Lemmy Page #3

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He comes on with scarves over him

with a Stratocaster. Are you kidding?

I used to score for Mitch.

I used to score dope for him.

And I used to score acid for Hendrix.

He's a very fair man.

I'd give him ten trips and

he'd give me three and take seven.

Very generous.

But he had to take 'em then,

on the spot.

Yeah. Well, the thing is

with acid, see,

they say it doesn't work

two days in a row.

But we found that

if you double the dose, it does!

Yeah! A great day!

See you, buddy.

Great to have you back.

- Are you here for good?

- Yeah, for a while.

I'll call when I get back.

I haven't been to the Rainbow in ages.

I had this fight going on with

the f***ing Darkness, this band, right?

That's why I called you.

We went to the show and it was fine.

We went up the Rainbow

and we were sitting there.

I'm sitting at a table talking to the singer

and he says,

"Hey, you recorded

a song with Lemmy, right?"

I said, "Yeah."

He said, "We have a feud with him."

I was like, "Really? Why?"

He said, "He reviewed our record

and he said it was f***ing sh*t."

And I said, "Have you ever met him?"

He said no. I don't think you'd met him.

I'm like, "Dude,

he's the f***ing greatest guy."

"Well, so I called him a f***ing c*nt

or something in the press."

"Honestly he's a good dude.

You'd like him. I'm gonna go take a piss."

I f***ing got my cell phone.

I'm like, "Lem, come on up for a drink."

So I go up there.

The Darkness are sitting there.

He sees you coming.

It was like, "Oh, f*** me! No, no!"

Then Lemmy sat down, and at first

I'm like, "Lem, what's going on?"

He's like, "I wanted to go to

the Darkness gig but they banned me."

And I'm like,

"Have you met Justin, the singer?"

I talked to him for, what,

half an hour that night?

He didn't change my opinion one bit!

D Riots in the burning streets,

crystal night outside

d Brutal music in the night

enough to make you cry

d Nobody knows how it is

to sleep and drown the world

d I am the midnight snake

to bite your little girls

d Outside in the distance

the city in the fire d

The Rainbow Bar and Grill

is the most famous restaurant-bar

where musicians

and hangers-on and groupies...

It's sort of like the place

to go hunt

and the place to die

at the same time.

It's a rocker place.

If you're a rock and roller, come here.

If you're not, don't come here.

D Well, lawdy, lawdy, lawdy,

Miss Clawdy

d Girl, you sure look good to me

d Please don't excite me, baby d

In the '90s, for me, Lemmy

became synonymous with the Rainbow.

Any time you would go there,

there he is playing the trivia machine.

It became a joke.

Like, "Let's go to the Rainbow and

have a drink and say hi to Lemmy,"

and then Lemmy's there.

You get so many tourists

that come in -

"Does Lemmy hang here?

Is Lemmy here?"

If he's not here, he's on tour.

He's got to be one of two places -

the Rainbow or on tour.

Give Lemmy the game, a Jack and Coke

and a cigarette and he's there for ever.

People go on that game and go,

"It says Lemmy up there."

I go, "Yeah, that's Lemmy

from Motrhead."

"No, it can't be."

It's the afternoon and here's Lemmy

sitting at the end of the bar.

I've seen everything from chicks

welling up to the frat guy

going, "Oh, my God!"

It's the best when they start crying.

It's so cute.

Anyone wants a picture, he'll take one.

Anyone that wants to talk to him,

he'll talk to 'em,

but let him play his Megatouch first.

He would be

just sitting there playing it.

Some sort of weird

heavy-metal meditation,

mixed with Jack and Coke

and something else we won't disclose!

I was a house painter

for about three weeks,

working for this old gay guy

called Mr Brownsword.

How's that? And it's true, too.

Mr F***ing Brownsword!

It doesn't come any better than that.

Monty Python

couldn't do better than that.

Luckily, he fancied my mate

and not me.

I got to paint the upstairs,

while he was attacking

Colin downstairs.

It was funny as sh*t. I worked

at the riding stables in the summer.

I worked on the fair

when the fair came round.

I worked in a factory for a while,

but that was f***ing terrible.

I grew my hair till they fired me.

We had the beach, the sea

and the horses. It was great.

I had a pretty good childhood.

I ain't complaining.

Except they f***ing ruined it

and put the school in there.

I'd heard before that Lemmy

went to school here.

I'd heard rumours about it first

and I went on the internet

and found out it was true.

I heard Lemmy got expelled

from this school.

For what reason?

Apparently, he was playing

his guitar down the Tannoy,

but I'm not sure if that's true.

I don't even know

if he wanted to be a rock star.

I think it came naturally.

That's how he seems - pure rock.

D If you like to gamble,

I tell you I'm your man

d You win some, lose some,

it's all the same to me

d The ace of spades,

the ace of spades

d The ace of spades,

the ace of spades d

Hi, Lemmy!

D Dandy, Dandy

d Where you gonna go now?

D Who you gonna run to?

D All your little life

you're chasing all the girls d

I saw The Vickers

at the Oasis in Manchester

and I thought they were excellent

so I asked for a job with them.

D Chatting up the ladies

d Tickling the fancy

d Pouring out your charms d

We'd be on with The Kinks,

The Who, The Hollies.

We played at South Pier, Blackpool

with The Who

and all the audience were chanting,

"We want The Vickers!"

Roger Daltrey didn't like that!

They were a damn good band,

and compare very favourably

with any of the bands

that I had who had bigger hits,

like The Who and The Kinks

and Manfred Mann.

They were about as big in the north

as The Kinks were in the south.

We'd just tour all around

the north of England, really.

We couldn't even get arrested

in London.

North of Birmingham we were big stars.

This is 1965/6.

We were on L200 a week each clear.

That's like L 4,000 a week each now.

And we all had Jags

and we had a speedboat.

We used to go water-skiing

on Windermere.

It was rock and roll

with a bit of thump. Very aggressive.

He would go up to his amplifier,

feed his guitar back

and he would make 'em scream.

When I joined The Vickers,

they were ambitious.

They settled into this routine

of doing the same gigs every year,

the circuit,

and they became in the end,

in fact, a cabaret show.

So it wasn't for me, really.

He wanted to be

in the thick of it in London.

And we didn't!

What I really like

about the Lemmy mythology

is that he used to be a roadie

for Jimi Hendrix, too,

which scores a lot of points

in my book, man!

He would rather play

an instrument than carry it.

So that kind of gives you the idea!

I think just as a resum piece,

defining what is a rocker.

I mean... to his core

he's the kind of guy who said,

"If I can't be in the band,

I'll carry their equipment."

He hung out with musicians,

and he did it continually

until people let him play.

And he's really come up the hard way.

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