Mick Mars

Mick Mars (born Robert Alan Deal, May 4, 1951 in Huntington, Indiana is the lead guitarist for heavy metal/hard rock band Mötley Crüe. After his family relocated from Indiana, to California, Robert Deal dropped out of high school and began playing guitar in a series of unsuccessful blues based rock bands throughout the seventies, taking on menial day jobs to make ends meet. After nearly a decade of frustration with the California music scene, Dea... more

Mick Mars (born Robert Alan Deal, May 4, 1951 in Huntington, Indiana is the lead guitarist for heavy metal/hard rock band Mötley Crüe. After his family relocated from Indiana, to California, Robert Deal dropped out of high school and began playing guitar in a series of unsuccessful blues based rock bands throughout the seventies, taking on menial day jobs to make ends meet. After nearly a decade of frustration with the California music scene, Deal reinvented himself, changing his stage name to Mick Mars and dyeing his hair jet black, hoping for a fresh start. In April 1981 he put in a want ad in the Los Angeles The Recycler newspaper, describing himself as a "loud, rude, and aggressive guitar player". Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee contacted him and after hearing him play decided he would be their guitarist. Upon Tommy's prodding, they persuaded a former high school friend of Tommy's and local Rockandi singer/frontman Vince Neil to join. It was Mick's suggestion that the band be called... less