Mtley Cre released a trailer for their upcoming biopic The Dirt this morning, and as expected it touched on everything from Nikki Sixxs heroin overdose to Vince Neils fatal car crash, Mick Mars battle with bone disease and Tommy Lees marriage to Heather Locklear. Its unclear at this point if Pamela Anderson will make an appearance and how the film will handle the bands tumultuous Nineties when their recording career tanked and Vince Neil was sacked in favor of John Corabi. And while It is highly unlikely that The Dirt will rack up Oscar nominations like Bohemian Rhapsody somehow did, it is likely to be a huge hit for Netlix.
The real Mtley Cre went back into the studio to record new songs for the soundtrack, but dont expect them to launch any sort of tour to promote the movie. Not only did they wrap up a farewell tour in 2015, but they signed a cessation of touring agreement before it began that supposedly legally prevents them from playing again. The only loophole is if all four members agreed to break the contract, Nixx Sixx told Rolling Stone in 2014. There is no amount of money that would ever make me do it again. Wed have so much egg on our face. (Heres video of them playing Kickstart My Heart at the final show in Los Angeles.)
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Nearly every band on a farewell tour says something like that while its actually happening, only to change their minds just a few years later when the money starts drying up or they simply get bored. And even though nobody has actually read the cessation of touring agreement, it seems like Mtley might actually honor it. There arent even tiny hints that they plan on touring again in any form, even if some sort of one-off performance around the release of the Netflix movie seems like a possibility.
Theyre also willing to play again should they ever get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That seemed like an extremely remote possibility until very recently, but over the past few years the Hall has inducted Journey, Bon Jovi and Kiss, and Def Leppard are getting in next month. None of those acts come quite as close as Mtley Cre to being labeled Hair Metal (even though Bon Jovi and Def Leppard detractors might disagree) and theres almost nothing that rocks critical establishment hated more than Hair Metal, but if the Hall of Fame takes just a single band from the Eighties Sunset Strip scene, it will beMtley Cre. Their music has aged much better than everything produced by their peers and the public cant seem to get enough of their saga, which is why Netflix is unlikely to bankroll a movie about Winger, Dokken or Ratt anytime soon.