launched an EP titled Cancelled, their first materials with John 5 within the lineup, earlier this month.

“We’re nonetheless right here, and we’re nonetheless artistic,” Sixx declared to Guitar World. “We’re in a position to tour – and never tour to the purpose within the previous days the place you break the spirit of the human beings. We get to exit, play some badass reveals, reinvent the band right here or there, and actually get pleasure from this time.”