Press release of the day: Band ‘inspired’ to delay CD release

It’s a pretty typical situation: an older band, particularly one reunited after some rancor, wants to launch a big, moneymaking album and tour. But the hits don’t come like they used to. And maybe a major, much-rumored business deal didn’t come through. So the album gets delayed a little bit. How to spin it?

Mötley Crüe’s answer: Say that the band’s own press conference “inspired” them them to go back into the studio and come up with something for radio! I certainly feel more inspired to spend a hundred bucks to see Vince Neil and Papa Roach, don’t you?

CRÜE FEST ANNOUNCEMENT INSPIRES BAND TO RECORD NEW SONG AND MOVE ANTICIPATED CD “SAINTS OF LOS ANGELES” TO JUNE 24TH

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Los Angeles, CA (May 12, 2008) — Inspired by the energy and experience of their performance with their Crüe Fest cohorts Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Sixx:A.M. and Trapt at the press conference to announce the upcoming mega-tour, Mötley Crüe extended the production for their upcoming CD, returning to the studio this week to record one more track for the highly-anticipated album Saints of Los Angeles. The first new studio album recorded with all of the original band members in over a decade, Saints of Los Angeles will now be released on June 24th. Lyrically, the new album follows the story of the band’s NY Times best-selling memoir The Dirt, a no-holds-barred tell-all that features every gritty detail of the group’s exploits as one of the world’s biggest rock bands...

Says Sixx, “Before our performance at the press conference, we were firing on all cylinders at sound check just jamming out, and that’s when the new idea came. We quickly laid it down and went to the studio to record it, and liked it so much we pushed back the release one week so that we could get it onto the album — it now has 13 tracks. It’s the ultimate song to end the record with and begin the new chapter of our career.”