Former Motley Crue guitarist Mick Mars recently spoke with Rolling Stone about his dismissal from his former band.
Mars said that Motley Crue is trying to destroy his legacy with the band he helped co-found. “When they wanted to get high and f*ck everything up, I covered for them,” Mars said.
Rolling Stone shared a few outtakes from the interview including a heartbreaking story about the guitarist’s final tour with the band in 2022. Mars has since sued the band claiming 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.
Needless to say, it doesn’t seem there will be any reconciliation between the sides anytime soon.
“Nobody spoke to me in 2022,” Mars said. “A lot of the time felt like I was just playing by myself. You know how you can be in a crowd of people and still feel alone? That’s how I felt that whole tour. I felt used, sad, and inferior. When we played the last show, I felt relieved. A lot of the pressure was gone. But I was very emotionally wounded. They weren’t just shallow wounds. They were deep ones; the kind you can’t get over.”
Mars said he has no desire to talk to his former bandmates ever again.
“I think all of us would be okay with that,” he said. “And I don’t just mean me with them. I mean them with each other. I don’t plan on having a funeral. If I did, I think maybe they’d show up for that just out of courtesy. But for me, there’s no funeral. There’s no nothing.”
Mars previously said that when he passes away, he wants his ashes dropped in the center of the Bermuda Triangle.
“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.”
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