MOTORHEAD Drummer Mikkey Dee Blasts Singers Who Lip Sync Onstage: “Absolutely Terrible”

Drummer Mikkey Dee appeared on a video message requested by the Syncin’ Stanley YouTube channel, where he was asked to share his opinion on singers who lip-sync.

He said:

“Lip-syncing sucks big time. I hate it. That’s not fun at all. But when it comes to backing tracks, sometimes it’s not too bad, if you use it in a proper way. Let’s say, you could have a rhythm guitar as a backtrack in certain solos. We never had it with Motorhead, ever. And I know a lot of bands that wanna fill up certain parts of a song with some backing tracks, maybe a guitar, a rhythm guitar usually, or maybe some kind of keyboard or something, just to fill up spaces where it’s impossible to play.

Mikkey continued:

”And if you recorded something and you dubbed something on there, some little theme or something, I think that’s okay; that’s not too bad. I can live with that, as long as the rest of the song is being played properly. But lip-syncing, absolutely no. And backing tracks, if you use them properly; if you use them, I would say the way they were intended. But a lot of bands might use backing tracks for the whole musical part of it. And trust me, I hate that, absolutely terrible.”