Former Motley Crue guitarist Mick Mars recently gave a wide ranging interview about his dismissal from his former band, which he helped co-found.
Mars said that Motley Crue is trying to destroy his legacy with the band. “When they wanted to get high and f*ck everything up, I covered for them,” Mars said.
“Now they’re trying to take my legacy away, my part of Mötley Crüe, my ownership of the name, the brand. How can you fire Mr. Heinz from Heinz ketchup? He owns it. Frank Sinatra’s or Jimi Hendrix’s legacy goes on forever, and their heirs continue to profit from it. They’re trying to take that away from me. I’m not going to let them.”
Mars went on to say that he was “squeezed out of the decision-making process” for the band’s “Generation Swine” album. “I don’t think there’s one note that I played. They didn’t want my guitar to sound like a guitar, basically. They wanted it to sound like a synthesizer. I felt so useless. I’d do a part, they’d erase it, and somebody else would come in and play.”
Mars previously claimed he was forced out of the band, while bassist Nikki Sixx remains adamant that Mars was struggling to perform, partly from his decades long fight with the bone-fusing disease ankylosing spondylitis.
Mars also talked about his mortality in the interview, and he has a unique request for his body after he passes. First, he wants cremated and placed in an urn.
Then: “I want them to take it into an airplane and drop it into the center of the Bermuda Triangle. I want people to be able to say, ‘Mick Mars is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.’”
“I’m not going to live to be 85 or 90, I just have a feeling. I don’t want to, either,” he continued. “My brain doesn’t want this ugly-*ss body that’s all f*cked up to keep going. I wish I could just take the information out of my brain, put it on a chip and into somebody else, or a robot. There’s still a lot of stuff going on up there.”
Mars confirmed he recently sold his publishing rights. “The deal was just finalized,” he said. “Now I can relax and don’t have to worry about anything, since, like I said, I’m probably just going to live another seven or eight years.”
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