Mötley Crüe is about to embark on the long-awaited Stadium Tour with Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts. The tour’s first show was scheduled for Thursday night in Atlanta. Ahead of the tour, Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx did a new interview with Classic Rock magazine. Sixx bemoaned the current state of music and what he calls “extremely overproduced” material from new bands.
“My criticism is that it’s extremely overproduced in a lot of cases,” Sixx said. “It’s ProTooled to death, it’s chopped to death, and I miss some of the slop. I miss some of the flat notes. I miss when a guitar player doesn’t exactly come down perfect. I kinda miss some of the nuts and bolts of just being in a raw rock and roll band. With that being said, there’s some cool bands that are coming out and just going to the studio and cutting it pretty much live off the floor, and it’s real – you can feel it, that they mean it.”
Sixx said he’s been plenty excited for the Stadium Tour especially given the fact that has been postponed twice already. He also revealed that he doesn’t listen to his own band very often unless they’re preparing to play live. “I’m so excited about the stadium tour, us and Def Leppard and Poison and Joan Jett over in America, and we’re looking [into doing international dates], and when we can do that. It’s funny, the only time I ever really dig down and listen to Mötley Crüe is as we’re putting together a show; you kind of go through the albums and stuff like that.”
“I dug into YouTube and was looking at some of the old videos, and I guess it could all be considered embarrassing, because rock and roll is embarrassing – as it should be. We should be ridiculous, we should be outrageous, we should be pushing envelopes and we should be rebelling against each other. We’re supposed to be loud and rude and in-your-face.”
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