Mötley Crüe, the return to the stages after Vince Neil’s stroke

On September 12, at the Dolby Live at Park MGM, the Mötley Crüe kicked off theirs Residency in Las Vegasoriginally scheduled for last spring and reprogrammed for the next few weeks to allow the singer Vince Neil to undergo not better specified “medical treatments”. Only on the eve of the series of ten concertswith the first two staged between Friday and last night, the singer explained The nature of his health problems.

In a recent interview, released to the “Las Vegas Review-Journal” just before the start of the Residency, Vince Neil made it known that he had suffered a stroke while he was at home last Christmas, also explaining that The doctors doubt that he would never be able to get on a stage again. According to what reported, the stroke had in fact Private Neil Dthe use of the legsforcing him to commit hard to get back on his feet. “I had a stroke. The whole left side went out of use. I had to learn to walk again, and it was difficult, “said the 64 -year -old musician:” The doctors said that they didn’t think I would be able to return to a stage. Instead I said: ‘No, no, I’ll do it. Look and you will see. From the condition in which I find myself, with people who had to bring me to the bathroom because I couldn’t walk aloneI finally went to a wheelchair. Then I went to the walking area, and finally to the stick. Now I don’t need anything. But it’s like having a full -time job to return to feel good again. It takes time for the brain to start moving your legs, so that they do what the brain wants. You try to walk, but you can’t do well. It was difficult, but I came backthey are 90-95% of what I was before, and it will be fantastic “.

On the evening of December 12, the Mötley Crüe then held the first concert since October 2024, breaking their residency in Las Vegas with a concert of thirteen songs among their greatest successes. According to what was reported by “Ultimate Classic Rock”, he wins Neil moved on stage understandably cautiously, but his voice “played exactly like the last time he had performed” with the band. During the concert, however, nobody referred to Neil’s health accident, which at the beginning of the live was joked: “What happens in Las Vegas remains in Las Vegas. What happens to the Mötley Crüe ends up on TMZ“.

The band, now formed by Vince All with Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee and the “new” guitarist John 5, kicked off the first two concerts at the Dolby Live at Park Mgm with two songs from his debut album of 1981, “Too Fast for Love”, and then continued with “Wild Side”. Subsequently, before attacking with “Primal Scream”, on the evening of September 12, Sixx wanted to clarify to the public that it was not a theater show with dinner sitting: “Get up immediately, even in the more expensive places,” he said: “You have to get up, raise your hands, You are at a concert by the Mötley Crüe, not of the Backstreet Boys. This is rock and roll!“.

The shows on Friday and Saturday continued by proposing the same ladder, which also includes a medley of cover, before the ending with “Dr. Feelgood”, “Same Ol ‘Situation”, “Girls, Girls, Girls” and “Kickstart My Heart”.

Here is the lineup of the concert on September 12th:
Too fast for love
Live wire
Wild Side
Shout at the Devil
Looks that kill
Primal Scream
On with the show
Home Sweet Home
O’clock only
Rock and Roll, Part 2 / Smokin ‘in The Boys Room / Helter Skelter / Anarchy in the UK / Blitzkrieg Bop / Fight for Your Right
Dr. Feelgood
Same ol ‘situation (sos)
Girls, Girls, Girls
Kickstart My Heart