Greece's Rockpages has issued a new interview with MOTÖRHEAD drummer Mikkey Dee in which he discusses his past with KING DIAMOND and DOKKEN mainman Don Dokken.

The following is an excerpt from the interview:

Q: Before Motörhead you have with King Diamond, Don Dokken... Is there anything special you can share with us from these days?

A: "You're digging into history... There's so many special moments. It's like asking you, you've been alive for so long, do you remember the best food you ever had. And yeah, I know great restaurants. I have 35 years... 40 years of going to restaurants (Dimitris, he got you). You can't really say one moment. You have to see the picture in a whole. And the only thing I can say is that King Diamond, Dokken, Motörhead, they came in the right order. It felt really right moving through these bands. And I'm very proud of the stuff I did with King and Dokken was great too. Each band had its vibe and its feeling and it's like getting divorced and starting a new family. New kids, new wife, and then you move on. Another wife and two more kids (laughs). You love all your kids, and maybe your ex-wife too, but you have a different family now."

Q: How did it feel to move on from the more technical drumming of Kind Diamond to the...

A: (Interrupts) "Perfect. That's what I needed at that moment. I remember I was so tired of all the technical shit that we did, I felt really bad as a drummer. I could only play the technical shit and I felt very very narrow, as a drummer, and I wanted to play simple, straight rock, you know, and Dokken was perfect. The best school I went through. Don is a very very good musician. He's a great drummer, great bass player, great guitar player, good songwriter, good singer. It was a good move, actually. And after a few years with Don, I realized that I actually do belong more... I love heavy, heavy is my heart. So, when Motörhead came along, it was a perfect move as well."

Q: There is a rumour saying that you left King Diamond because he was taking all the credit...

A: "No, no. That is completely wrong. Someone must have misunderstood. I have no problem with King taking all the lights. The problem I had was that we were fighting to get from the underground scene which they were with Mercyful Fate and we were with Fatal Portrait. When we got to Abigail, we exploded in America. Instead of only the dark that loved the Mercyful Fate, we had musicians, girls, normal people came to the show. So, we tripled... we tripled the attendance from playing one year 1100 people and with Fatal Portrait in a city we did two nights, 6,000 people every night, Friday Saturday or Thursday Friday. And then it was very good too, but then King (claps his hands)... I don't know, took it back down where the rest of the band didn't agree of going. We are crazy, we tried to strangle ourselves. So, when it's not funny anymore, then you wanna move. It's not that King took all the glory. I don't want the glory myself. He can have all the glory. But, with the way we stirred the band, I disagreed on, big time."

Read the full interview at this location.