John can shred, but I still haven’t heard him write a classic or iconic riff like Mick Mars. Songwriting ability is everything.

@sgt.grinch3299

10 ай бұрын

You called it. Writing for Vince is a very difficult task. He sounds like trash today.

@user-ty2xv6xw8j

10 ай бұрын

😂😂....On the stadium tour Vince sang Home Sweet Home~ My niece asked if he was saying "Give me an ice cream cone"....and she said he sucks ass,let's go & beat the traffic......

@user-kz4ll8of3k

10 ай бұрын

FACTS. Mick is a legend John 5 not so much

@roxannestorm2616

10 ай бұрын

Yes but John 5 is very experienced as Mick Mars is but John 5 also has a different technique all guitar players has their own technique.

@isMike999

10 ай бұрын

John 5 has his OWN unique talents...HE'S NOT Mick...stop comparing...it's Apples and Oranges bro.....

Team Mick!!

@user-ty2xv6xw8j

10 ай бұрын

Yes, but MM is Motley Crue

@ryangettig274

10 ай бұрын

Always & In All Ways,God Bless Mick Mar's heart & health-Long May He Run:)...

@warriorv9359

8 ай бұрын

All else pales in comparison

"I'm not Mick Mars. I'm John 5". Yeah we noticed... it's painfully obvious. Without Mick Motley Crue is souless.

@user-kz4ll8of3k

10 ай бұрын

Mostly Crue again, just like with out Tommy or Vince back in the day I called them Mostly Crue.

@metalmarty3948

10 ай бұрын

You said it. Wouldn't give this band another penny to see them after what they did to Mick. Vince is so awful now anyway. Should have stayed retired 8 years ago and went out like legends.

@michaelwills1926

10 ай бұрын

Plus no one else was even playing besides Mick. Poseurs

Will Nikki play Bass on this tour? Asking for a friend.

@user-ty2xv6xw8j

10 ай бұрын

😂😂

@user-kz4ll8of3k

10 ай бұрын

Just roll the tape and pretend so he can get laid.

@anthonylynch4737

10 ай бұрын

Not that he can't play bass Sixx just has zero feel.

@connorjordan3551

8 ай бұрын

Why start now?

John 5: "I am not Mick Mars, I am a suburban mom with a soul patch."

Such a great guy! So humble & so respectful. He is that guy!

Mick is a living legend and should be revered forever!

I have nothing against John 5. He's an excellent guitarist and seems like a great guy.

Mick 5. John Mars

Good Luck John

John 5 rocks!!

as an adolescent i loved theatre of pain. louder than hell would be cool

@user-kz4ll8of3k

10 ай бұрын

The drums alone on louder than hell is iconic. T-bone and Mick Together was a match made in heaven and we all know it. LIVE WIRE is still unmatched. The aggression of that double bass with that opening guitar riff ICONIC.

@bigbobbitchinii123

9 ай бұрын

So you think Vince could sing "louder than hell"?

@user-kz4ll8of3k

9 ай бұрын

Yes, Vince can do it if he actually wanted and tried. Vince tries to act nice with his voice. He purposely sounds like a candy ass.@@bigbobbitchinii123

I saw that concert in Detroit

I like 5 as a guitarist but what a genuinely nice dude as well ..now throw some crazy make up on and get out there 😊🤙🏼

I wish John 5 all the best, but Motley Crue are a joke without Mick

@coltsin1466

10 ай бұрын

Mick IS Motley. Fuck those guys.

I can see and figured he'd have this outlook. I can agree with him.

He talks like a professional musician would. Hope he gets the recognition he deserves.

@user-kz4ll8of3k

10 ай бұрын

You are easily manipulated by words.

It’s cool that he’s helping the band tolerate each other - maybe he can get them to stop miming. Seriously why wouldn’t Nikki wanna play? Has he just always sucked secretly? Motley Vanilli?

@metalmike570

10 ай бұрын

Nikki is an awesome writer and lyricist. He was never the best bassist at all. But he has the height and handsome looks that the ladies loved so much!! The band is really special it's hard to understand the BS fued between them and Metallica in the early days. It was because the Crue had a glam aspect to it and Metallica hates it.

@pillsareyummy

9 ай бұрын

@@metalmike570 I remember reading (and hearing on this channel no less) an article with the producer that did Girls Girls Girls and Shout ..., he said by the time they did Girls ... Nikki was a good bass player, he could play all the parts well. There's no excuse for him to 'phone it in' now, he's ripping off the fans. If he can't play live, then hang it up.

@metalmike570

9 ай бұрын

@@pillsareyummy Why would he hang it up when they can support Def Leppard or another major act on the road. Really Motley Crue is a major act - I was a major fan and an amateur bassist myself. To this day I still play and I'm in a blues rock band right now - some of that is because of Nikki Sixx I was highly inspired at 18 years old in 1982; we copied them and played a few gigs out!!! I tried to spike my hair like his but I'm a way shorter dude, for Nikki a large part of his success is his look. Still those first two Motley Crue albums have a lot of nostalgia for many of us. I believe that's why they can sell out arenas now. Each member of that band is a star it's been said many times over the years - no different than the Beatles, but if you take out even one member and that's Mick Mars it just isn't the same. You can write off Motley Crue now they're done. The controversy of whether he's playing or using playback is a secondary thing. Mick is gone - is the real issue. Only someone that's been a fan as long as I have can see this. There is a few million of us that see it the way it is.

@metalmike570

9 ай бұрын

@@pillsareyummy I agree with you; but I guess over the years he didn't practice his bass. I play bass myself and there could be a couple months when I don't practice. The bass does take practice I've known some amatuer musicians (singers and guuitarists) that think the bass is so easy. That's some BS. It's like Gene Simmons said "You think this is easy, let's see you do it." It shut those types up real quick.

@pillsareyummy

9 ай бұрын

@@metalmike570 Mick was never a great lead player, however he wrote great riffs, and it's the riffs that make the great songs. Sixx also wrote a lot of their greatest hits. However, there's no excuse to use backing tracks, his bass lines aren't extremely difficult to preform. If I'm going to pay for a ticket, I want the music to be 'live'. In fact, Mars HATED the fact that the band were using backing tracks, he thought that was bullshit. Sixx isn't in his 80s, he not super old, there's no excuse for him to 'phone it in'. I love Shout ... as well as some of their other material.

Do those guys plays their own instruments? Or is it all tracks?

John 5 is a real one.

Yes he knows songs good too it would be like me as kod playing them songs we did Danger Ten Sec knock ect

I love J5. I’ve seen him live several many times with M. Manson, then R. Zombie and his solo tour at a club I worked at in Boston. Super humble and nice guy. I’m such a big Motley fan, but I’m just disgusted by the way the Crue is screwing Mick. It’s all about $, it always fkn is.

I was at that Detroit show in 84 at Joe Louis Arena, John 5 missed a great concert

@metalmike570

9 ай бұрын

There's only one Mick Mars, really no- one should step in until Mick passes away!!

Mick didn't QUIT. He was put aside. All about $$$. I wonder if J5 went along with the backing tracks I guess anything for the green.

He said,then I said,then they said....

I totally dig John 5s persona, his whole outlook on jumping in with crew is the greatest attitude you could possibly have he expresses his full gratitude . Rock on John 5

John is just a decent guy who's extremely talented rising to make millions of dollars for retirement. Much respect!!!

@metalmike570

9 ай бұрын

John's younger than the other guys, that's not the reason he wanted the gig. Sure he'll make a few million on the road so....

Vince Three,Tommy Four, John Five, Nikki Sixx....John (Corabi) One?

@metalmike570

9 ай бұрын

ET the Extra Testicle? 😆

If someone offered me loads of cash to BE Ace Frehley nightly? I’d take it. Play music for a living, wearing giant space boots, and makeup? Are you kidding me? Show me the money!!! 💰 I have no problem with John 5 taking the payday to play with a band he loves. Who cares who likes it or doesn’t like it? Take the cash! Having said that, KISS isn’t KISS without Ace and Motley isn’t Motley without Mick.

3:36 Man, Mick looks so much younger with no hair.

Harpos Rocks

I am sad that Mick has to give it up but if it must be, why not John 5?

John 5 is a musician's musician. Great guitar player.

@taylorjeremy71

10 ай бұрын

As a veteran LA musician a statement like this blows my mind. Massive Dunning Kruger effect. He's not a guitar players guitar player. That's just silly. He's for teeny boppers. Strip away the hype and you've got any kid at guitar center on a Saturday afternoon in Hollywood. Facts

@user-kz4ll8of3k

10 ай бұрын

But he has not created ONE legendary riff or lick. Mick has many legendary riffs and licks. Fact.

@metalmike570

10 ай бұрын

@@user-kz4ll8of3k Mick is the legendary metal gutiarist, not John 5. John 5 is a great guitar player but Mick is a artist and a legend.

@labontetrevor

10 ай бұрын

TaylorJeremy I couldn’t agree more. It’s annoying how everyone and their mother thinks they know way more about music than they actually do. Each human seems to believe he has a rare, deep, special connection. I’ve been playing guitar 40 years, jazz for 30 of those, and I was disappointed by John 5’s solo show, it was absolute silly trash and was devoid of any decent guitar playing altogether. But every day, each and every random person I interact with on the internet will automatically assume they know so much more. Guys that can’t play a fucking C chord will tell me ‘what’s up,’ at every turn. Btw I played in a jazz trio for a couple years with Kirk Covington, from Tribal Tech, they’re an LA fusion band. But yeah everyone just makes the most grandiose claims of knowing ‘everything music.’

@user-kz4ll8of3k

10 ай бұрын

YOU are 100% correct. I create not duplicate. I have many peers who push me to record my "creations" because they know that it's real and not a cheap imitation of someone else's creation. Mick Mars truly expressed himself, and that is extremely hard to do. EVH expressed himself and did not imitate anyone else. We learn from others to hone the idea and skills, but TRUE art comes from within the spirit. You can not teach TRUE ART. It has be with in us. We are all creators if we tap into who we are as an individual. John5 is in a band now called MOSTLY Crue ha ha ha ha TWO Johns joined MOTLEY and its the same CRAP. 1994 Album was amazing yet it was still MOSTLY Crue. NOTE: John5's solo was like crap I played when I was 16 in the 80's when it was an era of musical olympics. One had to be extremely great to be heard back in the 80's. The harmony's were absolute amazing in the 80's listen to DOKKEN, Van Halen and so many more! The song had to have certain ingredients such a melodic base with great harmonies and hooks that a person would repeat over and over after hearing the song for the first time. @@labontetrevor

I totally respect Mick EFIN Mars, I think Rob Zombie got the shaft and Mick got the shaft from Nikki, It shows some selfishness on both teams, ❤ I'm not sure how long this will last, 2years.

@metalmike570

10 ай бұрын

Mick could work with Zombie if Zombie offered it to him. But the truth is Mick really should stay retired.

@kevbev1524

10 ай бұрын

@@metalmike570 Mick respectfully didn't want to go back out on the road, that stupid movie started this thing up again, It should have been a mini series, but whatever, what done is done, Mick offered a good solution to all, will work on music and a Los Vegas residency or any local (USA) shows, a reasonable solution, they cut him off like a chump, it's disgusting

@metalmarty3948

10 ай бұрын

Hopefully less. Vince is so ruthless now.

@tojorozombie

10 ай бұрын

John played with Rob for 18 years. In that time, they recorded just five albums. I’d say John was pretty generous, (and prolific), with his down-time, while waiting for Rob to finish filming whatever.

@metalmike570

10 ай бұрын

@@metalmarty3948 Well Vince and Nikki saw the dollar signs and felt they had to replace Mick. This band really only works with the original members - John 5 is a great player but it's a band-aid fix. Haha a band-aid fix.

How did Vince Neil prevent all hair growth on his chest? He could never be in Kiss or the Bee Gees.

@jockmctodger

10 ай бұрын

🤣

@user-kz4ll8of3k

10 ай бұрын

He could join cause his voice sucks. Kiss sucks.

Sixx and 5....

It's impossible to be mad at John 5. The only thing I cannot understand is how a guy like him can be best friends with a guy like Nikki. From the outside, they appear to be polar opposites.

@user-kz4ll8of3k

10 ай бұрын

Nikki... Needs to grow up and hang out with those of his age. He feels he needs to hang out with youngsters to feel younger or relevant .

@metalmike570

9 ай бұрын

@@user-kz4ll8of3k I think they're just 10 years in age difference, but both are surely adults!

@user-kz4ll8of3k

9 ай бұрын

Besides the point and a useless cop out.@@metalmike570

@metalmike570

9 ай бұрын

@@user-kz4ll8of3k Well the most obvious reason is that John 5 is a really good hard rock guitarist, and secondly and according to John here in the video is that they are indeed friends, and before the idea of Mick retiring came up. He makes it sound like the situation just evolved that way. And last year I saw him on tour with Rob Zombie, in Zombie's band and it was a great show. Another way to look at it is these are men, and by now comfortable in their skins - this is fun - it's fun to be a damn rock star!! And yeah let's make a great stack of money we're really well off. (It's a business)!

@jackih9682

9 ай бұрын

That’s why I question how nice of a guy John 5 really is.

John is amazing but Jake E Lee or Tracii Guns would have been a better fit

@taylorjeremy71

10 ай бұрын

I'm sorry but John 5 isn't fit to spit shine Jake E Lee's boots. Completely different leagues. John 5 is highly overrated. I'd love to hear Yngwie give a critique of John 5 's playing. That would be gold.

@metalmike570

10 ай бұрын

Buckethead would have been cool too.

@TheDans7300

10 ай бұрын

@@taylorjeremy71 agreed I don't see many guitarists in Jakes league

Why would anyone leave Rob Zombie to join a dumpster fire?

@gregc8483

10 ай бұрын

💰 🤑

@user-ty2xv6xw8j

10 ай бұрын

😂 yep. $$ talks......alot

@metalmike570

10 ай бұрын

Probably because the Crue has so many more hit songs than Rob Zombie. Mick Mars is one of the greatest gutiarists in metal that ever lived. You can't say that about Zombie's work but he still rocks hard.

@GhostRider-mm6ky

10 ай бұрын

Exactly The crue is hot garbage

@taylorjeremy71

10 ай бұрын

I've never been a Motley fan but I can recognize that Rob Zombie is on a much lower musical tier. He may sell albums but the music is just product. Motley has better songs; maybe that had more to do with Tom Werman and Bob Rock and not the actual members of the band but it is what it is. Motley in their prime were far superior and culturally relevant.

MICK MARS, SONG THIEF ! RITE MICK ! GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS ! YEAHHH YOU KNOW YOU ARE !

I know he’s great and all but I don’t care for his playing. It doesn’t move me. Mick did, Dimebag too and of course EVH to name a few.

@taylorjeremy71

10 ай бұрын

John 5 is all hype. I consider him the same caliber as Zakk Wylde. Guitar players for 14 year old beginners.

@metalmike570

10 ай бұрын

@@taylorjeremy71 Well Zakk's good album is the one with Mama I'm Coming Home on it. There's a few good ones on it.

Sixx and 5 couple a tools no wonder these goofballs are friends

John 5 is a badass guitarist. A true shredder.

@user-kz4ll8of3k

10 ай бұрын

Mick is not a shredder, Mick is a true artist musician one of a kind. John5 and shredders are a dime a dozen. Stach and Vai smoke Jogn5 if we are talking shredders lol

Rob zombie definitely wasn't ok with Tommy clufetos joining ozzy.....that's for sure.....

@metalmike570

9 ай бұрын

Is Tommy another of Rob's musicians - at least on the road?

John 5 is an amazing guitar player, y would he waste his talent, now don't get me wrong I'm a huge crue fan, sry was, they should have quite a long time ago, now there just trashing there legacy

@metalmike570

10 ай бұрын

It's like when Buckethead played in Guns and Roses because Slash said no. 🤑

I'm sure that when the new record comes out, which is already done, it will sound amazing, guitar wise.

Mick is suing them for this

@mr.timebombman2230

9 ай бұрын

As he should. They have the audacity to just throw him a 5% crumb after 40 fucking years and say that's more than generous. Scumbags. There'd be no Motley in the first place without him.

I would not call going to the Crue as a step up. Quite the opposite. Their day has come and gone. Many moons ago.

Lil cat

Crue has always sucked live. I saw them back in their heyday and they sucked. You can watch any live video of Crue from any decade and it’s the same suckfest. John 5 should’ve stayed put with Zombie. But I guess I’d play behind Vince Meal for that kinda money too. I just don’t get why people pay to see them live? You can’t even reminisce because you can’t even tell what they’re playing most of the time 😂

@metalmarty3948

10 ай бұрын

They were so bad at the us festival as well.

@shaunclifton5281

9 ай бұрын

Truth. Vince is even worse with every year. He's horrible.

Why the hell would anyone pay to see Vince Neil at this point ?

No kidding you're not Mick Mars

@ryangettig274

10 ай бұрын

Word:)Mick Mars is the real Saint Of Los Angeles,never underrated in my world:)

His style doesn't suit Motley, but not his fault.

Yea Johnny boy, we know you ain't Mick Mars. That is painfully obvious. Your new band is a bunch of DB's. No Mick- No Motley cuz Mick is Motley...BRO

I'm sorry John 5 is a really good guitar player,but Motley Crue is nothing without Mick Mars. Mick had been with Motley since the beginning (don't go with what the movie The Dirt says) and it is time Motley Crue hung it up and called it a day. I mean how many times has The Crue gone and replaced members where it was proven it only worked with the original four?

0:57 you THINK you know Nikki Sixx..... you're about to get screwed....dumbazz

Greasy suck up who was sucking up to Tommy and Nikki for a reason; waiting in the wings for Mick's job.

@metalmike570

9 ай бұрын

Shit when the Crue started around 1980, John 5 was sucking his thumb!

Johnny 5 looks gay

Damn right, he's not Mick Mars! Mick hs writen and performed classics! J5 is nowhere close to being what mick was and IS. You'll never be that good j5

It's astounding that a musician as talented as John could have any respect at all for the music of Motley or any desire whatsoever to be in that atrocious band. On the other hand this may all simply be about the payday for him and he's just playing up his "excitement" for PR reasons.

@user-ty2xv6xw8j

10 ай бұрын

BIG pay day!

@metalmike570

10 ай бұрын

I totally disagree Motley Crue's albums are full of classic rock. Motley Crue is a classic Rock band.

@taylorjeremy71

10 ай бұрын

John 5 is a paint by numbers guitar player. Nothing innovative. Nothing creative. Nothing interesting. Just a boring player and the guitar tone he's using for Motley is all wrong. Motley is a strat through a Marshall 2203 cranked. Huge nods to the guitar heroes of the 60's and 70's in Mick's tone and playing which was part of his magic and the appeal of the Motley sound. Mick had soul.

@metalmike570

10 ай бұрын

@@taylorjeremy71 💯 I get the feelin you're a gutiarist yourself, you nailed it.

John 5 is a nerd, talk about no feeling, couldn’t write a song if he tried

John 5 is wasting his talent with the Crue, And he lost alot of fans.

MICK WAS THE BEST MEMBER OF THE BAND I HATE JHON 5!

John 5 is SEVERLY overrated. He's like some guy playing guitar karaoke.

I saw John 5 play one night, he was absolutely awful. I’ve been playing about 40 years and my testimony is that John 5 can’t hit his own ass. I love Full In Bloom though. My favorite channel.

Gonna löse credibility playing with these CLOWNS

Motley Spew are a bigger joke than Kiss

Can he maybe tell Vince to lose 75#

Y'all on here acting like Motley just now started sucking because Mick left. Mick hasn't played on any Crue records since the Carabi record, Nikki hasnt written a good song since Dr. Feelgood and when is the last time ANYONE has walked out of a Crue show NOT saying how horrible Vince sounded? That's been happening since the Shout at the Devil tour. John 5 has played on more Crue records than Mick Mars since Vince returned. They've been using backing tracks since their 1987 tour. Everyone just loves 80's era Crue so much that they cant admit to themselves that they were tricked and ripped off by those poseurs for decades. I compare the people who go see Crue live today with the dumbasses who pay money to see the new fake Pantera. I will say though, that at least John 5 is playing Micks solo's note for note.... Where Zakk Wylde is just wiping his ass with Dimebag's riffs and solo's and shitting on and destroying Pantera's legacy. At least John has respect for Mick and Crue fans. Zakk and Charlie are just getting a paycheck and can care less that they sound like dogshit. Something they weren't really getting because nobody cares about Anthrax and Black label anymore. Paying money to go see Motley Crue is like paying money to have 4 guys stand in front of you spitting in your face for 3 hours as they point and laugh then for an encore they shit on the stage and rub your nose in it. The funniest part to me is that they are filling up stadiums in every city. These people are paying tons of money to go see a concert that they know is going to suck...nuts.

@jackih9682

9 ай бұрын

John 5 plays Mick’s solos note for note because that’s all he knows how to do. He’s good at copying other people’s playing.

Motley Crue was never good live, but now they are absolute trash. John 5 is jumping into the coffin just before the nails get pounded in.