Vince Neil was hospitalized Friday night in Tennessee after slipping off the side of a stage during a performance. The audience at the Monsters on the Mountain festival in Pigeon…<\/b>
\n(Newser) \u2013 Vince Neil was hospitalized Friday night in Tennessee after slipping off the side of a stage during a performance. The audience at the Monsters on the Mountain festival in Pigeon Forge was told the singer broke ribs, but there’s been no medical report yet. The M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce frontman was performing with his own band, TMZ reports. But he was singing a M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce song, \u00ab\u00a0Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)\u00a0\u00bb at the time, per Rolling Stone. Neil had stepped to the front of the stage to get the audience clapping along when he fell. The band’s bass player, Dana Strum, addressed the crowd, saying: \u00ab\u00a0The truth is Vince fell and broke ribs when he fell. He can’t breathe and he’s gonna get dealt with medically.\u00a0\u00bb Neil,60, was helped away, then taken by ambulance to a hospital. The band played on, urging the crowd to sing along loud enough to M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce’s \u00ab\u00a0Live Wire\u00a0\u00bb that Neil could hear it backstage, per CNN. Strum said Neil wanted to continue but was told he shouldn’t. Neil hasn’t performed with M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce since 2015, though he’s scheduled to begin a tour with that band and Def Leppard in June. The pandemic-delayed Stadium Tour originally was planned for the summer of 2020. (Read more celebrity stories.)<\/p>\n