'We won't be doing any more tours or anything. And there won't be any more records. But the brand survives, and Lemmy lives on in the hearts of everyone,' says Mikkey Dee.
- Dec 30, 2015
AceShowbiz - There will be no more Motorhead without Lemmy Kilmister. While fans were still mourning the frontman's death, the group's drummer Mikkey Dee made the heartbreaking announcement in an interview with Sweden's Expressen that the band's done.
"Motorhead is over, of course. Lemmy was Motorhead," Dee told the publication just hours after Kilmister passed away on Monday, December 28. "We won't be doing any more tours or anything. And there won't be any more records. But the brand survives, and Lemmy lives on in the hearts of everyone."
Dee, who joined Motorhead in 1992 as a replacement to Phil Taylor, went on describing the band's final shows which the late member kept going despite his health condition. "He was terribly gaunt, he spent all his energy onstage and afterwards he was very, very tired," the drummer shared. "It's incredible that he could even play, that he could finish the Europe tour. It was only 20 days ago. Unbelievable."
"It feels fantastic that we were able to complete the tour with him. It's heartening that we didn't cancel because of Lemmy," he added. "I'm incredibly grateful over the years we had, and that we had such a good time together."
Kilmister passed away at the age of 70 following a short battle with "an extremely aggressive cancer." The surviving members of Motorhead as well as fellow rockers including Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne, KISS' Gene Simmons and Blink-182's Travis Barker then took to Twitter and Instagram to pay tribute to the musician.
