Former MOTLEY CRUE vocalist John Corabi shared a detailed experience of being in CRUE and how his life changed during & after his tenure.
He revealed it in a new interview with Guitar Wishes.
Here’s what he said (Translated by Blabbermouth):
“When money comes to play, in between a relationship, when money becomes whatever, you really find out who your friends are. People, you can be great friends with ’em, but ‘it’s just business,’ is the line you hear all the time.
“I did a few things early on in my career with contracts and different things, thinking, ‘We’re bros, man. They’ll never screw me over,’ just assuming that everybody would look at it the way I look at it. People don’t. And that’s something that I had to learn. The other thing I had to learn was when I was in MÖTLEY, there was a lot of people — and Tommy [Lee, drums] and Nikki [Sixx, bass] told me in the very beginning that this was gonna happen. And I was, like, ‘Nah, nah, nah. Not my friends.’ [They told me], ‘You’re gonna find out people treat you differently because of the situation you’re in.’
He added:
“And at first, I didn’t think it would happen. And then I really kind of realized, ‘Oh, I’m still the same guy. Everybody else around me is changing.’ Everybody started calling me, ‘Hey, dude, can you lend me five grand?’ ‘Hey, dude, can you get a limo and get us tickets for the TESLA show?’ ‘Hey, dude, can you…?’ And then as soon as it was over, it was like crickets. But I had a few very tight little circle of friends that were with me before MÖTLEY, during MÖTLEY and after MÖTLEY. And then I went, ‘Ah, okay.’ So I would tell myself, ‘Listen, you’re gonna get this MÖTLEY gig. Everybody else is a clinger. Those little batch of friends that you’ve got there, those five or six people that aren’t ever gonna be afraid to tell you, ‘You’re an a*shole…” Whatever.
He further added:
“I think, really, that’s it.”
“I wouldn’t change anything. Everything happened the way it happened. And I actually have it tattooed here [on my chest]; it’s Italian. But I firmly believe even when sh*t goes wrong for you, regardless of whether you’re a musician, whether you’re a plumber — whatever — this phrase says, ‘Life is as it should be.’ Even when something bad’s happening, you have to look at it, make some adjustments, move forward and learn from it. And I think I have, with everything.”