@@MrGuitarFera It was freaking awesome! It was my 1st concert without my parents. I was 15 with 3 of my best friends. We rocked OUT!! I still remember the chills I had when Crue started playing! 👍
@@johnnyrotten5507 It was Canada most likely. Iron Maiden did a warmup Canadian tour and then came down into the western states thru to California, however by that time Axl's voice was so shot so they had LA Guns open for the last few shows as long as the other members of GNR were on stage with them.
@@oscarpatino9571 Angus is good right up there with the best and Slash he really is just awful and for the life of me I can't understand why after all these years I'm still listening to him.
It’s funny seeing people talk about certain members of such famous bands and talking shit. Music isn’t about being super complicated. Music is expression plain and simple. There’s a reason GN’R are recognized as greats all around the world. Why do you think it is the most technical guitarists aren’t that popular in music? It’s a super niche thing. Most people won’t sit and listen to the likes of Govan, Vai, Satriani, Gilbert, Beck, etc. Everyone is a critic but man you people sound so utterly fucking ignorant when you say “this person sucks, there’s way better musicians.” It’s all purely subjective.
Guns were and still are a Huge band, playing stadiums!. To many from this era, Guns are their Stones and Zeppelin!.. As much as I love the Crue, they became a much bigger band than Motley ever was and sold more albums, even though they only put out a few.. Guns were huge way into the 90's when 80's bands couldn't sell out a phone booth!..
Bill Bailey was the shotgun in the foot that stalled them! When they were at their biggest!!!.... he was costing then thousands! His neapolitan attitude is why even SLASH LEFT when he FORCEFULLY brought Paul in and fired Sorum. Drugs brought the Crüe down?.... Ol Billy brought down G'n'R
My very first concert. Nov 10 1987. My 14th birthday. Never heard of GnR before but loved Motley Crue. Left the show with GnR Lies and Appetite cassette tapes and two concert shirts . My buddy caught a Tommy Lee drumstick and traded it for a Guess leather jacket. Tommy was flipping his drum set. What a night.
As a teenager in the 80s I thought groups like Bon Jovi, Poison and Motley Crue were awful. Girls in my class liked those groups. GnR on the other hand I respected as a real rock group.
Motley Crue didn't exactly appeal to girls on their first two albums. Not until Theater of Pain. Plus who else but girls would/did you want to party with in High school?
@@johngill2853 Dude I grew up on Sunset in the 80s....... they were appealing to chicks their very first show. I saw them at the Whisky MANY TIMES before they were famous. Even partied at their apartment...(That part of The Dirt is 100% true.) They pulled ALL the girls. The more chicks THEY attracted to the shows, the more my buddies and I got laid too. After shows was an orgy.....no shit... Good times. It's a miracle I'm still alive.
Of those you named, Poison was BY FAR the best live act....and proved it again during the Summer Tour as they blew everyone else off stage. Look, I don;t like Poison, but they are better than most live. Guns was good live too in their prime.
I saw them a couple of times back in the 90s before Vince's voice went, and they were AMAZING! I also saw Vince on his one & only "Solo Tour" & his voice was still intact then. His cover band did a great job. However, I've seen them probably 6 or 7 times since Vince's voice "Shit the Bed", & there is just NO COMPARISON. Yes, the rest of the band still sounds AMAZING, bit VN, just can't sing a lick anymore. I'm a big Crüe fan, so I continued to go to the shows, but it was pretty sad really...
Really how was the sound nice and clear sounded like he album come on man maybe had some good shows that dude can't play bass and Vince couldn't and can't sing
@@alanwoodwind5265 Bullshit! You never heard him on the "Dr. Feelgood" Tour when everyone was sober. I saw that tour twice & 'Ol Vince sounded FUCKING AMAZING & so did the rest of the band! Those two shows were sonic masterpieces in term of musicality! I also saw Vince open for "VanHagar" on his one & only solo tour. He was supporting his album "Exposed" & his voice was just as good then as it was on the two previous shows I saw. I'm not sure if he was still sober or not. The "cover band" he'd chosen to play Motley's hits was absolutely amazing! It was just like seeing a MC show. VanHagar sucked of course, but I've never really liked VanHagar 😆...
I saw Motley and Faster Pussy Cat in Feb 1990. Was a damn good show and being a big Motley fan if they were unable to perform well I would have known in a heart beat. They sounded great and the show was tight.
I remember when Guns N' Roses opened for Motley Crue here in Chattanooga it was November 21, 1987, my15th birthday... I didn't get to go sadly, but i heard from friends that did go that most of Motley Crue were wasted and in no shape to perform ( especially Nikki ) & that GnR was the better band in every way which was later confirmed by the local rock station KZ106
I somewhat remember the Girls,Girls,Girls concert here in OKC and I could've swore WhiteSnake opened for them, or might have been Winger...definitely not GNR
Oh man this is in my wheelhouse. Humor me for a moment if you will. I had just turned 14 years old, and my favorite band in the world was Motley Crue, who had released Girls, Girls, Girls, and were the biggest thing on the planet. So when word came that they were coming to Charlotte in November of 1987, I was in. It was Motley Crue and some band nobody had ever heard of called Guns N Roses. I ended up going with 2 chicks, friends of mine, one of which had a mom who worked as a DJ at a local radio station, and scored us amazing seats right right by the side of the stage. It was my first rock concert, and I was buzzing with anticipation. Then the lights went out, the crowd erupted, and my whole world was about to change. Guns N Roses took the stage like a hurricane. They fucking EXPLODED. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. They looked like cartoon characters! The energy was ecstatic, and Axl was something to behold. He owned that stage. They blew every circuit in my little teenage mind. It was everything great rock and roll should be, and then some. My ass never hit the seat the whole time they played. Then Motley Crue took the stage, and I must confess, I was quite underwhelmed after seeing Guns N Roses. There wasn't anywhere near the energy, the attitude, or the raw grit GNR had put on magnificent display. It seemed almost hollow by comparison, and looking back, it makes sense, as they were fat and sassy on their third headlining world tour, and GNR were HUNGRY and on the uptake. Guns N Roses blew Motley Crue off the stage, and it wasn't even close. I ended up sitting down for a while, almost bored at the comparison. When I got home, my little brother, another Crue fan, was up waiting on me, excited, wearing his little Motley Crue shirt he got at Carowinds with the sleeves cut out, and upon sight said, "SO...HOW WAS MOTLEY CRUE?" I said "DUDE, there's this band Guns N Roses..." and went on a tirade about how great they were, how they were my favorite band in the world, and he just stood there looking at me, completely confused. It was like the veritable meteor crashing into the earth. Changed everything for me. Made me pickup a guitar, which in time made me become a musician. It was AMAZING.
Crue paid it forward and did was for Guns what they felt Ozzy had done for them. As a thanks, D-Bag Izzy hits on and then physically KICKS Vince Neil's wife at the time. Because she was upset and rejected the idea of having Sex with him. Grow UP, people!!!
I saw guns open up for iron maidens 7th son tour……the next day I walked into a coffee shop and slash and duff (I think it was duff) were walking out…..slash asked me for a cigarette….lol….I told him I didn’t smoke and kept on walking……you must remember that guns weren’t well known back then but I certainly recall that it was slash….lol….I met slash 20 years later but this time I stayed for a few words!!!
Small correction: I was at the Atlanta show. A fan approached the stage with some roses and the security stopped her. Axel got pissed and said "No one fucks with my fans!" and jumped into the crowd. All I saw was fists flying. They handcuffed Axel and marched him out of the arena. The band played Zeppelin covers for 45 mins. So, no, the cops didn't arrest him onstage. He even says later he dove into the barricade area. This was the second show the GGG tour played in Atlanta. 11/22/1987
Slash said he used to camp outside a recording studio where Crue was recording hoping to catch Nikki n his cocaine encrusted cronies live. But now GnR is way way way bigger, better n, once Izzy comes back, will come up with the best Hard Rocking album of all time.
Lol Izzy's not coming back bro... Plus Richard Fortus is a much better guitarist imo.. Izzy just wants the cash grab. Axl, Duff & Slash are doing it by heart.
I was at the '87 Atlanta show. GNR lasted about twenty minutes before Axel lost his mind and tried to fight half of Atlanta's finest. Slash tried to get the audience to tear the place up so they would let his singer back up on stage but it didn't work. They played "Communication Breakdown" with roadie on vocals and called it a night shortly after that. Me and my buddies were a little pissed cause we were as fired up about seeing Guns as much or more than seeing the Crue. All in all good time was had by all. Go Dawgs!
I saw the G&R show in St.louis and let tell ya, the crowd tore riverport Amphitheatre the fuck up... Its on the interweb when axl was a little bitch cus someone in the crowd had a camera and was taking his picture. To this day, i still fuckin hate axl for that...
Watching that interview even though they were kind of wasted you could Tell Slash could still get his point across and made the point that his grandma was not someone to mess with. I actually thought it was a pretty decent interview cush words and all they were being honest and genuine. Duff seemed very smart and kind of the most likeable out of all the members.
This is why I have been saying for a gazillion years that the Crue is the most misunderstood and most underrated rock band in ages. They had WAY MORE in common with Gn'R and their look and attitude than all these phony LA bands like Poison and whatever. Slash knew Nikki for ages. Slash talks about in his book and in Nikki's "The Heroin Diaries" how Van Halen and the Crue were the only LA bands he liked. Gn'R actually looked up to the Crue, and as it turned out, where less wild the Crue were.
Slash also played in London. The band Nikki and his friends created before Mötley was formed. When Nikki quit London and became famous, Slash played in London as a guitarist and also quit when he found the GNR guys
This guy gets a lot of things wrong in these videos. It makes me angry bc so many people get their info from channels like this and he is putting out incorrect info.🤦🤦
I’d loved to seen these bands back in the day, I’ve heard great things about Mötley Crüe live back in the day, not so much these days. Guns N’ Roses I heard they were awesome also if they showed up not to wasted, a buddy said the worst thing he saw was Guns on tour with Aerosmith, but later shows he loved. He also let a young guy like me, that these guys, Kiss, Def Leppard and Aerosmith were the best shows he’s seen, but Bon Jovi was in the 80’s was his all time favorite
Oh you missed an amazing generation. I have stories for days. I was a teenager in the 80's. There were literally concerts every weekend (3 huge old school photo albums full of ticket stubs to shown for it) I lost count. I saw most more than once.... like The Crue, scorpions , AC/DC, Aerosmith, GNR, quiet riot, Nugent, ratt, riot, ozzy, Cinderella (dont laugh), dio, poison, Y&T, whitesnake, Boston, Dokken, metallica, quiet riot, poison, damn I can't even remember them all . (Aerosmith I have seen 11 times and ac/dc 8 times). Lucky enough to see queen once. Then comes foreigner, foghat, Billy squire (again dont laugh), van Halen, kid rock, Jimmy page and Robert plant (separately of course.. Too young to have seen my dream show ZEPPELIN)!!! I could just keep listing bands but I guess my point is I can't think of any I "didn't" see!! Lol Some crazy stories too.. Rudy sarzo from Quiet Riot, they played Rocky Point Park here in RI, asked me out for a drink after (I was 15) and said no. (Yeah yeah yeah)... took my phone number from my friend and called me 4 times in 3 days. I wouldn't talk to him. Lol. Most bands really did have roadies that walked around handing out backstage passes to the girls they found cute. I was offered so many times..... smart to enough and always refused (with the exception of bon Jovi and Ted nugent) because when I was 13 a friend of my sister, a couple of years older than me, got on the bus with van Halen (in Rhode Island) and ended up out in Montana.... no way home.. lol. And never did find out just her happened. I was smart enough not to be a "groupie".... but just a huge fan!! Best time? Ted Nugent pulled me up on stage in Connecticut as he sang "little miss dangerass" THOSE WERE THER DAMN DAYS! WE may have dressed crazy... used way to much aqua net and definitely too much makeup.. but DAMN WE HAD FUN!!! Ps.... blessed to have seen Def Leppard 5 times. 2 times pre Rick Allen arm loss and 3 times after. I will always respect that band for not even considering replacing him!! (I saw them again about 4 years ago and still amazing show...just a little slower pace)
I know, I missed out on a lot and it’s cool that you got to experience all that. I saw Aerosmith back in 2013 or 2014 at the Greenbrier Classic and it was amazing, they put on a incredible show, and was easily the best concert I’ve seen
@@zacharydotson383 wow. Sorry. I didnt realize I wrote a whole book for a comment 🤣 I just get going down memory lane.!! And yes! I saw Aerosmith again that tour. They were great. They may not have the same energy level as they did 30 years ago but they still got it!! Good for you!!
Def Leppard is way better than Motley Crue. In the studio and live😂 plus Def Leppard as a contributing BAND never let ego get in the way of the job. In that aspect they are stronger than Crue and Guns😂
Though I will say, all bands put out shite albums post ‘93 like most 80s predominant rock bands.. I’ll take all of them over Bon Jovi though. Fuck Bon Jovi lol
I was at that concert in Lakeland Florida when GNR opened up for Motley crew. Met Axel rose and he was extremely nice to me, he signed my ticket we talked about Indiana because I'm from Indiana and he was very pleasant he excused himself. He said he said he wanna go smoke some weed.
Man, those were the days when through year old RS n other magazines we learned about the fight between Vince n Izzy n how Axl stood up for his Indiana friend ( no internet in 89-90 in Mizoram, India).
I still regret not being able to go to the Lakeland show. I remember my friend Michelle, who was my friends younger sister, and a devout Motley Crue fan, (she would sketch their portraits, meet them back stage to get their autographs, and they would keep them) told me about this band Guns n' Roses that she thought I would really like, boy was she right!! Found them on MTV about a week later, and have been a diehard fan ever since!!...iiii]; )'...
Whitesnake DID open for Motley on the Girls, Girls, Girls tour... at least for a few stops. I know. I saw the show in Phoenix and thought the order should have been flipped. Coverdale and friends nailed it. The only thing about Crue that stood out for me was Tommy's wild drum solo.
Michael Burns saw it in Worcester ma. Crues dr feel good songs were amazing in comparison to prior albums ...saw them again in honolulu even better in small arena headlining
Whitesnake is a real, veteran arena rock band from the days of Deep Purple and true hard rock giants any version of Whitesnake could outperform Motley Crue on stage. Tommy Aldridge's original band BOA could outplay Motley Crue
GNR was kind of different to contemporary hair band like Crue or Poison. They opposed big hair, make up, spikes or other metal bullshit of the day. They even bring back the classic gears to their stage performance such Les Paul and Gretsch falcon instead Kramer or Jacksons V, minimize drums kit instead of Van Halen'is busy drum kit that favourite among the hairbands, they really starts a new trend of metal.
His bandanas hairstyles come from Ian Atsbury of Cult I think (I don't know Hanoi Rocks). Slash were Led Zep inspired, the rest of the band were punks.@@drugstorecowboy6540
Steven had a monster kit at first, but the others hid some of his drums. Can't remember why. So, Steven didn't have a scaled-down kit by choice, at first!!! Lol! I think he made the most of it and learned to dig it, eventually.
I watched from 3rd row center at the Hollywood Sportatorium as Crue's Roadies climbed the ladders up into the light rigs with Peperidge Farm gold fish bags in their hands wondering WTF they were doing.. Slash wasn't joking about it taking a week to get all that flour out of his hair.. I'll never forget that as long as I live...
I saw the final show at the Hollywood Sportatorium. I remember the flour incident and Duff climbing on Nikki's shoulders and them walking around the stage. Oh and the guy in front of me throwing up half the night...
While growing up, we really saw Motley as hillbilly rock, GNR were really revolutionary in taking rock grom the 70's into the 80s and saving the scene....
Ahh! Those were the days! Oh how I wish the bands of today could be as wild and crazy as Guns and Mötley were. Now everybody is so fucking wimpy and afraid to "offend" anybody. Sheesh! Are we adolts or cry babies!?
The Iron Force These are standard photos that could be found in music mags such as Circus, Hit Parader, RIP, and Metal Edge. 80's and early-late 90's. There were plenty more titles, as well, but these were the main 4.
Search here for (Sucker For a Pretty Face) by RockCandy, it's a great under rated 80s rock album! Also search here for (Sinful Demo Album 1985) it features Nuno Bettencourt B4 Extreme and Jose Anes B4 RockCandy! Enjoy
Saw the girls tour 87, in providence ri, I was 17 and me and my 2 friends took a train from boston and hitchhiked back to boston after the show, quite adventurous, motley was on fire amazing show, I had seen them on their last 2 tours as well the theartre of pain in lynn mass 85 but in 84 I saw them at the orpheum theartre boston, best show ever the shout at the devil tour with ratt opening up, but the night in providence, whitesnake opened they bored me lame.
The flour... what about when they hiked up G'n'R with pyro so when they kicked into "WELCOME" pyro went off and they looked like skool kids they were sooo happy! Gawddamn mann.... read the Dirt, Heroin Diaries and Slash's book.
The guns n' roses are 15 musicians who turn in4-5 albums of which 3 really valid. they rode the wave of real hair metal bands without risking their own, they started as a support group of the motley crue and copied them : female choirs, blond singer. a cross between poison ,motley crue , skid row. brilliant covers extremely commercial and here are the guns. what movies could you invent? I don't know at all. at most given the "sympathy", a film about "axel and its feuds" with slash, kurt cobain , vince neil, def leppard, etc. etc. after the sex pistols are the "big brother" of rock
Probably a whole different world for Motley to be touring with Whitesnake kind of dull to Guns N Roses party all the time as supporting acts. I wonder how the fans liked this concert tour with 2 great acts. Kind of lucky to be able to see Guns early in there career and Motley on that Girls Tour which is my favorite album of theirs. If anyone saw this tour I would love to hear about it.
Starting at 9:50 there is a pic of slash Tommy Lee and 1 other guy all with their ar.s around each other. Who is the guy in the green hat on our right ... slash and Tommy are obvious... but I can't tell who the 3rd is. .. is that izzy ?
From a distance it's safe, but up close it sucks you in and you might as well be a homeless junkie living day to day in a van. Slash had found a pair of leather pants in a dumpster while they were just starting out. Four years later he was still wearing them. He split those pants on stage in 1991 while playing in Indiana. Drugs and that life style put these guys in a position of grossness that makes you think you can look but you wouldn't want to touch.
If I may ask.. How is that or in what way if I may ask? Musically, not at all. At least I dont hear much resemblance. Motley had done the FTW in your face recording (SATD) and as far as their appearance they pretty much stayed w the girls girls girls leather and tee shirt wardrobe. Not saying youre incorrect just curious to know in what aspect you're referring to. Looking forward to what Im missing here..lol Seriously tho. Very interested to learn what Im over looking here. Thanks
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Oh man I’d LOVE to see them do a GNR movie in that same style as The Dirt
@Igor Capablanca fuck Motley Crue.
I want to see OZZY
The Dark KnightMan stfu fanboy. Enjoy your chipmunk singer
Igor Capablanca wtf? What does that have to with anything
EMB 59932 I feel like you’re trying to hard to be edgy
Guns N Roses opening for Motley Crue god damn I wish I went to one of those concerts
Nov 87 Savannah GA - GNR took the stage to chants of CRUE! CRUE! CRUE! and needless to say we got a big FU! from him. Eventually they played.
Saw GnR open for Crue in Albany, Ga. in 87
@@MMPackers2010 was at that show guns opened with Its So Easy. Ill never forget my ears rand for 2 weeks
And to think now that they are Rock N Roll legends themselves. 🤘🌹💯
I was 18 when I saw that show in New Orleans.
If you watched the movie the dirt. In the movie , the part when Nikki overdosed. If you noticed slash was on the couch.
Yeah I did notice that. I'm thinking that Steve Adler was also in that room in that movie, sitting against a wall.
@@jasonloki yeah I was thinking the same
I told my wife that was Slash and she didn't believe me.
Yeah, they were both there when he ODed.
Yes ! 🤗
Young slash is my favorite person of ALL time
Why because he said he likes a long mic sometimes. Suspect
Cosmic Bro young Axl too. I need never get old!!
G N R ruled the scene in the 80s. Saw them in New Zealand in 2017 & Slash was amazing even doing a Pink Floyd montage.
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@@NZ_Man no they didn’t, motley did. End of storey. From another Nz man
I saw GnR & Motley Crue in December of 1987. ❤👍
How It was??
@@MrGuitarFera It was freaking awesome! It was my 1st concert without my parents. I was 15 with 3 of my best friends. We rocked OUT!! I still remember the chills I had when Crue started playing! 👍
I did too in Huntsville Alabama
My first time seeing GNR was when they opened for Iron Maiden. Awesome concert. It was my first concert.
what city / country was that in please ?
@@johnnyrotten5507 It was Canada most likely. Iron Maiden did a warmup Canadian tour and then came down into the western states thru to California, however by that time Axl's voice was so shot so they had LA Guns open for the last few shows as long as the other members of GNR were on stage with them.
Me too in spokane
That was my first show in Atlanta. I was 11 and bummed that WS wasn't going to be there. GNR killed it
To this day I have never seen an interview were Slash gets cocky about his success he has got to be one of the more humble guitarist out there.
He's Not Even That Good, Angus Is WAY Better
@@oscarpatino9571 Angus is good right up there with the best and Slash he really is just awful and for the life of me I can't understand why after all these years I'm still listening to him.
@@billyclark3707 awful? Your crazy
billy clark he is, and always has been very humble. he is notoriously shy also.
It’s funny seeing people talk about certain members of such famous bands and talking shit. Music isn’t about being super complicated. Music is expression plain and simple. There’s a reason GN’R are recognized as greats all around the world.
Why do you think it is the most technical guitarists aren’t that popular in music? It’s a super niche thing. Most people won’t sit and listen to the likes of Govan, Vai, Satriani, Gilbert, Beck, etc. Everyone is a critic but man you people sound so utterly fucking ignorant when you say “this person sucks, there’s way better musicians.”
It’s all purely subjective.
GNR could have been so much bigger if not for the drugs and alcohol. Axl was so volatile on his own. AFD is one of the best albums of all time.
They could’ve been up there with Zeppelin and the Stones.
Guns were and still are a Huge band, playing stadiums!. To many from this era, Guns are their Stones and Zeppelin!.. As much as I love the Crue, they became a much bigger band than Motley ever was and sold more albums, even though they only put out a few.. Guns were huge way into the 90's when 80's bands couldn't sell out a phone booth!..
@@dgenerated GNR had more talent an creativity. MC was more of a gimmick but NS did write some good lyrics
Right there with stairway way to heaven, and back in black!
Bill Bailey was the shotgun in the foot that stalled them!
When they were at their biggest!!!.... he was costing then thousands! His neapolitan attitude is why even SLASH LEFT when he FORCEFULLY brought Paul in and fired Sorum.
Drugs brought the Crüe down?....
Ol Billy brought down G'n'R
My very first concert. Nov 10 1987. My 14th birthday. Never heard of GnR before but loved Motley Crue. Left the show with GnR Lies and Appetite cassette tapes and two concert shirts . My buddy caught a Tommy Lee drumstick and traded it for a Guess leather jacket. Tommy was flipping his drum set. What a night.
Actually according to Tommy, it was Nikki’s balls on slash’s chin right after Guns’n’roses tried to out party Mötley Crüe
And....these guys are not gay???
@@allencolvin4320 Obviously you lead a sheltered life and have never partied and played pranks on people. What have you got against homosexuality?
@@allencolvin4320 no you are though
@Fred Jimmerson you heard that on Steve Os podcast? That was a great story
As a teenager in the 80s I thought groups like Bon Jovi, Poison and Motley Crue were awful. Girls in my class liked those groups. GnR on the other hand I respected as a real rock group.
Motley Crue didn't exactly appeal to girls on their first two albums. Not until Theater of Pain. Plus who else but girls would/did you want to party with in High school?
Motley Crue and Bon Jovi in the same sentence? What part of the 80s was this?
bon jovi doesn’t belong in this sentence lol they’re way better than every group listed
@@johngill2853 Dude I grew up on Sunset in the 80s....... they were appealing to chicks their very first show. I saw them at the Whisky MANY TIMES before they were famous. Even partied at their apartment...(That part of The Dirt is 100% true.) They pulled ALL the girls. The more chicks THEY attracted to the shows, the more my buddies and I got laid too. After shows was an orgy.....no shit... Good times. It's a miracle I'm still alive.
Of those you named, Poison was BY FAR the best live act....and proved it again during the Summer Tour as they blew everyone else off stage. Look, I don;t like Poison, but they are better than most live. Guns was good live too in their prime.
My first concert was motley cure & guns in 1987 in Atlanta at the civic center..amazing awesome show..I was hooked
Slash: the autobiography is a must read!
I've seen a ton of 80s & 90s bands. Motley put on phenomenal live shows.
I saw them a couple of times back in the 90s before Vince's voice went, and they were AMAZING! I also saw Vince on his one & only "Solo Tour" & his voice was still intact then. His cover band did a great job.
However, I've seen them probably 6 or 7 times since Vince's voice "Shit the Bed", & there is just NO COMPARISON. Yes, the rest of the band still sounds AMAZING, bit VN, just can't sing a lick anymore. I'm a big Crüe fan, so I continued to go to the shows, but it was pretty sad really...
Really how was the sound nice and clear sounded like he album come on man maybe had some good shows that dude can't play bass and Vince couldn't and can't sing
Fuck yeah! I saw Tesla open for Crue. It was an amazing show. I think Firehouse was the very 1st band that opened though.
Vince Neil has never been good live...
@@alanwoodwind5265 Bullshit! You never heard him on the "Dr. Feelgood" Tour when everyone was sober. I saw that tour twice & 'Ol Vince sounded FUCKING AMAZING & so did the rest of the band! Those two shows were sonic masterpieces in term of musicality!
I also saw Vince open for "VanHagar" on his one & only solo tour. He was supporting his album "Exposed" & his voice was just as good then as it was on the two previous shows I saw. I'm not sure if he was still sober or not. The "cover band" he'd chosen to play Motley's hits was absolutely amazing! It was just like seeing a MC show. VanHagar sucked of course, but I've never really liked VanHagar 😆...
I saw Motley and Faster Pussy Cat in Feb 1990. Was a damn good show and being a big Motley fan if they were unable to perform well I would have known in a heart beat. They sounded great and the show was tight.
I remember when Guns N' Roses opened for Motley Crue here in Chattanooga it was November 21, 1987, my15th birthday... I didn't get to go sadly, but i heard from friends that did go that most of Motley Crue were wasted and in no shape to perform ( especially Nikki ) & that GnR was the better band in every way which was later confirmed by the local rock station KZ106
Motley was okay. But man, GNR kicked so much ass that night on there performance. Woah.
I somewhat remember the Girls,Girls,Girls concert here in OKC and I could've swore WhiteSnake opened for them, or might have been Winger...definitely not GNR
Dalton Blair I’m pretty sure that WhiteSnake opened for them a few times Nikki mentioned it in his book. But I read it a while ago so I could be wrong
Yes. It was Whitesnake first part of the tour then GnR
In the dirt, the part where Nikki is at the party, steven adler, duff mckagan and slash were at the party
Oh man this is in my wheelhouse. Humor me for a moment if you will.
I had just turned 14 years old, and my favorite band in the world was Motley Crue, who had released Girls, Girls, Girls, and were the biggest thing on the planet. So when word came that they were coming to Charlotte in November of 1987, I was in. It was Motley Crue and some band nobody had ever heard of called Guns N Roses. I ended up going with 2 chicks, friends of mine, one of which had a mom who worked as a DJ at a local radio station, and scored us amazing seats right right by the side of the stage. It was my first rock concert, and I was buzzing with anticipation.
Then the lights went out, the crowd erupted, and my whole world was about to change. Guns N Roses took the stage like a hurricane. They fucking EXPLODED. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. They looked like cartoon characters! The energy was ecstatic, and Axl was something to behold. He owned that stage. They blew every circuit in my little teenage mind. It was everything great rock and roll should be, and then some. My ass never hit the seat the whole time they played.
Then Motley Crue took the stage, and I must confess, I was quite underwhelmed after seeing Guns N Roses. There wasn't anywhere near the energy, the attitude, or the raw grit GNR had put on magnificent display. It seemed almost hollow by comparison, and looking back, it makes sense, as they were fat and sassy on their third headlining world tour, and GNR were HUNGRY and on the uptake. Guns N Roses blew Motley Crue off the stage, and it wasn't even close. I ended up sitting down for a while, almost bored at the comparison.
When I got home, my little brother, another Crue fan, was up waiting on me, excited, wearing his little Motley Crue shirt he got at Carowinds with the sleeves cut out, and upon sight said, "SO...HOW WAS MOTLEY CRUE?"
I said "DUDE, there's this band Guns N Roses..." and went on a tirade about how great they were, how they were my favorite band in the world, and he just stood there looking at me, completely confused. It was like the veritable meteor crashing into the earth. Changed everything for me. Made me pickup a guitar, which in time made me become a musician. It was AMAZING.
thanks for sharing!
@@RockNRollTrueStories2 No problem! Thanks for this gold mine of GNR content!
Nice story mate!
⚡🎸 *love it* 🎸⚡
I snuck off there to see them myself. Barely 13 and got into so much trouble when I got home but it was so worth it!
I too occasionally go on a verbal plectrum of curse words
"They took us in like proud parents and...... gave us all the cocaine and heroin a kid could dream of"
haha pretty much
I caught that too lol
Crue paid it forward and did was for Guns what they felt Ozzy had done for them. As a thanks, D-Bag Izzy hits on and then physically KICKS Vince Neil's wife at the time. Because she was upset and rejected the idea of having Sex with him. Grow UP, people!!!
As well as all the 🐱🐱🐱that they could dream of!!! 🤪😝🤘🤩
🤣😂
I saw guns open up for iron maidens 7th son tour……the next day I walked into a coffee shop and slash and duff (I think it was duff) were walking out…..slash asked me for a cigarette….lol….I told him I didn’t smoke and kept on walking……you must remember that guns weren’t well known back then but I certainly recall that it was slash….lol….I met slash 20 years later but this time I stayed for a few words!!!
@GuitarGeek72 absolutely…..He signed my les paul for me and had a little chat…..cool guy for sure
Small correction: I was at the Atlanta show. A fan approached the stage with some roses and the security stopped her. Axel got pissed and said "No one fucks with my fans!" and jumped into the crowd. All I saw was fists flying. They handcuffed Axel and marched him out of the arena. The band played Zeppelin covers for 45 mins. So, no, the cops didn't arrest him onstage. He even says later he dove into the barricade area. This was the second show the GGG tour played in Atlanta. 11/22/1987
But the Success was Phenominominal!!!!
Best days of my youth. Love ❤️ I know things got better.
Slash said he used to camp outside a recording studio where Crue was recording hoping to catch Nikki n his cocaine encrusted cronies live.
But now GnR is way way way bigger, better n, once Izzy comes back, will come up with the best Hard Rocking album of all time.
Lol not true at all
Lol Izzy's not coming back bro... Plus Richard Fortus is a much better guitarist imo.. Izzy just wants the cash grab. Axl, Duff & Slash are doing it by heart.
Plus they have the highest selling shows today. Their great with Fortus. Fortus > Izzy... 🤟🏾😎
I was at the '87 Atlanta show. GNR lasted about twenty minutes before Axel lost his mind and tried to fight half of Atlanta's finest. Slash tried to get the audience to tear the place up so they would let his singer back up on stage but it didn't work. They played "Communication Breakdown" with roadie on vocals and called it a night shortly after that. Me and my buddies were a little pissed cause we were as fired up about seeing Guns as much or more than seeing the Crue. All in all good time was had by all. Go Dawgs!
I saw the G&R show in St.louis and let tell ya, the crowd tore riverport Amphitheatre the fuck up... Its on the interweb when axl was a little bitch cus someone in the crowd had a camera and was taking his picture. To this day, i still fuckin hate axl for that...
Oh, BTW, That was on july 2 1991
Watching that interview even though they were kind of wasted you could Tell Slash could still get his point across and made the point that his grandma was not someone to mess with. I actually thought it was a pretty decent interview cush words and all they were being honest and genuine. Duff seemed very smart and kind of the most likeable out of all the members.
Never ever piss off a grandmother!!!😂
Yup. Mine's the sweetest person ever but scares the shit out of me when I've somehow managed to piss her off
3:08 "You know, sometimes I like a big long mic" 😂 😂 😂 😂
This is why I have been saying for a gazillion years that the Crue is the most misunderstood and most underrated rock band in ages. They had WAY MORE in common with Gn'R and their look and attitude than all these phony LA bands like Poison and whatever. Slash knew Nikki for ages. Slash talks about in his book and in Nikki's "The Heroin Diaries" how Van Halen and the Crue were the only LA bands he liked. Gn'R actually looked up to the Crue, and as it turned out, where less wild the Crue were.
Slash was almost the guitar player for Poison.
Slash also played in London. The band Nikki and his friends created before Mötley was formed. When Nikki quit London and became famous, Slash played in London as a guitarist and also quit when he found the GNR guys
I want a guitar pick that says "A Plectrum of Curse Words."
Tommy Lee was married to Heather Locklear not Nikki sixx
I'm sure Tommy and Nikki would be very happy together.
@@johnke7 😂😂😂😂
Pamela Anderson Lee had 2 kids with Tommy Lee. Whether they married idk. But this is wrong.
This guy gets a lot of things wrong in these videos. It makes me angry bc so many people get their info from channels like this and he is putting out incorrect info.🤦🤦
I’d loved to seen these bands back in the day, I’ve heard great things about Mötley Crüe live back in the day, not so much these days. Guns N’ Roses I heard they were awesome also if they showed up not to wasted, a buddy said the worst thing he saw was Guns on tour with Aerosmith, but later shows he loved. He also let a young guy like me, that these guys, Kiss, Def Leppard and Aerosmith were the best shows he’s seen, but Bon Jovi was in the 80’s was his all time favorite
Oh you missed an amazing generation. I have stories for days.
I was a teenager in the 80's. There were literally concerts every weekend (3 huge old school photo albums full of ticket stubs to shown for it) I lost count. I saw most more than once.... like The Crue, scorpions , AC/DC, Aerosmith, GNR, quiet riot, Nugent, ratt, riot, ozzy, Cinderella (dont laugh), dio, poison, Y&T, whitesnake, Boston, Dokken, metallica, quiet riot, poison, damn I can't even remember them all . (Aerosmith I have seen 11 times and ac/dc 8 times). Lucky enough to see queen once. Then comes foreigner, foghat, Billy squire (again dont laugh), van Halen, kid rock, Jimmy page and Robert plant (separately of course.. Too young to have seen my dream show ZEPPELIN)!!! I could just keep listing bands but I guess my point is I can't think of any I "didn't" see!! Lol
Some crazy stories too.. Rudy sarzo from Quiet Riot, they played Rocky Point Park here in RI, asked me out for a drink after (I was 15) and said no. (Yeah yeah yeah)... took my phone number from my friend and called me 4 times in 3 days. I wouldn't talk to him. Lol. Most bands really did have roadies that walked around handing out backstage passes to the girls they found cute. I was offered so many times..... smart to enough and always refused (with the exception of bon Jovi and Ted nugent) because when I was 13 a friend of my sister, a couple of years older than me, got on the bus with van Halen (in Rhode Island) and ended up out in Montana.... no way home.. lol. And never did find out just her happened. I was smart enough not to be a "groupie".... but just a huge fan!! Best time? Ted Nugent pulled me up on stage in Connecticut as he sang "little miss dangerass" THOSE WERE THER DAMN DAYS! WE may have dressed crazy... used way to much aqua net and definitely too much makeup.. but DAMN WE HAD FUN!!!
Ps.... blessed to have seen Def Leppard 5 times. 2 times pre Rick Allen arm loss and 3 times after. I will always respect that band for not even considering replacing him!! (I saw them again about 4 years ago and still amazing show...just a little slower pace)
I know, I missed out on a lot and it’s cool that you got to experience all that. I saw Aerosmith back in 2013 or 2014 at the Greenbrier Classic and it was amazing, they put on a incredible show, and was easily the best concert I’ve seen
@@zacharydotson383 wow. Sorry. I didnt realize I wrote a whole book for a comment 🤣 I just get going down memory lane.!! And yes! I saw Aerosmith again that tour. They were great. They may not have the same energy level as they did 30 years ago but they still got it!! Good for you!!
@@jojox9791 AC/DC was the greatest live show I’ve ever seen. Like you, I was a teen in the 80s and saw many of the bands you listed.
This is all straight out of slash’s book
There would be nothing greater than a Motley/GnR co-headline tour.
Sure beats the hell outta Def Leppard thats for sure.
Def Leppard is way better than Motley Crue. In the studio and live😂 plus Def Leppard as a contributing BAND never let ego get in the way of the job. In that aspect they are stronger than Crue and Guns😂
Though I will say, all bands put out shite albums post ‘93 like most 80s predominant rock bands.. I’ll take all of them over Bon Jovi though. Fuck Bon Jovi lol
Nowadays, Duff Slash & Steve can’t abuse themselves or they will die.
I was at that concert in Lakeland Florida when GNR opened up for Motley crew. Met Axel rose and he was extremely nice to me, he signed my ticket we talked about Indiana because I'm from Indiana and he was very pleasant he excused himself. He said he said he wanna go smoke some weed.
The perils of rock and roll decadence.
this started out really really good then lost steam about halfway thru.
97warlock ismyname kinda like the tour
Motley crue the best band in the world 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
No
@@simon-nak8403 yess
@@juliomatos8998 still no
@@simon-nak8403 why no
@@juliomatos8998 good band, just not the best.
Slash's diatribe reminds me of Nigel in the dressing room complaining to Ian about the sandwich platter
Man, those were the days when through year old RS n other magazines we learned about the fight between Vince n Izzy n how Axl stood up for his Indiana friend ( no internet in 89-90 in Mizoram, India).
I still regret not being able to go to the Lakeland show. I remember my friend Michelle, who was my friends younger sister, and a devout Motley Crue fan, (she would sketch their portraits, meet them back stage to get their autographs, and they would keep them) told me about this band Guns n' Roses that she thought I would really like, boy was she right!! Found them on MTV about a week later, and have been a diehard fan ever since!!...iiii]; )'...
Slash put a comdom on the henkinen bottle..lol..lmao😂🤣😭
Whitesnake DID open for Motley on the Girls, Girls, Girls tour... at least for a few stops. I know. I saw the show in Phoenix and thought the order should have been flipped. Coverdale and friends nailed it. The only thing about Crue that stood out for me was Tommy's wild drum solo.
Michael Burns saw it in Worcester ma. Crues dr feel good songs were amazing in comparison to prior albums ...saw them again in honolulu even better in small arena headlining
I saw them in Johnson City Tn
Yep. Saw Whitesnake open for Crue in 87 in Louisville.
Whitesnake is a real, veteran arena rock band from the days of Deep Purple and true hard rock giants any version of Whitesnake could outperform Motley Crue on stage. Tommy Aldridge's original band BOA could outplay Motley Crue
Wow, i was at that Lakeland, FL show. It was great.
GNR was kind of different to contemporary hair band like Crue or Poison. They opposed big hair, make up, spikes or other metal bullshit of the day. They even bring back the classic gears to their stage performance such Les Paul and Gretsch falcon instead Kramer or Jacksons V, minimize drums kit instead of Van Halen'is busy drum kit that favourite among the hairbands, they really starts a new trend of metal.
Axl was all glam up in the Club days and stole there looks from Hanoi Rocks.......
His bandanas hairstyles come from Ian Atsbury of Cult I think (I don't know Hanoi Rocks). Slash were Led Zep inspired, the rest of the band were punks.@@drugstorecowboy6540
@@Riazor1370 Slash tried out for Poison! Biggest glam band in hollywood at the time.
Steven had a monster kit at first, but the others hid some of his drums. Can't remember why. So, Steven didn't have a scaled-down kit by choice, at first!!! Lol! I think he made the most of it and learned to dig it, eventually.
@@Riazor1370 The Cult rule, as do Hanoi Rocks. Worth looking up....
Respect to the living legends.
thankyou for new information i love to learn more about 80s rock bands and such.
“I’ve been teabagged for all the world to see”
Rock Stars are so intelligent.............you can tell by their interviews..........
And I am sooooooo being a smartass
I watched from 3rd row center at the Hollywood Sportatorium as Crue's Roadies climbed the ladders up into the light rigs with Peperidge Farm gold fish bags in their hands wondering WTF they were doing.. Slash wasn't joking about it taking a week to get all that flour out of his hair.. I'll never forget that as long as I live...
damn slash is making me jealous with that super nod.
Hey is it me or did u fix the volume discrepancy on the intro? I know I said it was too loud but now it may be too low lol
I was there !! There was many people at the Franklin that night and we almost split
OMG Doc rolling Tommy through an airport😂😂😂
Editing skills 10/10
saw this show in Lakeland FL in Nov of 87 about a month before Nikki od'ed
I saw the same show... I still have the jersey... Crazy
I saw the final show at the Hollywood Sportatorium. I remember the flour incident and Duff climbing on Nikki's shoulders and them walking around the stage. Oh and the guy in front of me throwing up half the night...
@@jayzeagerauctioneer I was at that show also.
That movie will kickstart the cow again$$$$%$$$$$$$$$$$
They were fucked up! Man ppl take care of themselves their whole life and die outta the blue... these guys were doing everything and still rock 🤘🏽😎
"You know, sometimes... I like a big, long mic." - Slash
One of my favorite shows.
Maple leaf gardens. Whitesnake and the crue! Girls girls girls tour.
While growing up, we really saw Motley as hillbilly rock, GNR were really revolutionary in taking rock grom the 70's into the 80s and saving the scene....
Ahh! Those were the days! Oh how I wish the bands of today could be as wild and crazy as Guns and Mötley were. Now everybody is so fucking wimpy and afraid to "offend" anybody. Sheesh! Are we adolts or cry babies!?
I love that interview where Slash is going on about grandma , God he's cute ... lol
Holy shit. . 0:28. .was that an actual print on a tour shirt or poster? I must have that! Anyone can direct me to this pic somewhere?
The Iron Force These are standard photos that could be found in music mags such as Circus, Hit Parader, RIP, and Metal Edge. 80's and early-late 90's. There were plenty more titles, as well, but these were the main 4.
I went to this show...one of five times I've seen Crue 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Your voice reminds me of Rock and Roll true stories.
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CLASSIC TOUR
Saw the girls tour 87, in providence ri, I was 17 and me and my 2 friends took a train from boston and hitchhiked back to boston after the show, quite adventurous, motley was on fire amazing show, I had seen them on their last 2 tours as well the theartre of pain in lynn mass 85 but in 84 I saw them at the orpheum theartre boston, best show ever the shout at the devil tour with ratt opening up, but the night in providence, whitesnake opened they bored me lame.
The flour... what about when they hiked up G'n'R with pyro so when they kicked into "WELCOME" pyro went off and they looked like skool kids they were sooo happy!
Gawddamn mann.... read the Dirt, Heroin Diaries and Slash's book.
I was at that Atlanta show!
Why have I seen sooooooo many concerts of both of these bands and have never seen them perform together
Rock N' Roll!
1,2, and 3 please!!!!!
I saw GNR and Motley Crue in Jackson Mississippi in 1987.. I was 13. My parents dropped me off!
The guns n' roses are 15 musicians who turn in4-5 albums of which 3 really valid. they rode the wave of real hair metal bands without risking their own, they started as a support group of the motley crue and copied them : female choirs, blond singer. a cross between poison ,motley crue , skid row. brilliant covers extremely commercial and here are the guns. what movies could you invent? I don't know at all. at most given the "sympathy", a film about "axel and its feuds" with slash, kurt cobain , vince neil, def leppard, etc. etc. after the sex pistols are the "big brother" of rock
I was at the Atlanta show when Axl got arrested.
Slash... I was Tea bagged for their Backstage pass photo for the world to see lol...
How old was slash here, wow his voice sounds way different
steven castillo
He's drunk off his ass & the audio mix sux, that's why😆😆
Slash you're too gorgeous still! Rock on!
Thanks for sharing
Mötley is my second favorite band
After Guns 'N Roses
Motley and guns were a big part of my love for hard rock and metal. Two of the greatest bands ever!
@@eddie7098 that's awesome
Same here
Sorry but I don't like Motley Crue if Axl don't like them.
The Dark KnightMan axl rose is lame. Who ever thought of him being a good replacement for acdc should get a brain check
@@Kikester I can say the same for Vince.
I like Motley Crue, but Guns were WAAAAAY better. From 1988 to 1993 GnR were on another planet compared to everyone else
SedaW LoL then they broke up! Crue is the only other of the sunset strip bands that should be in the hall of fame as well. That’s isn’t
Great video!
I saw the guns/motley show and saw whitesnake/great white the same year.
being that high that they have to carry you around is dream of mine
Probably a whole different world for Motley to be touring with Whitesnake kind of dull to Guns N Roses party all the time as supporting acts. I wonder how the fans liked this concert tour with 2 great acts. Kind of lucky to be able to see Guns early in there career and Motley on that Girls Tour which is my favorite album of theirs. If anyone saw this tour I would love to hear about it.
so much fun watching zoom-ins on old pics....hey documentary producers- TRY HARDER!
Starting at 9:50 there is a pic of slash Tommy Lee and 1 other guy all with their ar.s around each other. Who is the guy in the green hat on our right ... slash and Tommy are obvious... but I can't tell who the 3rd is. .. is that izzy ?
Chris angel
KIDS! Stay away from smack.
I personally would like a movie about them.
After the recent successes of Bohemian Rhapsody and The Dirt, I think rockumentaries are going to be the next genre driven into the ground, very soon.
5Moons Eclipsing Yep they’re making one for Elton John this summer
@@MrGlenp24015 For once, though, I wouldn't mind. I love rock music
ock movies.
"Slash once again found himself dragging a corpse into the shower". You know, taken out of context that's...
👍 love the tales of debauchery 🥴
From a distance it's safe, but up close it sucks you in and you might as well be a homeless junkie living day to day in a van.
Slash had found a pair of leather pants in a dumpster while they were just starting out. Four years later he was still wearing them. He split those pants on stage in 1991 while playing in Indiana.
Drugs and that life style put these guys in a position of grossness that makes you think you can look but you wouldn't want to touch.
great bands great movie
Dirt was soooooo good!
I still say that Dr.Feelgood was MC’s version of GnR.
interesting, yeah i can see that. very cool haha
Of course, AFD influence
If I may ask.. How is that or in what way if I may ask?
Musically, not at all. At least I dont hear much resemblance. Motley had done the FTW in your face recording (SATD) and as far as their appearance they pretty much stayed w the girls girls girls leather and tee shirt wardrobe. Not saying youre incorrect just curious to know in what aspect you're referring to. Looking forward to what Im missing here..lol Seriously tho. Very interested to learn what Im over looking here. Thanks