‘Forever in Debt’: Mötley Crüe on Ozzy’s Death & Rocking Vegas After Vince Neil’s Stroke

After having to postpone its caller Las Vegas residency earlier this year, Nikki Sixx is blessed to person Mötley Crüe backmost connected signifier with its existent 10-date tally astatine Dolby Live astatine Park MGM.

“I’m excited astir it,” Sixx tells Billboard. It’s not the Crüe’s archetypal clip successful Vegas, of course: it follows Mötley Crüe Takes connected Sin City successful 2012 and An Intimate Evening successful Hell the pursuing year. But it is simply a caller venue that, according to Sixx, affords the set a accidental to trade thing suitably extravagant for the career-spanning 13-song set, which includes a medley of covers the Crüe has recorded, among them its Billboard Hot 100 apical 20 rendition of Brownsville Station’s “Smokin’ successful the Boys Room.”

“It’s a truly super-wide stage, truthful it gives america an accidental to bash things with acceptable plan that are truly cool,” Sixx explains. “You’re not successful an arena oregon successful a stadium; you’re successful an wrong environment, truthful you tin power a batch of stuff, and that’s a batch of amusive for us. Atmosphere’s specified a large portion of lighting, and erstwhile you tin acceptable your ambiance and it’s a controlled environment, you tin get immoderate truly chill looks. ”

Sixx says the amusement is designed to beryllium “a small much instrumentality interactive,” which volition see “some storytelling, which we’re excited about, connected a mates of our songs,” helium says. “A batch of radical inquire you what came first, the lyric oregon the (music), and we were talking astatine rehearsal astir a circumstantial opus we’re gonna interruption down however the opus happened. I’m bringing my acoustic guitar. I’m by nary means what I would telephone adjacent a bully guitar subordinate — I usually constitute from the bass — but I ever person a guitar astir and definite chords volition animate stuff…and I had these chords since I was 17 years old, done each the bands I was in…and thing ever happened with them. We’re gonna speech astir however those chords…turned into (a song).”

The residency, which began Sept. 12 and runs done Oct. 3, is Mötley Crüe’s archetypal clip backmost connected signifier successful 11 months, since the Aftershock Festival past October. The tally was primitively slated for March and April but was pushed back to let frontman Vince Neil to retrieve from a then-unspecified aesculapian procedure, which helium precocious revealed was a stroke that occurred precocious past December. He told the Las Vegas Review Journal past week that, “I had to larn to locomotion again, and that was tough. The doctors said they didn’t deliberation I’d beryllium capable to spell backmost connected signifier again. I go, ‘No, no, I’m gonna bash to it. Watch and see.'”

Sixx besides addressed the ongoing ineligible conflict with erstwhile guitarist Mick Mars implicit his departure from the radical successful 2022, slamming Mars’ allegations that Mötley Crüe did not play unrecorded astatine its concerts, calling it a “crazy betrayal,” and posting a consequent societal media connection that, “I’m really ashamed of him. So should you be, too.”

Back successful Vegas, the Crüe met connected Wednesday (Sept. 17) nighttime with representatives of the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth, an outgrowth of Sixx ...