20?s w/ new Motley Crue drummer Harvey Warren!

20?s w/ new Motley Crue drummer Harvey Warren!

Motley Crue drummer Harvey Warren

and Motley Crue boobie-cam operator Tommy Lee

Well we have a few very cool interviews coming your way, but felt the need to bump everyone back a week. Why you ask? For obvious reasons, like to bring you 20?s with Motley Crue drummer Harvey Warren. This has been a hot story, and unless you’ve been under a rock, or at a cooking convention in Kentucky, then you’re aware of Harvey Warren and his recent run-in with Motley Crue!

So without further babble, read on and enjoy.

1: What’s new with 1-900, plug your Cds, tours, websites and more?

HW: We are 1-900 from Calgary Alberta, we have a new CD out that’s self titled and our 3^rd independent CD. We recorded it at Chad Kroeger’s house from Nickelback with Joey (you know what the hells on Joey’s head – Joey) and it was produced by Brian Howes. We just had a big CD release last weekend with a sold out show of 600 people.

You can visit us at www.one900band.com and we are just in the middle of a bunch of media/press stuff from the CD release, my fill-in with Tommy Lee, and our singer Jd is doing a documentary with “RockStar” the TV show.

Harvey Warren plays drums for Motley Crue while Tommy Lee chills behind

the monitors giving him instructions via head-set & in-ear monitors system.



2.  Let’s skip the bullshittin’ dude, what’s up with you & Motley FUCKIN’ Crue? Tell the Sludgeaholics and Sludgettes how you ended up playing with Motley Crue?



HW: I was at work (at Starbucks) and I was just gonna go on a lunch break. When my cell phone rang and somebody said; "hey are you coming to the Motely Crue show in Red Deer?" And I said: "Well…I don’t know." And then they said we wanted to do a practical joke on Tommy and the rest of the Crue! And I said: “Well okay.” I kind of didn’t believe them at first and I thought it was the local radio guys playing a trick. So the guy goes: “Listen, I know you don’t believe me, but I’m going to have somebody call you, that put us in contact with you and let you know it’s the real thing. We wanna do this thing on these guys.”

So before the other guy could even call me, I think they were just panicked, and their road manager called me and says: "Listen Harvey, this is the REAL DEAL! How familiar are you with the material and how long will it take you to get to Red Deer? Cause I need you to play anywhere from 2 songs, to the whole night!" And I said: "Well, I can be there in 3 hours!"

HW: Wednesday.

HW: "I got there about 2:30 quarter to three." And they go: "Go right up to the drum kit! We’re taking you right up to the drum kit, sit down and just start playing!" So then I thought, maybe this is a big joke.

HW: So they said: “Okay, you got about a half an hour till Nikki and Mick gets here.” So I went in the back and took the set list that they were currently playing, and then I was able to cut down from what I was suppose to learn, to what I already knew. And then the boys ( Nikki & Mick) arrived and the 3 of us went over a couple tunes. Nikki said: “What do you know best? Let’s go over that.” Just to feel it out, check the sound and monitors. So we did “Shout at the Devil” and ahhh…some other tune ( Harvey’s thinking and drawing a blank?). Then Vince came, and we did a couple songs with Vince. It was all good, and then Vince left. Then we just went over some beginnings and endings and what we were going to do. And I cut a couple songs out, cause they do a “Glitter” and “Without you” kind of a mix. And I didn’t have enough time to learn the medley going into each other. So they just did the songs that I knew, and we did 2 hours, and no drum solo, thank God!

MS: Who said this, Nikki or Tommy?



HW: Nikki. Nikki kept doing that. Well Tommy was in the hospital.

HW: Nope, Nope. What seemed weird, was that first I went into Nikki’s room for some of the DVD endings, and then me & Tommy went over a bunch of drum stuff, I made a big cheat sheet, and we had an hour til show time, and we got ready, and went on!

MS: How was it for you, being in Nikki “Fucking” Sixx’s dressing room, and him looking at you with a serious ass look, going: “Dude, this is how we do this ending and that ending?” What are you thinking? You had to be practically pissing yourself?

HW: Yeah I was. On one hand, he’s like totally my idol, but I was so in the zone, that it was just “this needed to be done!” You know?

Nikki just kept on saying: “Just have fun!” And Mick was awesome. Mick was like: “Anything you don’t know? Just 4 on the floor! Just play right through it!”

HW: And Nikki was just like: “Man, just have a ton of fun!” And Tommy actually sat beside me through the whole show!

HW: Yeah. Well I had my in-ears in, and he’s got a microphone. So I can hear what he’s saying to me. And then he’s punching me in the ass and telling me to show off a little bit too.

HW: Yeah, I got the whole Tommy Lee spins down, twirl the sticks and stuff. I do this stick toss where I throw it up in the air and catch it upside down and stuff. He was just lovin’ it. He was involved too. We came out and did “Shout at the Devil” and then he came right out front. He had hi sin-ears in, and he just did the show as if he was doing everything, but playing the drums. He came right out and introduced me and the band, and then said what was going on. And he still did the boobie cam, road his harley out, and Mick does his solo and they have a couple crash parts, so he came out on the drum kit and did that. And he did the piano for “Home Sweet Home” so people thought it was pretty cool you know. I have a bit of video from it, and everybody was pretty happy with the outcome I think. I mean a lot of people know who I was in that area. There were a lot of people from my town there.

HW: Well I’m home right now. And they have a flights booked for me, but if it’s not needed, than I don’t go out. So, I’m on call. I actually think they got another buddy of Tommy’s, I don’t know who it is, maybe his drummer from his other band was coming to visit him anyway. So, he might be filling in a song or two, or maybe the whole night. I’m not too sure. But they still phone me all the time and let me know what’s going on.

Harvey Warren and Vince Neil compare arm pits and tattoos!