Motley Crue were set to return to the live stage this weekend after previously postponing a Vegas residency from March to this month. The move of dates centered around the health issues of singer Vince Neil who opened up to the Las Vegas Review-Journal about what has kept him sidelined.
“I had a stroke,” Neil said. “My whole left side went out… I had to learn to walk again, and that was tough. The doctors said they didn’t think I’d be able to go back on stage again. I go, ‘No, no, I’m gonna do it. Watch and see.'”
Neil continued: “I went from people carrying me to the bathroom, because I couldn’t walk myself, finally to a wheelchair. I graduated to a walker, and then I had a cane. Now I don’t need anything. But it’s like a full-time job getting back to where you feel good again. It takes a while to get your brain to start moving your legs, for them to do what your brain wants to do. You try to walk but it doesn’t come out right.”
Neil said he worked with a football coach in his hometown of Nashville “doing a lot of running” to get back on track. “It’s been tough, but I’m back, I’m 90, 95 percent to where I was before, and it’s going to be great,” he said.
Motley Crue last performed live in October of 2024. Bassist Nikki Sixx also recently hinted via social media that his touring days might soon come to an end. “Love playing the songs and honestly most of them are very personal to me but being on the road is not for me for too much longer,” he wrote. “I have a six-year-old girl to raise and five wonderful older kids and a granddaughter to spend time with.”
