Simply weeks after Scorpions drummer Mikkey Dee detailed his near-death expertise following a sepsis analysis, the band has made the choice to postpone their upcoming Las Vegas residency.
The residency was initially slated to launch on Feb. 28 and run till March 11 as a part of the German band’s sixtieth anniversary celebration. Acting at PH Dwell at Planet Hollywood and supported by Buckcherry, the group took to social media late final week to announce their new dates.
“We remorse to tell you that resulting from Mikkey Dee’s ongoing restoration from his latest hospitalization, we have now made the choice to postpone our Coming Residence to Las Vegas Residency to August 2025,” they wrote. “The well being and well-being of our brother is of the utmost significance. We want Mikkey a full and speedy restoration and look ahead to rocking with you all once more quickly!”
The brand new dates will see the Scorpions performing in Las Vegas from Aug. 14 – 23, with all earlier tickets honored for the brand new dates. The group are nonetheless scheduled to return to the stage in March, with a Mexico Metropolis present set for March 15.
Dee first detailed his well being points in early January, revealing he had been hospitalized following a “very critical” blood an infection. He later expanded upon the well being scare in an interview with Swedish publication Aftonbladet, explaining that what started as a easy sprain rapidly advanced into one thing far worse on the weekend earlier than Christmas.
“The ankle swelled up like hell, then it took on a bizarre form and look and seemed like an overcooked ham,” Dee mentioned. “I turned very sick so I needed to go by ambulance to Sahlgrenska and there they discovered that I had sky-high values, so I turned precedence one there.
“It was surgical procedure instantly, the primary of three. They lower away what was useless and contaminated and badly infested. It was not an excellent journey I used to be on… One other day and I’d be enjoying drums with Lemmy in heaven. I can say that.”
Considerably coincidentally, his near-death expertise passed off nearly 9 years to the day since his Motörhead bandmate Lemmy Kilmister handed away, on Dec. 28, 2015.
Dee has carried out with Scorpions since early 2016, becoming a member of the band within the wake of Motörhead’s premature dissolution in late 2016. Up to now, Dee has solely performed on one of many band’s albums, offering percussion for his or her nineteenth album, 2022’s Rock Believer.

