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Post by Shevy on Apr 14, 2005 8:20:18 GMT -5
MOTÖRHEAD frontman Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister recently spoke to Canada's Chart Attack about the group's current tour and his upcoming solo album, among other topics. A couple of excerpts from the interview follow:
On the tour:
"We've changed the set list altogether, more or less. There are a few surprises, including a couple off 'Another Perfect Day'. Three songs off the new album, 'Tragedy', 'Whorehouse Blues' and... I can't fucking remember, 'Killers', right. We were doing 'Life's A Bitch'. For the next album, we’re looking at probably January or February next year. We never discuss what it’s going to be like though. 'Whorehouse Blues' was spur of the moment. It's just like, if it's fun, we do it. If it isn't, we stop (laughs). That's what rock 'n' roll is supposed to be, you know?"
On his upcoming solo album:
"I've got eight songs right now, but they're not all mixed yet, and I've got to find a few more people to play on it. All but one are originals so far. I might do a couple of covers later on. I've already got THE DAMNED's 'Neat Neat Neat'. But it's all different styles, stuff I can't do in MOTÖRHEAD, mostly. There's bits of everything, really. I'm probably going to use Phil [Campbell, guitars] and Mikkey [Dee, drums] on two different tracks, you know, Phil on one and Mikkey on one. It’s probably another year away."
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Post by sc00ts on Apr 14, 2005 8:22:01 GMT -5
motorhead covering neat neat neat sounds pretty rad
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Post by Shevy on Apr 14, 2005 9:01:17 GMT -5
Anything that has to do with The Damned is cool in my book.
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Post by Shevy on Apr 18, 2005 10:27:23 GMT -5
Here's an interesting interview done with Lemmy recently...
Lemmy is a man of so few words that fans don't even use his last name, which for the record, is "Kilminster." Sure, the affable 59-year-old Motorhead frontman will answer any question thrown at him - succinctly, bluntly, often accompanied by a dry chuckle and plenty of delightful cursing in his Northern England brogue - but his band more or less speaks for itself. It is what it is.
"You either like us or you don't," Lemmy says. "There's not much middle ground with Motorhead."
Who wants middle ground? Middle ground is boring. From humble beginnings - son of a vicar who was busted for drugs in Canada, fired from his band (Hawkwind) and ended up back in England to form another band initially called Bastard in 1975 - Lemmy hit his stride early on and never wavered. Credited with inventing "speed metal," Motorhead never broke up and so never had to reform just for the money. Lemmy did whatever he wanted - "that's why we were always f---ing broke," he laughs - plowed bravely through the trends and now, 30 years later, is a legend. It has been said that what Johnny Cash was to country music, Motorhead is to heavy metal. Ozzy may be the prince of darkness, but Lemmy is the king.
Back again to rock Red's tomorrow, Lemmy told it like it is during a recent phone interview:
QUESTION: DID YOU EVER THINK YOU'D BE DOING THIS FOR 30 YEARS?
LEMMY: No.
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Q: IT MUST GIVE YOU PAUSE?
L: I don't think, wow, it's been 30 years. I think, wow, it's still good. We're getting more younger kids at the shows. This makes the third generation now.
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Q: DO YOU THINK YOUR CONNECTION WITH PRO-WRESTLING (MOTORHEAD PLAYS THE THEME SONG FOR TRIPLE-H) INCREASED YOUR POPULARITY?
L: It may introduce us to people who haven't heard us, but we had younger kids coming in before the wrestling. We played Wrestlemania in L.A. (recently).
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Q: THAT MUST'VE BEEN FUN?
L: Yeah, he lost again. He lost the first time, too. I said, motherf---er, you better win next time!
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Q: YOU'RE TOURING WITH CORROSION OF CONFORMITY. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THEIR NEW ALBUM?
L: They haven't given me a copy of the new f---ing album. Typical, in'it? But they've been around almost as long as we have.
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Q: DO YOU HAVE SOME NEW MATERIAL IN THE WORKS?
L: We're recording the beginning of next year. I ain't even thinking of it yet. We work under the knife, under the clock. That's our best way of doing it.
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Q: HAVE YOU BEEN INSPIRED BY WORLD EVENTS?
L: Only to disgust.
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Q: YOU CAN GET THAT OUT IN YOUR MUSIC?
L: I do. There's many a world-weary, despairing lyric from me, dressed up as humour.
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Q: THE WORSE THE WORLD GETS, THE HARDER YOU ROCK?
L: That's always been true. Look at what came out of Liverpool, which is a depressed city. Look what came out of Detroit. That's the secret, really, of good rock 'n' roll, when you wanna get out of the factory and get liberated for a couple of hours.
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Q: SO THOSE WHO DON'T COME FROM DEPRESSED CIRCUMSTANCES CAN'T ROCK AS CONVINCINGLY?
L: I dunno. Some of them can pretend real good, and some really feel for the people, but I mean, you can't play no Britney Spears to no machine-shop worker, you know what I mean?
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Q: HOW DOES IT FEEL TO HAVE WON YOUR FIRST GRAMMY AWARD (BEST METAL PERFORMANCE)?
L: It would've meant a lot more to me if it would've been for something of ours instead of a cover.
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Q: WERE YOU AT THE CEREMONY?
L: Yeah, but they don't televise the heavy metal part because it's like terrible and base and satanic and all that bulls----. So they only have the rappers who say you should shoot people on TV. It's really strange.
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Q: I GUESS THE REAL REBELLIOUS MUSIC IS HEAVY METAL AGAIN?
L: It never went away, but I think it cut its own throat. It got too pompous. It got too fond of itself. It got in league with its publicists, which is never a good idea. Look at Hitler. He believed in his own publicist and look what happened to him.
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Q: SPEAKING OF WHICH, WERE YOU NERVOUS TELLING CNN ABOUT YOUR FASCINATION WITH SECOND WORLD WAR MEMORABILIA?
L: Why should I be nervous? It's the most important event of the 20th Century. If you're not interested in it, you're sort of an idiot. It contained every lesson you'll ever need to work with today. And yet people will not learn from past events. They keep on making the same mistakes every f---ing time. It's incredible. We have an unlimited capacity for stupidity.
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Q: YOU REALLY EXPRESSED ADMIRATION FOR HERMANN GOERING?
L: Because out of all them, he took responsibility at the Nuremberg trials. He said, 'Yes, it was me.' Everybody else said, 'No, it was Hitler, and he's dead, you can't blame me, it was just orders.' That's the only thing I admire about Goering. He wasn't a very admirable man, but he did do that right. And he had to be a f---ing Nazi to do it, get it?
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Q: WHAT NEW BANDS ARE YOU INTO?
L: I listened to that Evanescence album a lot. They're really good. You know who that is? Great album. And there's this band from New York who toured with us for five shows, two guys and two girls, and they're called Slunt. Isn't that the best name you ever heard?
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Q: AND YOU HAD THAT ALL-GIRL METAL BAND OPENING FOR YOU BACK IN THE DAY.
L: Girlschool. I like to see girls play rock 'n' roll. It's good, man. Girls were always in it, the Crystals and the Shirelles and all that. They just picked up guitars now.
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Q: YOU'VE INFLUENCED A LOT OF PEOPLE. YOU TALK TO ANY HEAVY METAL BAND THESE DAYS AND HALF THE TIME YOUR NAME COMES UP. IT'S AN AMAZING THING.
L: It's nice to have the respect of your peers.
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Q: NOT BAD FROM BEING CALLED THE 'WORST BAND IN THE WORLD,' EH?
L: Actually, we were voted the 'best worst band in the world.' But we came through that. See? We beat 'em. I was right.
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Post by sc00ts on Apr 18, 2005 10:34:20 GMT -5
IMPORTANT MOTORHEAD NEWS:
MOTORHEAD IS AWESOME. CARRY ON.
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