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Mick Mars's retirement from touring with Motley Crue might finally give him enough time to finish his long-in-the-works solo album.
Mars started work on the project before the Crue's "Final Tour" that ran from 2014 to 2015 and put it on hold once the band decided to unretire and tour with Def Leppard. Now, as the Crue get ready to hit the road with John 5, Mars is in his Nashville studio and back to work.
Cory Marks, who collaborated with Mars on a track called "Outlaws and Outsiders" from The Retaliators soundtrack, posted on Instagram that he spent last Saturday with Mars, "one of the coolest, sweetest, most kind down-to-earth bad asses on this planet that I’m lucky to call a friend." Marks also thanked Mars for "having me over and letting me hear your new project…which sounds HUGE. The rock world is in for something weird, special, great and LOUD."