Bootleg Concert of Motley Crue Sounding Tight

A full version of Motley Crue's 1987 performance at Buckeye Lake in Ohio is making the rounds... I watched a big hunk of the show last night. I have to say the band sounds amazingly tight during this show -- Vince was exceptionally strong. Seeing all the people in the crowd made me excited for summer and concert season in general. If you're a Motley fan, you'll really enjoy this piece of nostalgia.

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[Jakki Steal]

The video wouldn't work for me but, I have this concert on DVD & Motley Crue is on fire.
It's so sad to see them "perform" this day & age.
All the years of sub par tours they have done over the last 15 years has really made seeing Motley in concert so unimportant.
I love Motley Crue Circa 1981-1998!

So many pointless tours ridiculously devalued the brand name of Motley Crue.

[Dj]

Concert season has started! Slayer killed it and I'm lookin forward to Alice and The Crue. I've seen em three times and they never fail to amaze me. Always put on a killer show and they always sound great. This video is great. They look young and pissed off. They sound it too.

[Metalboy!]

I've watched this before as one of our regular commentors (can't remember who) posted a link of it like a year ago. Totally kick-a*s!

Long Live The Crüe!

[GNR]

Wow is that actually a lot of people up on people's shoulders ?!?!?! Nowadays they just cringe because of lawsuits.

[Him]

Let me just say what others are thinking: this is a great memory to put into the memory hole. This is MC at the top of their game: hungry, raw, and with ambition. There is no paunch (or John), no hubris, no covering a belly to get a fan to take a dive (and that really does make sense).

The MC of today is not this MC (and you can add a lot of other bands to that list). There is no way to slice the slide differently, to angle the projection. MC today is a business predicated on fans who want to see something that is/isn't there. Like most feats of conjuring, it happens for those who want it to happen.

So I hope the fans can take that for what it is worth. And what is it worth? Not much. Love the band or don't. Trash the fans or debate the songs. Who cares?

Oh, wait. You do. You covet your memories like I do. Just don't say that MC is going out on "the top." They aren't. Don't act like 87 is 14. That is just bad math (or meth).

I get it. We get old (or we "die young" like Staley). But be honest. We dig this version more than we do the current one. So we enjoy this version if we want to, because we want to do so. Not because Neil is a stamina-junky (he isn't), not because Sixx is a soft-spoken poet(he isn't); not because Lee ... you get my point.

There is nothing to be gained from rejecting our bands. But there is also very little to gain by coddling memories and treating them as present-day facts. So here it is: MC is a business now. In 87, they weren't. That hunger, those waistlines, are gone.

I am preaching a strong dose of my own medicine. Van Halen, Deep Purple, Megadeth, etc. They are shells of what I wanted them to be forever. But, like me, they get older. So I enjoy them, then and now. Still, I don't act like they are idols of immortal pedigree.

What sane person does?

[fletch]

HIM: what sane person does? Easy, the same mentality that believes that Jesus is God, or that climate change is a myth, or Noah really built an ark and saved all living creatures, or 9/11 was a hoax perpetrated by our government, or...hopefully, you get my point.