Mick Mars really likes his sound on Mötley Crüe’s only album with John Corabi.
“That ‘Mötley Crüe’ that we we did with John. I thought I got the best guitar on it,” the guitarist replied when asked by Tone-Talk which Mötley Crüe album has his favorite guitar sound.
He continued, “That was Bob Rock too, but John was singing. That tone on that record of my guitars was great. I really liked it. It was not a hollow sound. It was a very solid, really smooth, milky sound to me. And I went like, ‘Thank you.'”
Also in March, Mars was asked about his favorite Mötley Crüe albums. He didn’t choose one but mentioned the album the former frontman worked on. “The [John] Corabi album. I felt that we had reached the right area in that time perspective,” he said in a chat with Artists On Record.
The rocker added, “If we were a new band, that would have exploded bigger than just about anything in my opinion, but it was too late. If we had changed our name, it would have probably gone killer, and people are just now discovering that as well. So ahead of our time.”
Corabi and Mars have a good relationship. The singer even plans to make a blues record with Mick. “I told Mick. I said, ‘Dude if you ever want to write, count me in,'” Corabi told Robert Cavuoto of Sonic Perspectives last month. “I’ve been trying to talk him into doing something a little left of where what he did.”
He noted, “Anybody that knows Mick Mars knows that he’s a blues guy. He grew up on Jeff Beck, John Mayall, Leslie West, and Jimmy Page. Like all this cool sh*t. So, I was trying to get him to just, ‘Let’s sit down and write a record of riffs like for example ‘Never In My Life’ by Mountain.'”
“I go, ‘Dude your tone, those kind of riffs and I’ll sing on it and we’ll just do a really heavy blues record,'” John explained before explaining how Mars responded to his offer. “He seemed like he was into it but who knows. We’ll see. I’m just happy that Mick put his record out. I’m sorry he’s going through all this sh*t with the band.”
Mötley Crüe’s self-titled album with Corabi arrived on March 15, 1994.
