Motley Crue have officially announced ‘The Final Tour,’ a 72-date farewell trek across the U.S. and Canada that will feature Alice Cooper as their special guest. The band is expected to spend the next two years circling the globe before hanging it up for good.
In keeping with the ‘R.I.P.’ theme, the Crue showed up for the event in a hearse, were greeted at the venue by a New Orleans jazz funeral band playing ‘Dr. Feelgood’ and sat behind tombstones with their names on them at the press conference.
To prove that this isn’t just a temporary measure, with the band or some fraction thereof returning in a few years for a big comeback tour, the group signed a formal “Cessation of Touring Agreement” in front of reporters, which apparently states that all four members agree never to tour again as Motley Crue — unless they all agree to do so.
So . . . doesn’t that mean they could just all agree to come back later? “You guys in the press, you keep looking for the loophole,” laughed bassist Nikki Sixx. “We’re gonna stick to our word.” As for the prospects of a final Motley Crue album, he would only say, “You’ll just have to see.”
Dodge will promote the tour and continue to use the band’s song ‘Kickstart My Heart’ in a series of television advertisements. Director Jeff Tremaine (‘Jackass,’ ‘Bad Grandpa‘) was also on hand to promise that his film version of the band’s infamous biography ‘The Dirt’ will finally hit theaters in 2015, explaining that “our goal is to be shooting it this summer if all things go right.”
There will also be a Motley Crue country tribute record from Big Machine, the record label home to Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts and Taylor Swift. That album is expected to arrive this summer.
Cooper was also on hand and seems excited to tour with his theatrical-rock offspring for the first time. “Real hard rock bands are hard to find these days,” he said in a written statement. “Motley has always gone onstage with one attitude, and that’s to blow the audience away. That’s exactly how we do it. Putting Motley Crue and Alice Cooper together is going to be just what this summer really needs.”
At the press conference, the father of shock-rock also took a moment to gleefully mock modern alt-rock bands: “If your band has an accordion or a banjo in it, it’s not rock, OK? When you get Motley Crue and Alice Cooper together on a tour — that’s gonna be rock at its most extreme.”
Fonte: UltimateClassicRock
