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MÖTLEY CRÜE Frontman VINCE NEIL Shows His Incredible House To SAMMY HAGAR; Video

January 24, 2023, a year ago

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In the video below from AXS TV, Sammy Hagar heads to Nashville to hang out with Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe at his home! Watch as Vince shows Sammy his amazing house, cars, and horses on Rock & Roll Road Trip.

Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard are going global in 2023 with their co-headlining "The World Tour" along with special guest Alice Cooper.

Produced by Live Nation, the US leg of the world tour kicks off on August 5 in Syracuse, NY. The bands will bring their electrifying stage shows across America throughout the month of August including being the first ever show at the H.A. Chapman Stadium in Tulsa, OK.

“After finally getting back on the road this past summer, we’re beyond thrilled to bring this massive tour to a global audience including some special dates in America!,” said Joe Elliott of Def Leppard.

"We had an incredible time playing The Stadium Tour in North America this summer and we truly can't wait to take the show around the globe with The WORLD Tour in 2023. Crüeheads get ready because we have a few amazing U.S. dates set for you!," Mötley Crüe said in a joint statement.

Check local listings for complete ticket details including VIP offerings. To purchase tickets please visit motley.com and defleppard.com .

"The World Tour" dates:

August 5 - Syracuse, NY - JMA Wireless Dome 8 - Columbus, OH - Ohio Stadium 11 - Fargo, ND - Fargodome 13 - Omaha, NE - Charles Schwab Field Omaha 16 - Tulsa, OK - H.A. Chapman Stadium 18 - El Paso, TX - Sun Bowl Stadium

February 10 - Atlantic City, NJ - Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena^ 11 - Atlantic City, NJ - Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena^ 18 - Mexico City, Mexico - Foro Sol 21 - Monterrey, Mexico - Estadio Banorte 25 - Bogota, Colombia - Parque Simon Bolivar 28 - Lima, Peru - Estadio Nacional

March 3 - Santiago, Chile - Estadio Bicentenario de La Florida 7 -  Sao Paulo, Brazil - Allianz Parque

May 22 - Sheffield, UK - Bramall Lane 25 - Mönchengladbach, Germany - SparkassenPark 27 -  Munich, Germany - Koenigsplatz 29 - Budapest, Hungary - MVM Dome 31 - Krakow, Poland - TAURON Arena Kraków

June 2 - Prague, Czech Republic - Prague Rocks * 3 - Hannover, Germany - Expo Plaza 7 - Solvesborg, Sweden - Sweden Rock Festival * 9 - Hyvinkää, Finland - RockFest * 11 - Trondheim, Norway - Trondheim Rocks * 14 - Copenhagen, Denmark - COPENHELL * 18 - Dessel, Belgium - Graspop Metal Meeting * 20 - Milan, Italy - Ippodromo SNAI San Siro 23 - Lisbon, Portugal - Passeio Maritimo de Alges 24 -  Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Spain - Auditorio Miguel Ríos 27 - Thun, Switzerland - Stockhorn Arena

July 1 - London, UK - Wembley Stadium 2 - Lytham, UK - Lytham Festival * 4 - Dublin, Ireland - Marlay Park 6 - Glasgow, UK - Hampden Park

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Mötley Crüe’s Vince Neil reveals plans for 2024 tour and third Vegas residency

"We're far from being over", the frontman said of the band's recently finalised Stadium Tour

Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil has revealed that the band is planning a 2024 tour, and has intentions of completing a third residency at Las Vegas.

Neil – who last week (September 9) wrapped up this year’s stretch of the group’s Stadium Tour alongside bandmates Tommy Lee , Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars – revealed the band’s future schedule in an interview with Las Vegas Review-Journal .

“I am kind of sad, because it’s been so much fun,” Neil said of The Stadium Tour’s completion, “[but] we’re far from being over. When we come back in ’24, we’re going to do it all over again.”

The Stadium Tour,  which has thus far  taken Mötley Crüe across the US and Canada from June through to September, will re-commence in February of next year. The band is expected to again enlist tourmates Def Leppard , Poison and Joan Jett for the 2023 run of shows, which will take place across Mexico, South America, Europe and more.

Nothing as big as this comes from any one person alone. Yes, you see us onstage and sometimes it seems as if it’s all… Posted by Motley Crue on  Saturday, September 10, 2022

Earlier this year, Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen revealed similar long-term intentions for the tour, telling Chile’s Radio Futuro that The Stadium Tour would run for “at least three years”.

“Definitely next summer is gonna be Europe, and then South America, Australia [and] Japan. Next year, hopefully at some point, we’ll be playing all of those markets,” Collen said (as per Noise 11 ). Sixx echoed similar intentions in August.

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While Neil didn’t reveal specifics of the prospective 2024 tour, he did say that he intends for Mötley Crüe’s return to include a residency in Las Vegas. Should it come to fruition, the residency would mark Mötley Crüe’s third stint on the strip, having completed runs of Vegas shows at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in 2012 and 2013.

“We have definitely talked about doing [another Vegas residency], and everybody loves to do the residencies. So I say, ‘Yeah, we’re gonna do it.’ We just have to look at sometime in ‘24, to be back in Vegas, but we will be back,” Neil said.

Elsewhere in the interview, Neil confirmed that despite their plans to continue touring, a new Mötley Crüe album is not on the cards. “We are strictly a touring band,” he said “there are a lot of cool special effects [on the tour], and we’re just a cool band putting on a rock show.”

Mötley Crüe’s Stadium Tour, which began in June and marks their first tour since officially reuniting in 2018, has been rife with complications. In June, Lee left and later rejoined the tour after an injury left the drummer with broken ribs . Last month, a man attending the band’s tour date in Indianapolis was injured after falling from the upper level of the Lucas Oil Stadium.

Earlier this week, Lee revealed to crowds at one of the final Vegas shows that he’d joined OnlyFans . The drummer referenced the full-frontal nude photo he’d posted to Instagram last month, which he said came off the back of “a motherfucking bender.”

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Woah Yeah! Inside Motley Crue's Real Estate

They used to live in an apartment with a rotting door, holes in the ceiling and legions of roaches. They've destroyed hotel rooms and lit themselves on fire. Now they live in expensive homes, and deservedly so. Motley Crue has sold over 100 million albums worldwide, penned a best-selling autobiography, and produced a hilarious and at times heartbreaking movie on Netflix. 

Since that movie hit streaming in 2019, the band has seen a resurgence in popularity. And some of them, like Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee, have decided it's a good time to offload their houses. 

Take a look inside the real estate of Sixx, Lee, Vince Neil and Mick Mars. That includes a tour of Lee's and Sixx's mansions in California and a peek into Neil's and Mars' homes in Nashville.

Motley House

Motley Crue formed in 1981. Sixx, Neil and Lee moved into a two-bedroom apartment at 1140 North Clark Street in West Hollywood, California (the address is confirmed by Sixx ). As they were too broke to afford their own place, their manager, Allan Coffman, financed it. 

It Was a Real Short Stay

Tommy, Nikki and Vince moved into their new abode in June 1981. Mars, being older than the others, had little interest in hanging there and was living with his girlfriend. 

But the trio didn't even make it a year, and they were evicted in March 1982.

There's a good reason why.

They Were Not Great Neighbors

To say you wouldn't want them as neighbors would be an understatement. Lines of people filtered in and out of the apartment at night, drugs were everywhere and the place was never clean.

"Every night after we played the Whisky, half the crowd would come back to our house and drink and do blow, smack, Percodan, quaaludes, and whatever else we could get for free," Neil writes in "The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band."

Since the group was dead broke, they conducted their own pest control methods by burning cockroaches with a lighter and hairspray. When the upstairs neighbors banged on their floor because of the noise, Motley Crue responded by smashing their ceiling with broom handles and guitar necks, turning it into Swiss cheese.

When the trash and bottles piled up in the kitchen, they tossed it onto the patio, where it rotted and festered in the California sun. Even when the Los Angeles Department of Health Services showed up, they wouldn't clean it up. 

A Rocky Relationship with 'Bullwinkle'

It wasn’t only the guys who caused problems in the Motley House. Their visitors did too. 

Tommy was dating a woman his housemates named "Bullwinkle," who had a jealous temper. When Tommy Lee locked her out, she hurled a fire extinguisher through the window. 

The band never bothered to repair the window. It just became another entry point into the apartment.

Plumbing Problems

The Crue were broke while living in the Sunset Strip apartment, so certain everyday things, like food (which was mostly stolen) and toilet paper, were often considered luxuries. 

In fact, the band rarely bought toilet paper and instead used band flyers, pages from magazines or socks.

Up in Flames

The boys liked starting fires in and right outside the apartment.

According to Vince Neil, "The hall carpet was spotted with charred footprints because we’d rehearsed for our live shows by setting Nikki on fire."

The band also doused a courtyard tree in their building just to watch it burn. 

A Move to the Valley

After being evicted from the Motley House, the boys scattered to their girlfriends' homes.

Nikki ended up moving in with Lita Ford, formerly of The Runaways, at her condo in Studio City, at 4859 Coldwater Canyon Ave.

Nikki Sixx's House

That lifestyle is long behind them. This is Sixx's home in Westlake Village, California, which the singer put on the market for $5.7 million.

Sixx and his wife, Courtney, decided to leave Los Angeles and move to Wyoming in 2021. 

Shout at the Devil

Sixx purchased the 10,300-square-foot house for $4.125 million in 2014. It has five bedrooms, six full bathrooms and four half baths. 

This is certainly not the type of place Sixx saw himself in when he was young. Sixx was born as Frank Freanna Jr. on Dec. 11, 1958, in San Jose, California. He had a terrible childhood and an awful relationship with his mother.

When he was 14 years old, he borrowed a stiletto from a neighbor and cut himself "deep enough in some places to see bone" on his arm, he writes in "The Dirt." Then he called the cops and said his mother attacked him. 

Changing Names

Sixx left his mother's care and lived with his grandparents, living in New Mexico and Idaho. After being expelled from high school for selling weed, Sixx left for Los Angeles. He bounced from band to band, often not even bothering to try out if he didn't like the look of them. He was generally malnourished and pumped full of uppers.

He decided to search for his father and called his family to track him down. His father told Sixx that he didn't have a son and to never call again. Shortly thereafter, Sixx decided to legally change his name from Frank Freanna Jr. to Nikki Sixx.

It was a name that belonged to someone called Nikki Syxx, who played with a band called John and the Nightriders. Sixx thought the name was cool and, after resolving that "anyone who thinks surfing has anything to do with punk rock doesn't deserve such a cool name," decided to steal it, he writes in "The Dirt." 

Nikki Syxx later became a born-again Christian and claimed that Sixx stole his soul and spread the word of Satan. So it all worked out well in the end. 

The Dining Room

The dining room is opulent, and it's clear that Sixx left his mark, with the rocker-chic black furniture and ceiling painted a reddish orange. 

The Billiards Room

The billiards room has coffered wood ceilings and a mahogany built-in bookcase. It's quite the leap for Sixx, whose first jobs in Los Angeles were (unsuccessfully) selling vacuums over the phone and cleaning carpets.

He picked up additional money cleaning carpets by telling clients he would "seal" their rugs by spraying them with a sealant for extra cash. (It was water in a spray bottle.)

The Living Room

The Mediterranean-style, two-level house was built in 1996 and sits on 1.2 acres.

This living room has been gussied up with furry ottomans, gold floor-to-ceiling drapes, and large brick-pattern wallpaper. 

Some Nice Wallpaper

The main level hallway features some fantastic floral wallpaper, and steps that have been covered in a leopard print covering — because all rock stars love leopard print. 

Sixx purchased this house the same year that he married Courtney, so this may have been their first "official" house together. They had a child, Ruby, in the summer of 2019. 

The Kitchen

Along with Ruby, Sixx has four other children from other partners. Sixx said that he's moving to Wyoming because he and Courtney felt it would be a better place to raise Ruby. 

Sixx said Wyoming had "no-B.S. type of people" who were "blue-collar" that enjoyed the outdoors, a lifestyle he was familiar with because of his time in Idaho. 

" [A]s far as being a musician and a painter and a person who writes books, I felt it was maybe time, and a better place to raise my daughter," he said in a radio interview . 

Dr. Feelgood

Sixx has had a lot of time to grow since he was bashing people's heads in with Motley Crue (in one story, told in "The Dirt," he claimed he shoved some guy's head onto a table and nailed his earlobe to it).

Sixx's struggle with heroin addiction is well known. He was dead for two minutes after an overdose in 1987. He has been sober for 20 years now and is an anti-opioid advocate. 

"It was not glamorous being an addict," Sixx told Yahoo News.  "Sure, I had a lot of fun in my early drinking years and all that — like 'Animal House' over-the-top, Motley Crue debauchery. It was what it was. It was the '80s, and cocaine was everywhere and everybody was drinking and it was wild and fun, and you destroy your hotel room and all that s***.

But now you look back, you're an adult and you have kids, and it’s like, 'What can I do to debunk that myth?' I’m not talking about behavior.  I'm talking actual addiction."

The Theater

The movie theater has the same leopard print rug seen on the main staircase, cardinal red walls and couches, and tiered seating.

Seems like a good place to watch "The Dirt" on Netflix. 

A Rockin' Nook in the Theater

There's a nook in the theater that has several guitars and a desk with two bookshelf speakers and a phone.

It's not a recording space, but may control what gets shown on the big screen. 

Into the Master Bedroom

Sixx wrote most of Motley Crue's songs and is worth an estimated $45 million.

He also formed the bands Brides of Destruction and Sixx:A.M., the former of which is still active. 

The Master Bedroom

The master bedroom has a fireplace,  skeleton-like black-and-white paintings, red walls, white crown molding, hardwood floors and a brick-patterned carpet. 

The Master Bathroom

The master bathroom carries the home's rock star aesthetic, this time with all-black cabinetry to pair with the red walls.

The master bathroom is crowned by a step-up bathtub placed near a bay window. 

The pool has a lighted spa by the pool house and waterfall features. It reminds us of the time that Ozzy Osbourne completely freaked out the band in Lakeland, Florida, when they were staying at a hotel during a tour. Ozzy took off his pants and put a dollar bill in his butt, offering it to people at the bar by the hotel's pool. When an old woman yelled at him, he stole her bag and ran away, then came back wearing a dress he found in it. 

He then approached Motley Crue and said he wanted to do a bump. The band said they were out of blow. Ozzy insisted that he wanted to do a bump, and Sixx handed him a straw.

"[H]e walked over to a crack in the sidewalk and bent over it. I saw a long column of ants, marching to a little sand dugout built where the pavement met the dirt," Sixx writes. "And as I thought, 'No, he wouldn’t,' he did. He put the straw to his nose and, with his bare white a-- peeking out from under the dress like a sliced honeydew, sent the entire line of ants tickling up his nose with a single, monstrous snort."

Ozzy then peed on the patio and lapped it up. Then he dared Sixx to do the same. Sixx, who felt he couldn't risk the band's reputation, peed on the patio and steeled himself to do the same. But then Ozzy beat him to it and lapped up that pee, too. All of this was done in front of a crowd of horrified onlookers. 

"I threw up my hands: 'You win,' I said. And he did: From that moment on, we always knew that wherever we were, whatever we were doing, there was someone who was sicker and more disgusting than we were," Sixx wrote. 

Life in Wyoming

Sixx posted this photo of him with his daughter, Ruby, out at a restaurant in Wyoming. 

The family does have secondary residence in the Sherwood neighborhood of San Jose, California — in September 2021, they bought a $6.9 million mansion that is similar in style to their former Westlake Village home. 

A Children's Book

Sixx has since become a celebrated author. He's had five best-selling books, and in 2021, began work on a children's book. 

"Me and my wife are working on a book about this little girl who goes to all of these countries in her imagination," he said . "She goes to Africa and she has this little African boy or girl teaching her about that culture, or she goes to England, and then she goes to Wyoming and learns about horses, then goes to Japan and learns about the food and the culture and the language." 

Tommy Lee's House

This is Tommy Lee's house in Calabasas, California.

He has been trying to sell it for quite some time, appearing on and off the market since 2016.

It was on the market for $4.6 million. It finally sold at a loss — for $3.6 million — in April 2023. He has since moved to a Japanese-inspired home in Brentwood. Lee paid $4.15 million for the 4,266 square foot house with 4 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. 

Zen and the Art of Drumming

Lee's house is decked out in teak (we think it's teak; it would fit the theme) wood stylings and Buddhist iconography. The center of the home has an atrium with plants, a tree and a koi pond. 

"I practice Buddhism, and I definitely believe there's someone higher and greater than all of us out there, you know ... It was a couple of years ago. I was in jail for an entire summer, like four, five months, and I started reading a couple of books on it, and I was like, 'Wow!' It's really amazing you know. It's good stuff," Lee said during a 2019 interview . 

Growing Up in Covina

Lee had the most stable home life out of the entire band (although Mars' home life seems to be a mystery). Lee was born in Athens, Greece. His father was an army sergeant, and his mother was a model.

They moved to the Los Angeles suburb of Covina shortly after Lee was born. His mother couldn't speak English and worked as a maid, while his father got a job with the Los Angeles County Road Department. 

Methods of Peace

Lee credits his parents for getting him to where he did as a musician. His father bought Lee a snare, but not the rest of the set. Instead, he co-signed for the rest of the drums so Lee would appreciate it, and would also help him out if he missed a payment. 

"Then he helped me build a f***ing room inside the garage with insulation, carpeting, a door, doubled plywood walls, and soundproofing made from egg cartons. My parents would park their cars in the driveway just so that I could have a soundproofed practice room," he writes in "The Dirt."

Lee bought this 10,000-square-foot house for $5.85 million in 2007. That's close to the same time that the media reported Lee and Pamela Anderson were back together. The two were reportedly living together with their two kids, Brandon Thomas Lee and Dylan Jagger Lee, in 2008.

The two broke up for good not long after. Lee starting seeing Sofia Toufa, better known as SOFI, from 2014 to 2017. The two were engaged. 

A Good Place to Eat

The kitchen features an expansive, marble-topped center island with a sink to complement the double-sink located by the window. 

It's certainly a better place to eat than the Motley House's kitchen, where the band used to only own "two drinking glasses and one plate, which we'd rinse off now and then," Neil writes in "The Dirt." "Sometimes there was enough crud caked on the plate to scrape a full meal from, and Tommy wasn’t above doing that."

He's above that now, though. As everyone should be. 

Baking Cookies

These days Tommy Lee leads a much quieter lifestyle. For example, he spends a lot of time in his kitchen, where he bakes cookies even A-listers crave.

He posted an interaction with John Travolta, where the latter asked for his peanut butter cookie recipe. He also posts his culinary exploits to his foodie Instagram page,  @chefboyarl33 .

And from the looks of it, it's some delicious food.

Lee's office has some gorgeous built-in bookshelves and is situated right by the outside deck.

The orange ceiling has a row of cylindrical wood beams and there are two leopard-print chairs. 

You know what else rockers love? Sheepskin rugs. Like Sixx's bathroom, Lee's also has a freeform sheepskin on the floor, as well as a step-up bath.

He also has black vanity cabinets. Maybe they chose the same decorator? 

The home's atrium doubles as a kind of interior courtyard, as it leads to several other rooms in the house. There are a koi pond and jacuzzi here, and the window above is retractable. 

The mansion was built in 1987, although media reports say this atrium and other details were Lee's idea.

It's a pretty cool addition. 

A Beautiful Bonsai

Lee spends plenty of time outside and in the atrium tending to his many plants.

He particularly loves this Bonsai tree that was a gift from his current wife, Brittany Furlan, who he married in 2019. 

Furlan rose to fame on Vine, where she amassed over 10 million followers and was named one of Time's 30 Most Influential People on the Internet in 2015. 

The Recording Studio

Lee added a 2,000 square-foot professional recording studio, located off of the atrium. With a net worth of $70 million, Lee can now afford to record music in the comfort of his own home. His garage-playing days are long behind him. 

He recorded his third solo album, "Andro," here. It released on Oct. 16, 2020. He plays the drums on every track, but every track has a different lead vocalist. 

Rocking in the Hallway

Unlike the home he once owned with Anderson , this house does not have a basement disco dubbed Club Mayhem.

But there are still some groovy touches, like this midnight blue hallway with colored lighting. 

The Home Theater

Lee has a small home theater, also located off the atrium, includes six large leather chairs. 

Lee also appears to be a fan of the Xbox racing game series, "Forza." 

While there's a bar here, you'll notice that the bottles of booze have been swapped out for a coffee machine. 

Lee said that he stopped drinking in 2019 because he was downing two gallons of vodka a day . 

"I was drinking two gallons — not pints, not quarts, but gallons, the big handles," Lee said in October 2020. 

A Hallway of Records

The hallway to the bathroom by the theater and recording study is full of records. 

The gold and platinum records of "Shout at the Devil" have been reframed, we're sure. When Lee lived with his ex-fiancé named Honey in a condo on Gower Street in Hollywood, she broke the case. Lee writes in "The Dirt" that she was incensed after finding a photograph of another girl and hurled a plate at him, which hit one of the framed records. 

Later, she sold photos of him and her having sex to a magazine called "Celebrity Sex" without telling him. 

Dining With Style

Another interesting room in Lee's house is this castle-like dining room with a small kitchen and wine cooler. It's sort of like a mini throne room.

Neil's Redondo Beach Condo

In 1984 and in the midst of his hard-partying days, Neil moved to Redondo Beach and had a party that lasted several days. 

He and Nick "Razzle" Dingley, the drummer for Hanoi Rocks, went out for a beer run. Neil, who was drunk, got behind the wheel of his red Pantera, and the two sped into the night. He quickly lost control of the car and collided into oncoming traffic. He suffered minor injuries, but Razzle was killed instantly.

Neil's Nashville House

Vince Neil now lives on a huge estate in Nashville, Tennessee. The above is a screengrab from "Rock and Roll Road Trip with Sammy Hagar," an AXS TV show where Hagar visits various musicians throughout the country. 

We're not sure how big it is or exactly where it is, but the mansion appears to be enormous. 

'Can See It From the Moon'

The mansion features a large motor court with a central fountain. 

Neil told Sammy Hagar he lives here "eighty percent of the time" and still owns his place in Las Vegas, Nevada.

"You can see this [house] from the moon," Hagar commented. 

"American Pickers" host Mike Wolfe (pictured) lives down the street. 

Home Sweet Home

"[Justin Timberlake] actually looked at this house and he thought it was too big," Neil told Hagar. 

The house has been expertly decorated, likely by Rain Hannah, Neil's longtime girlfriend.

The Fireplace

The fireplace, with its woodblock mantle, is almost as tall as Neil, who is 5-foot-9.

Lots of Horses

The estate has tons of space for horses. His girlfriend, Rain Hannah, is a professional horse rider. 

She posted the photo above with the caption, "When your neighbors are longhorn steers."

Settling Down

Neil was famous for sleeping around on the road (as were both Sixx and Lee, of course), and it took him a while to settle down. He's been married four times and has been living with Hannah since the early 2010s. 

This peek into their home life shows hardwood floors and black-painted walls.

The house actually has two kitchens, one in the basement for Neil's "man cave" (his words) and a main one upstairs.

It has a double oven with eight burners, a large center island and a fridge surrounded by built-in shelving. 

Time with the Family

Neil leads a much quieter life than he did in the past.

His Nashville home is big enough not only for him, his wife, and his animal menagerie, but his grandchildren are frequent visitors as well. 

Relaxing at Home

Neil sitting at home with his late dog, California. 

Neil is a huge animal lover and even bought a jet for two cocker spaniels he used to own rather than crate them on an airline. 

Fond Memories

Tragically, California was killed in 2020. Hannah posted on her Instagram that their "viscous neighbors' dogs 'kill for sport'" and hunted the poor dog down.

Mick Mars' House

Mars is Motley Crue's most eccentric member, which is saying something. Born Robert Alan Deal in Terra Haute, Indiana, Mars has been pretty mum about his personal life. 

"I was born in Indiana and lived there for my first seven or eight years. My childhood was nothing special," Mars told Louder Sound in 2015 . 

He moved from Los Angeles to Nashville sometime around 2013 and lives there with his wife, Seraina Mars,  a model and former Miss Zurich.

Glimpses of Mars

Pretty much all the photos we have of Mars' house come from Seraina's Instagram.

Unsurprisingly, Mars is basically inactive on social media. We're not even entirely sure where his house is located, which is probably just how he likes it. 

Chilling at Home

Mars never really took to drugs and partying to the extent of the rest of the band, though he abused alcohol and painkillers — although the latter wasn't entirely for recreation.

Mars suffers from ankylosing spondylitis, a condition that causes inflammation in the joints and can cause bones to fuse together in severe cases. It's a painful disease that Mars has been living with it since he was a teenager.

In 2001, he said he was three inches shorter than he had been in high school. 

Exploding the Contract

In 2014, Motley Crue promised they would never tour again after their 2015 reunion tour concluded. They even signed a "cessation of touring agreement" during a news conference. 

But after "The Dirt" proved popular and brought in new fans, Motley Crue blew the contract up . 

No More Tours for Mars

Mars now finds it difficult to do certain tasks, telling Louder Sound that he can no longer drive a car, his bike, or play golf.

He's the oldest Crue member, at 72. Neil mentioned in passing that even though Mars lives somewhat near him, he doesn't hear from him. Mars has said he was working on a solo album in 2015 but one never emerged. 

The band is on a worldwide tour in 2023 but Mars is not with them. According his representative , "Due to his ongoing painful struggle with ankylosing spondylitis (A.S.), [Mars] will no longer be able to tour with the band. Mick will continue as a member of the band, but can no longer handle the rigors of the road. A.S. is an extremely painful and crippling degenerative disease, which affects the spine.”

A day later, Neil, Sixx and Lee told the world that Mars was fully retired from the band and  John 5, who played with Van Halen and Marilyn Manson, would be joining them on tour. 

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Vince Neil Returns to the Stage After Thwarted Festival Performance

Motley Crue 's  Vince Neil  triumphantly returned in concert on Thursday (Aug. 5) following a May festival gig many saw as an embarrassment when the vocalist left the stage amid a less-than-stellar solo performance.

Rock radio personality  Eddie Trunk shared clips that showed Neil singing strong at a closed-to-the-public event in Austin, Texas, on Thursday. And Neil wasn't the only famous rock singer in the house — "Private show I hosted tonight with Vince and [ Sammy Hagar ]," Trunk relayed in a series of updates on social media.

See the footage near the bottom of this post.

Next year, Neil will lead Motley Crue on the band's anticipated  Stadium Tour  with Def Leppard and more. The trek was  already twice postponed , because of restrictions related to the  COVID-19 pandemic , before fans worried this spring if Neil had hurt his voice.

Fellow musicians were concerned about the Motley Crue singer too. (Neil  canceled his concert  directly after the May misfire, only his second planned show of 2021.) After all, the Shout at the Devil trailblazers remain an influential force in the world of rock and metal.

"I feel bad for Vince," Nonpoint drummer Robb Rivera said in June . "Motley Crue is such a great band. He's got a year to get it together for next year. I mean, it's sad, but I still love Motley Crue, regardless. I know he's had some struggles and getting older … it happens."

It was at Iowa's Boone River Valley Festival on May 29 that Neil struggled to sing Motley Crue's "Girls, Girls, Girls" and other songs before walking offstage, reportedly telling the audience, "My fuckin' voice is gone." He's scheduled to perform with his solo band at Tennessee's  Monsters on the Mountain Festival  this fall.

Hopefully all is well with the singer now. Below, see videos of Neil's onstage return, with the performer belting out Crue's "Dr. Feelgood" and "Looks That Kill." Hagar performed Van Halen's "Poundcake," as also shown in one of Trunk's updates from the event.

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Watch VINCE NEIL Perform At Nashville's Iconic Venue Grand Ole Opry For First Time

MÖTLEY CRÜE frontman Vince Neil made his live debut at Nashville's famed country music venue Grand Ole Opry debut on Tuesday (August 2). The 61-year-old rocker, who has lived in a Nashville suburb for almost a decade, performed the CRÜE 's classic ballad "Home Sweet Home" with the house band. He was also joined for the performance by singer-songwriter Cherish Lee , who is the daughter of country legend Johnny Lee and Dallas actress Charlene Tilton .

Prior to his performance, Neil told the crowd: "I moved to Tennessee seven years ago, and I live in Franklin out by Leiper's Fork, and I see some friends and family out here, and I want to thank you guys for coming out. This is really a chilling thing — place to be standing up here, you know."

Morning radio show host and Tuesday night announcer for the Opry, Bill Cody , introduced Neil as "international superstar, accomplished businessman, heartfelt philathropist, and his unmistakable voice led the greatest rock songs of a generation."

The Grand Ole Opry shared a short video of Neil 's appearance on social media, writing in an accompanying message: "The Opry has a long-standing tradition of inviting guest artists into the circle, and we were thrilled to continue that tradition with @thevinceneil tonight! Congratulations on your Opry debut!" Neil also tweeted about the performance and thanked Cherish for taking part in it.

The Grand Ole Opry is one of the oldest and most revered music institutions in the United States. It has been called by some "a countrified version of the Metropolitan Opera."

Considered the home of country music, the historic venue has a history that spans more than 95 years. Some of the biggest legends in country music, including Reba McEntire , Loretta Lynn , Dolly Parton , Randy Travis , Garth Brooks and more, have become members, and consider it to be the pinnacle of their career success.

Back in 2014, Neil was asked backstage at the CMT Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee if he listened to any country music, and if so, whether he heard any rock influence there. Vince said: "It's funny you said that because there's really no up-and-coming rock and roll. Young country is really the new rock and roll. And that's what's pretty exciting. You see guys with long hair and guitars… It's pretty cool."

Also in 2014, Mötley Records and Eleven Seven Music teamed up for the release of a country music tribute to MÖTLEY CRÜE . The tribute album, "Nashville Outlaws: A Tribute To Mötley Crüe" , featured fresh takes on 15 of MÖTLEY CRÜE 's biggest hits covered by some of country music's biggest names, including FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE , Justin Moore , BIG & RICH , LeAnn Rimes , Gretchen Wilson , Darius Rucker , Rascal Flatts and more.

Neil and his CRÜE bandmates are on a two-week break from "The Stadium Tour" which kicked off in June in Atlanta. The trek, which is co-headlined by DEF LEPPARD , with support from POISON , JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS and CLASSLESS ACT , will pick up again this weekend with two performances at Boston's Fenway Park. It is scheduled to conclude on September 9 in Las Vegas.

The Opry has a long-standing tradition of inviting guest artists into the circle, and we were thrilled to continue that tradition with @thevinceneil tonight! Congratulations on your Opry debut! 👏 pic.twitter.com/rsUHMm64r1 — Grand Ole Opry (@opry) August 3, 2022

OMG we are here live @opry !! thank you @thecherishlee for joining us!! pic.twitter.com/b8g8s18ruL — Vince Neil (@thevinceneil) August 3, 2022

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Parties and punch-ups: behind the scenes at the 1989 Moscow Peace Festival

Just your everyday tale of the first (and probably last) anti-drug festival behind the Iron Curtain, with Bon Jovi, Scorpions, Ozzy Osbourne, Cinderalla and Skid Row

If the original 1969 Woodstock festival, with its gruesomely naked bodies, uninhibited drug-taking and unprecedented approach to crowd control – come on down, brothers and sisters, it’s all free! – had been emblematic of the countercultural ‘revolution’ of the late 1960s, then there can have been no better symbol of the money-grabbin’, drug-hypocritical, so-called safe-sex 1980s than the Moscow Music Peace Festival, held exactly 20 years – and what seemed like several lifetimes – later. 

Never mind Live Aid . More people may remember that but Live Aid, with its ultra-focused fundraising and dizzying global clout, was more of a handholding 60s throwback than it was a genuine expression of the age; a cultural aberration that deliberately traded on me-first 80s guilt to ram home its almost anachronistic message: feed the children, help the poor, pretend Thatcher and Reagan never existed (and while you’re at it, help revive my career). 

The Moscow Music Peace Festival, however, was a genuinely self-absorbed, glossed-over, height-of-the-80s, multimedia event; inspired by the deeply held desire of a convicted international drug-trafficker to avoid going to jail, and the fervent wishes of the famous bands whose careers he then guided not to be robbed of their Svengali, their bad daddy, their real money maker. 

In short, the only interests the Moscow Music Peace Festival really served were of the people on the stage, not the ones off it. 

Even the location for the event seemed bizarrely at odds with prevailing rock culture, certainly as it had existed up until 1989: since when had the Lenin Stadium in Moscow become a venue of choice for high-profile rock bands? 

Since Doc McGhee said so, that’s when. McGhee, lest we forget, was then manager of five of the seven big-name bands that would appear on the Moscow bill: Bon Jovi , The Scorpions , Mötley Crüe , Skid Row and local Russian outfit Gorky Park. 

While the only other big name acts appearing at the festival not connected to McGhee – Ozzy Osbourne and Cinderella – were both managed by people he’d worked with many times over the years (notably, Sharon Osbourne, on the Crüe’s breakthrough US tour opening for Ozzy six years before, and when Doc returned the favour by letting Lita Ford , then managed by Sharon, open for Bon Jovi on his 1988 world tour). McGhee was also a convicted felon.

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Or as drummer Tommy Lee put it in the 2001 official Mötley Crüe biography, The Dirt : ‘Before [McGhee] met us, he was living a secret life that blew up on him when he got busted for helping smuggle 40,000 fucking pounds of pot from Colombia into North Carolina.

It wasn’t his only bust, because he was also being accused of associating with some well-connected madmen who had conspired to bring over a half a million pounds of blow [cocaine] and weed into the United States in the early 80s.’ The result, after he had pleaded guilty at the trial in North Carolina, was a relatively modest $15,000 fine, plus a five-year suspended prison sentence.

The reason he was able to get off with such a light sentence was his additional offer to put together an anti-drugs organisation, the Make A Difference Foundation, for which he would raise money the only legal way he knew how: via his music biz connections.

As Tommy said: ‘Doc knew that anyone else probably would have been in jail for at least 10 years for that shit, so he had to do something high-profile to show the court he was doing the world some good as a free man. And his brainstorm was to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Woodstock with the Moscow Music Peace Festival.’

But as Tommy ruefully concluded: "It was all bad from the moment we stepped on the plane… There was a so-called doctor on board, who was plying the bands who weren’t sober with whatever medicine they needed. It was clear that this was going to be a monumental festival of hypocrisy."

Not that I was yet aware of any of that as I stood there, sweaty and starving, at Cheremetyov airport in August 1989, waiting for the plane to land. I was still too flummoxed by Moscow itself to worry about what any of the bands might be thinking. I had arrived 48 hours before to find a city gripped by such a fearful heat that all the sensible (read: rich) people had fled the city for their summer dachas. Not that there was much to keep them there during the cooler months either.

Back then, before the Berlin Wall had fallen, the image Moscow conjured up in one’s mind was of a large, grey, unhappy citadel full of long faces and even longer food queues. The reality, however, was much worse than that. Rule number one, I discovered on my first night there, was There Is No Food. That is, nothing edible.

There were restaurants, of course, but mostly they were all closed. Usually for ‘cleaning’ which seemed to take place approximately six nights out of seven. Even when you did find a restaurant open it invariably wasn’t worth eating in. Learning to survive on the road means learning to eat anything. Fussy eaters are the first to throw in the towel.

As a result, over the years I had, at various trying moments, found myself eating smoked reindeer and bear-steaks in Helsinki; drinking the foul tap water of Rio de Janeiro; quaffing chilli-dogs and fries at fast-food counters all over America; and gorging myself on raw fish and cold rice in Tokyo.

But never in all my travels had I come across anything so frankly – or ironically – vomit-inducing as the Chicken Kiev in Russia. “Why do you think there are no dogs on the streets of Moscow?” whispered Dimitri, conspiratorially – one of the many official KGB-approved festival ‘guides’ and ‘interpreters’ – as I pushed away my plate again one night.

Rule number two: There Is No Such Thing As Russian Money. Well, actually, there was – it was called ‘the rouble’, but no self-respecting Russian trader would accept them as currency. Officially, a rouble was the equivalent of £1 sterling. But on the black market you could get up to 10 roubles for your pound.

Even then, however, they simply weren’t worth having. The only thing a stack of Roubles could buy you was a wooden doll and a big furry hat. The only real consumer goods available were on sale in the tourist-only stores, which took all major credit cards including American Express. In fact, the main currency in Moscow back then, spookily, was US dollars. And if you didn’t have the exact amount you could throw in a pack of Marlboros. For change, you might receive an assortment of dollar bills, 10- franc pieces and the occasional silver Deutsche Mark. For small change you might get handed a packet of orange-flavoured Tic-Tacs. No joke.

As for music… well, these days, no doubt, it’s as easy in Moscow to download your favourite emo codswallop from the internet as it is anywhere else. Back then, however, records and tapes were purchased almost exclusively on the black market. There was only one official record store in the whole of Moscow and when I visited it they were selling the sort of junk you might find at a car-boot sale – dusty Frank Ifield LPs and third-generation home-made cassettes of The Beatles.

Everything else was either banned or simply not available in the Russian market. The reason for this, as Jon Bon Jovi later told me, was that “they don’t pay royalties”. He said they’d actually let them release the Slippery When Wet album in the USSR, “but we did it knowing we’d never see any money for it”. If it hadn’t been for the fact that the album had already made $100 million throughout the rest of the world they’d never have been so generous. Along with most of the Western bands flying in for the festival, I was staying at a ‘five star’, £125 night shit-hole in the heart of Moscow, one block from Red Square and the imposing shadow of the Kremlin.

Sex workers lined the entrance to the hotel, and dark-suited security guards with the thick necks and thicker accents of Bond villains checked the ID of everyone wishing to enter. Enormous black cockroaches clung lazily to the walls and ceiling of the lobby. In my room on the 16th floor I was advised by one of the advance crew to check for bedbugs before turning in for the night.

In my bathroom the water running from the taps was the rich brown colour of yesterday’s piss; in the soap dish there sat a decomposing apple-core. The only towel provided was hanky-thin and crisp as an old rag. Two cigarette stubs floated lifelessly in the toilet pan. I was truly baffled. What the fuck had happened back there when they’d had the Great Revolution? Hadn’t anybody come out on top at the end of it? And if they had, where did those guys go to eat – and sleep?

I had only been in bed 10 minutes when there was a knock at my door. I thought it might be the KGB. But when I opened the door a crack there was only one of the sex workers from the lobby, asking if I’d like to buy champagne (“Only ten dollars, US,” she grinned uninvitingly) or perhaps more (“I keep you company, yes?” Er, no… thanks).

This happened every single night I was there. On the third night, already drunk and feeling emboldened after another day of dog-burgers and Tic-Tacs, I invited her in. She asked if she could bring a friend and out of nowhere another woman appeared. I gave them $20 and we opened a couple of bottles of champagne. It was so sickly sweet it made Asti Spumanti taste like Dom Perignon.

I sat there on the bed morosely, drinking it and asking them about Russia. They agreed that Russian life was “verrry bad”. Never mind, I said, Gorbachev was working on it, right?

“No!” they cried in unison. Gorbachev was “verrry, verry, verry bad!”

They said they’d preferred life under the old regime. At least then, they said, you could get meat and bread and didn’t have to queue for everything. I gave them another $20 when they left and went to sleep feeling worse than ever. Gorby may have been a huge hero to the West back then but apparently he didn’t mean shit to the ordinary whores and champagne guzzlers of Moscow.

I went to sleep thinking I understood but of course I didn’t. It goes without saying that the bands were even more nonplussed when they arrived. Walking through Red Square in the rain with Ozzy the day after he landed, he looked around glumly and summed up the general feeling surrounding the build-up to the festival when he said: “If I was living here full-time, I’d probably be dead of alcoholism, or sniffing car tyres – anything to get out of it. I can understand why there’s such an alcohol problem here. There’s nothing else to do.”

Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx from the Crüe were similarly downbeat when I ran into them backstage at the Lenin Stadium the day before the first of two shows.

“It might be an anti-drugs concert for some people,” said Nikki with a shrug, “but it’s not for us. It’s anti-abuse we’re talking about. That’s our belief. We’re not here to preach. If you tell a young kid not to do drugs, he’s gonna do it anyway. I know I did. We just say – if you cross the line between use and abuse, then that’s really tragic. I’ve crossed that line, many times. And I know from experience that it’s bad, and I try to tell kids not to cross the line. The rest is up to them.”

But then Ozzy and the Crüe were the only bands on the bill still struggling with ‘substance abuse’ issues of their own. Indeed, Ozzy would be arrested for attempting to strangle Sharon within weeks of returning home from Moscow, after drinking the case of Russian vodka miniatures he’d been presented with by the promoter. While Nikki, Vince and the guys were then famously fresh out of an enforced spell in rehab, riding a wagon they were still barely clinging to.

The Scorpions, the only band from the West on the bill to have played there before – 10 sold-out nights in Leningrad in March ’88 – were predictably more upbeat about the festival’s prospects for doing good, hamming it up during their soundcheck at the Lenin Stadium with an over-the-top version of Back In The USSR.

As vocalist Klaus Meine told me afterwards: “There’s everywhere a drug problem, all over the world. So I think it’s good that the bands stand together on one stage and give a message to the kids in the world: forget about the drugs. The best drug is music.”

In the end, it was left to the ever-more earnest Jon Bon Jovi to talk up the festival and put it into some kind of historical perspective. Driving around town with Jon one afternoon in the back of a Russian-made Zil limousine, I listened patiently as he waxed lyrical about Nelson Mandela, Bob Geldof and the impossibility of obtaining a cold beer in Moscow. The two major issues, said Jon, were “money and awareness”.

After the “production costs” all proceeds from the two concerts were clearly earmarked for various drug and alcohol ‘rehabilitation centres’ and ‘substance abuse awareness’ programmes, specifically in the Soviet Union, where until the onset of Gorby’s perestroika it was not officially admitted that a drug or alcohol problem even existed.

The extra “icing on the cake” was being able “to do something no other rock band has yet done”. Live Aid had been about helping the famine-victims of Africa; Moscow was about helping the kids closer to home.

“You know, at this stage of the game, it’s like you ask yourself, ‘What can we do that Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones or the Beatles didn’t already do?’ And being here is it. Not only do we get to come over in a good cause, we also get to put on the kind of rock show never before seen in the Soviet Union.” Meine peered out the window through his shades at the rain sleeting down then added: “People are always ready to question the motives behind why a bunch of rock stars would want to get together and do something like this. And, sure, inevitably you get a clash of egos occasionally. It’s not exactly the easiest thing to organise in the world, we sure found that out! But at the end of the day, I look at it like this.

"I wouldn’t have known about Nelson Mandela’s situation like I do now had I not been drawn to it because of the artists on Amnesty. Or I don’t think that I would’ve ever known about Ethiopia the way I do now if it wasn’t for Bob Geldof. So there is a wonderful icing on the cake. You get to see all these big performers that I enjoy too, but there’s ultimately a cause behind it. And that’s what raises your awareness.”

All of which was true. And yet behind the scenes several spectres still loomed. Not least that of Aerosmith , who not only pulled out of the event at the eleventh hour but also insisted their contribution to the official Make A Difference album (a version of The Doors ’ Love Me Two Times) be lifted from the final pressing, after privately expressing concern over where exactly all the money was actually going.

Then Ozzy threatened to pull out of the event the night before the first show when McGhee suddenly changed his placing on the bill from third to fourth, upgrading Mötley Crüe to the slot above Ozzy. McGhee took the threat seriously enough to return Ozzy to his original placing on the bill, just below the Scorpions and Bon Jovi, and Ozzy kept his promise and did the show.

What Mötley Crüe thought of this was only made clear 12 years later when The Dirt came out. According to Tommy, "Doc had told each band something different in order to get them to do the show. Jon Bon Jovi thought it was just another stop on his world headlining tour, while we thought it was supposed to be a small-scale, reduced set. Then the production manager broke the news to us that we’d been demoted. We were on before Ozzy and The Scorpions, I was fucking livid.

Doc was supposed to be our manager, looking out for our best interests, and he was favouring one of his newer clients, Bon Jovi, over us and the Scorpions, who, in Russia, were massive. 'Fuck you, Doc,' Nikki said to him. 'We didn’t fly all the way to Russia to be an opening act while Bon-fucking-Jovi gets to headline for an hour and a half. What’s up with that?'"

After the show was over, Tommy says, he ‘hunted Doc down and found him backstage. I walked right up to him and pushed him in his fat little chest, knocking him over onto the ground like a broken Weeble. As he lay there, Nikki broke the news: “Doc, you lied to us again. This time you’re fucking fired!”’

The last time I saw Jon Bon Jovi on that trip he was in Red Square, still looking for a cold beer.

“Have you discovered any of the night life here yet?” he asked me hopefully.

I shook my head. We stood there on the steps of St. Asille’s Cathedral in Red Square, along with all the other out-of-towners and tourists, waiting to watch the changing of the guard at the gates of the Kremlin. I don’t think either of us knew what difference any of it really made…

It’ll be alright on the night…

Amid all the backstage chaos, just how did the Moscow shows go down?  

Despite the behind-the-scenes bickering – Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee even punched out promoter Doc McGhee when he realised headliners Bon Jovi were to use pyrotechnics, something all the bands had been told was strictly off limits – music-wise the Moscow Music Peace Festival was a triumph. 

Against all the egotistical odds, each band finally took to the stage and played six songs. Skid Row stormed through a set that featured The Sex Pistols’ Holidays In The Sun , Ozzy Osbourne mixed his own solo material ( Shot In The Dark and Suicide Solution ) with a couple of Black Sabbath classics ( Sweet Leaf, Paranoid ) to a huge response. 

Cinderella were at the height of their powers – turning in a set that included high-voltage versions of Falling Apart At The Seams and Coming Home , while Mötley Crüe channelled their anger into a ball of punkish energy with a ferocious set that featured Girls Girls Girls and Wild Side . 

The Scorpions were given a huge reception – they were arguably the most popular band on the bill back then – and Gorky Park held their own. 

Topping it off, Jon Bon Jovi showed his prowess for courting popularity with the locals by wearing a Russian army coat and hat as the band tore through a show that included Blood On Blood, Wanted Dead Or Alive and Lay Your Hands On Me . Both nights finished in a memorable jam session; members of all the bands joined by drummer Jason Bonham took on Elvis’s Hound Dog (first night), Little Richard’s Long Tall Sally (second night) and Led Zeppelin’s Rock And Roll (both nights).

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Huff, Neil on 2025 ballot for College Football Hall of Fame

Former Longhorn DB Michael Huff and OL Dan Neil are part of the ballot for potential inclusion in the 2025 National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame class.

Irving, Texas – Former Texas defensive back Michael Huff (2002-05) and offensive lineman Dan Neil (1993-96) are on the ballot for potential inclusion in the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame class, the National Football Foundation & College Football Hall of Fame announced on Monday. The ballot includes 77 players and nine coaches from the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision and 101 players and 34 coaches from the NCAA divisional and NAIA ranks.

Longhorn Legends Dan Neil and Michael Huff are on the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame ballot 🤘 @NFFNetwork x @cfbhall pic.twitter.com/mCdANwQTCE — Texas Football (@TexasFootball) June 3, 2024

Huff, an Irving, Texas native, was a two-sport athlete for the Longhorns who earned All-Big 12 honors in both football and track and field. Texas' first-ever Thorpe Award winner as the nation's top defensive back in 2005, he capped off a tremendous season and career that year by earning Defensive MVP honors in the Longhorns' thrilling BCS Championship game victory over USC. Best known for his football IQ, pass defending and playmaking skills, Huff's most significant play was the tackle he made on fourth-and-two, late in the National Championship game, that gave Texas the ball for their game-winning drive. He recorded 12 tackles, one tackle for loss and a fumble recovery in helping the Horns secure its first national title in 35 years.

A two-time All-American who earned consensus first-team honors as a senior, Huff was four-year starter for the Longhorns, starting 50 of 51 career games. He was a two-time first-team All-Big 12 selection who recorded 318 tackles, 26 tackles for loss, seven interceptions, 44 pass breakups (No. 6 in program history), six forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries. Texas registered a 45-6 record (28-4 in Big 12) in his four seasons, posting at least 10 wins each year and three Top 6 final rankings (1st/2005, 4th/2004, 11th/2003, 6th/2002). He was 3-1 in bowl games, including back-to-back Rose Bowl victories in 2004 and 2005. Huff still holds UT records for single-season (two, in both 2002 and 2003) and career interception returns for touchdowns (four) and career defensive scores (five). His 23.1 yards per interception return in a career is still a Longhorn record and his 162 career interception return yards rank fifth. He also was a special teams standout who blocked three kicks.

In his one season of track, he qualified for the NCAA regional meet with a 10.48 in the 100 meters and ran the lead leg on Texas' 400-meter relay that took second place at the Big 12 Championships. That foursome went on to finish third at the NCAA Midwest Regional meet.

A first-round draft pick (7th overall) of the Oakland Raiders in 2006, Huff played eight NFL seasons, mostly as a versatile player who started at both safety spots and cornerback during his career. He played in 118 career games with 94 starts and posted 446 tackles, 11 interceptions and 55 passes defended. He culminated his career by playing in the Super Bowl with the Denver Broncos in 2013. Huff was tabbed second-team All-Pro in 2010. 

Very active in the community both during his time at UT and currently, Huff was recognized by the University of Texas campus group SafeHorns with the Community Impact Award in 2021. The Raiders also named Huff their Walter Payton Man of the Year honoree in 2012 for his community, charity and volunteer efforts.

Huff graduated with a degree in youth and community studies in December 2005 and was enshrined in the Texas Athletics Hall of Honor in 2015. He currently serves as an assistant director of player development.

Neil, a Houston native, was a four-year starter for the Longhorns who played both guard and center. He started all 49 games of his collegiate career, a mark that ranked as the second-longest consecutive starts streak in school history at the time (No. 5 today). Neil was a first-team All-American as both a junior and senior, including consensus honors in 1996 when he was also a finalist for the Outland Trophy and semifinalist for the Lombardi Trophy. He served as a team captain and was the Team MVP as a senior in 1996. He helped Texas win the final Southwest Conference Championship in 1995 and the first-ever Big 12 Championship in 1996 before moving on to the professional ranks. 

Neil was a third-round selection of the Denver Broncos in the 1997 NFL Draft and played eight seasons with the franchise. Neil was a starter on both of the Broncos' back-to-back Super Bowl-winning teams in 1998 and 1999. He was enshrined in the Texas Athletics Hall of Honor in 2008.

Texas has been consistently represented with players selected to College Football Hall of Fame enshrinement for quite some time with the latest being linebacker Derrick Johnson, who was inducted with the class of 2023 in December. Others over the past 20 years are defensive lineman Kenneth Sims (2021), quarterback Vince Young (2019), offensive lineman Bob McKay (2017), running back Ricky Williams (2015), defensive back Jerry Gray (2013), defensive tackle Doug English (2011), defensive lineman Steve McMichael (2009), defensive back Jerry Gray (2007), and running back Roosevelt Leaks (2005). Mack Brown went in as a coach in 2018, joining UT coaching legends D.X. Bible (1951) and Darrell Royal (1983). Bobby Layne was the first Longhorn player enshrined in 1968. All told, 25 Longhorns have been selected for induction.

The announcement of the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame Class will be made in early 2025, with specific details to be announced in the future. The Class will be officially inducted during the 67th NFF Annual Awards Dinner Presented by Las Vegas on Dec. 9, 2025, at the Bellagio Hotel & Resort, and permanently immortalized at the Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta.

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Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s Tour Is a Tribute to a Titan From Their Past

By Andy Greene

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Neil Young and Crazy Horse are about halfway through their North American tour , and there’s already a strong fan consensus that this is their best run in recent memory , perhaps even going back to the Nineties grunge era they helped kickstart. A big factor at play is the addition of guitarist Micah Nelson, who has deep respect for the material and an uncanny ability to emulate the distinct styles of both Danny Whitten and Frank “Poncho” Sampedro, his two main predecessors in the band.

Just two years away from his 80th birthday, Young is playing with a fierce, wild-eyed passion and mixing up the setlist practically every night. Some critics have labeled this a “greatest hits” show since nearly every song in the rotating repertoire was recorded between 1969 and 1979 (or during their early Nineties resurgence), but something more profound is happening onstage than boomer nostalgia.

Young met Briggs right around the time Buffalo Springfield dissolved in 1968. “I was hitchhiking,” Young told biographer Jimmy McDonough in his book Shakey . “He stopped to pick me up. I just wanted to check out the vehicle. Briggs was a unique individual. He was as crazy as I am. I called him Mr. Briggs most of the time. Monsieur Briggs.”

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“Briggs went on the trip — whatever it was,” Young told McDonough. “Stayed with it. As long as it was happening, he was there. Hard to describe, really. The thing is, he knew how much work went into this. If it was a record or a song or somethin’, he knew the effort that went into making it right and the care it took…Very few people understood that. Particularly very few people around me. He was as tenacious as I am. Maybe even more. When he got an idea in his head that somethin’ was fucked, it was fucked. He wasn’t going to change his mind.”

“Get on his wrong side, forget it,” Briggs friend Bobby Morris said. “He’d probably kill you before he’d fight you. Just shoot you dead.”

Briggs was just 51 when he died from lung cancer on Nov. 26, 1995. Young and Crazy Horse headed right into the studio to record Broken Arrow in the aftermath, where they poured their grief into the music. And even 29 years later, Young still looks a little pained every night onstage when he delivers “Scattered (Let’s Think About Livin’).”

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Young’s music has been more than a little scattered since Briggs left the Earth. He’s made some great records like Silver and Gold , Prairie Wind and Psychedelic Pill , but there’s also been a lot of duds that likely wouldn’t have passed the Briggs test.

When David Crosby spoke to Rolling Stone in 2016, he hinted at this without naming any names. “Too often artists just hear, ‘Oh, sweetie, you’re fantastic!'” he said. “They’re not your friends. They’re just kissing your butt. There’s a perfect example of that, a person we both know. I’m not gonna say whose name it is, but it really fits…There’s probably been three or four bad records in a row.”

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We were talking about David Briggs. It’s not a name you hear too often these days unless you’re speaking to a diehard Neil Young fan. Briggs almost never gave interviews, and was content to live far outside the spotlight. But all these years later, Young is honoring him on a tour where he plays “Down by the River,” “Powderfinger,” “Cortez the Killer,” “Cinnamon Girl,” and other timeless songs he created with him. The cheers all night are partially for Briggs.

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