Report: MÖTLEY CRÜE Has Survived In Spite Of Itself

September 8, 2006

Adam Williams of PopMatters.com reports:

MÖTLEY CRÜE's 2005-6 global extravaganza traversed the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, and Mexico; packed venues large and small; and generated massive stacks of money. Most importantly, though, the tour was a powerful statement made in the face of increasingly fickle music industry moguls: artists may come and go, often experiencing less than the industry-standard 15 minutes of fame, but MÖTLEY CRÜE will not fade away.

The CRÜE is the lone hair band that can still sell out Madison Square Garden. WARRANT? POISON? SKID ROW? RATT? WHITESNAKE? They're all comfortably residing in the "Where are they now?" file or toiling away on embarrassing pre-packaged '80s-nostalgia tours. As a matter of fact, last I heard, Jani Lane was opening for a puppet show at some theme park in the Midwest. Even the once brilliant GUNS N' ROSES is a distant memory, despite Axl and his roster of hired help wrapping themselves in the band's banner. In a wasteland littered with the bleached-blonde bones of its contemporaries, MÖTLEY CRÜE has survived in spite of itself. Factor in the much ballyhooed presentation of the 2,301st star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame (add up the digits and you get Sixx),and it seems the band has cemented its position as a mainstream rock 'n roll mainstay.

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