Lemmy Page #8

---

he should have been dead.

We all used to hit it really hard.

But I don't know.

He's made of f***ing iron.

No, I don't really want

to advertise all that.

I don't want kids

to take any drugs cos of me.

I don't want them

to stay off drugs cos of me, either.

But I don't want to advertise a lifestyle

that killed a lot of my friends.

OK?

'Another question for Lemmy.'

'Yeah. Lemmy,

what do you credit your longevity to?

'You drink, you smoke, you party a lot.

I wanna know what you credit it to.'

Not dying. That's the secret.

That's the secret of survival - not dying.

I don't know. I was lucky, right?

Cos a lot of my friends

didn't make it and I did.

I never did heroin, see.

That was the one.

I never saw anybody die

on anything else.

When I was about 17 years old,

he said to me,

"Son, promise me

when you grow up..."

you know,

"...don't do coke.

Please. Just don't do coke."

And I was like, "OK."

And he says, "Just do speed.

It's much better for you!"

When you think back on it, Motrhead

was the original thrash band.

Everything about them.

They played fast. It was gnarly.

It was a little loose.

It had some punk rock, it had metal.

It had all the elements that

we then later perfected and refined

and then we became part

of the big four of thrash metal.

D Ain't a hope in hell,

nothing's gonna bring us down d

You could definitely say without

Motrhead, there's no Metallica,

there's no Anthrax, no Megadeth,

probably no Slayer.

There could have been those bands

but it would have been Anthrax-light.

D You know I'm bad the times I've had d

The man influenced me big time

as a bass player

because of the levels of distortion,

the speed and the power of it all,

and the relentlessness of it.

I can't even begin

to say how much of an influence

Motrhead have been on us.

I mean,

on a bunch of different levels.

I'll give you a list of things

that were lifted from Lemmy.

Musical level.

Singing style.

Lyric phrasing, the simplicity,

the rhyming scheme of it all.

- Attitude.

- Trying to be as cool as Lemmy.

Motivation. Perseverance. The look.

His facial hair in the early days,

for me, was all about that.

The bullet belt. Come on!

Lemmy, to me,

is not just an inspiration.

I think he's kind of like the OK sign.

It's OK to go this far.

It's OK to do this.

It's like he's kicked the door open

for a lot of bands

that were feeling

like they wanted more.

D Only way to feel the noise... d

I can't sing that way.

It's like the opposite.

I gotta sing down here.

- You like it lower.

- Yeah.

D You take the high mic

and I'll take the low mic d

- What's up, motherfuckers?

- Hello, sir!

- Great to see you, brother.

- Good to see you, too.

Hey, Lem, what's happening?

- How you doing, bro?

- Good.

So I'll do the first one,

and you'll do the second one?

- Yeah.

- Do the third one together?

- Or a line each, or what?

- You do the high harmony?

Not any more, no.

Grab your balls and you go, "Ahhh!"

That's the theory, yeah.

What ending do you have for

"Damage Case"? How do you end it?

He stops and I stop

and then you're the last to stop.

- We'll figure it out when we get there.

- How?

Don't be under any illusion

we know what we're doing.

Let's see what happens.

Let's have fun with it.

It's a three count.

It goes, "One, two, three!"

Isn't it time to go home?

No!

I didn't think so.

You can see there's an extra amp

up on stage here.

We have the distinct pleasure

of inviting on stage with us

one of our all-time idols.

And I know the reason

that Lars is so into music... Right?

He followed him around,

pestered him for ever.

I think he even threw up on him.

Something like that.

Lars is the biggest Motrhead fan

on the planet, all right?

And here is the godfather

of heavy metal.

From Motrhead, the one and only

Lemmy Kilmister!

Lemmy, Lemmy, Lemmy!

Lemmy, Lemmy, Lemmy!

All right!

D Hey, babe, don't look so scared

d All I want is some special care

d I'm on the run from some institution

d All I need's a little consolation

d And I can tell by your face

d I'm all over the place

d Let me inside your place

d Move over for a damage case

d Hey, babe, don't act so scared

d All I want is some special care

d I ain't looking to victimise you

d All I wanna do is tantalise you

d And I can tell by your face

d That I'm all over the place

d I'm a total disgrace

d Move over for a damage case

d Move over

d Hey, babe, don't turn away

d I'm here tomorrow, I'm gone today

d I ain't looking to victimise you

d All I want to do is tantalise you

d And I can tell by your face

d I'm all over the place

d I'm all over the place

d Move over for a damage case

d Damage case d

Yeah!

Good job, man!

Thanks, James. Good job!

- Good job!

- Thanks, man.

Lemmy, Lemmy, Lemmy!

'Stacey. You dropped

your pom-pom in the water.

- 'I'll get it for you.'

- 'I'll come with you.'

'Wait a minute. We don't want

to get our sweaters wet.

'Better take 'em off.'

'Splash fight! '

D Hit it

d Louie, Louie, oh, babe

d We gotta go

d Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay d

I hadn't seen Lemmy and

the boys for a decade or whatever.

I wound up doing a show with them

and, surprise, surprise,

same dudes were on the crew

as back in the early '80s!

Here it is, the '90s, and they're like,

"Dee, how you doing?"

I'm like, "Holy crap!"

But this is Lemmy.

It was just a big family thing,

without getting too clich.

We rely on each other.

We love each other, hate each other.

We love to hate each other.

We've done a tour,

we've gone home, come back.

The first time you seem them again,

it just feels tight.

There's not that band-crew thing

with this lot. It's just friends.

What other job can you get paid

for travelling around the world,

meeting great f***ing amazing people

and seeing Motrhead every night?

D Happy birthday to you

d Happy birthday to you

d Happy birthday, dear Roger

d Happy birthday to you d

- Eat your cake!

- I'm gonna, f***er!

In rock and roll bands that I've been in,

the money comes into play

and attitudes change.

You wanna act like a rock star.

Motrhead doesn't do that.

Motrhead isn't into that.

Motrhead is in it

for the music, for the fans.

D Well, we came up from the gutter

d The wrong side of the tracks d

We still have a goal, you know,

to move this band forward,

and to sound the best

and to be able to write good records.

There's no faking going on here.

I used to say there's not

a fake bone in Lem's body,

and that really is true, you know.

I can say the same

for Phil and myself, as well.

We're not faking us through

year after year,

pretending or so.

And I think that is reflecting out.

It's like an aura around us, I suppose.

We've had

quite a few people tell us

our music got them through

particularly low times in their lives.

It does something to us when we play.

For some reason, it's great.

I don't know what it is we do,

but it gives you a good feeling.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes