It’s possible you’ll bear in mind a story that ran final month about former Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars talking to Rolling Stone about his falling out along with his former bandmates, which led to a messy lawsuit that’s nonetheless ongoing and can populate the pages of this web site for years to return. Properly, on Monday, Rolling Stone revealed the outtakes from that characteristic and Mars pulled completely no punches about his bandmates.

Mars shares some scorching takes about data like New Tattoo and Era Swine, talks about his relationship with John 5 and additional alleges use of backing tracks. However probably the most brutal revelation is that Mars hopes the members of Mötley Crüe by no means communicate to him once more.

“I believe all of us could be okay with that. And I don’t simply imply me with them. I imply them with one another. I don’t plan on having a funeral. If I did, I believe possibly they’d present up for that simply out of courtesy. However for me, there’s no funeral. There’s no nothing.”

Talking with regards to backing tracks,—a topic Mars and Mötley Crüe have gone forwards and backwards about already—Mars says that Mötley started utilizing them way back to the Dr. Feelgood tour. Dr. Feelgood got here out in 1989.

“I bear in mind saying, ‘Individuals know what’s purported to be there. Will they miss it? Some in all probability will, however a majority won’t. They’ll hear it subliminally the way in which it was recorded so long as the meat and potatoes are there.’ I didn’t need to idiot the viewers, however the others wished to fill in the place the holes had been. I by no means preferred that rubbish.”

Mars additionally as soon as once more claimed that bassist Nikki Sixx used backing tracks on the band’s 2022 Stadium Tour. Sixx has denied utilizing backing tracks and produced sworn statements from a number of crew members, however Mars is adamant.

“I’ve been with him a very long time, and I acquired fan-based movie of him thrusting his arms within the air and stuff when there’s a bass line enjoying. I’m completely constructive [he wasn’t playing live bass]. I believe he did that as a result of he felt an excessive amount of competitors from the opposite bands on the tour, like Def Leppard. I believe they made him really feel insufficient about his bass enjoying.”