Motley Crue Do An Axl Rose And Keep The Fans On Ice For Three Long Hours Due To A ‘Technical Fault’

Motley Crue revived the ghost of Guns N’ Roses past in Utah this week as they kept their fans waiting outside the auditorium for three long hours before the wrinkled rockers took to the stage and did what they do best.

Flamboyant peacock rockers Motley Crue have long made their intentions to pull the curtains on a glittering, albeit grotesque career as 2015 fades into 2016. As such, our leather clad, tattooed heroes are determined to bow out with an almighty cock rocking bang, rather than a watered down whimper in the time left between now and then.

Yet after suffering the boredom of a three hour wait for the Crue to deliver the goods in Salt Lake City, the more mature fans of the original livewires may have felt a little less like raising hell and more like settling down with a comfortable blanket and a cup of something hot and easy on the nerves.

Contact Music reports that the Crue’s Utah show was due to begin at 7 p.m., but fans were kept waiting around outside the auditorium until 10 p.m. when they were finally admitted.

Perhaps not the farewell show Utah was expecting, but punctuality and rock n’ roll have never been natural bedfellows.

In the land of cock rock, punctuality is not so much a king, more of a b**ch that will enslave you with her cold iron will, but only if you let her.

Perhaps the greatest enemy of what one might term “clock rock” is none other than Axl Rose. The Guns N’ Roses singer is renowned for being spectacularly late for his own concerts. Naturally, Axl being Axl, also refuses to apologize for his tardiness and pretty much said in 2013, that’s just the way it is, so there.

“I’m not a ‘punctual’ type of person, never have been. I’ll apologize to anyone I’ve inconvenienced or put out in any way. And for those who’ve felt they’ve lost money with any cancellations in the past perhaps you’ll find some comfort in that I’m sure I’ve lost tens of thousands, if not millions, more – especially in the long run. In general I usually don’t really go by or live my life by a clock and outside of touring I don’t really ask anyone else to. It’s not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.”

Of course, as befitting civilized gentlemen of their more advanced years, Motley Crue were quick to stress that their little Salt Lake hiccup was beyond their control and down to technical problems.

What exactly these “technical problems” consisted of is anybody’s guess, but Nikki Sixx indicated cryptically on Twitter, it could have been something to do with the building.

“Sorry for the delay. This building did ‘not’ have their act together today. We will have 100 per cent of our show later.”

With all the enthusiasm of a man on the savage side of 50, Vince Neil was also keen to point out that it was not his group’s fault and that all he and the rest of the Crue gang wanted to do was rock, and rock hard.

“Sorry Salt Lake for delay! Not our fault, we’ve been ready to rock for hours!…”

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