The Crue Files Suit Against NBC
Motley Crue has filed suit against TV network NBC. The suit claims that NBC has damaged sales of the most recent record when network honcho Jeff Zucker banned the act after frontman Vince Neil shouted “Happy fucking New Year” during a live broadcast of the Tonight Show. To that I say, so what? Those decency rules are foolish and not uniformly inforced. The rules are as big a joke as the FCC is at this point. Anyone listening to the Crue is not likely to be shocked by that. The only shocking thing to me is that all of the original band members are still alive. Besides, if you don’t like it turn the channel.
The issue here isn’t the so called profanity after all the Vice President of The United States used the same sort of language on the floor of the Congress. But suing NBC because they refuse to allow the band on the network would be like Yo Yo Ma suing the band because he wasn’t allowed to perform on the current tour. Blaming NBC for slow sales, even though the recent greatest hits release and current tour is doing better than many thought (myself included) is foolish. Could it possibly be that the act is a bunch of middle-aged 40 something rockers that jumped the shark almost two decades ago? No, that couldn’t be it. It’s got to be not being able to get on Carson (Daly, not Johnny) or Conan (O’Brien, not Barbarian).
I like the band and by all accounts they still put on a pretty good show but in terms of publicity stunts, this is pretty weak.