In an interview conducted by Sonic Perspectives, former Motley Crue vocalist, John Corabi expressed his wish to work again with guitarist Mick Mars, Moreover, Corabi explained the reason why the songs (“Gimme Blood” and “Shake The Cage”) he recorded back in 2016 with Mick Mars are not included on Mars’ solo album:
“To be honest with you, that all came about because Mick… And I don’t get the (trademark) laws or whatever. But Mick started a, I think he’s got his own record label. It’s called 1313 Records or whatever, and he trademarked it. And when you trademark something, you can trademark it, but you have to do business as within a certain amount of time.
”He had written those songs prior. Except, I think there’s a song called ‘Shake The Cage’. I did write some lyrics for that. But Mick just said to me, ‘Hey, Crab, I did these two songs. Not really crazy about the way they came out. I re-recorded them. Would you sing ’em? I wanna put ’em out,’ or just snippets of them so that it kind of locked his trademark in. And I go, ‘Yeah, dude. Whatever.’ Well, it’s funny. He did a video, or his wife actually filmed us, took some photos and they put ’em out there, and everybody went bats*it crazy thinking Mick and I were working together.
”Now we have talked about doing some writing and recording, but my schedule with The Dead Daisies, his schedule with Motley at the time, we couldn’t put two and two together. So he put those songs out and then he went about his business and started writing with Paul Taylor and Jacob Bunton and just all these great cats. And I love the new stuff that he did. I’m just happy that his f**king record finally came out.”
Asked if he hopes to work with Mick Mars again, Corabi replied:
“I told Mick, I said, ‘Dude, if you ever wanna write, man, f*cking count me in,'” he said. “I’ve been trying to talk him into doing something a little left of what he did, which is… Anybody that knows Mick Mars knows that he’s a blues guy. He grew up on Jeff Beck, John Mayall, Leslie West, Jimmy Page, all this cool sh*t.
”So I was trying to get him to just, ‘Let’s sit down and write a record of riffs, like, for example, ‘Never In My Life’ by Mountain’ I go, ‘Dude, your tone, those kind of riffs, and I’ll sing on it and we’ll just do a really heavy blues record.’
”And he seemed like he was into it. But who knows? We’ll see (if we get) to it. I’m just happy that Mick put his record out. I’m sorry he’s going through all this s*it with the band. But hopefully, they’ll figure it all out.”