Artist Direct recently conducted an interview with MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist Mick Mars. In the interview Mars talks about the band’s Las Vegas, NV residency, favorite song, discovering JIMI HENDRIX, and more. Excerpts from the interview are below:

Artist Direct: So how do you up the ante every night with the Las Vegas residency?

Mick Mars: “The more we do the show, the tighter and better it gets. You find little things and say, 'Oh, this doesn't work. Let's tighten that up and do it this way instead of that way.' We fix the little odd events that go wrong. Something might get stuck in the ceiling, and we watch out for that next time. It's real!”

Artist Direct: Does the setlist change nightly?

Mick Mars: “It stays steady. There may be some weird things that happen nightly. As far as the music goes, we play it in order. We play the hits and the "near misses" as Joe Walsh would say (Laughs). Off the new album, there's a song or two. From the first album, we play ‘Too Fast For Love’ and ‘Piece Of Your Action’. We play ‘Afraid’ from Generation Swine and things like that. We try to change it up some. However, if you've been to enough concerts, you'd get disappointed if AEROSMITH didn't play ‘Walk This Way’. We've got the songs in there you want to hear.”

Artist Direct: Do you record what comes most natural?

Mick Mars: “Pretty much, I do feel like that. Less is more. I don't know how to explain. I play deliberate things that you can leave the arena humming. When I was in Argentina, they didn't sing the words. They sang my guitar solos. I've never seen that before (Laughs).”

Read the entire interview here.