Lemmy Page #2

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a bit of rock and roll.

He would be the perfect description

of my dream dude, for sure.

Lemmy's look is something

that is probably a little cultivated

from back in the '50s,

and added to that, some of the sh*t

that he picked up along the way,

bikers, punk rock, whatever.

Although, he's been around

for a long time.

Maybe some of the punk stuff

they got from him.

Describing Lemmy's style

is not that easy,

because, you know, from boot to boot,

it always changes substantially.

D Let me tell you, babe

d What I say is right d

He's got a very distinctive

and good aesthetic sense.

He actually will bring me drawings

of what he wants.

If I was to really give it

a specific name,

I would probably say it's like

a Western jack boot,

because he likes these boots

with a squared-off nose,

almost military-looking.

Almost like a cavalry kind of boot,

with Motrhead flair to it of course!

We were at a rehearsal place

in the Valley in the mid '90s,

and Motrhead was right next door.

Every day we would see Lemmy out

at this video game in this lobby area.

It was summer time.

It was really hot in the Valley.

And Lemmy was wearing these shorts.

If I tell you

he's wearing Daisy Dukes...

It was like a thong, dude!

You would walk out of our door,

and the first thing you would see

was Lemmy bent over this machine.

So it's basically Lemmy bending over

with his arse in your face.

That's a weird scene.

We're all wearing shorts,

but our shorts are like board shorts.

I finally got the balls

to walk up to him,

and he's playing the game.

I'm like, "Hey, man."

"Hey, Scott. How are you?"

I'm like, "We've been wondering..."

And he's like, "What's that?"

And I said, "What's the deal

with the shorts?"

Like, seriously.

And I'm thinking...

I'm afraid. Is he gonna punch me?

What's gonna happen?

He's like, "What? What do you mean?"

I said, "They're really short.

"We see your arse every day.

It's weird."

And he goes, "What? It's hot out.

These are shorts."

He looks at me and goes,

"Those aren't shorts, those are pants.

"These are shorts. I'm cool."

And he kind of goes like this,

like it made absolute sense!

D It's not so bad,

baby, I don't care d

What anyone thinks,

what anyone cares, it doesn't matter.

You either take him

or you f***ing don't,

He don't give a sh*t

whether you do or not.

There's just no words.

It's just... He's Lemmy.

It's almost...

It should be a verb!

Nobody told him

to do anything that he wasn't completely

natural and comfortable doing,

and that's rare.

And that's why I think

we respond with respect,

because we wanna be like that.

I think he's a renegade.

There's not that many of them any more.

Everybody assimilates.

Go along to get along,

to get what they need to get.

And I don't see Lemmy

as that kind of guy.

I see Lemmy as doing things his way

to get where he wants to go.

And that's attractive because

people don't do that any more.

D When you move in

right up close to me

d That's when I get

the shakes all over me d

The thing I remember about Lemmy,

which has nothing to do with music,

is he was obsessed, and I think

he still is, with one-armed bandits.

You know, the...

You know? And...

I can remember Dingwalls,

the little club in London,

very popular, by the canal.

I think that was probably

the first time I ever met him.

You walked into Dingwalls,

and just inside the door

was the one-armed bandit.

Without fail he would be on that,

sometimes all night.

I don't know if he ever won, but,

God, he'd play that thing for hours.

I've never seen anybody

love those things so much.

They should bring out

a Motrhead one-armed bandit,

and if you get three Lemmys,

you win the jackpot!

D Shake it all over d

When it comes

to rock and roll,

you need something

to believe in.

Integrity means everything.

Musically, of course,

when you go and you see a band,

and you know it's coming from the heart,

it touches you more because

there's some sort of human connection.

If you go and see some robots

just moving around the stage,

you might as well go home

and play a video game.

But when someone is doing...

When someone is playing

rock and roll from the heart,

and they really walk it like they talk it,

you pay more attention,

because it makes you feel

like a human being, in a way.

To connect to someone doing

something really honest or true,

it's important.

So, to me,

more than any other rock musician...

I consider Lemmy a legend, you know.

But, to me,

more than any other rock musician,

he is... the baddest motherf***er

in the world.

Mm-hm.

Know what would be cool?

If I could get one of those lyric sheets.

For the instrumentals

there's two 12 bars in a row.

Let's check the levels with Lemmy,

make sure he can hear himself.

That one little spot

when it's on the double chorus...

Yeah, it's a double chorus!

F***! For Christ's sake,

what was Chuck Berry thinking?

I remember a show in England

that I did with Meat Loaf

where the show was held up cos Chuck

Berry thought he hadn't been paid.

He wouldn't go on

until he had a wad of money.

He had been f***ed so many times.

In the '50s there were no rules at all.

A guy could pull a gun

and say, "I'm not paying you."

Even in the '60s, late '60s,

Hendrix got burned f***ing blind.

He never saw any of the money.

I was standing outside of LAX once,

getting ready to get on a plane,

and this young black guy

comes up to me and says,

"Hey, I read in an interview

that the only person

"you ever wanna meet

is Little Richard."

I had always said that. I didn't

give a f*** about anyone else.

I said, "Little Richard?"

And he goes, "Yeah. He's my dad."

I said, "Shut the f***... Really?"

He goes, "Yeah. Come here."

And there's this limo

parked out front and he goes...

The window comes down

and f***ing Little Richard

is sitting right there!

And I'm like, "Oh, my God!"

And he goes, "Hey, Dad, this guy..."

He's like, "What?"

He said, "This guy's a musician."

And the f***ing window comes down

and he goes, "God bless you!"

How weird must it have been

to be gay and black

in Macon, Georgia in the '50s.

- And an amazing singer.

- The best rock and roll singer ever.

I don't know who people consider

the originator of rock and roll.

It's Little Richard, because

nobody else had... He was crazy.

Him, Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis.

That's it. Those three.

You can't tell

who did the first whatever,

but between 'em,

they started rock and roll.

When you meet the originals

you realise

of course they're f***ing troubadours

or renegades.

They're f***ing freaks!

So that's where you got all the music

that was different

than anything else,

like Little Richard, a gay black

dude in Macon, Georgia in the '50s.

There was nothing he could do

but play rock and roll.

Probably not!

People say, "Don't you like Prince

back in the '70s, '80s?"

I said, "No, I've seen Jimi Hendrix."

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