Tommy Lee "was on the brink of dying" -Slash - Motley Crue/Guns N' Roses Tour - Axl, Duff, Adler 

Its amazing to me all of these guys are still alive

I saw that tour in FL. I remember it like it was yesterday. Almost no one knew who GnR was. Two girls in front of us were wearing GnR jean jackets. We asked them about the group as they told us how awesome they were. Slash was too drunk or stoned to play right. Axl and the rest were pretty good. I also remember driving home in a convertible jeep CJ7 with the local radio station blaring out "Paradise City". Again, before this song or group was known. I was in the mall the next day buying Appetite for Destruction. God I miss the 80s!!!!!!!! Side note: Motley was good too....but set was way too short. Vince was starting to mail it in, so to speak. I remember Tommy's drum solo, which was really awesome.

Mick Mars made that band. Just like EVH made Van Halen. The 80s rock was defined by the guitar players. Loved all those guys. George Lynch Dokken. Randy Rhoades with Ozzy. It was a great time to be a fan.

1987, what a great year for music and Hard Rock. great stories i love them.

Interesting to see how Crue made GNR look like choir boys, meanwhile when Ozzy partied with Crue even Tommy Lee wanted to call it a night.

I've read these stories in various offerings from band members, but they never get old. What a wild time. It's crazy both bands are still out doing it, but I honestly think it's time to pull the plug. They're not very good "live" anymore. It's still the greatest era of rock and I'm still dedicated to it. *full in bloom ...thanks for keeping it going

1988 I was just 7 yo kid in Surabaya, Indonesia have heard both band names and some posters but never heard their music. Years gone by things turned out and i'm a fan then. Good to know these guys still around.

Here, as in the last video, we're getting separate versions of the same events. With other outlets, by the time you hear the second rock star's telling, years have passed and you've largely forgotten what the first one said. It's great to have everything in one place, so damn thorough and LEGIT

I remember the first time I saw them in the Ritz NYC there was about 100 people…… insane! What a show! They came back to do an MTV concert and the place was sold out! It was a deluge of rain that night……. We had to park around 10 blocks away (city blocks are huge) and while walking to the gig drunk off my ass I lost my ticket. There was 4 of us so I took my friends keys and told them to enjoy the show while I sleep it off. Soaking wet I trudged back to my buddies van and with about 2 blocks to go something caught my eye in the blaring city lights…. It was my ticket floating on top of a giant puddle. About a half hour later I showed up to the show soaked through my underwear, made my way up to the front, found my friends and at the end of the show Slash jumped right on top of me….. What a night!

On a tour for months and never met the guitar player and singer of the other band. Thats pretty crazy.

Thx for your continued efforts. Cheers bro!

There's a "Slash piss drunk being carried on a luggage cart" story as well. 😂😂😂😂

Motley is a joke these days... Wouldn't pay 1 cent to see the clowns they have become

Dude, your videos never disappoint, and you have a fantastic narration delivery. I bet you're a blast to hang out with; your first-hand knowledge from the proverbial horse's mouths and interviews are absolutely unmatched on RU-vid. Much love and keep up the great work, buddy! -Jonny 😁

Love these stories !!

Fucking love your channel, dude! Thanks for all the fantastic stuff!

I saw that tour in '87...it was phenomenal. debauchery at it is finest..lol..especially for a 13 yr old,lol

Mars is the only one I have respect for

More Full In Bloom stories yes !!!

Thank God #TommyLee got it together, made sure to take good care of himself ultimately, and is still here to tell us about it!‼️🥁❤️🎹💙

Thank u

Excellent rock history..✌️

How dorky the fight challenge sounds now LOL

1987---enough said! What an incredible year for music entertainment

They played the Hollywood Sportatorium outside of Ft Lauderdale that tour, G n Rs last song was “Jungle”. Little did they know that a few of Crues roadies had climbed up the light rig over Slash, carrying Pepperidge Farm Goldfish bags.. Slash starts cranking out Welcome to the Jungle and next thing you know it’s raining flour on him…

I saw that tour in '87..it was insane..one of the most memorable shows Ive ever seen. and debauchery it was, it was an eye opener for a 13 yr old.lol

I saw them Wednesday, November 25, 1987 with Gun's in Lakeland FL . But Guns had just joined the Crue on this tour and it was sill being advertised as Motley Crue with Whitesnake. We hadn't as yet heard of Guns N Roses and were very disappointed. When Guns played the crowd just stood there silent with very little fan fare or cheering. It was as if we were just all waiting for them to finish so we could at least see the Crue. The show was double sold out for two days, and this was the 2nd of such shows. The Crue played at a higher and faster tempo so their songs sounded as if someone pressed the fast forward button on an old tape player ( but not quite that fast). It was cool but fell short of the many concerts I've seen since.

Never heard the photo story before, that's hilarious.

That would haf been an awesome tour to see. I was to young at the time but had GNRs album👍

Pity this ends so suddenly. I was just getting into it.

Ratt n roll forever

❤Saw this tour in SC❤

Adam. Your voice is awesome.

Rockin!

Dropped on my BDay. 18 years old. Saw the tour at the Cow Palace. Great memories. 😅😅😅

man the backstage parties on the crue gunners tour would of been incredile!

I saw the Girls tour, Whitesnake opened up. They were good but I would have much rather have seen GnR, especially at that point in their career. According to this video, turns out GnR rotated in the Girls tour a couple weeks after I saw Crue.

Did you get this info from Slash's autobiography?

Motley Crue had 2 good albums. In 45 years!

Seen that tour in richmond va

I still have my backstage pass. From Nov 1987

My first car was a cj7... 1980 model

Seven million copies in one year. That is insane.

Those were the days man

Yeah, there's not a whole lot from the LA Glam scene that holds up, but the Crue were always respectable answer to the question of "what would happen if you crossed Kiss with DLR era Van Halen and threw in a touch of New York Dolls?" Both Nikki and Tommy seemed a lot more capable at handling their partying than most. Slash and Duff seemed too out of control. Mick Mars seemed like his primary concern was always to be a musician. I feel sorry for Steven Adler. He wasn't mentally equipped for that lifestyle. Not many people are. It's nice to see Axl at 0:40 with Slash talking good things about Vince and The Crue. It's a shame those days didn't last long. I also feel sorry for Duff for wanting to sober up and then realizing he lived in the beast of the belly. He lost his pancreas as a result. It's a shame there weren't more people inclined to keep both bands together. Vince really didn't have to leave/be fired. Sure, every band has a peak but they never really recovered after that. But there was no reconciling Guns n' Roses. Their music was always the priority over partying though. It's just a shame that there was no way to bridge the artistic and personality differences between Slash and Axl, because combined, with the band of Izzy, Duff and Steven, it was a phenomenal band that really should have been making solid albums throughout the 90s. If you have listened to either _Contraband_ or _Chinese Democracy_ or any of the many other projects they worked on, you would know that they were all still quite artistically capable.

Second big headlining tour

Aaawwww… Slash & Axl talking like normal people / friends. That was probably the last time.

Mick Mars - YES

Now Motley Crue sound utterly shite now without Mick.

Good!

Lippi Synxx 🤘

I think every bit of this is from Slash and/or Duff's book or maybe from the Crue book or one of Nikki's Heroin Diaries, lol. I'm a massive fan of both bands so I know I've read this all before.

I’m not much of a fan of either of these bands but god damn I miss when music was exciting, and current (and young) major acts touring together was an event

was born in 1987... and in a different cobtinent. i wish i could see them during that time...

Meanwhile by 1991 Ac dc, guns n roses, Metallica, Megadeth, bon jovi, motley Crue, poison, van halen, skid row, ozzy, and others were all on the top of the world

G&R destroyed motley when that tour hit Ft. Myers, Fl. Full eye of the tiger shit!

Just glad they're all still around! Sometimes alcohol kills and other times it preserves.

Crazy how Slash never saw Vince at all throughout the tour. I know a roadie who went on tour with a Jay Z and never saw him off stage once throughout the tour

Not that it matters (it's so silly), but I think Axl would've killed Vince Neil. Axl was angry to his bones! BTW, great channel. Thanks for uploading. Long time subscriber.

My how their relationship changed

I used to think getting rekt was fun...Ghod knows why. It's a juvenile, empty experience. "Yeh bro, let's get wasted dude, like, far out"

Killer brother🤘

Fun fact: Tommy Lee admits that Pantera was the only band that could drink Motley Crue under the table.

How much must one drink in order to pass out while doing tons of Motley’s early 90’s rocket fuel coke?? I really wouldn’t have thought it possible.

Love them or Hate them they wrote the Book on Rockstar life.

Saw GnR open for Aerosmith in 87. Went for them and was a bit dissapointed. They didn't have the sound system to fill an arena at that time and you had to struggle to figure out what song they were playing. Maybe that was the opposite of this situation with Crue in that Aerosmith didn't allow GnR to have a substantial sound system??

Sweet child saved GNR! They were going nowhere until it's release

Does anybody know if Axl Rose took up Vince Neil’s request about fighting?

This is more or less straight from slash‘s autobio… which was up on spotify for times on end. Not anymore unfortunately

Plus you start your solo you don't know when to stop

*I NEED *KRILL* *STAT* *CATER*

Is Mick Mars their grandfather?

need subititles

Vince was so wrong. Axl did indeed back out!

3:13. I bet the code word was "krell".

Never Sa motley, but did see guns @ illusion tour….guess I got lucky , cause axl actually bothered to show up 😂😂😂

Tho appetite came out in 87 ..nobody knew who guns were until 1988 thats was the year of gnr

What was Neil upset with all about at end of this video

Yeah I almost missed GnR bc I had some drankin to do in the parking deck. I had never heard of GnR and my friends practically dragged me in there. Unbelievable. Never forget the guy who did that. We had a little friction from somewhere so I knew if he was looking out for me I must have been wrong. He moved across the country and we are still fb friends.

Anyone know who the Full in Bloom guy is yet?

Slash was f...'d up here.

Slash outdrank them (both Nikki and Tommy) 2:1 in whiskey shots...barfed and kept going!. Slash and Adler also outdid Nikki in Heroin more than a few times...even though they all died a couple of times. 2 bands meant for one another!

I saw this tour in ATL...famous show when Axl dove off-stage onto a security guard who was roughing up a girl...it was during It's So Easy (the opener)....he was handcuffed, taken roughly through the crowd back to a holding area, then arrested and thrown into the Fulton Co jail AND...my friend who was in the same holding cell for disrespectful drunken behavior with a cop after his friend was pulled over for a traffic violation, got to hang and talk with Axl for 30 min before he sprung bail. ALL A TRUE STORY! BTW...G&R played 2 more songs off sans Axl, then Adler did a short drum solo and walked off stage too boos from the crowd. FYI...Motely Crue was good that night, not great.

Ok, slash never met Mick Mars? But he flew on their jet and partied? Did Mick have his own plane?

Axl and vince neil should do a cover of the fat boys

I've never seen Slash's face.

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He said “load”.

these dudes are f**king crazy 🙄

Axl VS Vince. That would be a cat fight I'd pay for. "I challenge you to a fight." The most lame challenge in history. Cringe.

Motley always won the drinking competitions because it was iced tea they were drinking. Tommy was on the brink of dying because of too much sugar.

Geeze Duff Feel for ya know about the blood puke did it myself was in a band on the Rise and waking up with that bucket full next to the bed and my beautiful girlfriend at the time telling me your well on your way to being one of the Boyz was not a good thing

So the whole two needles in the chest story was a fake, I'm not surprised and I've been saying to my friends lately it would turn out to be a fake. Nikki Vanilli's whole act is just that, an act.

Hey how about healthy food and drink, no more drugs or alcohol!!

this is making me ROFLMAO

the other band nikki lifted from was sweet ...all over too fast for love

I would have thought it would have been Nikki .

Ratt > Motley Crue. Has Slash not heard of Ratt before? Makes Motley look like polished turds

Only people that are not musicians think these people are gods

Long live Motley !! F*ck the rest !!! like it or not....they are bigger than life ! \m/