“I’ve been a huge hard-rock/heavy-metal fan for most of my life and never get tired of going to see my favorite bands over and over again,” Gass says. “Over the years, I think it becomes obvious to a lot of us that part of the fun of going to see certain bands is the entertainment that you’ll get out of it in between songs when the singer of the band starts to talk. Whether it’s David Lee Roth’s insane arrogance or Dave Mustaine’s bizarre politics, there are some shows you can’t wait to see for the real moments in between.

“I love sharing these stories with my comedian buddies and hearing the stories they like to add, but here are my Top Five Funniest Hard-Rock Concert Moments. Keep in mind, most of these were unintentionally funny…”

5) PANTERA
“I’ve seen Pantera easily about 20 times. They’re one of the most powerful bands of all time, but Phil Anselmo adds a tone of comedy to every show. He’s always angry about something, and he always says it with limited words.

“Pantera was on Ozzfest 2000, and I saw a couple of those shows, including one at the venue outside of Boston that was then known as The Tweeter Center. In between songs, AND I’M QUOTING, Phil Anselmo actually said, very slowly, ‘HEY…. Motherfuckers…. Check it out…. You go home tonight…. And you tell your friends who fuckin’ missed out on Ozzfest….. You tell them… HEY…… ….. …. You fuckin’… You missed out….. (At this point, you could see that Phil realized that he had repeated himself, and added)….. And you’re stupid.’ And then he hocked up some saliva and spit on the ground.

“Keep in mind, I was in the 18teenth row for this show, and I saw SEVENTEEN ROWS of people in front of me turning to each other and smiling, as if to say, ‘That was fucking HILARIOUS.’

4)  MÖTLEY CRÜE
“Vince Neil is a mess. Even when I saw Mötley opening the Bark at the Moon tour for Ozzy back in 1984, I noticed that Vince didn’t seem to remember all the lyrics to Mötley’s songs. Add to that, the occasional show where he’s completely hammered, and you’ve got a funnier show than ANYTHING going on at The Comedy Store that night.

“This was at The Key Club in 2005, I wanna say, and Vince was HAMMERED. A show that was highlighted with Vince falling off the stage (here’s the fucked up thing… We weren’t even looking at the stage during the incident, and we HEARD Vince fall) and this amazing on stage moment:

“Vince had taken a long time in between songs to grab another drink, came back out and said, ‘OK, everybody, how about we do a little bit of LIVEWIRE FOR YOU RIGHT N–WHAT (his guitar player was whispering in his ear)? Oh, we already played that? OK…. What else have we got?’

“I love that guy.”

3) DOKKEN
“In 2002, there was a tour of ’80s bands featuring Dokken, Warrant, Ratt, and a few others. I know that it’s a cooler move to dismiss these bands than it is to give them any credit, and if you’re one of those people, you really are an idiot, because you miss out on moments like the one I witnessed at The Celebrity Theater in Phoenix.

“Warrant was onstage performing, and in the middle of their set, a dude came climbing on to the stage and walked right into the middle of the band while they were playing. Was it a drunk audience member? No. It was Don Dokkem, who grabbed one of the microphones and started yelling at the band for going over their allotted time! He actually lectured Warrant onstage, and demanded that they ‘Play some “Cherry Pie” and get the fuck off the stage,’ threw the microphone in the air, and stormed off the stage.

“Mike Fasano, the drummer for Warrant at the time, grabbed the microphone when it landed and said, ‘How about a hand for the amazing Don Dokken, everybody’ to the boos of the audience.

“You always hear about bands not getting along on tour, but how often to you get to buy a ticket to watch it happen live?”

2) KISS
“OK, this one I have to admit is intentionally funny by the band, and me makes me immediately respect Paul Stanley.

“The band was on a really long tour with Ted Nugent and Skid Row, and the guys in Skid Row did a thing every night that the audience was never aware of, where they would dare Paul Stanley to incorporate some really silly word or stupid phrase into his onstage banter.

“In Raleigh, North Carolina, they tell Paul, ‘You need to somehow incorporate the words, “Diaper Fight” into your onstage banter tonight.’

“Nobody in the crowd in Raleigh was aware of this, obviously. All I know is that I’m watching KISS perform, and about three or four songs in, the crowd is going nuts, and I’m not sure that I’m hearing it right, but I think I just heard Paul Stanley say, ‘All right people, settle down, settle down…. Let’s not get all worked up here and turn this into a Diaper Fight…’

“WTF?

“I found out the story behind it later, and thought, That’s just cool.”

1) Without question: LOUDNESS
“Opening the Theater of Pain tour for Mötley, I saw this show at The TCC in Tucson and at The Compton Terrace outside of Phoenix. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard the singer of a Japanese heavy-metal band yell out, ‘ARE YOU LEDDY TO LOCK N LOLL, MUDDA FUCKAS?’ followed by waves and waves of laughter from drunk teenagers.”

Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil, 52, was hospitalized Sunday night, the result of a kidney stone attack that struck during Mötley Crüe’s set in Sydney, Australia. Neil underwent surgery this morning.

According to Setlist.fm, the Crüe were nine songs into their set when Nikki Sixx announced that Neil had been taken to the hospital because he had been experiencing pain all night.

Thirty minutes after this morning’s surgery, Neil tweeted, “Just out of surgery. Spent night in hospital probably have to again tonight. Thank you all for the kind words and prayers. Huge thank you to all the paramedics at the All Phones Arena, the ambulance paramedics, the nurses, doctors and Staff.”

Bassist Nikki Sixx updated fans by saying: “Hey guys, I just woke here in Sydney. As many have heard we had to cut our set short by 4 songs last night due to Vince be in severe pain on stage… He was doubled over on his dressing room floor 5 minutes till show time and was told by the promoter to not even play but Vince said he couldn’t do that to the fans. I’ve seen Vinnie go onstage with broken bones, his voice completely blown out and torn ligaments but he never ever cancels. Just like an athlete you sometimes have to play through the pain but last night it became to excruciating.

“I was texting with Vince most of the night last night as he was just waiting for the doctor to come back with the test results.This morning we found out he had to be admitted into surgery to remove kidney stones. He Just got out 5 minutes ago and the doctors said everything went well in the operating room. I am going to the hospital to see him before I head to Brisbane. Will update you more later… Nikki’”.

The 18-date tour kicks off April 20 on the West Coast and runs through May 14 when the band completes the tour in the nation’s capital. This will be the only time the band will perform in Canada in 2013. Mötley Crüe will be joined by Big Wreck; the full tour is been listed below.

The quartet — Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee — became the first rock band in history to complete an epic sold-out Las Vegas residency at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

Mötley Crüe have lured Canada’s Big Wreck to join them on the massive tour. Big Wreck frontman, songwriter and producer Ian Thornley’s “well-schooled Zeppelin inspired rock” secured the Rock Album of the Year Juno nomination for Big Wreck’s current album, Albatross. The five-piece guitar-laden band is sure to bring their sing-a-long radio hits such as “The Oaf,” Blown Wide Open,” “That Song” and “Ladylike.”

For more information on Mötley Crüe and VIP tickets for the tour, visit motley.com or the band’s Facebook page. For more about Big Wreck, visit bigwreckmusic.com.

MÖTLEY CRÜE 2013 Canadian Tour Dates:

April 20, 2013 – Penticton, BC – South Okanagan Events Centre
April 22, 2013 – Victoria, BC – Save On Foods Memorial Centre
April 23, 2013 – Abbotsford, BC – Entertainment & Sports Centre
April 25, 2013 – Prince George, BC – CN Centre
April 26, 2013 – Dawson Creek, BC – EnCana Events Centre
April 28, 2013 – Edmonton, AB – Rexall Place
April 29, 2013 – Calgary, AB – Scotiabank Saddeldome
April 30, 2013 – Lethbridge, AB – ENMAX Centre
May 2, 2013 – Saskatoon, SK – Credit Union Centre
May 3, 2013 – Moose Jaw, SK – Mosaic Place
May 4, 2013 – Estevan, SK – Spectra Place (On Sale March 2)
May 6, 2013 – Brandon, MB – Keystone Centre
May 7, 2013 – Winnipeg, MB – MTS Centre
May 9, 2013 – Sudbury, ON – Sudbury Area
May 10, 2013 – Hamilton, ON – Copps Coliseum
May 11, 2013 – Oshawa, ON – General Motors Centre
May 13, 2013 – Montreal, PQ – Bell Centre (On Sale March 2)
May 14, 2013 – Ottawa, ON – Scotiabank Place

“Overall, I think that ‘Sex’ sounds like 2012 and that makes me really happy,” drummer Tommy Lee recently told AOL’s Noisecreep. “It turned out killer! Not that I’m not into some retro-sounding stuff, but it is 2012 kids — let’s keep it moving. At the end of the day, it’s a great summertime song that’s going to have everybody screaming along to it on this upcoming tour.”

“Sex” was written and recorded during the band’s residency at the Hard Rock Hotley & Casino in Las Vegas earlier this year, and is being released to coincide with the launch of “The Tour,” a massive co-headlining trek that sees the Crue team up with Kiss.

“Sex” was written and recorded during the band’s Las Vegas residency earlier this year, and will be released to coincide with the upcoming co-headlining tour featuring Motley and Kiss, which kicks off next weekend.

The track will be released officially this coming Tuesday, marking the release of the Crue’s first newly recorded material since 2008′s Saints Of Los Angeles (buy on iTunes).

Check out “Nothing To Lose But Our Minds” off This Might Hurt below:

REVOLVER What’s this song about?
MATT JONES It’s a song of hope, about how to overcome the powers and the prejudice that try and deter you from your goals. It’s about having self  belief and never giving in.

Why did you decide to make a video for this song?
We always liked the message in this song, and it has become an audience favorite. It has a really memorable chorus and a positive feel. We hope people will find it uplifting when they listen to it.

How do you guys come up with the concept for the video?
We are big Beatles fans, and we wanted the video to have a Sgt. Pepper/”All You Need Is Love” kind of feel to it. There was a great vibe in the room through the whole day, and I think that comes across when you see it. Almost everyone that as helped us along tthe way from day one, was in the video, so it was also very personal to us and we had great fun making it.

What was the craziest thing that happened at the video shoot?
Well, actually, it was crazy from the start. The shoot started at 10 in the morning and when we arrived at the studio in Kings Cross, we discovered that a workman had drilled through an electric cable, and cut off the power to the whole area. As there was a cast of about 60 to 70 people in the video, we only had one day to get the video finished as it would have been almost impossible to re arrange it for another day.  Fortunately, the power came on early in the afternoon. It was also Tag, our guitar player’s birthday, and the day eventually developed into a full-blown party. We didn’t finish until 5 in the morning and about 10 of the cast members ended back at our manager’s house in Cambridge where we live. It was without doubt the most fun we have had on a video shoot.

“This video is the best depiction of the energy we bring during our live performance,” said frontman Leigh Kakaty of the band’s new video. “Mick & Jessa were terrific to work with! Nathan and his crew made a killer all american rock & roll video.”

“Boss’s Daughter” is taken from the band’s most recent effort, 2011′s War of Angels.