Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil has reacted to a former manager’s story on the Reelz Channel series ‘Breaking the Band’ about his 1992 firing from Motley Crue.
“Breaking the band, f**king memories from a manager Doug Thaler who can’t remember that he’s the one who actually broke up the band! The band didn’t break up because of me racing.
It broke up because he was too much of a pussy who didn’t just say, ‘hey guys, let’s take a week off and come back with cooler heads.’ He called me an hour later and said I was out of the band! Great management!
What he didn’t say was instead of me going racing I put out a top 10 single with ‘Your Invited.’ Oops, he forgot! Then an album called Exposed! Oops, forgot again! No wonder he was fired shortly after.”
Nikki Sixx said he and Tommy Lee contemplated recently if Motley Crue retired too soon in a new Variety article.
2019 has been a banner year for a band who is effectively broken up, barred from touring by signing a legally binding “cessation of touring agreement” in 2014. “Me and Tommy [Lee, drummer] went to lunch the other day and I asked, ‘Did we retire too early?’ And we both started laughing,” Sixx says. Indeed, according to a band rep, since the release of the film, sales are up some 2,000%.
Sixx says he had zero doubts about the film’s prospects for success, but was glad the band waited for the right partners, “because there are a lot of bad movies out there. And if you asked the critics, ours is one of them! But Netflix is reported that it’s one of their highest streams, and we have a 98% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
“I don’t even really know what it means,” he laughs, “but it’s definitely good.”
