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 The Arizona Republic reports that after stunning the music industry in 2005 by reuniting and staging one of the most successful concert tours of that year, the rejuvenated Motley Crüe has not slowed down.
The '80s glam-metal pioneers, who bring their Crüe Fest to Phoenix on Thursday, have signed a reported $100 million deal with global music giant Live Nation to record and tour for another decade.
The band's new album, Saints of Los Angeles, finds it playing the slick, nasty rock of its heyday and looking back on the days that Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars ruled Los Angeles' Sunset Strip.
Singer Neil, 47, called with an update on the band and this year's tour, which teams the Crüe with Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Sixx:A.M. and Trapt.
QUESTION: Motley Crüe is in classic form on the new album. Was it fun to look back on the '80s musically?
ANSWER: It's got a great sound, the songs are all fun. There's a lot of memorable stuff in those songs.
Q: The album has some parallels to your band's autobiography (2001's The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band). Why did it take seven years to record it?
A: When we started writing songs, we started going by things with the book. But it wasn't like we sat out and said. "Now we're going to write an album about the book." It just kind of happened.
Q: Down At the Whisky recalls the days when you owned the stage of the Whisky A Go Go. Do you ever drive up the Strip to reminisce?
A: I have homes Las Vegas and San Francisco. When I recorded and (during) rehearsals I have to live in L.A . So you drive by that stuff. It's still there. I go in the Rainbow (Bar and Grill) once in a while and have dinner. That place hasn't changed.
Q: You seem to have as much energy as ever onstage.
A: Playing live, you feed off the audience. You just out there and rock . I don't feel any older when I'm onstage. We could be playing Whisky A Go Go, for all I know.
Q: Has the recording process changed through the years?
A: With technology these days, you don't really go to a recording studio and sit around like you see in the movies. This record, I never even saw the guys in the band. I did all my vocals at the producer's house.
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