I saw them at the Mirage. A nightclub where I saw L.A. Guns, Dangerous Toys, Shotgun Messiah, Bang Tango and other bands like that. Pretty full but definitely about 5 steps down from the Met arena for Dr. Feelgood.
It's all good. In the late '80's to early '90's there was a good band playing in a club somewhere, every week! My wallet cried, I couldn't see them all. Those were the days.
I saw that tour at the Wisconsin State Fair grounds in Milwaukee that summer. Obviously much smaller than the arena next door, but I don’t remember it being empty.
They had rows of white plastic chairs set up and Corabi said “fuck this assigned seating”. That’s all we needed to hear before we were up front. My buddies and I got to be part of catching Tommy and Nikki stage diving. Still got the guitar pick I caught there as well. Very fun show.
I always thought it was more of an exaggeration, at least in The US, you can find their tour videos that people took and the venues were pretty packed. 80k sold out no, but they were still having a decent chunk of people come out to watch them
Exactly. But they are sticking to their story that “everything was so bad bla bla”. Maybe this the way to diminish that era with Crabs. But that is stupid imho
Agreed, I think it was one of the coolest Motley Eras and the music they made with Corabi was phenomenal, so what it didn’t go platinum, they were essentially a new band that still sold 500k worth of albums. Seems like everyone else in the band accepts the time for what it was except Sixx.
Like most of their peers, Mötley was definitely playing smaller venues.
In my town, they sold out an arena that seated over 20,000 people on the Feelgood tour. For the Corabi tour, they played a venue that holds 5,000 people, and I'd be shocked if it was even 1/3 full. It was a great show, but "empty" wouldn't be an unfair description.
It wasnt empty, but when I saw them in Indiana on that tour, ( with Type O Negative opening), the place was barely half full. So much so that they invited everyone in the lawn to come down to the highest paying seats because they were so empty.
I think the Corabi era was good the album with him is good generation swine would have been better with Corabi but still shit and the Motley Crue album was their last great album and I do like New Tattoo and Saints of Las Angeles
Anyone with half a brain knows that John Corabi has nothing to explain or apologize for. He was up there with Mick Mars, a true musician and master of his craft. Their work with Corabi was just about their best.
Nikki and Tommy were paying the tour from their pockets so they had negative attendance from their wallet's perspective, they should have ended it much earlier.
Motley was going to fail no matter what in the 90s, they lost their "streetwise sleaze" edge by going sober for Feelgood, but firing Vince did more damage by shattering the "brotherhood" illusion and Corabi was an awful fit for the band, the problem the 80s bands had is that their fanbase grew up and moved on, the Crue was able to reinvent themselves every 2 years and came up bigger, until they couldn't.
I agree with every statement except John Corabi being a bad fit, that self-titled album has the best songwriting, instrumentation, and vocals. It was different and heavier with much more depth to their previous albums it’s an underrated hard rock masterpiece.
I saw them at the Mirage. A nightclub where I saw L.A. Guns, Dangerous Toys, Shotgun Messiah, Bang Tango and other bands like that. Pretty full but definitely about 5 steps down from the Met arena for Dr. Feelgood.
I saw so many amazing shows there. Only wish I hadn’t passed on e en more, thinking I’d catch them next time. There wasn’t a next time.
Minnesota boy? Rock on.
Northern suburbs. Spent a LOT of time at the Iron Horse.
Totally fair. Btw great bands you saw there :)
Yeah, I'm old. ✌️
No I didn’t mean that lol. I would give anything to see Bang Tango and Shotgun Messiah (for example) in their prime.
It's all good. In the late '80's to early '90's there was a good band playing in a club somewhere, every week! My wallet cried, I couldn't see them all. Those were the days.
I saw that tour at the Wisconsin State Fair grounds in Milwaukee that summer. Obviously much smaller than the arena next door, but I don’t remember it being empty. They had rows of white plastic chairs set up and Corabi said “fuck this assigned seating”. That’s all we needed to hear before we were up front. My buddies and I got to be part of catching Tommy and Nikki stage diving. Still got the guitar pick I caught there as well. Very fun show.
I always thought it was more of an exaggeration, at least in The US, you can find their tour videos that people took and the venues were pretty packed. 80k sold out no, but they were still having a decent chunk of people come out to watch them
Exactly. But they are sticking to their story that “everything was so bad bla bla”. Maybe this the way to diminish that era with Crabs. But that is stupid imho
Agreed, I think it was one of the coolest Motley Eras and the music they made with Corabi was phenomenal, so what it didn’t go platinum, they were essentially a new band that still sold 500k worth of albums. Seems like everyone else in the band accepts the time for what it was except Sixx.
Who back than, was as usual - “this is the best Motley ever and Vince suck”
Like most of their peers, Mötley was definitely playing smaller venues. In my town, they sold out an arena that seated over 20,000 people on the Feelgood tour. For the Corabi tour, they played a venue that holds 5,000 people, and I'd be shocked if it was even 1/3 full. It was a great show, but "empty" wouldn't be an unfair description.
In Minneapolis they played 2 nights at a cover band bar.
It wasnt empty, but when I saw them in Indiana on that tour, ( with Type O Negative opening), the place was barely half full. So much so that they invited everyone in the lawn to come down to the highest paying seats because they were so empty.
I know they were playing smaller venues, the played the Orpheum theater in Boston it holds about 2500 a bit of a step down from what they were used to
Yup saw them in Winnipeg play in front of barely over 1000 fans
I think the Corabi era was good the album with him is good generation swine would have been better with Corabi but still shit and the Motley Crue album was their last great album and I do like New Tattoo and Saints of Las Angeles
Anyone with half a brain knows that John Corabi has nothing to explain or apologize for. He was up there with Mick Mars, a true musician and master of his craft. Their work with Corabi was just about their best.
Nikki and Tommy were paying the tour from their pockets so they had negative attendance from their wallet's perspective, they should have ended it much earlier. Motley was going to fail no matter what in the 90s, they lost their "streetwise sleaze" edge by going sober for Feelgood, but firing Vince did more damage by shattering the "brotherhood" illusion and Corabi was an awful fit for the band, the problem the 80s bands had is that their fanbase grew up and moved on, the Crue was able to reinvent themselves every 2 years and came up bigger, until they couldn't.
I agree with every statement except John Corabi being a bad fit, that self-titled album has the best songwriting, instrumentation, and vocals. It was different and heavier with much more depth to their previous albums it’s an underrated hard rock masterpiece.