Tommy Lee says that the chance for MÖTLEY CRÜE to headline a U.S. stadium tour was the primary reason the band decided to cancel its retirement.
Speaking to SiriusXM‘s Debatable about the CRÜE‘s decision to reunite for this summer’s stadium tour with DEF LEPPARD and POISON, Lee said:
“[As far as we were concerned] that was it. 2016 — I’ll never forget it. I think it was New Year’s Eve. Staples Center [in] L.A. That was it. We all said goodbye. That was the dopest 32, 33 years of our lives. We’re out. This is the best way ever to go out — on top. Mic drop, boom, see ya. We’re out. And that was it. We’re done.
He added:
“We didn’t really speak to each other for probably a year. Everybody just went and did their own thing. And here it is four years later, [concert promoter] Live Nation asked us if we’d like to do a stadium tour, and all of us were, like, ‘Ehhh…’ And then we thought about it for a minute. We were, like, that is the one thing that this band has never done. Yeah, we played stadiums on festivals all over the place, but our own stadium tour? We were, like, ‘Hold on. Let us think about this. Okay.'”