Motley Crue is making the rounds in the press following the release of their new song, “Dogs Of War.” The tune marks the first new material from the band in around six years.
In a new interview with the “Outsider” podcast, Crue singer Vince Neil talked about the band’s 1997 album “Generation Swine.” Most of the album was written with Neil’s replacement, John Corabi, but Neil returned to the band and they ended up re-recording and re-working many of the songs and vocals. Despite it marking his return to the band, Neil doesn’t have anything good to say about that record.
“I hated that record,” Neil admitted. “I still hate that record,” There are no good songs on it. And I told ’em, I go, ‘This record sucks.’ ‘No. We love it. We love it.'”
Neil was also asked about his decision at the time to rejoin the group and how it came together. “Well, when Motley went out (with Corabi), their tickets stopped selling. And I was doing pretty good. But I wasn’t selling out places. I was opening for guys. And so their manager called me up and said, ‘We’d like to meet with you in New York.’ So I flew to New York and sat there and talked to ’em. And it took a while for me to say ‘okay.’ But I finally gave in and went to the recording studio where they were making ‘Generation Swine’, which was at Nikki’s house. And… I don’t know. It was bad for a while, ’cause I didn’t wanna be there.”
Corabi talked about the record a few years back with “Rob’s School Of Music” saying: “We worked on that record for, God, almost two years. Now, the difference is I’m not a fan of the record that came out. ‘Cause you’ve gotta understand we had recorded a bunch of those songs, and they brought Vince back. Then they went back into the studio with him for, like, another year. And they switched things around, then they started playing with sound effects.”
He continued: “I don’t mean this in any disrespect to Motley at all, but the bottom line of it is we did a record and it didn’t sell well — per their standards. I mean, it went gold, but it didn’t sell well. The tour was a disaster. And I think, to be honest with you, Tommy and Nikki and (co-producer) Scott Humphrey were trying to reinvent themselves to be current. And at the time, bands like Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Rob Zombie, Ministry, Pantera — all these bands were heavy, a lot of ’em were industrial, and they were just trying to figure out how to be relevant again. Which kind of led to a little bit of my demise, because I was just, like, ‘This is f*cking bullsh*t. Just do what you do. You’re Motley.’ And I’ve done the same thing. Even after I got out of Motley and I was in Ratt, then I decided I was gonna do a solo record, I would record a few songs and I would do ’em and I’d go, ‘Man, I’ve gotta be relevant. I’ve gotta be relevant.’ So everybody gets caught up in it. But the bottom line of it is it took a manager, or a friend mine, to just sit there and go, ‘You know, Crab, listen, man. F*ck that. You are what you are … Don’t try to be something that you’re not. Stop looking at trends and just do what you do. There are people out there that like what you do.’ And at that point, once I just said, ‘You know what? F*ck it. I’m just gonna do my own thing,’ then I was a lot better off.”
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