European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Conte to question the boys Vince Nett top stent Intel Fly to the fans sometimes of Tho Tell questions while Tommy Lee and Nim six Middle try their Best to Anmer them. After the quiet Ken and answer session fans fined up for autographs Bottom. The Molly Crue new year s evil parly pc null with a Quot lion and answer session set up in press conference style while he four Cruc members Sal Side by Side at a lab flanked by bodyguards do the from of the room the fans shouted questions from their scaly some of the questions were serious and others were Well a Little bit off the Wall resulting in a Tot of Hoo in and Hollerl and a generally riotous atmosphere american fans turned out to be More vocal than their German counterparts Noi hesitating to ask whatever sprung to mind. A number of fans were interested in marital status question Vince do you have a Girlfriend Vince i got a lot of pm. Q is Mick Mars really married Mack no i was divorced on new year s eve. Q Tommy Are you still dating Heather lock car Tommy yeah sorry no word on Nikki s Slat us some fans were curious about the band s background q How Ion did you Jam together be arc you formed melt Ley Crue Tommy we formed it in 1981, we were All in different bands before that playing All Over los Angeles. Q How did you get the name Motley Crue Nikki it was milk. Mick yeah look at me and you can Tell who s Motley. Actually i was playing in a top 40 band in la. And my old Bass player said wow this certainly is a Motley looking  i wrote it Down Back in 1977 and just kept hanging on to the name because i knew term was going to come Aboul some Day. Q was t you re first album released on your own record Label Nikul that was Leathur records. No record company wanted to sign Motley Crue so we released too fast or love on our own record Label. We used to walk around and put it in record stores so that people could gel the album. We had a lot of fans just in los Angeles. When we were a Young band we played up to 3,000-, 4,000-scat places but we could t get a record Deal. Other fans were concerned about the band s present and future q Why d you change from studs to More flashy clothes Nikki on every album we be changed our looks somewhat. Right now the look we have on stage is not less Radical 1 think it s a Little More decadent. The thing is with a Tley Crue we Don t really feel we have to look any Way. I think our music s More important than anything. On theatre of pain we really put a lot of work into the musicianship and we re getting recognition for it. It makes us feel Good. Q Are you planning on releasing a live album Nikki Jailhouse Rock was recorded ail through America and that s going to be on the next album live for sure. And there might be another Cut that might be live. But we re not planning on releasing a live album yet. We Are recording shows Well or Bably be recording some shows Here in Germany and the rest of Europe As Well. Still others were curious about Motley Cruc s current european tour q How much of your . Stage show did you i Trinh Lor the Gorman Lour Vince we just brought the drum Riser. The set s so big in America because the Halls arc so much bigger that we just could t bring the whole thing Over Here. So we built a scaled Down version of the . Sot. It s still pretty Cool. Q what songs arc you playing on your German tour Nikki we re playing stuff from All three albums live wire from the first album a lot of material from shout at the Devil and an equal amount from theatre of pain. And one other song Jailhouse rack. Some relevant question were asked a what do you think of the Rock Lyric censorship Issue Elk Al what s going to happen is that they re going to Start Labelling records and Start telling new bands what they can sing about and what they can look like not bands like a Tley Crue or twisted sister or the larger hard Rock bands because we be already got the Power. Q what about the people who say Rock lyrics have negative effect on the kids Nikki i think the kids see the lyrics As someone expressing himself and his own lifestyle and experiences. 1 think the kids Are a lot More intelligent than the parents and other people give them credit for. The Pyrc parents music resource Center made Motley Crue a household name by continuing to bring it up on american television. Everybody knows who Motley Crue is now. The Pyrc sold More records for us than anybody. It kind of backfired on them. The bulk of the questions concerned general human interest topics q what do you think of Iron Maiden Nikki we like them. We travelled with them for two months on tour and they re Good friends of ours. I like their music and they re Good Guys As Well. They know How to party q where d you get the idea to write ten seconds to love Nikki what do you think q How do you like German Beer Niksch it s great Good stuff q Why Aren t you dressed in your costumes and makeup for the party Nikki that s for stage. Right now we re ust us just hanging out. It s not like we run around in our costumes that sounds like something kiss used to do. That s Noi us. Q what s your advice for Young bands Nikki basically Slick to your guns. Don t sell out. Don t do anything that anyone else wants you to a. Just keep doing what you do and eventually if what you re doing is out of fashion if you keep doing it Long enough it la make a full Cycle and come Back. Then you la be at the forefront. That s basically what happened to us. There was no hard Rock n Roll when we started. Then All of a sudden when we were signed Here were Rock bands coming out of . And a heavy Metal scene coming out of England. If we had Cut off our hair and become a new wave band just to get gigs Back then we would have sold out ourselves sold out the fans and also not been where we re at today. Finally a woman in the audience who could t have been a Day Over go expressed her great pleasure with the due s music and asked do you also have fans in America who Are my age said Nikki All right you Betl january 23, 7386 stripes nut zone