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The band this week announced the dates for their farewell
European shows, having just completed the Australian and New
Zealand legs of their "Final Tour".
Speaking in London with fellow rocker Alice Cooper, drummer
Tommy Lee said he had only just begun to acknowledge what he and
fellow bandmates lead singer Vince Neil, guitarist Mick Mars and
bassist Nikki Sixx had achieved.
"We've done it all. Everything that we've set out to do we've
accomplished," he said. "For us it's like, let's just go out
like this and leave everything intact ... and go out on a super
high note so there are no regrets."
Motley Crue formed in 1981 and its members soon became emblems
of the wild-partying heavy metal acts popular on 1980s MTV.
Their popularity peaked with the 1989 album "Dr. Feelgood".
"For me I always relate my best memories and best performances
and things like that to the first times," Lee said. "The first
time coming to Europe, the first time going to Russia ... I
never in a million years thought that would happen."
The band's pyrotechnic show will accompany them -- including
Sixx's flame-throwing bass guitar and Lee's "Cruecifly" drum
rollercoaster, which sees him suspended upside down while
playing.
Cooper, known for his own live shows involving snakes, whips,
chains and other theatrics, will join for some dates.
"It's amazing when we go out on tour... The first 50 rows are 15
to 25 (year olds)... They're having the most fun. The reason
they're there is because their bands are not producing," Cooper
said.
"There's very little danger in rock and roll anymore."
Motley Crue's "Final Tour" in Europe kicks off in the British
city of Newcastle on November 2.
(Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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