Ex-MÖTLEY CRÜE Frontman JOHN CORABI Kept Things 'Pure' On His Live Recording Of 1994 Album

John Corabi, who joined MÖTLEY CRÜE in 1992 as the replacement for the group's original singer, Vince Neil, has completed work on a live album and DVD of his performance of CRÜE's entire 1994 album, recorded last year in Nashville, Tennessee.

Corabi, who has been recording and touring with the supergroup THE DEAD DAISIES for most of the past couple of years, spoke about the plan to release the live album, which will be called "'94 Live - One Night In Nashville", during a recent interview with Jack Antonio. He said (hear audio below): "The label wants to make sure that we don't step on the toes of what's going on with THE DEAD DAISIES. But I can tell you that it is absolutely recorded, it was mixed by Michael Wagener. There's a DVD, and we did the whole thing. And I'm just sitting there, it's in the can, the record label's got it."

He continued: "The idea was to keep it pure — what this stuff would have sounded like without a lot of stuff on it. So we literally went into Nashville, had a couple of nights, I rented a club, we invited a bunch of friends down, opened it to the public, and I literally went in and we recorded one show. And we recorded it, and I just had Michael, honestly, mix it and just maybe, if there was a way… I'm not a gearhead, so I was, like, 'Yeah, can you make the drums a little bigger? Is there something you can run them through to make them bigger?' 'Yup.' We just did that, but there was really no overdubs. There's a couple of little warts here and there, but it's cool — that's what I wanted. I didn't want a lot of overdubs, I didn't want a lot of fixing, and my guys, actually — I've gotta be honest with you — played their butts off. So we went it, we knocked it out, so that'll be coming soon."

Corabi last year contributed lead vocals to two songs from MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist Mick Mars, apparently called "Gimme Blood" and "Shake The Cage", which were recorded at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. The tracks have yet to be released, although snippets of both cuts have surfaced online.

Asked if there are any plans for further collaborations with Mars, Corabi told Antonio: "If I can help Mick, I will. I'd love to. I love that guy. He's a great dude, a great person, and I think he's an underrated guitar player, so anything I can do to help, I would love to. Mick's truly one of the nicest people I've ever met, and it's kind of led to him being taken advantage of a little bit. You know what I mean? And I feel bad about it. I mean, he's not a boo-hoo guy, though, either. He won't sit there and… Mick doesn't boo-hoo; he just picks himself back up and he just starts trudging forward, and he always has. So I dig the guy, man. And especially now, with all the stuff he's gone through with his health. And I always ask him, 'Dude, how're you feeling? Everything cool?' He's, like, 'Yeah. I can't bend over to tie my shoes, but I can play the guitar.' So you've gotta admire that, you know what I mean?"

Released in 1994, "Mötley Crüe" ended up being a commercial failure in the wake of grunge despite a Top 10 placing on the album chart.

Corabi recently said that he would avoid talking about MÖTLEY CRÜE in the future because he didn't want his comments about CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx to descend into a feud.

In an interview with Sweden Rock Magazine, Sixx said that writing the "Mötley Crüe" LP with Corabi was a prolonged and difficult experience. He went to call it "a very unfocused record" that was "painful for me, because John Corabi can't write lyrics, and I had to do all that work."

Corabi initially responded to Sixx's comments by saying that he didn't "give a shit" about what his ex-bandmate had to say, but later told an interviewer, when asked about it again, "I have no idea why Nikki feels that I'm the biggest piece of shit to roam the Earth." He then proceeded to take to his Facebook page to claim that he would "officially have nothing to say about any member of MÖTLEY CRÜE ever again," adding that he was "not backing this bullshit stirring that is happening to start a feud."