MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee spoke with Thenational.ae about the band’s upcoming (November 20th) Abu Dhabi gig which marks a sad milestone for the group – it will be the Crüe’s last live show outside of the United States. Lee has mixed emotions about the end of the band’s 35-year run.

“It’s weird. I don’t think about it much during the show,” he says. “But towards the end, when things slow down and I’m sitting on the piano, that’s the first time I get to look around and think, whoa – this is the last time I’m playing to these people, and then it hits you. You look out in the audience and see some people happy and some people sad, and then it hits you, it’s really quite a moment but I don’t think it’s really going to sink in until that final show in LA on New Year’s Eve and there’s no show the following day.”

Lee says he will have no regrets when the band part ways.

“We’ve got 35 years of good times and memories behind us. Everything we set out to do, we’ve accomplished – and we’re going out with our heads up high, with a bang, at the top of our game, not slowly fading out,” he says. “We decided this about six years ago, on tour in Japan. We’d seen too many of our peers just kind of fade out and end up playing the county fair and we’re not doing that.”

Lee assures fans they haven’t heard the last of him, although he can’t reveal his next step, yet.

“I’m gonna continue after this and I have some big plans, but with Mötley I really think we’ve done everything we set out to do and at this point it would just be redundant to keep going around doing the same thing,” he says. “We came, we saw, we kicked its ass and now we’re getting out.”

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