Def Leppard’s Rick Savage Admits He “Loved” Touring With Mötley Crüe, Gushes Over Nikki Sixx

With Def Leppard leaving their mark on rock and roll throughout the decades, Rick Savage and singer Joe Elliott are the last original members to still perform with the band. Contributing to every album released by the group, Savage watched not only his career prosper but the industry change with each passing year. Sharing the stage with some of the biggest bands out there, Savage recently discussed Mötley Crüe and how they were some of the “funniest people” he ever met. 

Sitting down to talk all things rock and roll with Made In Metal, Savage shared a snippet of what it was like to tour with Mötley Crüe. The veteran rockstar toured with the band during The Stadium Tour and The World Tour. He insisted, “It was great. [I] absolutely loved it. We’d known Mötley Crüe over the years — well, obviously for 30 years — but we never knew them really well as friends. But we’d met each other in different circles.”

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Rick Savage Promises Mötley Crüe Are “Good People”

Although rumors can give the wrong impression of people, Rick Savage lets their actions do the talking. “I have to say, they turned out to be some of the nicest people that we’ve ever, ever worked with — just really, really great. Contrary to popular belief, they were very professional, they were always on time, they were very friendly. They were even friendly with each other, which some people tend to think that they’re not. Well, they were perfect to be with — absolutely perfect.”

While explaining that it doesn’t always work when bands try to work together, but for Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe, Savage continued, “When you get paired with a band that you don’t really know, you’re never sure how the relationship is gonna work. But literally from day one, the relationship between Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe was very, very tight, very, very close. Nikki Sixx is one of the nicest men I’ve ever met, one of the funniest people I’ve ever met, apart from David Bryan from Bon Jovi. But they’re just good, good people. And like I say, it just made for a really, really enjoyable tour.”

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