Mick Mars (formerly of Mötley Crüe) shares details of his next solo album: “It has to be different”

Mötley Crüe former guitarist Mick Mars discussed the creative inspiration for his recently released debut solo album, “The Other Side Of Mars,” as well as the impending follow-up project, on which he is presently collaborating with engineer/producer Chris Collier, in a recent interview with Tone-Talk. 

It has to be different. And I’ve said this before — on this record that I did, ‘The Other Side Of Mars’, was my first step to where my mind is. Especially when you listen to songs like ‘Undone’ and ‘Killing Breed’, and some of those kind of songs like that, I’ll always have the bangers, but those songs are more of the place where I wanna go. On this next album we’re working on now, Chris and I, is a level up, it’s a step up — the next level. In other words, what I try to do is to take Mick Mars fans with me. And with going with me, like when I do the album, is I get ahead of myself sometimes, but it’s like a journey. You sit down and put on the record, it takes you places. And the same with this one, but levels up.

Earlier this year he also talked about the variety of sounds in “The Other Side Of Mars” and how long it took for him to come up with the material:

I think that me being on my own really doesn’t give me any boundaries or any restrictions or stuff. I can take it to wherever I would like to have it. My album is pretty diverse. It shows different sides of how I write or how I approach music — just a lot of different things. Some of [the ideas] I had for a while, but it took me a good four years to get out what I really wanted to. ‘Cause I listen back to some of my older stuff and I go, ‘Ugh’, and I get rid of it. ‘Cause it sounds dated. I didn’t wanna sound like, ‘Here’s an old rocker that’s playing 1980s music still.’ And not that that’s a bad thing, but I couldn’t stay there. I needed to get something different or something people wouldn’t really expect from me. I can play anything. I played everything, from country music to a lot of different things, a lot of different influences, a lot of people that I listen to, everything from classical, Mozart, Beethoven, and all those people, and country music, and all sorts of stuff. I fell in love with the blues.