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VH1 Behind the Music - Motley Crue

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It appears that Amazon.com has linked the description of the highly anticipated Video Hits Collection with this Behind the Music Edition. This is the DVD version of the Motley Crue: VH1 Behind The Music (with additional footage). It includes one music video - Motley Crue's single "Enslaved". As mentioned above this DVD title has additional footage, scene access, a music video, discography, and interactive menu. The running time of this DVD is 65 Minutes. The video transcription to DVD is very good. Remember however, that you're dealing with some older video footage of varying quality here. The video quality of the music video is comperable to that of a hand held camcorder. It looks like bootleg concert footage, but hey it's art! It's supposed to look that way! The interview segments with Nikki, Tommy, Vince, Mick and other music industry people, on the other hand are very sharp, crisp and focused - especially the Sixx interview footage. This is my favorite "Behind the Music" episode - and it's even better without the commercials and narative redundancy (if you've seen the show you know what I mean). If you love the Crue, I highly recommend it. If you are just learning about the Crue, this should be "required reading material"!

An excellent documentary on the history of Motley Crue. The quality of the picture and sound is great. The only thing I wish they had done was to remove the editing on this DVD. In the U.S. apparently VH1 is a television show or something, but I've never heard of it in Canada. The editing should have been fine for television, but on DVD, they could have removed the beeps over the foul language and distortion over the nudity.

Other than that this is the DVD to get if you are a Crue fan, or interested in the history of 80/90's metal/rock bands.

This is not a hype DVD like Uncensored or anything like that. This seriously follows the life of the members of Motley Crue. Each member had a great story to tell. Vince Neil's daughter & car accident, the celebrity marriages, drug overdoses, arrests, it's all here, and told honestly.

I've watched this DVD about 5x and this is one of the greatest Behind The Music episodes I have ever seen. Motley Crue takes for a ride on the wild side and tells you everything from the beginning of their lives through the early days of the band all the way up to 1999. They tell you secrets that no fan would ever think was possible. This band did it all, went through it all and lived it all. In addition to buying the DVD, the Crue's tellall book, "The Dirt" should be the next thing to buy from the Crue. The DVD and movie prove why Motley Crue was the most notorious rock and roll band to ever walk the earth. This DVD made me a Motley Crue fanatic. These guys are the greatest.

Long live, MOTLEY CRUE!

This title was originally advertised as the "Video Collection" and was supposed to contain all the classic Crue videos in Dolby Digital 5.1. Instead, it is simply a repackaging of the VH1 Behing The Music special and the sound is only 2.0. This is a huge let-down!

Anyone whose seen the VH1 Crue special and liked it, especially Crue fans will gallop over this. The DVD version comes with about 10 minutes extra footage and the video from their Hits CD, the song Enslaved. The only disappointment is no footage or interview with John Corabi. DVD's usually add a mess of unreleased material that is not included for VHS, and it would have been great to seen anything on John Corabi. But this will do, this is the best VH1 BTM available right now for metal, in fact I believe it's the only one.

This is a Motley fan's dream come true. You get to see everything from when it was on TV with no commercials, plus extra footage. And as an added bonus, we get a video for "Enslaved". The only downfall to this DVD is that it is censored. You hear none of the swearing. You would think they would keep that in there. But hey, it's Motley and who cares. They do need to release that video collection DVD! But anyway, I highly recommend this DVD.

"Behind the Music" was always a hit-or-miss proposition. Either you cared about these people's drug dependency or you didn't. Either they did something outrageous or it didn't work. The Weird Al Yankovic one was particularly dull. Others tended to fall under the weight of the preachy narrator's voice. Sure there were some classics like Henry Rollins narrating the story of Freddie Mercury, or the Boy George episode which was almost exclusively about his unrequited love for his drummer. Sadly the show became boring since the episodes became formulaic. Star begins career hopeful. Star has great hits. Star does stupid things. Star hits the skids. Star gets his life in order for the uplifting last 5 minutes. Star tries to shill new work that pales in comparison to old work.

Motley Crue isn't much different except for one very important aspect. These guys have no shame. The most repentant you're going to get is Tommy Lee saying that shooting up heroin was "kinda messed up" although I think he used a different verb there. These guys drank, shot up and had an amazing time without missing a beat.

Key moment happens when they interview Ozzy Osbourne about their tour together. Ozzy has enough sense to be embarrassed by what he can remember from it. The band doesn't even have that. It's the same story but its the difference between hearing it at an AA meeting and hearing it at a Frat party.

This is one of the truly amazing chapters in rock history - not for what Motley Crue sang or did but how much they admit to loving their past sins.

This dvd from Vh1 is killer! it tackles every angle of the crue and touches on things with them that most bands would never admit to. a very good watch!

Bassist Nikki Sixx begins by stating bluntly: "We wanted to !@#$ ALL the women and we wanted to snort ALL the drugs." And with that being said, VH1 kicks off its 65-minute raucous Behind the Music profile at the tempestuous lives of four heavy metal rebels that shook the foundation of the L.A. club scene and beyond. Love 'em or hate 'em, Motley Crue is presented here before you in all of their shameful and unsavory glory: from Vince's manslaughter case to Tommy's infamous porno video to Nikki's untimely death and subsequent rebirth. No stone is left unturned, though for true Crue fans some of the anecdotes may seem familiar, having been mentionned on previous documentary compilations such as their Greatest Hits Video release of the 90's. Adding some extra tidbits of footage, such as rare studio out-takes or additional rock star cameos, would have been cool and perhaps may have shed more light on an already dismal picture. But for an amusing albeit sardonic retrospective look back at the hey-days of 80's rock n' roll, this one's worth the price of admission...press play and take a ride on the wildside!

Over the years,with Motley Crue being one of America's most succesful and influential rock bands,as well as being so infamous,it has been great to learn more about The Crue--and VH1's "Behind The Music" special on Motley Crue proves just that.

The documentary that is on this DVD is not perfect,and it is a little slow at times,but other than that,it is really good. You get to learn a little bit about Nikki Sixx,Tommy Lee,Mick Mars,and Vince Neil as individuals and see really good pictures of Sixx,Lee,Mars,and Neil from when they were young and before they were in Motley Crue(there is also really good video footage of both Nikki and Tommy from when both Nikki and Tommy were young)and all of Motley Crue's career from when Motley started out up until the late 90's (which is when this documentary was made)is covered here. You get to learn about pretty much everything that Motley Crue band members did that proved to be controversial here,and while I shouldn't give away everything and let you see this DVD for yourself,all of the footage of Motley Crue from most of Motley's career that is here,as well as the really good,entertaining,and in-depth interviews with Nikki Sixx,Tommy Lee,Mick Mars,and Vince Neil--make this one of the best Motley Crue DVDS you will find anywhere.

Don't forget to purchase this DVD,and let me add that "The Dirt",the autobiography of Motley Crue,is worth purchasing with this DVD right at the same time(yes,you can find "The Dirt" right here off of Amazon as well).