Rockpages.gr recently conducted an interview with MOTÖRHEAD/ex-KING
DIAMOND drummer Mikkey Dee. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Rockpages.gr: 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. 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.gr: How did it feel to move on from the more technical
drumming of KING 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.gr: There is a rumor 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 MERCYFUL FATE, we had musicians,
girls, normal people came to the show. So, we tripled... we tripled
the attendance from playing one year 1,100 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.

Read the entire interview at Rockpages.gr.

Sty Heavy!
Phil