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\n\tMotley Crue began a residency in Las Vegas Friday night that was supposed to commence last March, and singer Vince Neil has now revealed the reason for the six-month delay: He suffered a debilitating stroke last Christmas and has subsequently had to learn how to walk again, let alone rock again.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn an interview with Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John Katsilometes published Friday, Neil said that he had the stroke in his sleep on Christmas night 2024 and awoke the next morning realizing that \u201cmy whole left side went out.\u201d Since then, the 64-year-old singer said, \u201cI had to learn to walk again, and that was tough. The doctors said they didn\u2019t think I\u2019d be able to go back on stage again. I go, \u2018No, no, I\u2019m gonna do it. Watch and see.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMotley Crue kicked off what will now be a 10-show residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM on Friday night, with concerts set to continue there through Oct. 3.<\/p>\n
\n\tWhen the residency opened was first announced as being postponed in the spring, the reason given was more vague \u2014 that Neil had to undergo \u201ca required medical procedure.\u201d And even in recent interviews given to promote the residency\u2019s resumption, other band members were cagey about exactly what went down, before Neil himself let the cat out of the bag.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn an interview with the Los Angeles Times published Thursday, bassist Nikki Sixx talked about Neil\u2019s health issues and concerns that fans had raised after seeing the singer return to the stage with a solo show at the beginning of August. Sixx did not specify that Neil had had a stroke but was clear that it was a serious issue.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cHe needed time to heal, and he\u2019s been working really hard,\u201d Sixx told the Times. \u201cYou can tell he\u2019s working up the stamina, and a lot of people are like, \u2018Oh, man, he\u2019s not kicking ass like he used to,\u2019 but it takes a lot of courage to have a doctor tell you you will probably never go onstage again and to fight through that. If he\u2019s got some imperfect moments here and there, they\u2019re getting erased as the days go with rehearsal.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tNeil told the Las Vegas newspaper about doing physical therapy with the help of his girlfriend on his 30-acre ranch for many months this year.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI went from people carrying me to the bathroom, because I couldn\u2019t walk myself, finally to a wheelchair,\u201d the singer said. \u201cI graduated to a walker, and then I had a cane. Now I don\u2019t need anything. But it\u2019s like a full-time job getting back to where you feel good again.. \u2026. 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\u2019t come out right.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tNeil said that he was \u201c90-95% back to where I was before, and it\u2019s going to be great.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tBoth of the aforementioned interviews \u2014 Neil\u2019s with the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Sixx\u2019s with the Los Angeles Times \u2014 also have their subjects addressing the band\u2019s split with former guitarist Mick Mars in 2022 and the sore feelings and lawsuits that have come out of that. Among Mars\u2019 contentions when he went public about being fired was that the band had relied on recordings in concerts for years. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cNo, we never did that, ever,\u201d said Neil in his interview, contending that Mars \u201cwas the only one on tape, because he kept fucking stuff up, so we had him on tape. \u2026 When he started going off on some weird tangent, our sound guy just turned him off and turned the tape on.\u201d <\/p>\n
\n\twrites that when Neil returned to the stage with his solo band in Boston on Aug. 2, some of the singer\u2019s fans \u201capplauded Neil\u2019s long-awaited return,\u201d while others in the Crue fandom \u201cwere concerned over his comparatively sluggish appearance in videos from the show.\u201d A subsequent solo gig was canceled. With these factors all in mind, clips from the Vegas opening are obviously being heavily scrutinized in Motley Crue fan forums.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI am going to push through the best I can,\u201d Neil told the Las Vegas paper of the residency.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe group has a new compilation out, \u201cFrom the Beginning,\u201d that includes material from their 1981 debut album on up through a recent duet with Dolly Parton on the venerable \u201cHome Sweet Home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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