Mötley Crüe were back with a new album and new lead singer, John Corabi, this week in 1994. With Corabi in place, MTV News hoped to get the details of the much-publicized falling-out with former frontman Vince Neil (who rejoined the band in 1997).

"We don't wanna talk about [Vince]," the group's Nikki Sixx said. "No one cares anyways."

Did they care when their former bandmate sustained several broken ribs and internal injuries while jet-skiing a few weeks before?

"My heart goes out to you, [Vince]," Mick Mars said with a laugh. "What happened to the coral reef, though?"

"Hey, when 300 pounds of blubber land on the coral reef, you know there was some dust flying around," Sixx added.

The guys generally seemed to be in a snarky mood that day. When asked about women, fire and hairspray, the main components of Crüe videos in years past, Sixx got all indignant.

"Dude, that is such a stupid question," he said with a sneer. "Let's knock the interview off. This is getting f---ing stupid. Women, hairspray and fire. Dude, who wrote those questions? Give me a break."

NKOTB, formerly known as New Kids on the Block, were on tour showing off the tougher sound of their album Face the Music. For that album they changed their name and ditched their Svengali producer, Maurice Starr. We wondered if the group's diehard fans, the blockheads, had evolved along with their idols, particularly the one who told us four years before she would take a bullet for the New Kids. The fan, Megan, sat and watched the footage of herself from 1990 and provided some commentary.

Megan, 1990 footage: When you finally get to see [the New Kids] or meet them or something and you get to touch them, it's like you're touching God.

Megan, 1994: I said that?

Megan, 1990 footage: Definitely, if someone tried to shoot them, I'd definitely jump in front of them.

Megan, 1994: That is devotion, I guess. When you're 16 years old, that's what I thought I would have done.

NKOTB's Donnie Wahlberg and Jordan Knight weighed in about their maturing fans.

Donnie Wahlberg: It's interesting because a lot of the fans have grown up, and fans that had braces and pimples and were a little hefty a few years ago ...

Jordan Knight: They looking kind of fly.

Wahlberg: ... they got the braces off and got some Clearasil and it's all good.

Back to Megan — what were her thoughts on the new album?

Megan: I haven't heard it, to be really honest with you. The reason I haven't really gotten a chance to listen to it is because I'm not into that kind of music. I'm more into Alice in Chains ...

On his first U.S. tour, Beck opened for none other than the godfather of all daredevils, Evil Knievel, who showed a highlight reel of his motorcycle jumps and took questions from the audience. MTV News checked in with the odd-couple gig in New York this week in 1994, though Beck was barely able to perform due to a sore throat that also kept him from talking to us.

The premier motorcycle stuntman of the 1970s and '80s, Knievel did a show-and-tell complete with film footage of his exploits and discussion of his truly death-defying career.

"I created the sport of motorcycle jumping but I did not create the sport of spilling my blood," Knievel said. "The two oldest professions in the world are prostitution and being a gladiator, being in the arena, being like the guy that Caesar wanted to send out there and see killed. I think that's probably what I was to the American public or to the world."

While Beck was of course the main attraction for much of the audience, Knievel felt the folk-rapper's fans were just the type of people he wanted to talk to.

"The young people that are here, judging by their attitudes, I think they're people that care and have a sense about their selves and that are real good-thinking, strong-thinking, good moral human beings and I enjoyed myself here today."

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