Def Leppard Drummer Opens Up on Mick Mars’ Motley Crue Retirement

In late October of final yr, Motley Crue guitarist Mick Mars introduced his retirement from touring with the band (John 5 was later introduced as his substitute). Now, tourmate Rick Allen (Def Leppard’s drummer) has opened up in regards to the scenario, insisting the transfer was really Mars’ personal choice.

Previous to Allen’s feedback, ex-Crue singer John Corabi mentioned he’s “not completely positive” he believes Mars’ assertion was genuine, positing that it was “put collectively by Motley and their individuals,” whereas additionally praising how “good” of a guitarist John 5 is. “I do not completely consider Mick’s causes for leaving Motley. And I do not even know if he left Motley. I consider he was proven the door,” Corabi later added.

In an interview on the Urge for food for Distortion podcast (in a video that’s now set to non-public on YouTube, however was transcribed partially by Blabbermouth beforehand), Allen talks in regards to the private relationship he developed with Mars through the years and displays on the personnel change inside Motley Crue.

“It was Mick’s choice to actually transfer on and simply get to the subsequent a part of his life. And everyone knows that Mick has suffered terribly, terribly with ache; you see it on his face on a regular basis,” affirmed Allen, “And I feel the one time I ever noticed him really in his factor [was] when he was up on stage taking part in with the band. It was extra his choice.”

Understanding {that a} choice like this should come after intense deliberation, the drummer continues, “That will need to have been a brilliant exhausting choice. I imply, it will have been completely different if the man was being thrown out of the band, but it surely wasn’t like that in any respect. It was a private selection that he made. And you’ll’t say that that is unsuitable. It was proper for him on the time.”

Talking about his friendship with Mars, Allen provides, “Over the months — properly, really years — that I’ve identified him, I actually began to speak to him.”

“So unassuming. Such a mushy, light soul,” he says of the Crue legend’s character, “And after I first met him years in the past, I used to be really fairly afraid, you realize. [Laughs] However he is the precise reverse of that — only a actually candy, beneficiant particular person. So it will need to have been a really tough choice for everyone to should undergo that.”

With Mars out of the reside lineup, Motley Crue and Def Leppard’s world tour will proceed by not less than 2024 and the 2 teams simply performed their first present of the yr on Feb. 10. See pictures, fan-filmed movies and setlists from the night time right here and head to this location to get tickets for an upcoming date.

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