{"id":659543,"date":"2026-10-28T12:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659543\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T12:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:06:11","slug":"john-5-on-the-chances-of-motley-crue-making-a-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659543\/","title":{"rendered":"John 5 on the chances of M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce making a new album"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

Speaking to MusicRadar \u2013 ostensibly about his recently launched signature Fender Telecaster<\/a> Collection \u2013 he casts his mind back to the last leg of the Cr\u00fce\u2019s Carnival of Sins Tour, when the band were all ready to make their way home for a break.<\/p>\n

Latest Videos FromMusicRadar<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the most rock \u2019n\u2019 roll thing,\u201d he says. \u201cWe were on the West Coast, and we all had our own buses and all that stuff, but with the longer trips we were taking planes, just to get there in time, not be too tired.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyhoo, so me and Tommy are on a plane. Then Nikki has a plane because he\u2019s going back to see his family on days off. And then Vince has a plane, because he\u2019s leaving at different times.<\/p>\n

You may like<\/p>\n

\u201cSo at this private airport, there\u2019s three airplanes in a line, and it\u2019s me and Tommy, Nikki, and Vince, and we\u2019re all going to the same destination! And I just thought that was so rock and roll.\u201d<\/p>\n

But this being M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce, some people wondered if these travel arrangements were a precautionary measure to reduce internal tension.<\/p>\n

Want all the hottest music and gear news, reviews, deals, features and more, direct to your inbox? Sign up here. <\/p>\n

John smiles: \u201cPeople are like, \u2018Oh, do you guys not get along?\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018No, we get along great! It\u2019s just everyone goes to different places on their day off.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s serious about this \u2013 M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce is a fun job.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh my gosh!\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous. You have no idea. We have so much fun. All of us. We have so much fun, all of us together.<\/p>\n

What to read next<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was a kid, and I would look in the rock magazines, and I\u2019d see everybody hanging out and having fun, and having a good time on stage, that just made me feel… good, you know? And that\u2019s how it is with M\u00f6tley. We just all have such a great time together.\u201d<\/p>\n

M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce – Dogs Of War (Official Music Video) – YouTube
\n\"M\u00f6tley<\/p>\n

Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n

We have absolutely no reason to doubt John 5. He is a reliable witness. You can hear it in his voice. But if it\u2019s so much fun playing in M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce, it begs the question: will they make a new record together?<\/p>\n

John says they have never sounded better. They are getting along. So why not? They got into the studio in 2023, reunited with Bob Rock, the \u00fcber-producer behind Cr\u00fce\u2019s most commercially successful album, Dr Feelgood, and made the three-song Cancelled EP.<\/p>\n

There were two original tracks, Cancelled and Dogs Of War, and a cover of the Beastie Boys Fight For Your Right, and it landed in October 2024. It was the first original material they recorded since John replaced Mick Mars on guitar.<\/p>\n

M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce – Cancelled – YouTube
\n\"M\u00f6tley<\/p>\n

Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n

Well, the bad news is there are no plans to record an album. The good news is that this doesn\u2019t mean anything. This is just how the band operates. It\u2019s how bassist Nikki Sixx runs the show, and it works.<\/p>\n

John explains: \u201cWell, with Nikki, it\u2019s funny, because he\u2019ll say, \u2018Oh, nothing in the future.\u2019 Y\u2019know? \u2018We don\u2019t have any things booked.\u2019 And then all of a sudden, we\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, well, maybe we\u2019ll do this, we\u2019ll do that.\u2019 Which is great. \u2018Oh, we\u2019re not gonna do any more new music or anything like that, but Nikki calls and he goes, \u2018I have this great song.\u2019 And so, I\u2019m like, \u2018Okay, great.\u2019 So, you never know.\u201d<\/p>\n

You never know?<\/p>\n

\u201cYou never know. But I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m super excited for M\u00f6tley\u2019s future. We have a show booked in Europe right now, but there\u2019s probably more to follow, so I\u2019m excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

You could be like Jim Carrey in Dumb And Dumber \u2013 \u2018So you\u2019re telling me there\u2019s a chance?\u2019 \u2013 and read too much into this. But really John 5 is saying he\u2019s like any other Cr\u00fce fan. He\u2019s waiting on the call. The only difference is that he\u2019ll be the one who has to pick up the electric guitar<\/a> and get to work when that call comes in. But you can\u2019t second-guess Nikki Sixx.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know. Nikki knows exactly what he\u2019s doing,\u201d says John 5. \u201cHe has been keeping this train going for 45 years, so to second-guess anything he\u2019s doing is something I would never do, because he knows exactly what he\u2019s doing and what\u2019s best for M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce. That\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

What’s also for sure is that John 5 released some new material. The track is called Phantom, it’s named for his new signature Tele, and you can check it out above. You can read more about how Fender and John 5 reinvented the Telecaster here<\/a>, and why John 5 takes accusations that M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce are playing to backing tracks as a compliment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter John 5 knew…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-659543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}