Mick Mars Home Tour

[DrewJD82]

Only saw the first minute….LOTS of CBS-style headstocks and Floyds!!!

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Big blocks and big headstocks, it is the only way.

 

[la szum]

And a couple of butchered early to mid 60's Strats. Sacreligous!!

 

[Achilles]

My daughter has the same back/spine condition he does and considers him an inspiration.

How Mick Mars Has Lived With Ankylosing Spondylitis

Mick Mars has lived with ankylosing spondylitis, a rare form of arthritis, since he was 19.

ultimateclassicrock.com

 

[JasonE]

I loved the stuff he was playing back in the day... I don't know that I would have expected to see so many old Strats in his collection. I thought there would be more 80's type guitars with Floyds on them since he was big in that era.

 

[V|J]

My daughter has the same back/spine condition he does and considers him an inspiration.

How Mick Mars Has Lived With Ankylosing Spondylitis

Mick Mars has lived with ankylosing spondylitis, a rare form of arthritis, since he was 19.

ultimateclassicrock.com

I don’t know much about Mick but that article sure outlines a lot of perseverance.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

I loved the stuff he was playing back in the day... I don't know that I would have expected to see so many old Strats in his collection. I thought there would be more 80's type guitars with Floyds on them since he was big in that era.

You forget he was about 7 years older than his band of misfit dickheads.

Can you tell I would've never listened to 10 New York seconds of that shit if it wasn't for Mick?

 

[DrewJD82]

I loved the stuff he was playing back in the day... I don't know that I would have expected to see so many old Strats in his collection. I thought there would be more 80's type guitars with Floyds on them since he was big in that era.

Ya know, if I made a bunch of money playing the kind of music I mainly write/record, I think people would be surprised to see as many Strats in my collection over decidedly ’metal’ guitars, too.

 

[Byrdman]

You forget he was about 7 years older than his band of misfit dickheads.

Can you tell I would've never listened to 10 New York seconds of that shit if it wasn't for Mick?

Different strokes for different folks. I was in High School in the mid 80's, and I consider MC one of my all-time favorites.

I guess looking back, some would say me and my buddies were probably a bunch of misfit dickheads too...

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Motley are the reason jagoffs in the 90s slagged off hair metal. They have all of the stereotypes. Yet, for some reason, they were allowed to continue on. Regardless, I love Mick's playing. I just wish he was able to play with a group of guys who weren't total fucking creeps.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Motley are the reason jagoffs in the 90s slagged off hair metal. They have all of the stereotypes. Yet, for some reason, they were allowed to continue on. Regardless, I love Mick's playing. I just wish he was able to play with a group of guys who weren't total fucking creeps.

I think Poison, Winger, Warrant, (despite how amazing Uncle Toms Cabin is), and the jumping-the-shark round of Slaughter/Trixter/Nelson, etc., of '90/'91 are the bigger reason hair metal got slagged off. But that's a whole other conversation.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

The notion that "every song is about strippers, hedonism, chauvinism/misogyny, and drugs" is basically a wordy way of saying, "Motley Crue."

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

The notion that "every song is about strippers, hedonism, chauvinism/misogyny, and drugs" is basically a wordy way of saying, "Motley Crue."

Oh. I thought it was the hairspray, make-up, spandex, and light-weight pop songs that were the problem

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Oh. I thought it was the hairspray, make-up, spandex, and light-weight pop songs that were the problem

When a person is asked, "what don't you like, musically, about hair metal?" that is generally the stereotype they focus on. What you are mentioning tends to be what they rag on, which is something a bit different.

 

[Achilles]

I was still a relatively young guy (born in 60) and was pretty heavily into all of that stuff back then @Boudoir Guitar kudos for mentioning UTC - got to see them play it live on the tour that them and Skid Row opened for Aerosmith - and the first group to come along that 100% turned me off in every which way to what was then being called Hair Metal was this pile of stale and utter stinking dog shit.

And by then I'd already ingested enough Aqua Net and Maybelline to kill an army, so it was nothing about the image. Every single aspect of that band was so freaking bad. Their MTV stuff was like watching a Saturday Morning kids show - every stinking stage move was so canned and stale. On top of that their personalities sucked. They way they carried the whole thing. Their transparent as glass fans.

Couldn't believe how huge they got when there was so much better stuff happening at the same time.
*cough*

Sucked caused it made me start looking at everything else a little differently and they ended up killing the genre.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

When a person is asked, "what don't you like, musically, about hair metal?" that is generally the stereotype they focus on. What you are mentioning tends to be what they rag on, which is something a bit different.

I mean, I don't think Beavis and Butthead were making fun of Winger over Strippers and debauchery, but what do I know.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Mike Judge was not much of a rock fan. I love Beavis and Butthead, but I've gone back and watched some of the 90s stuff, only to find that he got a lot of shit wrong.

That's also what I meant about "what people rag on."

I like Poison, but the image and MTV aspect was pretty goofy. That said, Motley Crue was just as bad. On top of that, they -- as people -- are pretty mediocre as well.

 

[CBHScott]

Mike Judge was not much of a rock fan. I love Beavis and Butthead, but I've gone back and watched some of the 90s stuff, only to find that he got a lot of shit wrong.

That's also what I meant about "what people rag on."

I like Poison, but the image and MTV aspect was pretty goofy. That said, Motley Crue was just as bad. On top of that, they -- as people -- are pretty mediocre as well.

I never was a MC fan, and that was mainly due to Vince’s godawful vocals. When he basically killed Razzle, I was done with him altogether.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

I never was a MC fan, and that was mainly due to Vince’s godawful vocals. When he basically killed Razzle, I was done with him altogether.

He's basically in the David Lee Roth mold. However, he is DLR's negatives amplified, with very few (if any) of his positives at all.

As for why I don't like the other two nimrods, beating women sure is a great look, and being a talentless hack who excuses their racial slurs by saying, "there's one in all races," essentially, is repulsive. Their general, overall "frat boys who rib and treat people like shit" attitude/vibe doesn't impress me any, no matter how big Tommy's hog is. If anything, it just proves people (Heather, Pamela) will put up with reprehensible bullshit just to get railed by a cumbersome object.

 

[Life Eats Life]

I don’t think Mick Marr’s would be Mick Marr’s with any other mix of player’s.
His strength comes through that mix of player’s.
He’s sloppy & more about the sleaze.
If you put him up against cleaner player’s
-he’d go back to the Ctue.
(until they sue him).