Synopsis
Motley Crue arrive at a Sunset Strip strip club on motorcycles and spend the night taking in its rowdy atmosphere. The band performs amid dancers, patrons, flashing lights, and backstage activity, while additional footage follows them riding through Los Angeles after dark. Mick Mars gets a standout solo moment in the dressing room, and the video closes with stark black-and-white performance shots that reinforce the band's rough, decadent 1987 image.
Factoids & Trivia
- The video was filmed during the night of April 13, 1987, at the Seventh Veil on Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard.
- The band originally hoped to film at The Body Shop, but that club was entirely nude and did not serve alcohol, so the production moved to the Seventh Veil.
- During pre-production, the band and production team visited several Los Angeles strip clubs on motorcycles, including Jumbo's Clown Room and Gold Diggers, while looking for locations and dancers.
- Many of the club patrons seen in the video were extras. The dancers included both strippers and professional dancers brought in for the shoot.
- The opening motorcycle footage was captured with a 16mm Arriflex camera. Some of the moving shots were filmed from the back of Tommy Lee's motorcycle.
- Vince Neil came up with the idea for his chair move during the song's boogie breakdown, using a prop that had already been used by the dancers.
- An early version included topless footage. It was submitted to MTV, rejected, and replaced by the edited version that became the familiar broadcast clip.
- The black-and-white performance inserts were filmed separately at a nearby soundstage after the club scenes.
- The video's imagery closely matched the band's real-life 1987 persona: motorcycles, Sunset Strip nightlife, leather clothing, and a deliberately unpolished sense of excess.