Lemmy Page #4

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That wasn't great.

He said one of the most amazing

one-liners I've ever heard,

and he explained it.

He said, "I remember

before there was rock and roll."

I said,

"Wow, that's a wild thing to say."

I said, "What do you mean?"

I'm not gonna try and imitate his voice.

He said, "I remember when there was

only Rosemary Clooney records.

"I remember

before there was rock and roll.

"There was just your mum's records."

I think I'm paraphrasing

but he said something like,

"Then we heard Elvis

and we never turned back.

"We heard rock and roll. That's us."

In the '60s, how I got albums

and singles, too,

I had to go down

to the electrical appliance shop

and he would order it for me

from whatever company.

He wasn't licensed to do it or nothing.

It was just a friendly basis.

He would order them. Three weeks later

they would come back.

A Buddy Holly record called "Wishing"

and one called "Learning the Game."

Eddie Cochran's "Two Three Steps

to Heaven" and "Something Else."

These kids, without knowing it,

when they listen to Motrhead,

they're getting Johnny Cash,

Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran.

It was the same thing

with the original punk-rock guys.

They were very influenced

by that music.

The fans don't know that

but when they're listening

to "Ace of Spades",

they're listening to Eddie Cochran.

That's Lem's influence.

D Now I taught the weeping willow

how to cry

d And I showed the clouds

how to cover up a clear blue sky d

The Head Cat is just like

what we did when we were teenagers.

We're playing the songs

that got us into it.

The music is so real and unpretentious

that people can't help but like it.

D A bad little kid moved in

to the neighbourhood d

The genesis of Head Cat was

someone wanted me

to do one track

for an Elvis tribute record.

I know Lem loves Elvis

and Johnny Ramone.

So I thought it would be cool to get

John and Lem on the same record.

So we did the song

and John went home.

We had studio time left

cos we did it so quickly.

It was for fun. We all knew

the same songs by heart.

We said we should do an album,

so we did.

D Buys all the rock and roll books

on the magazine stand

d Every dime that he gets

is lost to the jukebox man d

This apartment is like

a f***ing museum. It is a museum.

I've seen museums

with less sh*t in them than I got.

It's one of those things.

This was available,

and it was near the Rainbow,

which was the only point

of reference in LA I had.

All I've ever done

is stay at the Park Sunset

and come up to the Rainbow,

which was what we used to do.

Here you go.

He's pretty cool, isn't he?

That's the Metal Hammer Award.

Two of them.

This is a porcelain model of me

done by somebody

and given to me on the road.

It's pretty interesting sh*t.

You get given some great stuff.

The platinum album is from Joan Jett

and the gold one is from Lita Ford,

cos I wrote a song on that album.

That's from the Wacken Festival

in Germany.

And this is my clan,

my Scottish clan, Fraser.

And this is my honorary membership

in the Rangers.

There's my action figure.

You gotta keep it in the original box.

Then one day it'll probably

be worth as much as $5!

Silver and gold record

for "Ace of Spades".

This is from Hammersmith Odeon.

This is from

"No Sleep 'til Hammersmith".

And this is by a German cat.

It's pretty good, too, huh?

I wish I hadn't dropped it.

That's the only thing.

Why not move?

Well, I'm never gonna get a place

for the money I'm paying here.

I've got a place that's rent-controlled.

They can't put it up

more than 6% a year.

I'm still only paying

I'm never gonna get a deal like that.

And I'd want to live around here

cos I like it around here.

What's your most

cherished possession in here?

My son.

Cos he's the only one I got.

I have another one but

I've never seen him so he don't count.

- Neither have I, no.

- No, neither of us. No.

His mother went

and found him two years ago.

She said he's like 5ft tall,

looks just like me,

and he's a computer

f***ing programmer or something.

She's a social worker, right?

And she's put on a bit of weight so

she wears these paisley smock things.

She said he put his head in his hands

when she told him she was his mother!

She said, "I hadn't got the heart

to tell him who his father was!"

He'd probably run out on the balcony

with a f***ing pistol!

You can't win 'em all, can you?

Where would you put 'em?

Yeah, but I mean...

I dunno. I just like stuff.

I've always liked stuff.

Stuff is what happens.

In your life you get stuff.

Then you lose some stuff

and you keep some stuff.

At the end you leave it

to some other poor bastard

to be saddled with it

for the rest of their lives!

Don't worry, kid.

You'll have all this sh*t soon enough!

- I'm looking forward to that!

- Yeah, really. I have no doubt.

- I'd rather have you than all that stuff.

- I know, yeah.

I can never imagine why that is.

Why people would rather have some

gobsmack human instead of money.

I never understood that.

- Well, money doesn't love you back.

- I don't know.

- You can spend it.

- You can imagine it does.

Paul, I know that you

met your dad when you were six.

I met him, too.

We met each other at the same time.

- Simultaneous, it was.

- Funny, that.

Like two ships

meeting in the cosmos, man.

It's like a memory that's all frayed

around the edges and sepia-toned.

Sepia.

Actually, I was sepia then.

I was almost see-through, in fact.

Yeah. I just remember tugging

at these slim legs in jeans.

- That's me, you see.

- I was small so I just saw the legs.

- Describe what happened.

- I don't remember what happened.

It was a dope deal.

I was waiting for some hash

to arrive or something.

I was in the kitchen

making a piece of toast

and this small blond child came in.

"You're my dad, I'm your son,

and my mum's in the other room."

I look round

and bloody Tracy's sitting there,

babbling like an idiot, as usual.

I don't know how he got there.

She wasn't in no dope deal

cos she didn't do drugs, right?

So why was she there?

How did she get in there?

She went looking for you.

I know that.

And that's because

when I was about four,

I was, you know,

in like a kindergarten, right,

and there was this other kid

that came up to me and he said,

"I've got a daddy and a mummy."

I was like, "I've only got a mummy."

He said, "You must have a daddy.

Everybody has a daddy and a mummy."

- So I went home and I said...

- Where's my daddy, you b*tch?!

And I got this look like...

"We don't talk about him in this house!"

And then I think after that

endeavours were made

to introduce us to each other.

I didn't want to live

with his mother, you see,

because it was

only casual sex, really.

But, I mean, I love Paul.

I like Tracy. She's great.

She did a really good job

of bringing him up, up to a point.

He's turned out to be a clever kid

and he's good.

He's a great musician.

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