JOHN 5 doesn’t know if MÖTLEY CRÜE want to release a new album: “I’m just doing it for fun”

In a new interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio stations, MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist John 5 was asked if there are any plans for the group to release a new full-length album or if he and his bandmates are focusing on releasing standalone singles and EPs. He replied (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “You know what? I’m not sure. I think we’ll just put songs out. That’s what I’ve been doing personally (in my solo career) for a long time. And then what I do is I just put new songs out, new songs out, and then I take all of those songs and put them on a record and sell them at my shows or something, the whole record. But I personally really like doing it that way.

“When you release these songs individually, it’s like each song is a single, and that’s really cool,” John 5 explains. “And I think, imagine if VAN HALEN done that. You would never know “Take your whisky home” or any of these deep cuts. You think, “Oh, wow.” How ‘Too late’ or something. What if they were all singles? Because in my eyes all these songs Are Singles. I might like them better than “I’m not talking about love” or something like that. I think those deep cuts are just as good as the singles that they put out. And those bands worked so hard on those songs. And these days you just listen to the singles and stuff like that. So, I like doing it that way. So, I don’t know. I don’t know what they’re going to do. I’m just in it for fun.”

When asked whether the April 2023 recording sessions for the band’s upcoming album were “Cancelled” EP was his first collaboration with the legendary producer Bob Rock, John 5 said: “Yes, with “Dogs of War” and those other songs, that was the very first time. I’ve worked with everybody you can imagine, but that was special because you go into the studio and you think, “Okay, this is how it’s going to be. I’m going to record in the control room.” But I was completely wrong. Everyone was set up in the recording room. And that’s so ’70s – even ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, and somewhere in the ’90s, everyone started recording in the control room, except the drummer, of course. But that’s how we did it. And I’m telling you, I only did that once, but it was so cool because you all Play like a band, everyone playing at the same time. And that’s how we recorded these songs. “Dogs of War” is a complete live track. These are just live tracks coming from the stage. And that’s the cool thing about it. So it was really exciting for me. I really enjoyed it. And I had my notes here and Nicky (Sixx, MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist) had his notes and bob was in the middle of the floor and we just cut it like that. And it was super cool.”

The “Cancelled” EP will be released on October 4th. The three-part album contains the title track, MÖTLEY CRÜE‘s cover version of the BEASTIE BOYS classic “(You have to) fight for your right (to party!)!” And “Dogs of War”which was made available in April.

MÖTLEY CRÜE‘s version of “Fight for your rights” has quickly become a fan favorite since the band first debuted the song live during their secret 2023 club show at The Underworld in London, UK. Its premiere drew 450 happy, sweat-soaked fans who came to see a band that is being promoted as DOGS OF WAR experienced the surprise of his life when MÖTLEY CRÜE entered the stage with the BEASTIE BOYS Classics in their setlist.

The veil of speculation surrounding the DOGS OF WAR The pseudonym was eventually dropped when the band released their first new single since 2019. “Dogs of War” Names in spring 2024. “Dogs of War” subsequently became a Top 5 Rock Radio Hit, accompanied by a highly acclaimed music video by the director Nick DenBoer. The state-of-the-art visual, based entirely on CGI, shows the members of MÖTLEY CRÜE Navigate through an exciting post-apocalyptic world.

“Cancelled” EP track list:

01. Cancelled (Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx, John Lowery)
02. Dogs of War (Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx, John Lowery)
03. Fight for your rights (Adam Horovitz, Rick Rubin, Adam Yauch)

MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee told Bill Maher‘S “Club Coincidence” Podcast last year that he and his bandmates felt inspired to write a song called “Cancelled” because they were surprised that it never happened to them.

“There was this article that said, ‘How is MÖTLEY CRÜE have you ever not been canceled?'” he said. “And we were like, ‘Shit, we have to write a song about it because we never got it.’ We snuck in under the threshold, wherever that was, where we got away with fucking murder.”

The “Cancelled” EP will be available via MÖTLEY CRÜEThe new contract with Nashville’s Big Machine Records

MÖTLEY CRÜEis busy with Big machine sees the band and the label working together again, after the 2014 project “Nashville Outlaws: A Tribute to Mötley Crüe”the CRUE Songs covered by country stars RASCAL FLATTEN, FLORIDA-GEORGIA LINE, Darius Rucker and more. Big machine also a partnership with MÖTLEY CRÜE‘s new guitarist John 5 for the release of his album in 2021 “Sinner”.

MÖTLEY CRÜEThe last studio album was in 2008 “Saints of Los Angeles”followed by a “Greatest Hits” compilation.

In 2018 MÖTLEY CRÜE recorded four new songs for “The dirt” Film, including the single “The Dirt (est. 1981) (feat. Machine Gun Kelly)”, “Ride with the devil”, “Crash and fire” and the band’s own interpretation Madonna‘S “Like a virgin”.

John 5 tied together MÖTLEY CRÜE in autumn 2022 as a replacement for the band’s co-founding guitarist Mike Mars. Mick announced his withdrawal from the tour with MÖTLEY CRÜE in October 2022 due to worsening health problems.

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