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By STEVE MASCORD
A COUPLE of weeks ago, 64-year-old Motley Crue singer Vince Neil confirmed to the Las Vegas Register he had suffered a stroke last Christmas.
The interview was conducted to promote the Crue’s current Vegas residency and attending one of the shows was Sirius XM host Eddie Trunk, who asked Neil to appear on his show which – for roughly 50 percent of the time – is broadcast out of the gambling mecca.
That interview finally took place on Wednesday September 24 and we sifted through it for the good stuff so you don’t have to.
Neil had four strokes, not one. He did not get to hospital inside a 12-hour window which allows the patient to receive important treatment: “I’ve had four strokes throughout the years. Two of ’em, I didn’t even know I had. One of them was, like, a mini-stroke that happened and I just lost feeling in my hand and that was it and I got over it pretty quickly. They can see it in your brain. It’s scarred right around the same spot where … I had four scars in my brain, the neurologist said ‘those are all strokes’. They said I had blood clot in my leg that ran up through to my brain. They had a neurologist come out and they show you x-rays and you could see I had scars in my brain … ‘that’s where you had the stroke’. My dad died of a stroke. I moved him to Nashville, just down the street from my house, and he was pretty bad. He couldn’t talk.”
Vince favours a new Motley Crue album: “I think one more album would be pretty good, as long as the songs are there. But I don’t know, we’ll have to see. That’s a lot of stuff going into making a record and if you’re going to tour it, you’re talking years, you know, years of our lives and we’re not getting any younger.”
He still has mobility issues on stage: “It’s hard to run back and forth on that stage. It’s huge. But I’m getting used to it. It’s bigger than a stadium stage. If you took the wings off a stadium stage, that’s how big it is. I’m 95 per cent good right now. I’d like to get that other five per cent.”
The stage set malfunctioned when John 5 and Nikki Sixx were elevated: “The other day, they got stuck up there. Not all the way up there but, like, three feet above the stage. They had to jump off.”
Neil will play Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas on July 4 next year: “The first show (of the residency) I was told that someone was there from Planet Hollywood. So maybe now for the fourth of July the solo band will come out … so that’s cool. I’ve got the gig.”
He still hasn’t listened to the 1994 self-titled album recorded with John Corabi: “Yeah, I’m just not really interested in Motley without me.”
The strokes were not responsible in any way for issues affecting Neil’s voice: “My voice has always been my voice … (the impact) was just physical.”
Neil’s favourite record is Rocket To Russia by The Ramones.
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