The chance to headline a U.S. stadium tour is what brought Mötley Crüe back from retirement according to bassist Nikki Sixx. The band’s “farewell” tour concluded in December of 2015 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Mötley Crüe signed a “cessation of touring” agreement prior to the tour signifying the band’s retirement.
“It was pretty interesting,” Sixx said in a recent interview with 98.3 CIFM. “We knocked it on the head because we felt like we had said everything we wanted to say. We felt that we were young enough where we had time left on the clock to do other stuff. And I think it ended in a really good way. We never intended on getting back together. It was the movie (‘The Dirt’) … We always knew we were gonna do the movie. And then getting in a studio and making music was, like, ‘That was fun.’ I was, like, ‘Yeah, we’ll do some songs for the movie.’ And we got the movie. ‘It’s been great.’ High five. ‘Tommy, call me for sushi.’ And it started — it just started rolling and rolling. Now there’s, like, 83 or 84 million people who’ve seen the movie, and the phone calls started coming in from around the world.”
Sixx said that Mötley Crüe “owed it to ourselves to have that conversation, ’cause if three of us were, like, ‘Let’s go do it’ and the fourth was not, that’s what the contract was about. We couldn’t leave two guys behind and go out and have two versions of Mötley Crüe. So it was an exciting time, something to celebrate. And if there was any hem and hawing, it was around the idea of going and doing arenas. We’ve done arenas, we’ve done festivals. We just felt like it isn’t gonna get any bigger than how we ended it. And then came the, ‘No, no. They wanna do stadiums.’ And we were, like, ‘Ah, well, that’s a little different conversation.’ ‘And Def Leppard wants to do it with you. The whole thing.’ … We have some very, very cool things that are in development, let’s say. Different than anything we’ve done before.”
The Stadium Tour, featuring Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, kicks off June 19, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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