Mikkey Dee: How King Diamond Prepared Me For Motörhead

[@CassiusMorrisOfficial]

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[@RoryLynott]

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.

[@reanimator9]

played also on Don Dokken's Up from the ashes, great album

[@frankartale1026]

I got to meet Mikkey Dee in 1988. I still have his autograph. One of the best rock drummers. His work helped define King Diamond's sound.

[@davidkiefer9875]

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.

[@klauswigsmith]

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.

[@DalleyMusic]

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

[@randywissler9923]

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

[@atulur]

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

[@RetiredinKorea8587]

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.!!

[@TamiamiParkFlyers]

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!

[@CassiusMorrisOfficial]

😎💯✊

[@geirholte1222]

Great drummer, great bands.

[@waltercoe2655]

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

[@AndE667]

And Helloween's Rabbit Don't Come Easy

[@Gazzpunk]

....and an excellent album that is, pure hard melodic rock gold. Norum's guitar work was sublime.

[@cristianpavez6832]

But not in the full album, 3 songs was recorded by the great Ken Mary

[@FTW_666]

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.

[@CassiusMorrisOfficial]

😎👊💯

[@JOEMAMMADRINK40Z]

you blew him?

[@shawnwright5332]

You met mikkey I met Lemmy on that tour in Calgary at cowboy lounge super great guy very intelligent

[@RussianCelt]

@@shawnwright5332 I got to hang with Lemmy for a couple hours in Prince George on that tour. Set up a meeting through his tour manager to meet and sell him some WWII memoribilia. I was asked to go pick up Lemmy and Phil at a bar where they were playing pool. Amazingly down to earth guys. Just saw Mikkey very briefly to say "Hi" just before they went on.

[@jimjim7008]

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

[@lancecrocket2391]

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

[@AndrewGrey22]

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

[@stefaneriksson9258]

I seen?

[@AndrewGrey22]

@@stefaneriksson9258 I don't know, did you?

[@AndrewGrey22]

@@stefaneriksson9258 Voice-to-text, voice-o. Would you like me to fix it, to "saw"? Or perhaps "had seen"? No, I think I better keep it "saw". English is my 19th language. I speak it real good.

[@hugolafhugolaf]

I could listen to him talk all day.

[@angelnieto5206]

El mejor batería que ha tenido King Diamond y los mejores trabajos. Desde Fatal Portrait hasta Conspiracy.

[@Headface]

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

[@kevins.3825]

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.

[@darkkrenaissance42]

THEM and Conspiracy are just masterworks of drum ability

[@martinhedberg3514]

I actually did an audition for King Diamond in 1989. And Mikkey supported me and tried to get me into the gig. But I was Young and had an attitude. I didnt realize when I went to LA and tried out, how hard the drumtracks was to play. I had not listened to Diamond before 1989,and thought the band was uninteresting. Big mistake. Snowy got the job, and the Diamond guys probably wondered what I was doing at the audition. Sensemoral: never understimulerad music and musicians. Even if you think the band not good, doesnt mean that its true. But I remember how nice the guys was to me and how they made me feel comfortable at the audition, wich was performed on Tommy Aldridges drumteck drumkit at SIR. A Yamaha with 26” bassdrums, 14,15,16,18 Toms, no cymbals smaller than 19”. I drowned behind that kit😅😅😅 All cred to Mikkeys drumming ❤

[@drummerw17]

My friend Mikkey Dee is Mikkey Dee 👍🎼🤟🥁🤟🎼👍!!!

[@CassiusMorrisOfficial]

[@rrg6754]

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.

[@tttarms1970]

So glad i saw mikkey on the abigail tour

[@jeffrussell777]

I use to see Mikkey Dee at the Rainbow all the time in 1993-94 as I would Drink Whiskey and play Ms. Packman with Lemmy.....Never talked to him ...Just never made it to the Bar at the same time he did HA!

[@CassiusMorrisOfficial]

😂😎

[@raulmataixdobon9950]

Great drummer

[@RICCARDOREARDON]

MICKKY DEE IS RIGHT UP THERE WITH UNCLE~MR.COZY POWELL...AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED....

[@eguzkilore1970]

Mikkey Dee the best drummer in the world

[@truittlilly3247]

Mikki dee is bad ass

[@newperson9662]

GOAT

[@arielkars6150]

A smart dude...

[@billyodamit8709]

I seen Motorhead at the Olympic Auditorium in LA. The floor there is REAL hard. Lemmy wanted to kick the whole acrowd's ass's because of the extreeme amount of fluid hockers that were presented to the performers. Ya needed an umbrella. The show was great but I don't remember much because you had to watch your back because of the ruckis. What a wonderful night.

[@Jonthebelchingguy]

You ,phil,and lemmy. Bad ass mo fos

[@michaelstephen819]

I've got no idea who the little kid interviewer is, but he seems to know his stuff. Credit for that.

[@CassiusMorrisOfficial]

Best comment I’ve seen all day 😂

[@usaslakt]

Mikkey is a great drummer and a nice bloke, met him a couple of times during the years since we both lives i Gothenburg, Sweden, We also grew up in the same neigbourhood. He's older than me so we did not hang out . Saw him play when he was around 18, in a local band, . They actually put out a single in the early 80ies and did som touring. Mikkey loves to talk about himself, but thats the meaning here I guess...

[@jojo-qi7ru]

As A drummer my self I loved Mikkey Dees playing and King Diamond in the late 80s early 90s. About 2003 I saw him live in Karlstad Sweden with E-type, eurodisco you know... Met him in the bar afer the gig and I said to him "You were great in King Diamond". He just glanzed at me and responded; " I didn't think so".

[@sabyrock2696]

Yes he was and King has not been great since Mikkey left.

[@henrydycha9379]

Would of rock motorhead and king tour

[@brianporter138]

So Mikki got bored not playing creatively so he joins Motorhead?

[@daveg4236]

Haha. Exactly

[@johnlee7479]

Exactly!

[@AdrianJeffreys-fj2fv]

I met mikki at bogarts in Cincinnati them tour hes a big influence scott rockenfield clive burr les binks anders Johnson also

[@CassiusMorrisOfficial]

👀😎💯

Musically speaking, Motorhead is NOTHING compared to King Diamond!

[@Lengsel7]

I can't give thumbs up to this, 'cause there is currently 777 likes. ....There's two kinds of KD songs; Those that have MD on them, and those than sorely NEED MD on them.

[@RockbertoRocks]

Great drummer... But to me, moving from King Diamond to Motörhead was a step down musically

[@CassiusMorrisOfficial]

👀

[@313bootboy6]

Everyone LOVES Motorhead....but you aren't wrong at all

[@johnlee7479]

Naaa he’s more legendary as Motörhead drummer, if he stayed in diamond I don’t think he be as popular as he is now

[@machiavellllia]

I agree. When he is mentioned I immediately think of King diamond not Motörhead

[@alu.304]

True. Matt Thompson is a technical Drummer that loves playing more of a Prog Style🤘

[@stuartgross462]

when you're a young musician, the technical stuff could be most important. but definitely isn't necessarily. silly comment from him.

[@ryanmcbride4619]

What’s wrong with his lip

[@Kostja-xn2zi]

SNUS

[@jeha1852]

your drumming at king diamond was the best.Denying your prime as a drummer is pathetic!

[@jdhill9730]

Moterhead was never as good as King Diamond. Not even close. King Diamond is very close to Prog Metal. Not Moterhead

[@CassiusMorrisOfficial]

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[@tommyob4762]

King Diamond is more complicated musically but 'as good as' is a matter of opinion. I love almost everything from King/Mercyful Fate and motörhead.

[@johnnypairoux4356]

The Scorpions became a sh..band until Mikkey gave them a kick in the a.. listen to their latest album and you will agree

[@CassiusMorrisOfficial]

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[@daviddoyle8956]

I have watch a few King Diamond video's I almost pissed myself laughing so corny I think one was called "Witches funeral" I don't know how he or anybody else could take this music serious? he's trying way to hard to be this Satanist but he's just making a fool of himself.

[@scottbarker9058]

king diamond-satanic rock?????? i beleive they are-were!!!!!!!not worth selling yur soul 2 eternal torment!!!!

[@hugolafhugolaf]

LOL

[@itookallthenames]

It’s worth it just to hear Abigail and Them from front to back

[@tttarms1970]

@@itookallthenames dont forget fatal portrait

[@itookallthenames]

@@tttarms1970 and Fatal Portrait indeed

[@YnseSchaap]

Remember Merciful Fate ?