Motley Crue, the greatest metal band of all-time, is suing their manager Carl Stubner and his management company over bad career advice and misplaced revenue. The band is even blaming Sanctuary Management Group for Tommy Lee’s reality TV mishaps. The suit asks for $20 million in damages.

In the lawsuit, filed today in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the four founding members of the band (Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Tommy Lee) through Motley Crue Inc., claim manager Carl Stubner and Sanctuary Management Group gave them bad business advice and attempted to “divert revenue from [the band] and redirect it to themselves. Furthermore, the suit claims, Stubner forced Tommy Lee to “to become engaged in ‘reality’ projects that were bad career moves for Lee, harming [Sixx, Mars, Neil and Lee], the Motley Crue brand and Lee’s own image.”

The suit calls the low-rated NBC show “Tommy Lee Goes to College” a “critical disappointment and a ratings disaster,” adding it painted Lee as “incoherent, lazy and incompetent” and made him “look like a laughing stock who could not carry a drum beat.” The suit also claims Lee’s participation on “Rock Star: Supernova” “diminished the public’s interest in Lee and their overall perception of his musical talents.”

Because Lee was so busy doing reality TV, the band says he was unavailable to tour with the Crue, thus causing the cancellation of several key concert dates. The band claims that they lost $8 million in ticket and merchandise revenue because of Lee’s scheduling conflicts. The band claims these conflicts were “both real and concocted” by Stubner to “leverage his control over Lee to his financial advantage and to Motley Crue and Lee’s detriment.”

I love the Crue. My first cassette singles I owned were ‘Dr. Feelgood’ and ‘Kickstart My Heart’. However, I feel they are at least being petty about the bad career advice in regard to Tommy Lee doing reality TV. If you are Tommy Lee and a member of the bad boys of rock then I would think it’s on you to know that Tommy Lee Goes to College would be a bad idea. Tommy has always been the attention whore of the group. And let’s not forget that Vince Neil was on a season of the Surreal Life.
Didn’t Motley have one of their highest grossing tours ever their last time on the road?