A serious point of contention in the lawsuit/feud between former Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars and the rest of the band was Mars’ claims that bassist Nikki Sixx didn’t “play a single note” during last year’s Stadium Tour. Mars also said various other parts of the show were also pre-recorded.
Recently, footage surfaced of singer Vince Neil clearly not singing the chorus to a song while the recorded track of his voice continued to play.
Mötley Crüe claimed that they used tracks to cover up Mars’ inconsistent performances.
Earlier this week, the band published a video on their Facebook account of drummer Tommy Lee playing during a Los Angeles concert last year. One commenter said he “Saw the backing tracks tour last [year] and paid dearly to see it. It’s a hard NO for me this time around….”
Someone in the Mötley Crüe camp saw the comment and angrily replied: “THIS IS THE SUMMER TOUR FOOTAGE FOR F*CKS SAKE. THERE WERE NO BACKING TRACKS FOR BAND MEMBERS.”
An hour after the reply, the post was edited to add the words “f*cking clown” at the end of the comment.
However, Mötley Crüe and various members of the band’s road crew admitted they used tracks in their response to Mars’ lawsuit.
“Equally unfortunate are his claims about the band’s live performances,” the band said earlier this year. “Mötley Crüe always performs its songs live but during the last tour Mick struggled to remember chords, played the wrong songs and made constant mistakes which led to his departure from the band. There are multiple declarations from the band’s crew attesting to his decline.”
Front-of-house engineer Brent Carpenter said, “At one point, Mick complained that we were using tracks when he was playing, which though true, was directly because of his lack of consistency.”
Mötley Crüe touring production manager Robert Long said: “[Mars] would consistently miss notes; play out of tune; play the wrong chords during a song; stay within a chorus of a song and never come out of it; forget the song that he was playing and start a different one; and would get lost in songs. This happened at every show. Our sound technician would have to carefully monitor Mick and play tracks when Mick would go off course. Otherwise, the whole performance would be a disaster. … Our playback engineer put in cues for Mick so that he would stay on course but he would miss the cues,” said Long.
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