MICK MARS
The Mötley Crüe traditionalist churned out some of the loudest, rudest and most aggressive guitar licks of the ’80s.
LIKE ACE FREHLEY, Mick Mars had the misfortune of working with bandmates whose antics, both onstage and off, effectively overshadowed him. What’s more, Mars was a few years older than his ’80s guitar-playing peers when he joined the band and something of a traditionalist compared to the rest of the Sunset Strip crew. After all, he had grown up listening to the likes of Clapton, Beck and Mike Bloomfield and playing in ’70s-era blues rock bar bands, rather than woodshedding two-handed tapping and other EVH techniques in his bedroom.