MÖTLEY CRÜE's VINCE NEIL Is 'Loving' Being Back On The Road

February 11, 2009

MÖTLEY CRÜE frontman Vince Neil told Robin Leach of Vegas DeLuxe earlier this week that he's loving being back on the road with his longtime bandmates. "We're now one year in with nine more to go on our 10-year world tour contract," he said. "I'm loving it. This is the fun part, and it all feels great. The whole second year is planned out. Our first stop now is Omaha, and then we've got American cities through the end of March. We have April off, which is when I'll return home to Vegas for the Dr. Feelgood [rock club restaurant] opening [in Las Vegas] and get the Rio tattoo shop underway. In May and June, we'll hopscotch Europe before starting the second Crüe Fest here at home for July, August and September.

"We get October off for vacation and then return to Europe in November for the missed cities and go back to Australia and Asia in December. It never stops, but we'll be back here for the holidays again. On top of that, I've got my solo record coming out in November."

Vince and his MÖTLEY CRÜE bandmates returned home for the closing of The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel last weekend. He told Vegas DeLuxe: "Yeah, it did get emotional. There was a tear in my eye when I sang 'Home Sweet Home' at the end. I changed so I could wear my Vince Neil Ink [Vince's tattoo shop] shirt for the final number. I had to get a plug in while everybody was being sentimental, but then it got to me, too. All of us up on stage were a little teary eyed. We'd been told we were specially selected to close it down as the final act, and that felt very special. It was an honor, and as fast as we went through the show, it was suddenly the end. It felt strange that that was it.

"We must have played The Joint ourselves a good five or six times over the years. We have a lot of good memories being there. Before we went on stage, the Hard Rock executives gave each of us a guitar that they'd taken off the walls and mounted on plaques to commemorate the night. They also gave us photographs of all the times we'd played The Joint, so it was pretty sentimental."

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