JOHN CORABI Is 'Tired' Of Media Focusing On 'The Negative' When It Comes To His Time With MÖTLEY CRÜE

John Corabi wants the media to "let it go" when it comes to questions regarding his time with MÖTLEY CRÜE, explaining that he hasn't been in the band for 19 years.

Corabi, who joined CRÜE in 1992 as the replacement for the group's original singer, Vince Neil recently said that he would avoid talking about the band 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."

But now, in an interview with the "Music Mania" podcast, conducted just a few days ago, Corabi admitted to being bothered by constantly being asked about his time with MÖTLEY CRÜE, insisting that the media never focuses on "the good things" that he has to say about his former bandmates.

"Honestly, I've just been a little frustrated," Corabi said (hear audio below). "I've done a few interviews in the last week or so where people ask me some question about my time in MÖTLEY or some of the recordings I've done with [MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist] Mick [Mars] or whatever, and it's just, like, I'll sit there and talk for ten or fifteen minutes, or some of the interviews I've done are, like, thirty, forty minutes, and there's no mention of THE DEAD DAISIES [Corabi's current band], there's no mention of anything else other than the fact that… you know, they hone in on one sentence and it's just like they make these big stories out of it when I'm on the Internet, and I kind of got a little — pardon my French — I got a little pissy about things, and I just said, 'You know what? I'm not gonna talk about…' Obviously, I can't talk about MÖTLEY CRÜE, because they don't talk about the good things that I have to say about the guys or any of that; it's just always focused on one thing, the negative, and I'm just tired of it. I'm not that guy."

Corabi, who says he has no issues with any of the other MÖTLEY CRÜE members, tried to explain how his recent comments about Sixx might have been misconstrued.

"Somebody asked me [in a recent interview], for whatever reason, why Nikki Sixx said a month or so back when Nikki Sixx said he doesn't like the MÖTLEY '94 record, and just whatever. And, to be honest with you, my statement was very simple. I said, 'I don't know why. If you wanna know why, you need to ask Nikki. I don't know why, all of a sudden, now 22 years later, he said what he said. I don't know.' I have nothing but admiration and respect for the record that I did with them guys. I even said I wished them the best of luck in all their future endeavors. Tommy [Lee], whatever he's doing… I just saw Vince recently… whatever he's doing. Mick… Even Nikki with SIXX:A.M., I wish you the best of luck. Life is good. I have a tendency to talk a little different, you know what I mean? And basically, my statement was: 'I have no idea why Nikki said he doesn't like the record, why Nikki said he doesn't think that I can write lyrics.' And I also said, you know, that I have no idea why Nikki feels that I'm the biggest piece of shit on earth. That was me being John from Philadelphia just, you know, generalizing or whatever. And then, all of a sudden, all over Facebook, it's, like, this web site Blabbermouth is, like, 'John said that Nikki thinks he's the biggest piece of shit on Earth.' I'm, like, 'Nikki never said that.' I mean, first of all, Nikki never said that, and it was a question that I was asked. And it's, like, you know what, guys? I haven't been in the band for 19 years. The record came out 22 years ago. I was in a band for 24 years before I joined [MÖTLEY CRÜE]. It's been a long time. Let it go. I am fine. Nikki's fine. We're all fine. Let it go."

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 is planning to release a live album and DVD of his performance of MÖTLEY CRÜE's entire 1994 album, recorded last year in Nashville, Tennessee.