A Crüe Redo
Paging Dr. Feelgood, the Cr?e is back.
The legendary '80s metal band announced a reunion tour Monday in typical grandiose style at Hollywood's Palladium.
Arriving via a hearse, vocalist Vince Neil, drummer Tommy Lee, bass player Nikki Sixx and guitarist Mick Mars unveiled plans for the Red, White & Cr?e world tour, a new double-disc greatest-hits collection and debuted a new single at the press conference. And then, as if to prove that M?tley Cr?e still has it after a six-year hiatus, the glammed-up quartet commenced rocking in front of nearly 1,000 fans,
"We're still M?tley, we still rock," Neil proclaimed at the press conference. Although the band drifted apart years ago amid declining record sales, infighting and various personal woes, the frontman asserts the band still has chemistry. "It's like no time has passed at all," he said when asked how it is to play with the original lineup again.
The regrouped Cr?e more than passed the smell test during a five-song set. Kicking off with "Dr. Feelgood," the rockers gave a stadium-worthy performance for those fans lucky enough to score tickets to the secret post-press conference gig.
According to Lee, it's the Cr?e faithful that inspired the band to set aside their differences and get back together. "This one is for the fans," he said. "What's important right now is that the fans want this."
But the band admitted during the press powwow that it was promoters who made the first overtures regarding the reunion. Mags Revel, a U.K. promoter who helped spearhead the Cr?e comeback, said, "I wanted to show the band that there was a real demand for their reunion. "
"We've been pelted by promoters and to me that's a pretty good sign of what it takes [to make the reunion work]," added Lee.
The band will embark on a massive arena tour, staring Feb. 17 in Ft. Lauderdale, that will take them everywhere from New York's Madison Square Garden to Oslo, Norway. All told, the band will hit five continents by the end of 2005. The entire tour will be presented by VH1, with a limited number of advance tickets for the initial North American leg going on sale Tuesday on VH1.com.
Meanwhile, the new double-disc anthology, Red, White & Cr?e, will drop Feb. 1. The band's latest greatest-hits set includes all the usual suspects--"Dr. Feelgood," "Girls, Girls, Girls," "Kickstart My Heart," "Smokin' in the Boy's Room," "Shout at the Devil"--along with three newly recorded tunes, including a ballad, "If I Die Tomorrow."
The original Cr?e lineup last played together in 1998, before the oft-troubled Lee left to form the (now defunct) Methods of Mayhem and deal with marital woes with Pamela Anderson and a litany of legal problems. Neil, Sixx and Mars soldiered on briefly with replacement drummers before calling it quits.
Aside from the joint memoir The Dirt published in 2001, the members have been dealing with their own issues. Aside from his various trips to the courtroom, Lee has been trying to launch a TV career, enrolling in the University of Nebraska for an upcoming unscripted NBC show. Neil, who added to his own rap sheet, already reinvented himself as a reality-TV star with a stint on The Surreal Life. Sixx has been unsuccessfully shopping his own TV project, The Blonde and the Rock Star, a sitcom loosely based on his marriage to former Baywatch babe Donna D'Errico. Mars, meanwhile, is on the mend from hip-replacement surgery necessitated by a degenerative spinal condition.
But now that their lives are in order and their acrimony abated, Neil proclaimed, "We're just ready to go out and rock."
The band will perfom "If I Die Tomorrow" on Jimmy Kimmel Live this Friday.
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