See Motley Crue Walk Down Memory Lane at the Roxy: Photos

Motley Crue took a stroll down reminiscence lane this week with their “Hollywood Takeover,” a sequence of membership exhibits on Los Angeles’ Sundown Strip the place they bought their begin greater than 40 years in the past.

The stunt took the hard-living rockers to the Troubadour on Oct. 7, the Roxy on Oct. 9 and the Whisky a Go Go on Oct. 11. You’ll be able to see images from their Roxy efficiency under.

From the start, Motley Crue knew make an entrance and captivate an viewers with over-the-top stunts, together with lighting bassist Nikki Sixx on hearth. They continued this pattern for his or her first Hollywood Takeover present when a rubbish truck deposited them on the road exterior the Troubadour earlier than a crowd of a number of hundred followers.

“It was all about music, and placing on the most important present ever,” Sixx instructed Basic Rock in 2020. “From the get-go we have all the time been about vogue and melody and songs and power onstage. There’s actually early movies of us taking part in the Starwood Membership in ’81 and we’re giving 150%, and that was proper in the midst of new wave, everybody was shaking their heads and doing little handclaps. We did not say ‘we’re gonna be totally different,’ we simply had been.”

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Motley Crue’s New Music and Vegas 2025 Plans

Motley Crue simply launched a three-song EP titled Cancelled and will carry out on Sunday at Aftershock pageant in Sacramento, California, for his or her final at present scheduled present of the yr. They will decide again up in late March for his or her third Las Vegas residency, consisting of 11 exhibits at Dolby Reside at Park MGM.

“Motley Crue and Las Vegas have all the time been the right mixture of extravagance and decadence,” the band stated in a shared assertion. “We have all the time liked the concept of the Vegas residency, as a result of we have all the time liked the concept of staying in a single location to construct a novel present for the followers. We’re excited to get into rehearsals and work up quite a lot of songs which were requested by the followers for years.”