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David Glessner from MySA.com has posted the following report:
Given their decades of decadence, the pairing of AEROSMITH and MÖTLEY CRÜE sounds like an obituary waiting to happen.
Like bulls in a liquor store, both bands have walked on glass and been exceedingly numb to the pain. When breakfast is a hair-of-the-dog buffet and dinner is an orgiastic feast of lethal drugs and lingerie, the snacks alone could earn prison time or worse.
Older and presumably wiser, Aerosmith and Mötley Crüe are embarking on the Route of All Evil Tour, which today is not half as felonious as it would have been 20 years ago.
"It would have been business as usual," says Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry. "They weren't doing anything different than most tours were doing 25 years ago. It would have been touch-and-go, but that's how it was back then. Twenty five years ago, (debauchery) was what you would find if you went backstage at most rock shows."
Backstage, onstage and walking down the street, Mötley Crüe learned its heavy-metal licks and lifestyle from Aerosmith. Formed in Los Angeles in 1981, Mötley Crüe became the ultimate sleaze-metal sex machine.
With cash flooding in from the best-selling albums Shout at the Devil, Theatre of Pain, Girls, Girls, Girls and Dr. Feelgood, the boys in the band married (and divorced) Playboy Playmates while packing concert venues and eluding the vice squad.
In 1984, Mötley singer Vince Neil escaped death and long-term license-plate duty when a beer run gone south mangled his sports car, killed his passenger and left the occupants in another vehicle seriously injured. Bassist Nikki Sixx, meanwhile, overdosed and died. Twice. Clinical miscalculation and divine intervention kept him among the living and inspired the adrenaline-driven Mötley hit song, 'Kickstart My Heart'.
Comparatively speaking, drummer Tommy Lee's porn videos, marital problems and subsequent jail time seem no more messy than an ashtray. Guitarist Mick Mars is practically a saint, albeit a fragile one due to a rare debilitating bone disease that has rendered him weak beyond his years.
Mötley Crüe's The Dirt is now being made into a movie starring Christopher Walken as metal madman OZZY OSBOURNE, who helped launch the Crüe in 1984.
For Sixx, touring with his heroes is the biggest high.
"Who would've thought when I was a kid in Seattle listening to (Aerosmith's) 'Get Your Wings' that Mötley Crüe and Aerosmith would (do) a co-headline tour," Sixx says on his website. "Life is full of gifts and this is like Christmas morning to me."
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