In a new interview with Finland’s Chaoszine, former MOTÖRHEAD drummer Mikkey Dee reflected on the band’s final tour, which concluded on December 11, 2015, just two weeks before the passing of late MOTÖRHEAD frontman Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister. Mikkey said : “Lemmy was very excited. He loved doing this stuff. And I do remember that we were having a pretty tough time. Lemmy was sick. He was tired. And we could not get him off the road. Both me and Phil (Campbell, MOTÖRHEAD guitarist) said, ‘Look, let’s break.’ … Let’s go back to (Lemmy‘s hometown of Los Angeles), rest, eat and we pick up the European tour again. But he said, ‘No, no, no, no, no. We’ve gotta play.’ ‘Okay.’ So me and Phil were talking, and we said, ‘Instead of argue with Lemmy, trying to get him off the road, let’s just help him instead.’ And I remember, the shows, we had to adjust a lot of stuff, but I think we and he did fantastic. I mean, the last show was 11th of December in Berlin, and then a couple of weeks later, the man is gone. So, trust me, me and Phil put in 150 percent and Lemmy must have put in 300 percent to get through the set.”

Dee, who has played a few shows in the Nordic countries in recent months performing the MOTÖRHEAD material under the “Mikkey Dee With Friends” banner, was also once again asked if he and Campbell would ever go out and perform MOTÖRHEAD music together, with someone else stepping in to play Lemmy‘s parts. He responded: “Well, you never know. I mean, me and Phil wrote great music. But he’s fully involved with his boys (in their band PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS). And I’m fully involved with SCORPIONS. We’re touring a lot. Not right now, obviously, but we’re on the road all the time with the SCORPS. So I don’t say no; there’s always possibilities. But, of course, as I explained in, I think a podcast, I said, and some people misunderstood this, or actually, they didn’t — actually the press wrote the wrong things. I said, ‘We will never, ever get back together and replace Lemmy. That’s impossible.’ I said, ‘But doing little constellations, doing some tribute stuff, that’s great.’ That’s very, very different. And I think they said something, ‘Mikkey will never play MOTÖRHEAD again.’ That was the main headline. I said that’s not what I said at all. Of course I will play MOTÖRHEAD. But I will never be a part of trying to put MOTÖRHEAD as a band out there again with some other fucking idiot supposed to take Lemmy‘s place. So that’s all I said. But to do this (‘Mikkey Dee With Friends’ thing), (it’s) fantastic. And, of course, we’d like to plan something bigger than this in the future, hopefully.”

Lemmy died on December 28, 2015 at the age of 70 shortly after learning he had been diagnosed with cancer.