Motley Crue have postponed their Las Vegas residency after doctors advised Vince Neil to get a medical procedure.
MÖTLEY CRÜE issues statement on VINCE NEIL’s health and upcoming residency:
– Mötley Crüe’s Las Vegas residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM, originally scheduled for March 28th – April 19th, 2025, is moving to September 2025 due to a required medical procedure recently advised by vocalist Vince Neil’s doctors. Said Neil: “To all the Crüeheads who were looking forward to see us this spring, I’m truly sorry. My health is my top priority so I can bring you the awesome shows you deserve, and I can’t wait to return to the stage. Thank you for all the well wishes that keep reaching me. Your support means more than you know.”
Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, and John 5 of Mötley Crüe shared in a joint statement: “Please join us in wishing Vince a speedy recovery. We are looking forward for him to get well again and to take over Vegas together in September. We can’t wait to see you all out there, and thank you for your understanding and support in the meantime.”
Tickets from the original spring residency dates will remain valid and be honored for the new September show dates. Off the heels of the historic Höllywood Takeöver Club shows at the iconic Whisky a Go Go, Roxy, and Troubadour in Los Angeles last fall, the Crüe is excited to bring an unforgettable night and inimitable new show with many surprises to fans for the residency this fall – from the Sunset Strip, to the Las Vegas Strip.
The new dates are:
Friday, September 12th
Saturday, September 13th
Wednesday, September 17th
Friday, September 19th
Saturday, September 20th
Wednesday, September 24th
Friday, September 26th
Saturday, September 27th
Wednesday, October 1st
Friday, October 3rd
— Mötley Crüe (@MotleyCrue) March 4, 2025
John 5 recently opened up on the difficult decision of parting ways with Rob Zombie to join Mötley Crüe, noting how he accepted the job as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and that Zombie “understood” even though he “wasn’t psyched.”
John 5 opens up on the matter
A lot has happened since rumors first started floating in 2022 that Mick Mars was done with touring and that John 5 would jump in as a replacement, and the former Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson & David Lee Roth guitarist now seems to fit the Crüe as well as Nikki Sixx.
However, departing the band he’s been a part of for over a decade-and-a-half wasn’t easy, John 5 tells Matt Pinfield of 95.5 KLOS’s “New & Approved” in a recent interview, but he eventually decided to take up the hair metal icons on the offer as the job was a dream come true. He explained:
“When I was asked to join Mötley Crüe, we didn’t really have any bad things going on [in Rob Zombie] or anything like that. So it was tough [for me to leave Rob’s band]. I was doing it for 17 years and I loved it. We were friends and laughed, and everything was still the same. But I thought to myself… ‘Cause I always thought about everybody else: ‘Let me make sure everything sounds good.’ I just wanted to think about myself for a minute and go, ‘I really wanna experience this. Life is short and I want to experience as much as possible.’ And, of course, I love Mötley Crüe.”
“I’ve been friends with Nikki [Sixx] forever — forever. Just really close. And then with Tommy [Lee], I’ve always worked with him. So I was really close with these guys — really, really, really close.”
He also spoke on Mars, who only decided to retire from touring after the pain stemming from his decades-long battle with Ankylosing Spondylitis (a chronic and inflammatory disease that mainly affects the spine and pelvis). John 5 said:
“If I have a weird papercut, I’m, like, ‘I don’t know if I can do the show.’ And you’ve got Mick Mars out there… I would always say he’s the toughest guy I know because he’s getting up there and just killing it and in pain, but just playing. I have such respect for him. And then, he didn’t want to tour and things like that. So they asked me and I was, like, ‘Absolutely. I would love to do it.’ And they gave me the songs, and, of course, I didn’t wanna say, but I knew every single song — I knew how to play them all.”
Regarding Rob Zombie’s reaction to his decision, the guitarist added:
“But I told Rob, and I said, ‘Rob, I just want to experience life and I wanna do this.’ And he understood. He was cool. He wasn’t psyched, but he understood, and that’s what was really, really cool.”
He also shared his experience of playing with Mötley Crüe. John 5 said:
“Man, I’m telling you, it has been such an incredible experience to do this. It’s a different thing. ‘Cause you imagine what it could be like, and then it just goes so far beyond that. It’s so crazy in such a fun, incredible way. And it just feels like life is brand new again. It’s so exciting. It’s like when you get a new girlfriend or something. You’re, like, ‘Wow, this is great. Look at how blue the sky is.’ So it’s been absolutely wonderful — absolutely wonderful.”
