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Motley Crue to Commemorate Vinyl Reissue With Limited Edition Leather Box Set, "Journals of the Damned"
First Five Career Albums Available Along With "Saints of Los Angeles" on November 25th
Motley Crue, the world's most notorious rock
band, announced today that Eleven Seven Music/Motley Records will release
vinyl configurations of their current hit album "Saints of Los Angeles"
along with their first five classic studio albums, "Too Fast For Love"
(1981); "Shout at the Devil" (1983); "Theatre of Pain" (1985); "Girls,
Girls, Girls" (1987) and "Dr. Feelgood" (1989) on November 25, 2008. Each
album was pressed on high quality 180 gram vinyl and cut from the original
analog master tapes.
To mark this occasion Motley Crue is releasing a limited edition leather
box set, "Journals Of The Damned," containing all six vinyl releases.
Limited to a sales run of 500, each set is individually numbered and also
contains a Shout At the Devil Era lithograph signed by all four members of
the band. The sets are available exclusively for order at the bands website
www.Motley.com.

The release of these Motley Crue albums on vinyl comes as many music fans
are embracing vinyl for its superior sound quality and new technology
allowing the transfer to MP3. With increased availability at major music
retailers and online, LPs are making a comeback as are the turntables they
are played on.
"I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it
had. There's nothing like it," said Nikki Sixx. "You also get that true
gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great which CDs
can never achieve. With the current resurgence of vinyl, it came at a
perfect time for us to open up the next generation of rock fans to what
they've been missing out on."
Motley Crue has sold over 80 million albums worldwide, 25 million in the
U.S. alone, with six singles reaching the top 20 on the U.S. Billboard
chart. "Saints of Los Angeles," the first new studio album with all of the
original band members in over a decade, was released in June and debuted at
#4 on the Billboard 200 chart and was the #1 independent release of the
week. This marks the first time these highly successful albums have been
available on this format in over fifteen years, and the first for Saints of
Los Angeles. Motley's full catalog was also made available on CD on
September 30, 2008.
About Eleven Seven Music
Eleven Seven Music is the fastest growing Independent active rock label
(according to Mediabase and industry trade Radio & Records) and is among
the top five performing rock labels since its inception in January 2006.
With the recent #1 independent release from Motley Crue (the label scored
the #2 position last year with Sixx:A.M.'s The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack
and Buckcherry's Platinum and Grammy-nominated 15), Eleven Seven continues
to build on its model of research-based marketing strategies targeted
directly to the fans and building out from that base. Helmed by President
Nikki Sixx, the label's roster includes Motley Crue, Buckcherry, Sixx:A.M.,
Trapt, Drowning Pool, The Exies, Marion Raven, Charm City Devils and The
Last Vegas.
For more information on Motley Crue, please visit: www.motley.com
Direct link to purchase box set and vinyl's:
http://www.fanfire.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/fanfire.woa/wa/product?sourceCode=MOTWEB&sku=MOT45295
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