The set list ran through most of the group’s classics - “Dr.
Musically, Mötley Crüe - rounded out by the band’s straight man of a guitarist, 71-year-old Mick Mars - was an absolute mess (in a fun way), with squalling riffs over pummeling beats that made Neil’s screeching vocals almost impossible to discern as anything beyond more noise. “They took ’em down from Instagram, so you guys wanna see my wiener?” he asked - Lee’s setup, it turned out, for a sight gag in which he pulled a small dachshund puppy out of his pants. At one point, Lee came out from behind his drum kit to share a few rambling thoughts about a nude selfie he posted this month while “drunk as f-,” as he put it, in Bora Bora. Indeed, there was a proudly unreconstructed quality to Mötley Crüe, which promised to break up after a 2015 farewell tour only to reunite in conjunction with Netflix’s 2019 adaptation of the group’s salacious memoir, “The Dirt.” (The endless Mötley mythologizing continued this year with Hulu’s “ Pam & Tommy,” about drummer Tommy Lee’s eventful relationship with Pamela Anderson.)Īt SoFi, images of naked women gyrated in silhouette on a video screen behind the band, just like in the good old days two enormous female-shaped inflatables eventually came to life to complete the horny tableau. “We’ll do something to help you feel real f-ing old.” That was his cue for the title track from Mötley’s 1981 debut, “Too Fast for Love,” and the huge cheer that went up in the building let you understand that here, at least, age was a badge of honor.
“Who likes the old s-?” Mötley Crüe’s frontman, Vince Neil, asked not long into the band’s set Saturday. But working together to pack stadiums with their overlapping audiences, the bands offer reassurance that the traditions of yore haven’t died in an era when music’s most visible rock star is Harry Styles. Individually, these acts would be hard-pressed to fill a space like SoFi or Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, where the months-long road show is set to wrap next week after raking in an average of $5 million a night, according to the trade journal Pollstar.
(Officially, Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard take turns headlining, though one presumes organizers started with Mötley’s position atop the L.A.
“This is exactly like the towel I gave your mom in 1987.”Ĭonstancy - and strength in numbers - is the concept behind the so-called Stadium Tour, which packages Mötley Crüe with two fellow survivors of ’80s pop metal, Def Leppard and Poison, as well as Joan Jett, who laid important groundwork in the mid-’70s for all the glammed-up guys to come. “Long way from the Sunset Strip,” Nikki Sixx said as he took in his surroundings, and that was certainly true enough: Instead of the Roxy or Gazzarri’s or one of the other sweaty West Hollywood nightclubs in which his band Mötley Crüe made its name, the 63-year-old bassist was peering out at the cavernous expanse of Inglewood’s gleaming SoFi Stadium, where Mötley Crüe touched down Saturday night for a hometown stop on the group’s latest tour.Īs he addressed the tens of thousands of fans before him, Sixx was interrupted - or at least he pretended to be - by a young woman near the stage trying to get his attention.
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