Mikkey Dee: How King Diamond Prepared Me For Motörhead

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King Diamond, Motorhead and now Scorpions. All three are incredible in their own right. Mikkey is massive. I'm sure that he's played in other great bands as well.

Mikey Dee is incredible - especially on the Abigale album and tour. That band was extremely tight and always right on the money. Always great hearing MD talk - a world class man for sure.

I briefly met and spoke with Mikkey after a King Diamond show during their Them tour, in Pittsburgh, PA. Very approachable, friendly and down to earth guy. We spoke for about 10-15 seconds before a group of 4 or 5 female fans stated fawning all over him and he just shrugged his shoulders and looked at me like "Hey, a guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do!" I'll always remember that.

Earth has been here for millions of years, we are all blessed to have lived here the same time as Mikkey!!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

The Abigail album without Mikkey´s drumming would not have scored that big. It was so brilliant and original.

Great drummer, great bands.

I went to see Motorhead in 1987 in a skating rink in Germany. King Diamond and Destruction opened , Abaigail tour. What a great band they were.!!

Mikkey Dee is a monster of a drummer. He had the stripes and more in 1986 if he wanted to join Motorhead. Luckily he didn't join and stayed with King and made awesome music!

Let's not forget that Mikkey Dee also played drums on Don Dokken's solo album "Up From The Ashes" (1990)

Mickey. Is a total class act. Period!!!! We were treated like old friends when we met him and the rest of king d band. We were young pups it was the them tour

Absolute living legend and supremely nice guy. I met him in Vancouver c. 2004 when Motörhead played the commodore ballroom. I love his INCREDIBLE drumming in King Diamond and Motörhead.

Dont forgrt Mikki Dee's 1990 Up from the Ashes... What a fantastic album start to finish. Fantastic drummer

Yes you were and are Mikkey. Great respect for you sir!

I could listen to him talk all day.

Went and saw the Scorpions in 2017, I knew it wasn't Herman on drums by appearance, went to get a beer and came back at the beginning of what was the start of a drum solo, which I have seen the Scorpions many times and never recalled a drum solo. Being a fan of Alex Van Halen, Mastodon, Rush, Slayer, Anthrax, Iron Maiden, Slipknot, Steve Smith etc..I was like ok Scorpions drummer is doing a drum solo, about a couple of minutes in, I'm thinking to myself who the hell is this guy, because I'm asking myself, "is this one of the best live drum solos I've seen?". I had to look up who the drummer was and saw that it was Mikkey Dee. Then I see that he had played in Motorhead, and I remembered them opening for Dio and Iron Maiden years ago, and I had a similar memory during Mikkey's drum solo in Motohead. Fantastic rock drummer, as solid and good as they come.

I seen Mickey three times with King Diamond in Detroit. One of the best live drummers ever.

I saw Motorhead when he was in that band in February 1994 at the State Theater in Detroit MI. When Morbid Angel & Motorhead opened up for Black Sabbath on their Cross Purposes tour with the Tony Iommi-Geezer Butler-Tony Martin-Bobby Rondinelli line-up. The main reason I went to the concert was to see Black Sabbath since I wasn't really a Morbid Angel or Motorhead fan It was in such a small narrow concert hall though that it was by far the loudest concert I've ever been to. And the view of the stage was great for the same reason. I saw Black Sabbath (or "Heaven & Hell") as they were calling the band only one other time, in March 2006 at the John Labatt arena in London, Ontario Canada with the Iommi-Butler-Dio-Appice line-up with Down & Megadeth as opening bands. Unfortunately it was in such a huge arena this time the sound and view of the stage wasn't even close to as good as the 1994 concert in Detroit. At the 1994 Detroit concert it was so loud I could hardly hear anything for 3 days afterward, and it's still my favorite concert of all time even to this day.

He's a great drummer always on the mark saw him in cinncinnati they opened for wasp think was 04 bogarts.

THEM and Conspiracy are just masterworks of drum ability