Despite the fact that the band are calling it quits, in a new interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil is “excited about the future. I've had a solo band for the last 15 or so years, maybe longer than that. And when Mötley doesn't tour, I'm always on tour with my solo band. Even after New Year's Eve, Mötley's last show, I start up again January 10; so I won't have much of a break.

"The thing is, though, it's exciting because, you know, Motley Crüe takes up 99 percent of your time. And now you get Mötley out of the picture, and now you can really focus on solo career and other businesses and anything you want to do. So it's kind of an exciting time, thinking about what I could do with all this time I have now. It's going to be sad that we're no longer playing together, but you know, it's progress, I guess."

When the Crüe got its start on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles more than three decades, they never thought it would last this long.

"We just wanted to be the biggest band in Hollywood; that's all we wanted," Neil says, looking back. "We wanted to play the Whisky a Go Go on the weekend; you made it if you did a weekend at the Whiskey. And then it was just kind of step by step: Then we wanted to play at Civic Center — you know, we played Santa Monica Civic Center — then we wanted to open up for a big band, you know, go on tour.

"Our very first tour was opening for Kiss. We did, like, six shows with them," Neil recalls. "Then we wanted to ... it just snowballed. It kept getting bigger and bigger, just what we wanted to do next. We didn't set out and say, you know, 'We want to be these rock stars that have been together for 35 years.' That just never even ... never even contemplated anything like that."

Read more at the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

 

Visit Motley.com for an official listing of the band's few remaining shows before they call it quits.