Mick Mars The Dark Life of a Motley Crue Guitarist, Addict And Dated 20 Women Until Miserable

Mars was born Robert Alan Deal in Terre Haute Indiana in 1951, Soon after his family moved to Huntington Indiana. Before he was nine years old his family relocated again, this time to Garden Grove California. He realized he wanted to become a musician at only three years of age, when his parents took him to see country singer Skeeter Bonn at a local 4 H Fair in Indiana. He was wearing a bright orange outfit with rhinestones all over the place and a big white Stetson hat I went, I'm doing that, That's what I want to do. After nearly a decade of frustration on the California club circuit, he made the decision to reinvent himself, He shaved off his trademark mustache changed his legal name from Bob Deal to Mick Mars, and dyed his hair jet black, hoping for a fresh start. In April 1980 he placed an ad in the LA newspaper The Recycler, describing himself as a loud, rude and aggressive guitar player in need of a band. Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee who were putting together a new band which would soon become Mötley Crüe, contacted him and hired him after hearing him play. Lee opened the door and recalled he's standing there looking like Cousin Itt from The Addams Family and immediately turned to Sixx and said This is our guy, he's perfect, he's disgusting and scary. The name Mötley Crüe came about at the suggestion of Mars, In the early days of White Horse someone had referred to the band as a motley looking crew and Motley Crew was a name they had initially considered using, Sixx liked the name and subsequently altered it to Mötley Crüe. One of the most influential heavy metal groups of the 1980s Mötley Crüe has sold over 100 million albums worldwide, They have also achieved seven multiplatinum and five platinum US certifications, nine Top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 chart, twenty two Top 40 mainstream rock hits and six Top 20 pop singles. While Mötley Crüe gained a well deserved reputation for partying, Mars was never a fan of drugs. I went Please don't ever, ever do smack, You can't make music when you're falling down, he told his bandmates when heroin began to enter the picture. He did however develop a serious drinking problem after joining the band. During the recording of their Doctor Feelgood album in 1989 reportedly, Mars used so many amplifiers on his guitar, that sounds of his guitar could be heard on the recordings of Aerosmith's album Pump which was being recorded in the same studio at the time.
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