 Rockpages recently spoke with Motorhead drummer Mikey Dee about the future of Motorhead, and his history with both King Diamond and Don Dokken. Several excerpts from the interview are included below,
Rockpages: Before Motörhead you have played with King Diamond, Don Dokken... Is there anything special you can share with us from these days?
Mikkey Dee: You're digging into history... There's so much special moments. It's like asking you, you've been alive for so long, do you remember the best food you ever had. And yeah, I know great restaurants. I have 35 years... 40 years of going to restaurants (Dimitris, he got you). You can't really say one moment. You have to see the picture in a whole. And the only thing I can say is that King Diamond, Dokken, Motörhead, they came in the right order. It felt really right moving through these bands. And I'm very proud of the stuff I did with King and Dokken was great too. Each band had its vibe and its feeling and it's like getting divorced and starting a new family. New kids, new wife, and then you move on. Another wife and two more kids (laughs). You love all your kids, and maybe your ex-wife too, but you have a different family now.
Rockpages: How did it feel to move on from the more technical drumming of Kind Diamond to the...
Mikkey Dee: (Interrupts) Perfect. That's what I needed at that moment. I remember I was so tired of all the technical shit that we did, I felt really bad as a drummer. I could only play the technical shit and I felt very very narrow, as a drummer, and I wanted to play simple, straight rock, you know, and Dokken was perfect. The best school I went through. Don is a very very good musician. He's a great drummer, great bass player, great guitar player, good songwriter, good singer. It was a good move, actually. And after a few years with Don, I realized that I actually do belong more... I love heavy, heavy is my heart. So, when Motörhead came along, it was a perfect move as well.
Rockpages: There is a rumour saying that you left King Diamond because he was taking all the credit...
Mikkey Dee: No, no. That is completely wrong. Someone must have misunderstood. I have no problem with King taking all the lights. The problem I had was that we were fighting to get from the underground scene which they were with Mercyful Fate and we were with Fatal Portrait. When we got to Abigail, we exploded in America. Instead of only the dark that loved the Merciful Fate, we had musicians, girls, normal people came to the show. So, we tripled... we tripled the attendance from playing one year 1100 people and with Fatal Portrait in a city we did two nights, 6000 people every night, Friday Saturday or Thursday Friday. And then it was very good too, but then King (claps his hands)... I don't know, took it back down where the rest of the band didn't agree of going. We are crazy, we tried to strangle ourselves. So, when it's not funny anymore, then you wanna move. It's not that King took all the glory. I don't want the glory myself. He can have all the glory. But, with the way we stirred the band, I disagreed on, big time.
Rockpages: How do you see the future of Motörhead?
Mikkey Dee: I see the future very bright. I think we play better than ever, we still write very good albums, the older we get, we seem to tour more, and actually, very young audience has caught on the last three or four years. And when I say young, I mean young, ten, eight, twelve years old. I see the future very bright. We just got to be careful not to destroy the momentum and I see it's ok, you know.
Read the full interview here.
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