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"Being sober was a real different experience from a band that was always wrecked": How Mötley Crüe cleaned up and made their biggest album

Drugged up, boozed up and almost washed up, Mötley Crüe went into rehab, came out and recorded a classic of the late-80s LA metal scene: Nikki Sixx takes us back

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Classic Rock's Ultimate 2024 Playlist

Icons and a-listers, retro bangers and psychedelic party-starters, firebrands, punks and alt.rockers - they’re all here

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“Bob Rock would say: ‘You could do better. You’re halfway there. More Springsteen! More Ian Hunter!’”: The major Mötley Crüe hit that took Nikki Sixx eight attempts to write

It paid off by giving Mötley Crüe their biggest ever single

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"It felt like someone took a 300-pound man off my shoulders." John Corabi on being fired by Motley Crue

John Corabi says being let go by Motley Crue was a bummer – but it also came with huge relief

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“He wasn’t a phoney. He didn’t have to be somebody else – he felt comfortable being himself“: We lost Dimebag Darrell 20 years ago today. His brother Vinnie Paul never let his memory die

Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell died 20 years ago today, on December 8, 2004. In 2007, his brother Vinnie Paul paid tribute to a giant of metal

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“It’s everything the SLO is, all in a pedal”: Soldano’s SLO Plus could be the new hard rock pedal amp to beat – bringing both channels of the legendary SLO-100 guitar amp to the floor

A single-channel offering from 2022 has been usurped by the two-channel upgrade, which promises the tube-amp-like tones of the iconic SLO-100

Guitar World

“The playing experience of both the SLO-100 amplifier’s legendary channels in a powerful, compact new pedal”: Soldano doubles down on the Super Lead Overdrive tones with the SLO Plus

Now you can have both channels from the Super Lead Overdrive right there on your pedalboard

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"So gloriously over the top it's coming down the other side screaming and shouting": Mötley Crüe rock like a rowboat in a typhoon on the 35th Anniversary edition of Dr Feelgood

Gonzo glam greatness

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‘The Hu didn’t speak a lick of English, but we both knew the language of rock. It’s a tribal warrior call!”: The greatest Papa Roach collaborations, in their own words

From The Hu and Within Temptation to Carrie Underwood and Pharrell, Papa Roach are the kings of the collaboration – and here are the most memorable

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Nikki Sixx: 'Music fans today are not as in love with the artist'

Nikki Sixx has noticed how young music fans are not as obsessed with the artists and care more about the songs.

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“I had a three-string nylon guitar from my stepfather. When he gave me that, he carved my future out. If I’d had a traditional guitar, I’d have had a whole different outlook”: Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx on fate, Thunderbirds and Smoke on the Water

The bassist discusses a new lease of life with old friend John 5, new ’Crüe the band’s –and his eternal confusion over beloved Gibson reverse bodies

Guitar World

“We really had to think about it, bro. Do you think we wanted to take the grief we took, and end up in a lawsuit? But what were we supposed to do?” Nikki Sixx reflects on Mötley Crüe's decision to oust Mick Mars

Initial statements that Mars decided to retire due to ongoing health issues were refuted by the guitarist, saying he was forced out and immediately replaced by John 5

Guitar World

“I became a better player because I had to follow Randy Rhoads”: How Jake E. Lee found fame with Ozzy

The guitarist is currently recovering after being shot in Las Vegas

MusicRadar

“The boutique amp market thrives and exists as it does today largely thanks to Mike Soldano”: From Eddie Van Halen and Steve Vai to Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler, the Soldano SLO-100 changed the sound of shred and blues alike

The SLO-100 made its bones in the hard-rock and shred scenes and yet found its true calling as the amp of choice for Clapton, Knopfler, et al. What makes it such an enduring, versatile model?

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“I had fights on the street. Guys couldn’t handle it. It was a challenge to them, especially as we would get girls”: how Poison took glam metal to the extreme with Look What The Cat Dragged In

Poison’s 1986 debut album Look What The Cat Dragged In is a killer glam metal album. But not everybody loved it

Guitar World

The guitar riff changed the course of popular music in the 1950s and remains a powerful force today – we chart its development over the decades, and what you can learn from its evolution

From Chuck Berry to Dave Grohl via Johnny Marr, Jimmy Page and more, this rhythm guitar masterclass offers a decade-by-decade study in the evolution of the riff

Guitar World

“I had to step away from the pointy era. I chose the Strat because I like the way they look and the way they sound… everything about them is me”: Mick Mars on how he found his thrill with the Fender Stratocaster – and the 1954 unicorn that broke his heart

The former Mötley Crüe guitarist pays tribute to the most important Strats in his life, the mods they have had, and why he had to step away from the pointy guitars crazy of the '80s

Guitar World

The Strat turns 70 and the return of the cooler-than-ever Creed – only in the new Guitar World

Featuring new interviews with Ritchie Blackmore, Brian May, Buddy Guy, Alex Lifeson, Adrian Belew, Tom Morello, Yngwie Malmsteen and Mick Mars and a review of the new PRS Mark Tremonti MT 100 amp

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"I've got a sex tape out? Big deal! So do lots of people!": A strange and occasionally antagonistic interview with Mötley Crüe

In 2004 everyone thought Mötley Crüe hated each other. But they reformed, and we asked them about it

Guitar World

“Keep Rude Dude”: Mick Mars’ ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ Kramer appears in Motley Crüe’s You’re All I Need video, features NSFW rear artwork and has just gone up for auction

The guitar was used extensively during Motley Crüe’s 1987-88 Girls, Girls, Girls world tour

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"We're the bastards": listen to Mötley Crüe's spidery comeback single Dogs Of War

Exclusive: Vince Neil tells us all about Mötley Crüe’s first single since 2015

Guitar World

“The start of a brand new chapter”: Mötley Crüe share their first new single with John 5 – and as promised, it marks a heavy return

Headlined by a blistering solo from John 5, Dogs of War is the band's first new single since 2019, and the first to be released since their split with former guitarist Mick Mars

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Guitar played by John Lennon on Help!, lost for 50 years, going up for auction

Guitar also played by George Harrison on Norwegian Wood could sell for millions in May auction, alongside other memorabilia including a book of Tupac Shakur’s handwritten lyrics

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Mick Mars put together the most hedonistic band of their era and has the scars to prove it: Now out of Mötley Crüe, he's starting a solo career. Lived a life? You bet

Mick Mars looks back on his career, from his early days on Sunset Strip to his years as an unlikely metal superstar

Guitar World

“Mötley Crüe was a whole different animal from what I’m doing. Writing the anthems was what the band was all about. Then it got a little sideways…” Mick Mars opens up on the highs and lows of life in Mötley Crüe – and his solo rebirth

The legendary Crüe guitarist looks back on the good times and bad times with the world’s most outrageous band, how he knew it was time to retire from the road (but not the group), and why his hard-hitting new solo album is and isn’t a blues record

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