Mötley Crüe has released a statement confirming that they will embark on a summer "headlining" tour "with support from Poison and special guest New York Dolls.”
A press release issued by the Poison camp on Monday indicated that the Bret Michaels-fronted glam rockers and Mötley Crüe would "co-headline" the tour, which is expected to include shows in Canada.
Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil was asked during a November 19, 2010 appearance on the "Elliot In The Morning" radio talk show about Poison singer Bret Michaels' onstage claim that Poison and Mötley Crüe would celebrate their 25th and 30th anniversaries, respectively, this year by joining forces for a North American trek. "I don't know why Bret would say that," Neil said. "And I hadn't heard about it. People were asking me, and I'm going, 'I never heard that in my life.' And I was getting a lot of Twitters about it. I finally just called my office and said, 'What is up with this?' I was kind of pissed that nobody told me. And they go, 'Look, we have no idea. There was never anything like that [being considered] or that was even being talked about.' But the funny thing is, ever since [Bret] did that and now people are talking about it, crazier things have happened. It could happen. Because you have promoters out there going, 'Hmmm…. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, that sounds like a great package.' You know what I mean?!"
In a February 2004 online posting, Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx shot down reports that his then-band Brides of Destruction would be touring later that year with Poison and KISS. "No way in f***ing hell would we (Brides of Destruction or Mötley Crüe) ever, ever tour with a f***ing band like Poison," he wrote. "We have had talks with KISS and I told them very clearly that we would not do the tour if they used Poison. That would be the death of us... I will not be attached to that kind of fake bulls**t..." When questioned about his comments in a May 2004 interview with the Stamford Advocate, Sixx explained, "I was in negotiations and said it depends who else is on the tour. If you're going to do a nostalgia thing, we're not interested. If you go get Jet or The Darkness, it sounds like fun. All of a sudden they come back with KISS, the Brides of Destruction and Poison! There ain't no way in hell I'm doing that tour. I will not play with f***ing Poison. There are followers and leaders. I'm not into followers."
During a July 2005 interview with the Fox 2 TV network, Sixx famously closed out the four-minute chat by calling the interviewer "an a**hole" after he was asked the question, "Who rocked harder in the '80s: Mötley Crüe or Poison?"
When Poison drummer Rikki Rockett was questioned in an August 2006 interview with DelcoTimes.com about Sixx being abrasively vocal in his displeasure about being categorized alongside Poison, Rikki replied, "Nikki really needs to get over it. I don't think a forty-something-year-old man should be acting like that; you'd think with all that Nikki has been through, he wouldn't care about these dumb little rivalries."
Mötley Crüe (with Poison and New York Dolls) will be at the Seminole Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida on Tuesday July 5, 2011.
