Motley Crue's John 5 on Mick Mars, Quitting Rob Zombie's Band, Meeting Vince Neil - 2023 

John can shred, but I still haven’t heard him write a classic or iconic riff like Mick Mars. Songwriting ability is everything.

Team Mick!!

"I'm not Mick Mars. I'm John 5". Yeah we noticed... it's painfully obvious. Without Mick Motley Crue is souless.

Will Nikki play Bass on this tour? Asking for a friend.

John 5: "I am not Mick Mars, I am a suburban mom with a soul patch."

Such a great guy! So humble & so respectful. He is that guy!

Mick is a living legend and should be revered forever!

I have nothing against John 5. He's an excellent guitarist and seems like a great guy.

Mick 5. John Mars

I wish John 5 all the best, but Motley Crue are a joke without Mick

Good Luck John

I saw that concert in Detroit

as an adolescent i loved theatre of pain. louder than hell would be cool

John 5 rocks!!

I can see and figured he'd have this outlook. I can agree with him.

I like 5 as a guitarist but what a genuinely nice dude as well ..now throw some crazy make up on and get out there 😊🤙🏼

He talks like a professional musician would. Hope he gets the recognition he deserves.

It’s cool that he’s helping the band tolerate each other - maybe he can get them to stop miming. Seriously why wouldn’t Nikki wanna play? Has he just always sucked secretly? Motley Vanilli?

Do those guys plays their own instruments? Or is it all tracks?

Yes he knows songs good too it would be like me as kod playing them songs we did Danger Ten Sec knock ect

John 5 is a real one.

I love J5. I’ve seen him live several many times with M. Manson, then R. Zombie and his solo tour at a club I worked at in Boston. Super humble and nice guy. I’m such a big Motley fan, but I’m just disgusted by the way the Crue is screwing Mick. It’s all about $, it always fkn is.

I was at that Detroit show in 84 at Joe Louis Arena, John 5 missed a great concert

If someone offered me loads of cash to BE Ace Frehley nightly? I’d take it. Play music for a living, wearing giant space boots, and makeup? Are you kidding me? Show me the money!!! 💰 I have no problem with John 5 taking the payday to play with a band he loves. Who cares who likes it or doesn’t like it? Take the cash! Having said that, KISS isn’t KISS without Ace and Motley isn’t Motley without Mick.

He said,then I said,then they said....

I totally dig John 5s persona, his whole outlook on jumping in with crew is the greatest attitude you could possibly have he expresses his full gratitude . Rock on John 5

John is just a decent guy who's extremely talented rising to make millions of dollars for retirement. Much respect!!!

Mick didn't QUIT. He was put aside. All about $$$. I wonder if J5 went along with the backing tracks I guess anything for the green.

I totally respect Mick EFIN Mars, I think Rob Zombie got the shaft and Mick got the shaft from Nikki, It shows some selfishness on both teams, ❤ I'm not sure how long this will last, 2years.

How did Vince Neil prevent all hair growth on his chest? He could never be in Kiss or the Bee Gees.

3:36 Man, Mick looks so much younger with no hair.

Vince Three,Tommy Four, John Five, Nikki Sixx....John (Corabi) One?

John 5 is a musician's musician. Great guitar player.

It's impossible to be mad at John 5. The only thing I cannot understand is how a guy like him can be best friends with a guy like Nikki. From the outside, they appear to be polar opposites.

I know he’s great and all but I don’t care for his playing. It doesn’t move me. Mick did, Dimebag too and of course EVH to name a few.

Harpos Rocks

I am sad that Mick has to give it up but if it must be, why not John 5?

Why would anyone leave Rob Zombie to join a dumpster fire?

Sixx and 5....

Rob zombie definitely wasn't ok with Tommy clufetos joining ozzy.....that's for sure.....

John is amazing but Jake E Lee or Tracii Guns would have been a better fit

John 5 is an amazing guitar player, y would he waste his talent, now don't get me wrong I'm a huge crue fan, sry was, they should have quite a long time ago, now there just trashing there legacy

MICK MARS, SONG THIEF ! RITE MICK ! GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS ! YEAHHH YOU KNOW YOU ARE !

Crue has always sucked live. I saw them back in their heyday and they sucked. You can watch any live video of Crue from any decade and it’s the same suckfest. John 5 should’ve stayed put with Zombie. But I guess I’d play behind Vince Meal for that kinda money too. I just don’t get why people pay to see them live? You can’t even reminisce because you can’t even tell what they’re playing most of the time 😂

Sixx and 5 couple a tools no wonder these goofballs are friends

John 5 is a badass guitarist. A true shredder.

His style doesn't suit Motley, but not his fault.

No kidding you're not Mick Mars

I'm sure that when the new record comes out, which is already done, it will sound amazing, guitar wise.

Mick is suing them for this

I would not call going to the Crue as a step up. Quite the opposite. Their day has come and gone. Many moons ago.

Why the hell would anyone pay to see Vince Neil at this point ?

Lil cat

0:57 you THINK you know Nikki Sixx..... you're about to get screwed....dumbazz

Johnny 5 looks gay

I'm sorry John 5 is a really good guitar player,but Motley Crue is nothing without Mick Mars. Mick had been with Motley since the beginning (don't go with what the movie The Dirt says) and it is time Motley Crue hung it up and called it a day. I mean how many times has The Crue gone and replaced members where it was proven it only worked with the original four?

Yea Johnny boy, we know you ain't Mick Mars. That is painfully obvious. Your new band is a bunch of DB's. No Mick- No Motley cuz Mick is Motley...BRO

Greasy suck up who was sucking up to Tommy and Nikki for a reason; waiting in the wings for Mick's job.

Damn right, he's not Mick Mars! Mick hs writen and performed classics! J5 is nowhere close to being what mick was and IS. You'll never be that good j5

John 5 is wasting his talent with the Crue, And he lost alot of fans.

It's astounding that a musician as talented as John could have any respect at all for the music of Motley or any desire whatsoever to be in that atrocious band. On the other hand this may all simply be about the payday for him and he's just playing up his "excitement" for PR reasons.

MICK WAS THE BEST MEMBER OF THE BAND I HATE JHON 5!

John 5 is SEVERLY overrated. He's like some guy playing guitar karaoke.

John 5 is a nerd, talk about no feeling, couldn’t write a song if he tried

Gonna löse credibility playing with these CLOWNS

I saw John 5 play one night, he was absolutely awful. I’ve been playing about 40 years and my testimony is that John 5 can’t hit his own ass. I love Full In Bloom though. My favorite channel.

Motley Spew are a bigger joke than Kiss

Can he maybe tell Vince to lose 75#

Y'all on here acting like Motley just now started sucking because Mick left. Mick hasn't played on any Crue records since the Carabi record, Nikki hasnt written a good song since Dr. Feelgood and when is the last time ANYONE has walked out of a Crue show NOT saying how horrible Vince sounded? That's been happening since the Shout at the Devil tour. John 5 has played on more Crue records than Mick Mars since Vince returned. They've been using backing tracks since their 1987 tour. Everyone just loves 80's era Crue so much that they cant admit to themselves that they were tricked and ripped off by those poseurs for decades. I compare the people who go see Crue live today with the dumbasses who pay money to see the new fake Pantera. I will say though, that at least John 5 is playing Micks solo's note for note.... Where Zakk Wylde is just wiping his ass with Dimebag's riffs and solo's and shitting on and destroying Pantera's legacy. At least John has respect for Mick and Crue fans. Zakk and Charlie are just getting a paycheck and can care less that they sound like dogshit. Something they weren't really getting because nobody cares about Anthrax and Black label anymore. Paying money to go see Motley Crue is like paying money to have 4 guys stand in front of you spitting in your face for 3 hours as they point and laugh then for an encore they shit on the stage and rub your nose in it. The funniest part to me is that they are filling up stadiums in every city. These people are paying tons of money to go see a concert that they know is going to suck...nuts.

Motley Crue was never good live, but now they are absolute trash. John 5 is jumping into the coffin just before the nails get pounded in.