LEMMY 2005 Interview for Headbanger's Journey | Raw & Uncut

I'm sitting here feeling like a very lucky guy because over the last 10 years making documentaries I've had the opportunity to

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Lemmy several times, once for the

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again from the evolution of metal and then we filmed Motorhead in Chile in 2011. and I've been on the Sunset Strip enough to spend some time there. Tell me, drop me off at the Rainbow Bar & Grill and you know, when most people talk about Lemmy, they talk about the tough lifestyle and living fast, but I think you know there are two things that are important to remember about Lemmy, one is that Lemmy always saw metal in the context of rock and roll, at the end of the day that's what we all do, we are making loud music that makes us feel good and maybe this is due to our parents and some figures of authority along the way and perhaps we focus too much on categorizing the music.

The second thing about Lemmy is that he is one of the funniest guys I have ever met. He always kept me on my toes when I was doing an

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with him and reminded me that I know we shouldn't take these things so seriously, that music is about having a good time and enjoying yourself, which I think we tend to forget, so here you have some Lemmy clips. I'm going to miss you, friend, what are the essential ingredients of good music? Good metal for good rock and roll for you, well we have to be interesting in the studios to watch, you can't just stand there looking at your shoes, you know, like all these musicians there and it has to be you.

You have to really be an actor and you have to be good and loud too, you know, and you have to know what you're doing with your instruments here because if you can't fake a right volume, nice volume. important for Motörhead quite important for anyone who wants to be heard above the chicken in the basket crowd no one says my line Sorry, they're looking at the package they're leaving that's all, just when Motörhead started to emerge I think you guys were thoughtful faster, there's a lot going on, Laurie probably picks up more speed than anyone, you know, you know, if we had a tour in those days, there were 56 shows and 53,000 56 days in England with Saxon and I don't care, you're not going to use that adrenaline and being high on life.

I don't care, you know, not only are you 33 years old, you know you're going to need a little help there, but it's also purely recreational as well because you know what people invented, they should be able to do it and talking about speed, right speeds in a name for Motorhead for people who don't know where that name comes from, oh if you look it's all slang for speed freak. on the Mothers of Invention albums a long time ago you'll find James Motorhead Sherwood, they made your mother too Nath, you know some of you are still talking which is true for us too, you know there's a lot of speed in their book , too much hedonism.

It's going well, the hedonism in RocknRolla says it should be, would you wait?, introverted, you know, existential, as people, I don't think so, so you know, the right role should be about that too, so is it the driving force? everything should be rebellion for its own sake. without a clear goal in mind driven by all kinds of fun and with naked women everywhere backstage. I don't care what your prejudices are. I do not have it. You know I love women and I think this should be naked backstage. all the time I love to watch it's cool I'm not for a long time I always treat them like they should be treated I'm a gentleman you know but I still like it talked a lot about getting criticism from yeah it's not fair really because it comes in, the only girl band back then, the girls school won their first tour, you know, no one else would play them on the yachts, you know, let me tell you even the rest of my bands, which are their girls, and I said they're good, you know, it doesn't matter You know, and people would always say about Kelly, oh, she's pretty good for a girl and she's better than you, man, you know she's better than you, although I'll tell you they have so much fun on the road, some I've never seen a boy band, you know, I mean, they're just classy, ​​they don't think and they drink under the table in this church.

I wanted to ask you about Motörhead fans. A comment in your book is actually everyone's names, so it's okay. fan loyalty, you mentioned that when we have people, we have people who don't have every visible surface of their bodies tattooed with the Motörhead logo, you know, unlike old album covers, Jimmy has all three of our faces on these Puppies from his legs. you know, I mean, I don't know if I know, I mean fans' pain threshold, you know she's actually hurt, so I mean, I'm having three little ones and it hurts them like, oh, I don't know. , you think?

I mean, maybe it's not just Motörhead fans, but metal fans seem to be more passionate than fear, well then what's a question of loyalty you see again? You know, because if you're a top forty fan, you necessarily have to change your allegiance every month, you know, and all those unwanted singles that you're on, you also know all those terrible songs that you from last year that you don't You can stand to impersonate, it's like an intensive custard business, but I like it, I select vinyl. albums anyway because you actually read what the liner said and everything you know instead of like the rise black that says you think metal is the ultimate underdog, is that right, and I'll tell you why, let me know what you want. to call it I call it rock and roll and it is the logical successor to the original rock and roll.

If Eddie Cochran was eighteen now he'd be in a garage with the band you know playing Japan's copy of Les Paul. What we do because it's the same impulse to make a loud noise at aggressive parents often to get laid, you know, that's basically what we're talking about, so this is the scabby bastard son of rock and roll, so That's why I like it, you know? that's why it'll always come back, they'll never get rid of it, they test it every three years or so, the trance computer they have metallization classes, you know, in Wisconsin, that's pretty cool, Canada, even check out our track, they take your studio in banja.

I don't know, I stop telling you things like you just want a bad bag, you know, shock reversal therapy, and I was going to say, right? Is incredible. I mean, what do you think we're doing? I think you can see it with the United States. everyone was guided by religion everything is ritual Addison, you know who the hell, so why does he get under people's skin? Do you think this music is like that? What is it about? He's just confident, he's not trying to be nice, he's trying to be tough, you know which one? It's what all good rock and roll always was, you know, Jesus Christ took a little Richard Minh, a black gay guy from Macon Georgia.

I think it was like growing up gay in that environment in the 50s. Jesus trusted him and feathered him just to look different. you know, and so he had to do it, he felt it and he had to do it and he's still the best rock and roll vocalist for me. You know, rock and roll was all metal is rock and roll. Did you see that Motorhead is being a part of it? that movement with Maiden and Priests and now I would do it before then, anything, I mean River 76, you know, I thought we were more like a punk band, actually I mean, if you close your eyes and forget that we are history, so we're more of a punk band. a punk band and you know metal, so for me I was the one because we always added more things in common with the Damned and like, for example, Judas Priest, yeah, you probably have the wrong air, so you see we have to be metal in That's obvious, you know, when you think about it.

That Martin, I was going to ask why people always put the engine in their hand. I mean, what's up with the image? That's right, I want the finger to be okay, it should be used to go on a t-shirt with a little sticker on it, you know, I mean people. I think I look like a Nazi and they always do, yeah, so they're in a lot of trouble, you know, in their heads, because you couldn't find anything less like a Nazi. I have had your friends to live with and they have all been black. I can reintroduce some who participated in the Nuremberg rally.

Well, this is my wife, I'm sure. Oh, yeah, yeah, and you guys, I mean, of course, the classic question is that you guys have always attracted both crowds, right? Yeah, the local kids, the metal kids. Well, like I said, we sound like a jerk if you close your eyes. I'm sure it's all these punks in the car like they don't look their heads. Do you know about long hair? It's a long hair line in your book. I was drugged. I know he used to be rebellious before it became the status quo, you know, but still, Lenin and modeling select the status quo, people still walk away from me in restaurants and you know, and he smokes too, you know, oh my god, why I think Motörhead had a harder time breaking America oh, we're not cute enough, that's the problem with that.

I'm gentle Singh, you know songs you can sing on a barge. I'll play at a wedding. One thing that caught my attention. you have some strong opinions about the accusations of selling out and becoming commercial, downright commercial, the funny words you use as an insult because being commercial just means more people will buy your music, which is what you're trying to do when you set out to meet the majority . People can listen to your music, that's why you do it, you know, and anyone says, I don't want Eiland, fortune is full of, I don't give you, you know, that's rubbish, if you want, if you want, no one listens to the music, stay there.

There will be no problem in the room, you know that, but don't go out on stage showing off and tell me that you don't know, it will be there, that's not the strange things about metal rate, there is that current that is about not being commercial, I know that . Inverted snobbery at school, yeah, you know, it's like the communist revolution, you know, everyone who has money must be coming, you know, it's not true, you know, it's not like that, any generalization now is rubbish, so if you say that They sold out, maybe they just stayed put.

Luckily, you know this, and you can't take it anymore because of your inverted history. Can't you stand that he's not your baby anymore? The only thing you and the five-year-olds know about them, you know, because it's great instruction. when you are younger, the enemy once, I need zero, yes, you are going to tell me and you can tell people and then they will know, but you select them, you know who deserves to know and if you are really successful globally, then you already know. That's another window, we had a son as soon as we got a record deal before we had success on all the records, he stopped coming to our services, so it's all about getting a record income, so another you would think that we were doing. because that would be unknown and dying poverty no, that's not what I got into rock and roll for him no, the philosophy of the law is to have a good time and give everyone else a good time if we can and if we don't have we have to go the hole and that's it, I mean, we basically just want to be fast and nasty and have all the nasty people in the world cheer us on, you know, and it seems to be working for the next thing.

I'm pretty happy, I mean, I'm doing what I always wanted to do, you know, so I'm putting in overtime. I recommend it, you won't regret it.