In a recent chat with Metal Rules, Peter Baltes suggested that Mick Mars would have benefitted from recording his entire solo album with John Corabi.
When asked about his involvement in Mars’s solo project, the former bassist for Accept shared that Corabi did indeed contribute to the record, saying:
“Yeah, he did. I think he’s got a– Mick then said he wants to put up one song that John Corabi sang. I think he should have done the whole album with him, but with these guys, you never know. It doesn’t matter. To me, it doesn’t. I was just a hired gun. So that’s it.”
Transition From Accept To Solo Ventures
Baltes announced his role on Mick’s solo project in a June 2023 interview with Finland’s Chaoszine while discussing his departure from Accept. He cited a decline in his enjoyment over the last two years with the band and unspecified discoveries that soured his experience, explaining:
“I’d been together with Wolf [Hoffmann, Accept guitarist] my whole life, and that wasn’t really necessary. Some people have to have all the control, and when it started going into the artistic control, then it really bothered me more. So I really wasn’t into it anymore. And I was glad I did it because it was 2018, and it was the last tour. And then Corona happened anyway, so I got to record a lot of different albums. I played on Mick Mars’s [Mötley Crüe] solo album. I did so many different things.”
Mars’s Solo Album Decisions
Mars’s decisions regarding his debut solo album, ‘The Other Side Of Mars,’ have been a topic of interest and speculation. The guitarist himself addressed why songs recorded with Corabi in 2016 were excluded from the album during an appearance on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk. He cited an unnamed individual’s interference and dissatisfaction with the songs’ strength.
In another discussion with Marcelo Vieira of the Igor Miranda YouTube channel, Mick elaborated on the absence of Corabi from the album. Despite the singer’s busy schedule and their mutual respect, Mars and Corabi decided against collaborating to avoid repeating their work from the ’94 Mötley Crüe album.
