Mikkey Dee Recalls His Last Conversation with Lemmy Kilmister

Mikkey Dee Tells of His Last Conversation with Lemmy Kilmister

Ex-Motörhead drummer Mikkey Dee recently talked about his final conversation with late frontman Lemmy Kilmister. While mentioning their last show and attempts to persuade Lemmy not to perform, Dee touched on the changes Kilmister had made in his life. The drummer also spoke about how he turned Kilmister down when the frontman first asked him to join Motörhead. He previously told that story in another interview. Here’s what Mikkey Dee had to say in his interview with Waste Some Time with Jason Green, as transcribed by Blabbermouth.

Mikkey Dee: “Let’s not push him anyway”

The drummer told of their attempts with Phil Campbell to talk Lemmy Kilmister out from performing.

“We played the last show the 11th of December [2015] in Berlin, and he passed just weeks later. And that tells you, the guy died with his boots on. And both me and Phil [Campbell, guitarist] were trying to talk him out of starting the second part of the European tour after Christmas. But there was no way in hell we could do that. And I said to Phil, ‘Look, instead of arguing with Lemmy or pushing him not to do this,’ because we said maybe we should break for a couple of months for him to catch his wind, basically. I said, ‘Let’s not push him anyway. Let him decide what he wants to do. He knows best what he wants to do.’ And he wanted to be on stage. So we said, ‘Let’s just support him instead,’ and that’s what we did. But we never made it to the second leg of that European tour, unfortunately. It was the U.K. that was on the next part of it, I remember that.”

 

Mikkey Dee on what Lemmy Kilmister changed in his life

The drummer also talked about the adjustments Lemmy Kilmister made later in his life, despite believing “it was maybe a little too late.”

“He should have maybe changed a little earlier. But knowing Lemmy, he was not for that. He was doing it his way or the highway, basically. And that made him to what he was. He never compromised with his music, he never compromised with friendship, he never compromised with what way he was gonna go for anyone else in that way, which is why MOTÖRHEAD was MOTÖRHEAD, and still is MOTÖRHEAD. But with that said, of course, the three of us were talking a lot about stuff, and it was not like he was some kind of a boss here. But we all worked so good together, and that’s what created the magic, I would say.”

 

Mikkey Dee’s last conversation with Lemmy Kilmister

The drummer was asked whether he knew that Lemmy was going to pass away when he came back to Sweden.

 “No. Not at all. Because I talked to Lemmy after that show in Berlin. We were all gonna go separate ways, obviously. I was gonna just fly out to Sweden, and Phil went back home to Wales. Lemmy was flying back to L.A., but I believe he was gonna fly to London and stay one night or two or so and say hi to friends and then fly back home.”

He mentioned his last conversation with Kilmister.

“And I spoke to him right after the show. I went down to Lemmy’s dressing room, and I said, ‘All right. Go back to L.A. and figure out, maybe, another two songs from ‘Bad Magic’ that you think that we should do. And we take out the two songs that we already played on this leg, and we put in two new songs from the record.’ And he said, ‘Yeah. All right. I’ll check that out.’ And I said, ‘Let’s hook up after Christmas.’ Because it was the 11th of December at that time, and I figured we’d talk between Christmas and New Year’s Eve and decide which two songs that we agreed on on playing on that next leg. And he said, ‘Yeah, I’ll go back and work on that.'”

Unfortunately, it was the last time that Dee and Kilmister interacted.

“And that was it. He had no intention of not coming back to Europe and touring. So we did a little finger hook, as we always did, and that was the last time I saw him, actually. Very sad.”

Here is the whole interview.

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