Guitar
Birthday:
August 7, 1962
Birthplace:
Hamburg
Height:
190cm
Weight:
75kg
Things Most Impressed By:
The power coming out of engines, for instance the feeling you have when you're sitting in
a plane and it's starting.
Most Important thing:
Sex and Rock 'n' Roll and my Marshall stack.
Things Fear Most:
Big monsters, evil and weird things and becoming impotent.
Person admire most:
Genius scientists inventing important things, genius composers like Beethoven and so on.
Philosophy of life:
Be as friendly as possible, Having fun, Earning much money and giving it away for good
subject helping people.
Unrealizable Ambition:
Travelling in time and having 3-5 women each day.
Ideal day:
Waking up very early, having a ride on a hellbike. Then I would fight some dragons and
monsters, afterwards having an ice cream. In the afternoon I would climb into my spaceship
having a little trip to the moon and biting the man in the moon's nose. Then screwing some
screw and hitting some nails and a good sleep in an electric chair to be well prepared for
the following morning.
If you were an animal, which would you be and why?
A lion, 'cause I could be lying around lazy and I had my food brought by other people.
Musical Influences:
The Beatles, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Scorpions, UFO, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Sex Pistols,
Wishbone Ash.
Michael Weikath started playing the guitar when he was 12 years old. His main intention was to collect women at the campfire. He once saw a guy playing the guitar at a campfire who was awful and thought he could do better. He heard some Beatles and spent a lot of time in front of the stereo. The machine with the music coming out fascinated him a lot. He was really inspired by the song "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" and this is why he likes to bend strings a lot even today. He saw Clapton and Hendrix having white Strats and he wanted a white Strat. So he went with his mother who took 450 marks from his personal account and bought a white Strat, which is still one of the best guitars I own. At the age of 16 he formed his first band which was Deep Purple oriented. Weikath was very much influenced by guitarists such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore, Uli Roth, and Van Halen. He is the one who actually assembled Helloween. He met Kai Hansen at a party and discussed about music. He told Kai that he needed one more guitarist for his band, "Powerfool". After some time, things were not well between the members, so Kai and Mike left to join Kai's old friends, Ingo Schwichtenberg and Markus Grosskopf and to form Helloween.