Nikki Sixx has revealed that MÖTLEY CRÜE originally invited VAN HALEN‘s David Lee Roth to share the bill with them and DEF LEPPARD on “The Stadium Tour” but that David passed.
“I don’t open for bands that I influenced,” the CRÜE bassist says Roth told him, according to the Los Angeles Times.
During a 2019 interview with KKLZ‘s “The Mike & Carla Morning Show,” Roth reflected on the influence of VAN HALEN on bands that followed, saying: “Hair bands were the imitations of VAN HALEN. Yeah, it is true, and spandex was what they came up with as something visual. I started off in leather, with the same haircut that Bono and [Bruce] Springsteen and the guys in METALLICA had.
“A famous haircut — if I had that same haircut today, it’d have its own Instagram. But VAN HALEN was a ’70s band — we started off in 1972, and our first two albums were in the ’70s. We sold our first 10 million records before the ’70s were over. We spawned a whole lot of imitators who resorted to gimmickry and trade crap. It’s easier to imitate a haircut and a kind of pants and to exhibit bad behavior.”
New dates and tickets for “The Stadium Tour,” featuring MÖTLEY CRÜE, DEF LEPPARD, POISON and JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS can be found at this location.
