In a recent interview with Sonic Perspectives, former MÖTLEY CRÜE vocalist John Corabi discussed why the tracks he recorded with MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist Mick Mars in 2016—reportedly titled “Gimme Blood” and “Shake The Cage”—were not featured on Mick‘s newly released debut solo album, The Other Side Of Mars.
He said (as transcribed by Blabbermouth): “To be honest with you, that all came about because Mick… And I don’t get the [trademark] laws or whatever. But Mick started a — I think he’s got his own record label. It’s called 1313 Records or whatever, and he trademarked it. And when you trademark something, you can trademark it, but you have to do business as within a certain amount of time. He had written those songs prior. Except — I think there’s a song called ‘Shake The Cage’. I did write some lyrics for that. But Mick just said to me, ‘Hey, Crab, I did these two songs. Not really crazy about the way they came out. I re-recorded them. Would you sing ’em? I wanna put ’em out,’ or just snippets of them so that it kind of locked his trademark in. And I go, ‘Yeah, dude. Whatever.’
“Well, it’s funny. He did a video, or his wife actually filmed us, took some photos and they put ’em out there, and everybody went bats**t crazy thinking Mick and I were working together. Now we have talked about doing some writing and recording, but my schedule with THE [DEAD] DAISIES, his schedule with MÖTLEY at the time, we couldn’t put two and two together. So he put those songs out and then he went about his business and started writing with Paul Taylor and Jacob Bunton and just all these great cats. And I love the new stuff that he did. I’m just happy that his f**king record finally came out.”
Corabi added that he remains hopeful about collaborating with Mars on a new project in the future.
“I told Mick, I said, ‘Dude, if you ever wanna write, man, f**king count me in,'” Corabi said. “I’ve been trying to talk him into doing something a little left of what he did, which is… Anybody that knows Mick Mars knows that he’s a blues guy. He grew up on Jeff Beck, John Mayall, Leslie West, Jimmy Page, all this cool s**t. So I was trying to get him to just, ‘Let’s sit down and write a record of riffs, like, for example, ‘Never In My Life’ by MOUNTAIN.’ I go, ‘Dude, your tone, those kind of riffs, and I’ll sing on it and we’ll just do a really heavy blues record.’ And he seemed like he was into it. But who knows? We’ll see [if we get] to it. I’m just happy that Mick put his record out. I’m sorry he’s going through all this s**t with the band. But hopefully they’ll figure it all out.”
Mars released his debut solo album, The Other Side Of Mars, on 23 February through his independent label 1313, LLC, in collaboration with MRI.
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