1985 MTV Halloween Contest

I do not know if any more footage from this MTV event exists or not. Crueheads would love to see more of that performance. The boys look like they're having fun and probably a little drunk. The video for "Home Sweet Home" would be premiered in the ensuing weeks and would bring the band even more fans. 

 

From Paul Miles' essential online Crue encyclopedia

31/10/85
Mötley appears live on MTV for the first time during their Halloween Horror Show with live footage from the Crüe’s show at the Limelight Club in New York being broadcast to millions of viewers. MTV also runs a Crüe Halloween contest, where the winner Debbie McIntosh from Ohio and twenty-five friends are flown in for the private show, plus the following night's concert in Chicago, taking up the entire front row.

February 1986, Tommy and Nikki Interview and Live in Manchester

This rare interview with the Terror Twins was recently shared on YouTube and catches our heroes c. February 4-5th, 1986. This is a better than average interview from these years. The Crue had just headlined Europe for the first time and were about to headline the UK. The interviewer is Dante Bonutto, the man who wrote the very first Motley bio book in 1985, "The Official Biography - The First Five Years." I've never owned this and to this day it's on a list of Crue collectibles I hope to acquire.  [I do not own these images]

On the 6th, Crue performed in Manchester, England. Here is a 30 minute video bootleg of the night.

June 9th, 1982, Cruesing Through Canada, Edmonton

Well Crueheads, we've heard about Motley's infamous 1982 "Cruesing Through Canada" tour for 35 yrs. Bomb threats, bar fights, border issues with Crue's S&M paraphenilia . . . the good old days! We never had any pics or video or audio of this tour, just Crue memories, until June 9th, 2017!

This 35 yr old news clip popped up yesterday from CBC Edmonton News in Canada. The boys are lipsyncing the Leathur version of "Live Wire" at the bar Scandals, where they're to be performing for the third night in a row. They address a bomb threat that Crueheads later learned was a band publicity stunt! Nikki, of course, has a few words & there's about 1 minute of absolutely vintage, rare & awesome early Motley!!! Here's a news article spelling out the video:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/throwback-thursday-edmonton-m%C3%B6tley-cr%C3%BCe-bomb-threat-1.4151657

June 9, 1982: Mötley Crüe rocks on after bomb threat in Edmonton

`We don’t really care either, we’re here to give everybody their money’s worth’

On June 9, 1982, Mötley Crüe wouldn't let a bomb threat to police stop their Edmonton show.

Mötley Crüe's 'Crüesing Through Canada Tour '82' hit a bump in the road with a reported bomb threat against the band.
The threat claimed the Los Angeles-based group's lives would be endangered while they were to perform their third and final show at Scandals in downtown Edmonton.
Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx downplayed the threat.
"We don't really care either," he said. "We're here to give everybody their money's worth for the show.
"If people don't enjoy it, they don't have to come and see it."

The show went on without incident, and Mötley Crüe moved on to play two nights at the Riviera Rock Room in Edmonton.
As for the bomb threat, the band later revealed that it had been a public relations stunt.
Mötley Crüe went on to worldwide fame and continued to tour for years to come. Their most recent stop in Edmonton was Dec. 12, 2015 at Rexall Place.
In the video, CBC's Margaret O'Sullivan explains how the bomb threat wasn't going to stop the band. O'Sullivan's story is set to rehearsal footage of Mötley Crüe in Scandals early on in their career.

1981-11-12-Motley On MTV: Live at the Roxy, November 1981

I did a post about this ultra rare & ultra rad video when it was first shared (and then soon deleted!) on YouTube by EliteWorks back in 2011. To dig more stills I made, a transcription of the text & more general details on the video, go HERE to see more at The Sleaze Patrol Files.

This is the whole video. This, the original tape copies of Motley's first videos of 'Take Me To The Top' & 'Public Enemy #1' (the band makes fun of these in 'Uncensored'-they are online), the original copy of their first Starwood shows in April 1981 plus more rare ex-manager Alan Coffman holdings were offered to the Motleys for a mere $10, 000 & they said 'No! This is our property, give it to us or we'll sic our lawyers on you' & now I'm not sure what is to be done with this amazingly important Motley footage.

1983 Heavy Metal News Report & A Motley Make-Up Mystery

This is a news report about Heavy Metal music from the year 1983. This was the year when Metal seemed to break & bands like Motley, Quiet Riot, Def Leppard & the Scorpions were becoming household names & grabbing the attention of the youth of the western world.
The audio is bad (this is old stuff) but it's a rare piece of film of our heroes. The video for 'Live Wire' is shown throughout & we get some clips of producer Tom Werman talking about the appeal of Metal. He would know. Tom produced Motley's second album (&, arguably, their masterpiece) Shout At The Devil. Around June 1983 Tom & the Crue went into the studio. When I watched this vid for the first time [today!] I was kinda hoping, thinking to myself, Man I hope they show an interview clip! . . . & then, suddenly there they are! And from an interview I have never seen before! And from an early Shout photo session it looks like. They're having a drink, Nikki's speaking (of course) & sounds like he had a couple whiskeys & says,

'We're not here to make you feel heartache or any of that type of shit [bleeped]. You can save that for other bands. We're just here to have a good time & we'll have a good time as long as anybody will have us.'

Ah, the man's a poet! But seriously, we need to see more of this film. Also, take a look at Nikki's make-up. He has double lines under both eyes. Tommy would use that on his cheek (& is the subject of the goofy joke at the end of the 'Too Young Too Fall In Love' video). A Motley inside joke? Anybody with any more information about this report or this interview please leave a comment. Here's the news report:

[Warning: Bad Audio! Turn Down Your Volume! Adjust Accordingly!]

[Updated 2017] Have been meaning to edit this post a while . . . I realized that this interview is probably the band in the green room of that Pop & Rocker lip-sync performance they did of LOOKS & LIVE WIRE just before SHOUT was released in the Fall of 1983. There's only one part where you can see very well but Nikki has the two lines under his eyes in this performance and they're wearing the same costumes and make-up. Soooooo much vintage Rock footage is likely tied up in many archives of old TV stations and News shows. Could be more gems in the future.

Crue Cocaine Chat with Barry Richards, February 1984

Barry Richards was a popular Music TV host who had a show based out of New Orleans, Louisiana called Video Trax & he ran into our heroes on February 19th, 1984 when they opened for Ozzy Osbourne at the UNO Kiefer Lakefront Arena. This short minute-long interview clip is pure gold not only for the candid glimpse at the boys (Nikki, Vince & Tommy) in their full youthful glory touring behind their possibly best record . . . but we get to hear them bitch a little bit about KISS who had kicked the Motleys off their Creatures Of The Night Tour in 1982 & we get to see them seconds after doing a line of coke as Nikki wipes at his nose & all present nostrils seem to be aggravated, ha ha! No doubt the line was supplied by Mr. Richards himself. I did my online detective work & turned up more of the clip which followed an Ozzy interview & a mention of a wild night in the French Quarter.
Go the THIS page to see the Ozzy & Motley film in full.

From Paul Miles' 1984 History page at Chronological Crue:

19/2/84
Mötley and Ozzy arrive in New Orleans on the second night of Mardi Gras. Tommy, Nikki and Jake E. Lee from Ozzy’s band get themselves into a knife fight at a bar on Bourbon Street, while Vince and Ozzy check out some local strip clubs.

[the above inscription is from the Shout At The Devil cassette liner notes. 'Krell' is Motley's word for coke].

X-Rated Motley Crue, August 1985

This two part news story from Minneapolis Channel 5 Eyewitness News drops us into the Theatre Of Pain Tour in August, 1985. Motley played the Civic Center Forum in St. Paul, MN on August 17th & we not only get clips of Crue fans explaining why they like the band but we also get some video of the band onstage & Nikki & Tommy interviewed backstage. There are some great segments where the lyrics to 'Live Wire' are written on the screen as the video plays & there is mention of the infamous radio call-in contest where pre-teens wrote x-rated responses in answer to what they would do to meet their heroes Motley! Also, check out the rad Allister Fiend flag those St. Paul fans made!

Crue Commercials Part 1

I'm gonna post all kinds of Motley video from now on, with a focus on the first 10 yrs & then stuff from their whole career because there's just so much Crue content nowadays!

Here's some Crue advertisements from over the years.

First, we have a TV commercial for the Motley Crue and Y&T concert in Pittsburgh, PA - airdate: July 13, 1985.

Next are some 1987 Girls, Girls, Girls era vids. A radio ad for the album (when it was sitting at#3 on the charts) & the TV spot for the MTV Motley Cruise To Nowhere contest [more on that at our sister blog HERE].

 

Here are some ads for a 1-900 Motley 

Hotline from 1989 before Dr. Feelgood was released.