Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx sat down with Rock 102.1 KFMA for a new interview and talked about the band’s future.
The bassist clarified his earlier comment about Mötley Crüe’s future not being bright. He explained:
“When somebody takes a conversation of mine and they say, ‘Hey, are you planning on going in the studio?’ And I say, ‘We don’t see a reason to go in the studio right now.’ ‘Cause we just recorded three songs [in April 2023]. We were just in the recording studio. We have a second single coming. We have a third single coming. So we’re not in a rush to… Vince [Neil] lives in Tennessee. I live in Wyoming. We’re on tour.”
He then clarified what he really tried to say in the earlier interview:
“So what I said was, like, well, first of all, we’re always creating — always creating. And I was working on something this morning. I was just playing bass. My daughter was getting ready for school and I’m, like, ‘Whoa, what’s that?’ And I put it on my little voice messages and I will eventually show it to the band or [our longtime producer] Bob [Rock] or whatever.”
Sixx’s Earlier Comment
Sixx originally mentioned that he didn’t see a reason for the band to return to the studio right now during a June 2024 interview with Riff X’s ‘Metal XS.’ He said at the time:
“We have a few singles [already recorded], so I don’t see us [recording any new music right now]… We’re not gonna be around. I live in Wyoming and Vince lives in Tennessee, two guys in California, so I don’t… I don’t actually see a reason right now to go in the studio, ’cause we’ve got two more singles [recorded and ready] to [release].”
He added:
“And I always wanna be sure that if we go in the studio, we have a reason or we have something we’re really inspired by, but it’s a lot of scheduling, and we tour and we have families. For me specifically, I have a five-year-old daughter, and I really wanna be with her as much as possible. So when the time came to go do these demos of these three songs and then go in the studio with [producer] Bob Rock, it was like a perfect time. And that time will happen again, but there’s no rush.”
Other Career Plans
Even if the band’s future goes a different way than what Sixx thinks, he is open to trying a KISS-like avatar career.
During an interview with Rockklassiker, Sixx shared his thoughts on Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley’s announcement that KISS will continue as digital avatars. Asked if he would be interested in doing something similar, he said:
“I don’t know what the future holds. We did some stuff with holograms years ago before the technology was really fleshed out. At some point, we’re not gonna be here anymore. I mean, not to be a Debbie Downer, but it’s just not gonna happen. And how great for your band, or whatever it is that you do, to be able to go forward for generations and generations. So I think when the time is right, put us in a coffin and fire up those avatars.”
The closest Mötley Crüe came to using avatar technology was for their song, ‘Dogs Of War.’ The music video featured all-CGI animation and was directed by Nick DenBoer.
You can see the interview down below.