Tim Louie from The Aquarian Weekly spoke with MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist Mick Mars recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

The Aquarian Weekly: Since you’ve been back on the road with Mötley Crüe, how are you doing physically? (Mars suffers from ankylosing spondylitis, a chronic inflammatory form of arthritis that mainly affects the spine and pelvis.)

Mars: "What I can tell you about that is that I just got a life insurance plan, and they insured me until I’m 100 years old. That’s how healthy I am! Pretty funny, huh? I’m not making it to a hundred!"

The Aquarian Weekly: This is a milestone for Mötley Crüe - celebrating your 30th anniversary. If someone was to tell you in 1980 that you’d be playing with the same band for 30 years, what would you have said?

Mars: "I’m not going to live to be 60 (laughs). I’m from that time period where nobody wanted to live to be 30, but that’s the way it works. It’s a cool thing. I mean, once we started playing, and once we started picking up the pace and developing and learning how to cope with being on tour and being on the road and doing all that kind of a thing—I think that I probably told you this before, but we wanted to be like an AEROSMITH, and just be together for many years and just keep going or just until one of us falls over (laughs)."

The Aquarian Weekly: Everyone in the band has a book out! Where’s yours?

Mars: "It’s on its way, but I want the right liar! I had a couple guys come over and give me a little 10 page thing on what they want to write about, and they didn’t know what they were writing about or what I’m about—get me a rock ‘n’ roll guy that knows about rock ‘n’ roll! I don’t want to put out something that’s dumb! I want to put out something that’s real and something that people can relate to, like The Dirt was, and these people weren’t even close to it. You know, I took this guy out on tour with us to help me write the book. And I wanted to show him what the road was about and stuff and he sat in my bus and got drunk. I should’ve known what was going on, so I just said to him, 'Get outta here!' Crazy bastard! (Laughs.)"

Read the entire interview here.

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Mötley Crüe and POISON are teaming up for the first time in their history on a North American co-headlining tour with special guests the NEW YORK DOLLS. Confirmed dates are as follows:

May

29 - Pryor, OK - Rocklahoma

June

7 - Dallas, TX - Gexa Energy Pavilion
9 - San Antonio, TX - AT&T; Center
10 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center
12 - Albuquerque, NM - Hard Rock Pavilion
14 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl
15 - San Francisco, CA - Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
17 - Phoenix, AZ - Desert Sky Pavilion
18 - Las Vegas, NV - Red Rock Amphitheatre
19 - Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre
21 - Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center
22 - Maryland Heights, MO - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
24 - Minneapolis, MN - Target Center
25 - Milwaukee, WI - Bradley Center
26 - Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Music Center
28 - Toronto, ON - Molson Amphitheatre
29 - Clarkston, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre

July

1 - Tinley Park, IL - FMB Amphitheatre
2 - Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center
3 - Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena
5 - Hollywood, FL - Seminole Hard Rock Live Arena
6 - Tampa, FL - St. Pete Times Forum
8 - Biloxi, MS - Mississippi Coast Coliseum
9 - Pelham, AL - Verizon Wireless Music Center *
10 - Atlanta, GA - Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood
12 - Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
13 - Hershey, PA - Star Pavilion at Hersheypark
15 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena
16 - Camden, NJ - Susquehannna Bank Center
19 - Mansfield, MA - Comcast Center
20 - Uniondale, NY - Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
22 - Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
23 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center
24 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE
27 - Cheyenne, WY - Frontier Days **
29 - Youngstown, OH - Covelli Centre
30 - Frederick, MD - Outlaw Jam 2011
31 - Scranton, PA - Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain

August

5 - Tomah, WI - Fort McCoy
6 - Moline, IL - iWireless Center
7 - Omaha, NE - Qwest Center

* Mötley Crüe and New York Dolls only

** Mötley Crüe only