There will never be another band like Motörhead, according to Mikkey Dee

Mikkey Dee, a former member of Motörhead and current member of Scorpions, is the main guest on the most recent edition of “Metal Sticks,” a new podcast produced by Modern Drummer CEO David Frangioni and Nicko McBrain, the legendary drummer of Iron Maiden for 42 years who recently resigned from touring. The chat is now visible below. He talked about his collaboration with Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, a legend of Motörhead, as reported by blabbermouth.net.

There will never be another band like Motörhead. There wasn’t before, and it’s never gonna be again, because there’s so many ingredients that are so unique for that band. Let’s start with Lemmy [himself]. His way of thinking, his way of living, his way of seeing the world reflects a lot in how this band was. I keep saying, if everybody was like Lem, we would never have a war, we would never run into this fucking political bullshit correctness, and everybody could take a joke and everybody could live life. And Lemmy was extremely intelligent, and that made him to what he was — a very simple, easygoing guy. He was never, ever a rock star. And the first thing he told me when I joined, he took me on my shoulders and said, ‘You know what, Mikkey?! Good manners cost nothing. Remember that. But if you walk into a room and there’s a fucking asshole in there, make sure you are the biggest asshole of them all.

[Lemmy] was extremely simple, which also made it very easy to work with [him] and also very hard, because you already knew what he was gonna say or think. And we were very much a democracy in Motörhead, so it was not like Lemmy decided [everything by himself]. But in a way, of course, me and Phil, and earlier Würzel, of course it’s Lemmy’s band; it will never be anything else. And we automatically had to have Lemmy with us in decisions, of course. That’s just common sense. But there was a few times where we actually had to walk across him or walk over him because he just made the wrong decision and we had to prove it for him. And we did. But it was such a great friendship and great democracy in this band that I don’t think I will never, ever, ever experience anything like it.