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International
superstar, accomplished businessman and heartfelt philanthropist,
Vince Neil came to exemplify all things rock and roll: the sound, the
success, the look and the outrageous lifestyle. Vince’s unmistakable
voice leads some of the greatest rock songs of this generation
including “Shout At The Devil,” “Home Sweet Home,” “Girls,
Girls, Girls,” “Dr. Feelgood,” “Kickstart My Heart,” “Same
Ol' Situation,” and the recent “Saints of Los Angeles,” which was
nominated for a Grammy Award in 2009 for Best Hard Rock Performance.
With fifteen years between his last solo album, Vince Neil releases
Tattoos & Tequila on June 4, followed by his tell all book of the
same name later in the fall.
When not performing, Vince Neil continues to expand and oversee his
latest entrepreneurial efforts which include Feelgoods Rock Bar and
Grill in West Palm Beach and Las Vegas; Vince Neil Ink, a Las Vegas
based tattoo parlor and apparel shop with two locations -- one on the
Las Vegas strip and one in the Rio Hotel & Casino; Tres Rios
tequila, a high quality, authentic Mexican tequila created from the
finest Agave in Guadalajara Mexico; The Skylar Neil Memorial
Foundation (www.skylarneil.org), a tribute to Vince’s daughter whom
he lost to cancer in 1995 which has raised over $2 million to help
combat childhood cancer and his latest venture, Vince Neil Aviation, a
luxury air charter service providing the the rock n’ roll commute on
either his Lear 35 or Hawker 700 jets.
Raised on the tough streets of Compton, California, Vince Neil fell in
love with music as a child, developing a broad vocabulary that ranged
from classic Motown to hard rock. As a teenager, he began performing
with local bands and soon discovered both a passion for the stage and
a natural talent as a singer and performer. He fronted the popular
band Rock Candy before reuniting with high school buddy Tommy Lee in
1981, sealing rock and roll history with the formation of Mötley Crüe.
In addition to selling 80 million records around the world as the
badass frontman for Mötley Crüe, Vince Neil also began his career as
a solo artist in 1993.
Vince’s Top 200 Billboard albums, Exposed (which reached number 13
on The Billboard 200 albums chart) and Carved In Stone have spurred
the hits “You’re Invited (But Your Friend Can’t Come)”
(co-written by Vince with Jack Blades and Tommy Shaw), “Can’t Have
Your Cake” (co-written by Vince with Steve Stevens) and “Sister Of
Pain” (co-written by Vince with Jack Blades and Tommy Shaw). The
International rock icon’s new album Tattoos & Tequila,
co-produced by Vince Neil, Jack Blades (Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne,
Alice Cooper) and Marti Frederiksen (Aerosmith, Def Leppard,
Buckcherry) is a compilation of genre defining hits that have been
given the Vince Neil rock renewal treatment and is sure to be an
updated rock lifestyle staple.
Neil’s refreshed collection of classics consists of nine
hand-picked, influential covers, as well as two new tracks; “Tattoos
& Tequila,” which was also written and produced by Frederiksen
and “Another Bad Day,” which was originally written by Nikki Sixx
for Mötley Crüe’s release of New Tattoo in 2000 and just missed
the cut. “Mötley Crüe recorded ‘Another Bad Day’ many years
ago and I thought it was one of the best ballads we’d ever done.
When it got voted off of New Tattoo by the rest of Mötley, I held
onto it waiting for the right time to dust it off,” adds Vince. The
title song for the album captures Vince’s signature sound with a
contemporary feel that has been compared to current acts such as Cavo
and Godsmack. “Tattoos & Tequila” celebrates the rock n’
roll lifestyle.
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