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MORGAN ROSE FEELS GOOD WITH MOTLEY CRUE

 Monday, August 17th, 2009 at 1:30pm by

This live footage of Morgan Rose filling in for the injured Tommy Lee on drums with Motley Crue this past weekend is really entertaining. I mean, you get to see Vince Neil, who still can’t remember all the words to his own songs / gets winded after about two lines, and that in itself is always funny. And you get to see Mick Mars, who despite his status as the walking dead can still wail out those solos pretty well. But best of all, you get to see Morgan Rose, one of the greatest drummers on the planet in terms of pure, raw talent, rock through a set of songs he hadn’t heard in years for which he had zero time to prepare.

It seems that Tommy Lee burned his hand and couldn’t play. There’s video floating around of Tommy coming out on stage at this show and explaining the situation to the audience; as usual, he sounds like a total idiot. So the band flew out Sevendust’s Morgan Rose from Atlanta last minute, day of the fucking show, to fill in on drums. I know what you’re thinking… Motley songs ain’t too complicated drum-wise and they just play all the hits anyway. VRONG. This is the Dr. Feelgood tour in which the band plays the entire album start to finish, deep cuts and all, plus the usual smattering of greatest hits. Rose comes out and fucking nails it all. I love how in these clips you can see Nikki Sixx communicating with Rose about when the changes happen in the song, or when to end, or when to begin. THAT is fucking pure musicianship that can’t be taught. You either have it or you don’t. And Rose most certainly has it.

Check out “Same ol’ Situation” below and “Dr. Feelgood” after the jump.

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  • Shinaain

    His chops have never been in question; neither has his consummate professionalism.

    And yet he schools again. Dirrrty South!

  • bearbomb

    Axl, your spell check is broken.

    • bearbomb

      I mean Vince.

  • ceth

    Morgan Rose=win But the Vince Neil situation is just starting to get completely laughable.

  • dlux

    not taking anything away from morgan rose, tommy lee is way overrated and ANYONE could play his beats.

    • Shinaain

      Surely you can agree that was a impressive pinch-hit for anyone to come in unprepared, though. Even Morgan Rose, right?

      • dlux

        oh without question. dude’s the man for being able to jump in last minute.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Carlos-Ramirez/631635101 Carlos Ramirez

    Say what you want about Sevendust but Morgan is a really entertaining drummer to watch.

  • http://www.kingdomofnoise.blogspot.com MetalMatt

    So if Neil gets hurt, are they gonna call Dez?

  • Hey Fuck The Crue

    God damn am I sick of seeing decrepit senior citizens still humping their rock&roll dreams into the faces of those dumb enough to still purchase tickets! Who the fuck thinks Motley Crue are still relevant? Oh I know the argument concerning the “selling out of arenas” etc. Like Metallica…who still gives a fuck? Better question who gives a fuck and is under 40?

    • ceth

      I would give a fuck if Vince Neil could remember more than a 3rd of the lyrics and sing them with something that resembles a semi decent voice…as it stands nowhe does neither,So I am with you,why the hell are people still buying tickets to that. Vince sounds utterly horrendous in that 2nd video for Dr. Feelgood. I cant believe he has the nerve to take peoples money and then sound like that.

      • Fufkin

        But at least Vince has got his humility to fall back on, right?

  • Anthony

    I always thought that Morgan looked a little like Tommy Lee…

  • Glenn

    You’re right about the vocals in the Dr. Feelgood clip. As awful as eveything about the 80s… Half-sung/half-remembered/altered to seem “spontaneous” when the original was just fine… blech.

  • star

    Go Morgan- hes awesome

  • Sammy

    Why does Neil even bother strapping on a guitar?And with their money and fame and sheer number of hits from which to choose, why don’t they just do what Aerosmith and Ozzy do? Teleprompters.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kristi-Royal-Anthony/1572617093 Kristi Royal Anthony

    When Morgan and I (with our friends) used to ride around in my 1984 Nissan Pulsar back in the day, Morgan used to say he was going to be a famous rock n roll drummer someday….I never thought he would be filling in for one of my favorite bands of that same era.

  • JTC

    Morgan Rose is by far one of the top drummers around! Any doubters listen to 7d “Hero” or “Inside.” I think the crue needs to look up John Corabi and bring themselves back from this crap. I don’t think Vince forgets the words, he just doesn’t have the lung capacity. Sucks cause he’s always sung like that live. They ain’t gonna change a thing, till they can’t stand each other again. I love the crue, but I do wonder how they’ve kept people at the live shows with singing like this. Woulda been cool to see Morgan Rose at a crue show, but that’s prolly the only way I’ll go again!