John 5 is Unsure If Mötley Crüe Intends to Curse Us With a Full-Length Album
Our ears are all recovering from Mötley Crüe’s god-awful cover of the Beastie Boys’ “Fight For Your Right” that they released this past Friday. The single is the second off their upcoming Cancelled EP, which inevitably leads to speculation of whether or not the Crüe will dare curse us with another full-length sometime in the near future. Well, it turns out that current Mötley Crüe guitarist, John 5, doesn’t really know.
In a recent interview with Detroit radio station WRIF (that was transcribed by Blabbermouth), John 5 was asked if there were any plans for a new full-length album or if the band intends to keep churning out singles and EPs (or, in the case of Cancelled, a single masquerading as an EP) and 5 was strangely unsure:
”You know what? I’m not sure. I think we’re gonna just drop songs. That’s what I’ve been doing personally [in my solo career] for a long time. And then what I do is I’ll just drop new songs, drop new songs, and then I’ll take all those songs and put ’em in a record and sell ’em at my shows or whatever, the full record. But I personally really like doing it this way.
“When you drop these songs individually, it’s like every song’s a single, and it’s really cool,” John 5 explained. “And I think, like, just imagine if VAN HALEN did that. You would never know about ‘Take Your Whiskey Home’ or any of these deep cuts. You’re, like, ‘Oh, wow.’ Like ‘D.O.A.’ or something. What if these were all singles? ‘Cause in my eyes, all those songs are singles. I like those maybe more than ‘Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love’ or something like that. I think those deep cuts are just as good as the singles they put out. And these bands worked so hard on these songs. And nowadays you just listen to the singles and things like that. So, I like doing it that way. So I don’t know. I don’t know what they’re gonna do. I’m just along for the ride.”
Interesting that John 5 would refer to his own band as “them” and not “us.” Does John 5 still think of himself as a fill-in or touring member of the band? Considering that 5 was added to the band last year after the controversial ousting of founding guitarist Mick Mars, maybe John 5 has never felt like a full member of Mötley Crüe. But one thing seems to be sure: John 5 doesn’t seem to be in on the decision making.
