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Before Mötley Crüe started their set, the winners of the Rock Band competition performed/played Bang Camaro’s Push Push (Lady Lightning).  They screens of the game being played showed up on the giant screens on the left and right hand side of the stage.  It had to be cool for these kids to be on stage in front of thousands of people.

Mötley Crüe’s stage opened up with an angelic looking image glowing though the black curtain that kept the stage hidden, this image was followed up with a Devil complete with pitchfork.  I don’t think anyone knew what to expect before the curtain dropped.

Mötley Crüe has been known to put on a huge stage production and Cruefest ‘08 is no exception.  The stage has the huge steel letters Los Angeles in Reverse.  The light show and sound were fantastic.

Mötley Crüe’s set list included the songs “Shout at the Devil”, “Kickstart My Heart”, “Dr. Feelgood”, “Live Wire”, “Don’t Go Away Mad” “Sick Love Song”, “Same Ol’ Situation”, “Primal Scream”, “Looks that Kill”, “Girls Girls Girls” and new songs “Saints of Los Angeles” and “Mother Fucker of the year” and an encore of “Home Sweet Home”.

I don’t know how Mick Mars manages to perform to the level he does on stage. His battles with ankylosing spondylitis has him in a lot of pain.  Regardless if he is overwhelmed with pain, he plays to the best of his ability.  He was great in Cincinnati.  He played a bunch of solos including one that he borrowed from Jimi Hendrix.  Awesome!

I thought Mötley Crüe as a whole sounded great, and if they didn’t I would gladly say so.  My wife didn’t think Vince Neil was singing all the words, but I though he sounded pretty good for the most part. There was a part of “Mother Fucker of the Year“, where he looked like he forgot a lyric.  You can see it in the video below. He recovered pretty quickly though.

“Saints of Los Angeles” was pretty cool.  The song closed out with the gang vocals of James Michael, Jacob Shaddix, Chris Brown and Josh Todd.

It seems that the Mötley Crüe Tittycam (or Tit E. Cam if you prefer) has taken the place of Tommy Lee’s drum solo which there was none.  One of the things you could always count on at a live Motley Crue show was an over the top drum solo by Tommy Lee.  I was disappointed that he didn’t do something special this year.  This was about my only disappointment with this show.

Motley Crue’s set was great, as was Cruefest’ 08.  I can’t wait to see what the Crüe has in store for us on  Cruefest ‘09!  I will definitely be there!

I have included some of my favorite pictures from the Mötley Crüe set, and a couple of video clips as well.  Enjoy!

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