Come to think of it Tommy could have add or adhd
i wouldn’t be surprised if he did! he does seem to have that sort of vibe to him. his hyperactive nature, the way he can’t stay focused on one task before shuttling to the next, unless it’s music. his hyper fixations on bonsai trees and cars. even the way talks just makes me think “man he’s gotta have adhd!” if he does have it that would explain a lot about him.
here’s the Crüe presenting best country song at the amas in 1994-95! never thought i’d hear “motley crue” and “country” in the same sentence tbh.
(also someone pointed out corabi looks like he’s wearing a hat quite similar to one mick wore one and… yeah i’d say they look similar except mick’s hat had a blue orb thing in the middle of it and corabi’s looks like it doesn’t… but very similar indeed!)
I hope you proceeded with caution to find motleys article in hustler when they were on the front cover
I’m talking in terms of the content hustler has
starting to think yall are just being dramatic… i haven’t seen anything in that mag besides the article i was looking for but seriously, it can’t be that bad. like… it’s just nudity, is that really that scary to yall lmaooo
can’t hang out today. have to save pictures of old man to phone. yeah it’s gonna be an all night thing.
After reading your little ramble about red, white, and Crüe era it’s disappointing that all Nikki cares about is keeping the bands ego alive and buying multiple cars
it’s much more complicated than that imo.
i think there should be something said about the way the band (and possibly more so their management) sorta rushed mick’s recovery process just to do the tour. he was pretty much given four months to recover from his surgery (and while i know it doesn’t typically take long to recover from hip replacement surgery, we also have to take into account that he was also recovering from a debilitating pill addiction and his AS had gotten worse within that time), and i don’t really think that was enough time.
there was this really interesting energy from the rest of the band at the time. some of the interviews i read were so polarizing that it bothered me enough to write that little ramble. in one interview vince even had the audacity to say mick was doing great and that he was “running around on stage.” the interviewer literally had to remind vince that mick was never the “run around the stage” type of person (due to his disability). in another interview nikki referred to mick as “feisty” before the person interviewing him and tommy had to remind him that mick had actually seemed more depressed and that he had told said interviewer that he hadn’t touched his guitar in two years before the reunion. ofc tommy and nikki sorta backtracked but still made it seem like mick was just fine and all that.
in a way i understand that they don’t want to fear monger the public and make it seem like the reunion is doomed because of mick’s health, but i also don’t get the need to pretend on such a big level that everything is peaches and roses. i would have preferred they had acknowledged how poorly mick truly was at that point and instead of fear monger, just tell people that he was committed and to getting to a state where he could do the tours. don’t fucking lie and say he’s doing amazing and running around stage… like i’ve seen footage from carnival of sins, he’s not doing any sort of running.
as much as i want to say it’s just full on ego and greed, i think there truly was a small part of all of them that didn’t want to accept that their bandmate was on the verge of death. i can see it with vince (who even said he was sure if they hadn’t done the tour he would have woken up to a call telling him mick was gone), the way he doesn’t necessarily want to accept how terrible mick had been doing. i can see it with tommy, and how scared he was when mick first walked in the door to meet him. that man grew up with mick, who was practically a father figure for him. i can especially see it with nikki, who was the one to full on pluck mick out of his home when he was dying. nikki didn’t put too much attention to micks health because he had practically saved him from death and thought “as long as he can walk he’s fine” because he literally seen him at his absolute worst. and besides, none of them wanted to confront his mortality. i also think the lack of knowledge about his disease made them entirely ignorant to his health.
there’s so much more i have to say but i don’t know how. i think everyone underestimated just how bad mick had been doing, because at the end of the day, mick agreed to do the reunion tour. it’s just that, they probably shouldn’t have rushed the process as much as they did. idkidkidk, i just think there’s so many components to this i still don’t know about. the little bit of info i did get has me reeling a bit and everything i think about has me contradicting everything i just said. that’s how complicated this all is.
learning more about red, white, and Crüe era is actually devastating me so bad…
the band thinking of getting dave navarro to do the tour instead of mick because of his health issues, tommy being exceptionally worried for mick and even saying if it was up to him he would have postponed any plans for the reunion until mick was a thousand percent healthy… vince pretty much saying the tour was a miracle cause if they hadn’t done it all of this probably would have ended up with mick being dead, but also nikki being stubbornly optimistic about the whole thing while tommy and vince were the most concerned. even mick saying he would have liked more time to heal instead of doing so much things before the tour even started. it just makes me feel a lot weirder about that era of the crue tbh, and i’m not sure why.
i understand the hesitance to sound even remotely concerned in the press because that would have just got people saying mick shouldn’t have been included in the reunion cause “he couldn’t handle it.” it’s the need to protect not only mick but the bands brand as a whole, but it still throws me off. when vince, tommy, and even mick can conclude it probably will wasn’t a good idea to start up the tour so soon after mick’s hip replacement (he got it replaced in october and the tour started in february), i don’t know why nikki had insisted that everything was roses. i could character study this all day cause red, white, and Crüe era to me is their most interesting dynamics wise.
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