Guitarist Phil Campbell recently talked to Myglobalmind, where he said that he and drummer Mikkey Dee didn’t have the chance to say goodbye to Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister.
More, Campbell was asked whether the rest of the band knew things were “not going well” when the band had do cancel a number of shows several months prior to Lemmy’s passing.
He said:
“Yeah, we knew, but Lem wanted to just carry on then. I know the last tour in Germany, I think one or two shows were canceled ’cause I ended up in hospital. And I came back out and we finished the tour. And that was the last tour then; the last show was in Berlin.
“So the last week of Motörhead, actually I was the one in bloody hospital. But we never thought, when we parted at the end of the tour, we never thought that would be the last time we’d see each other.
“We didn’t have a chance to say goodbye, me or Mikkey (Dee), or nothing. I couldn’t even go over to the funeral, ’cause my doctor advised me not to, ’cause I was pretty ill myself in them days.”