By Jeb Wright
SPV Records has released a
new live album by Metal Gods Motorhead celebrating the 30th
anniversary of the band. Throughout their career, Motorhead
have had a rabid following in Europe but have never been able to
replicate the same success in the United States, despite being
heralded as gods by homegrown bands Metallica and Guns N Roses.
Motorhead's bass player and lead singer, Lemmy Kilmister,
however, has become a Heavy Metal Icon and is beloved by all
fans of the genre.
What is not to love about
a man who lives by his own rules, always keeps his word and
collects World War II memorabilia? Lemmy is unconventional. He is a
heavy drinker, a drug user and has slept with more woman than
most porn stars but he is also honest, lives by his beliefs and
believes in his band. Lemmy, despite sometimes violent
tendencies and a wild lifestyle, is a good guy.
In the interview that
follows we discuss the new live album, Better Motorhead Than
Dead and what 30 years of Motorhead means to Lemmy. We take
advantage of the anniversary to look back to the early days of
the band when they were going to film their retirement gig as
well what Lemmy's thinks of Brian Robertson and punk goddess
Wendy O. Williams. Lemmy openly discusses drinking and taking
drugs and recounts tales of saving a woman from being kidnapped,
getting back his stolen hat and driving through the 1992 LA
Riots. Lemmy also gives us his political views on the upcoming
Presidential election. Don't miss this interview with one of
Metal's biggest celebrities. In fact, like Prince, he is so
popular that he only needs one name to be known!
Jeb: I want to
jump in and talk about the double CD
Better Motorhead Than Dead.
Who made the decision for the 30th anniversary with
of the band with a live album?
Lemmy: The record
company decided to release it. We had done
Hammersmith
with Saxon and Girls School, two bands that we used to take out
in the old days when we started. It was like old home week. It
was a good gig.
Jeb: You had to
narrow down the gig to just twenty songs. You have hundreds.
Lemmy: That is the whole set. If we played
all the requests we get, we would be playing for the next two
years. It is for the fans. Where would we be without them?
Jeb: Does the
anniversary make it more special for you?
Lemmy: It was not as special for me as it was
for the fans but thirty years together does make is special.
Luckily, I don't remember most of it [laughter].
Jeb: Motorhead has
inspired bands like Metallica and Guns & Roses. Is it nice when
they tip the hat to you and give you credit?
Lemmy: It is nice
when they acknowledge you. Metallica recorded four of our songs
on the Garage
album - that was a handy little paycheck.
Motorhead never had a hit record in the States; we never even
hit the Top 100.
Jeb: Does it
bother you that Metallica went on to fame and fortune to a level
Motorhead didn't?
Lemmy: It is just the luck of the draw; it is
just that simple. You have to be in the right place at the right
time. We were too late for the first British Invasion and too
early for the second one.
Jeb: You have
become more popular as Lemmy in America than Motorhead.
Lemmy: I'm grateful for what I've got; I'm
not complaining. I think I have become popular because I don't
let people down. The worst thing is to admire someone and then
have them let you down; that's awful. You meet someone who you
think is going to be excellent and they end up being a complete
fucking asshole.
Jeb: Neither
Motorhead or Lemmy have given into trends.
Lemmy: Trends are bullshit. The funniest one
was when they tried to make us get our hair cut. We had an old
manager who thought we could reach a much broader audience if we
would get our hair cut. I said, "That's it then, I guess we are
not going to reach a much broader audience."
Jeb: I also like
Hawkwind.
Lemmy: Me too.
Jeb: Just think if you had not got busted
for drugs coming across the boarder of Canada then Motorhead may
never have happened.
Lemmy: I know; it's weird.
You never know what is going to do you a favor. You can't know
what events will be good for you in the long run. At the time it
was terrible but it turned out okay. I was pissed at the time
because the band just left me there. When they couldn't get my
replacement there in time they flew to Toronto and then fired me
after the show, those motherfuckers.
Jeb: What makes
it harder to believe is that when you came into Hawkwind they
had their greatest success.
Lemmy: I was the pusher. I pushed them
forward and I drove the pace of the band. I was always like,
"Come on you fuckers, you can play faster." I put a lot of power
into the band. They picked the wrong guy to replace me.
Jeb: They really
took off on you?
Lemmy: That's cold.
Jeb: Did you spend time in jail?
Lemmy: I was in jail for two days while they
figured it out. I was on my way to the holding jail in Essex
County Ontario when I got bailed.
Jeb: What a great
way to form Motorhead because anger is a great way to fuel
yourself to move forward.
Lemmy: Well, I had been angry before that.
Jeb: Motorhead staying together thirty
years is not something you would think would happen. You did it
your way and you refused to give into anyone. Thinking about
that makes me wonder if that is not why it did work.
Lemmy: There you go. As I
said, you don't know what is going to be good for you. In the
beginning we couldn't fucking get arrested. We were called the
'Best Worst Band in the World.' Everyone who said that is now
gone, so fuck 'em.
Jeb: You had your
retirement gig before you even recorded an album. You were going
to record it just for yourselves.
Lemmy: We were going to call it a day as
Eddie Clark and Larry Wallis were disillusioned. I called Ted
Carroll at his record company and asked him if he would come
down and record it for prosperities' sake. He ended up giving us
some money to go into the studio and record two sides for a
single. We went down to the studio and put down eleven backing
tracks. He came down the second day and we were doing a couple
of vocals and he said, "If you finish this then I will put the
album out." We did eleven tracks in a day. We had been playing
for a while and we had them down. You never know who is going to
really help you and who is just going to be a glad mouth. Ted
really saved Motorhead.
Jeb: You must
have one hell of a bullshit detector.
Lemmy: You acquire it over the years. Some
people are really good at that stuff and you can't always tell
if they are sincere.
Jeb: Did
Motorhead discover Girls School?
Lemmy: In a way, they were already together
as a band and they had one single out on a small independent
label. Dave Gilligan, who used to work for us in the office, saw
them and told us to come down and see them. Girl bands were
unheard of then. They were really fucking good. I said, "Put
them on the tour." The record company was bitching and moaning
because they were girls and then they went out and blew everyone
fucking away.
Jeb: It doesn't
help that they were girls as far as you being around them.
Lemmy: The shock value was great in those
days. They were not just shrinking little violets. They enjoyed
themselves. There is the famous incident where gave I the worst
pickup line ever. I said to Kelly [Johnson] "Do you want to
watch the Old Gray Whistle Test in my room?" Kelly said, "Yeah,"
which was the worst comeback line too. Eddie was sitting in the
lobby of the hotel with Kim [McAuliffe], and her then boyfriend,
Tim the roadie and tour manager. She said, "Why don't you and me
go watch The Old Grey Whistle Test in your room too." Eddie
went, "Uh...uh...." and they got in the elevator and went up to
his room. Tim went back to their hotel and got in the van and
drove back to London. We had to have them with us the rest of
the tour but that was okay.
Jeb: You got to
experience the early era of The Blizzard of Oz.
Lemmy: That was the first tour and that is
where I met Ozzy. They came out with a better band than Black
Sabbath. I knew that he would come out with a better band
because I never liked Sabbath. I really liked Ozzy with Blizzard
of Oz.
Jeb: Did you see
the talent in Randy Rhoades?
Lemmy: People get better when they are dead;
I think that is true of anybody. Look at Buddy Holly and Stevie
Ray Vaughan, nobody gives a fuck about them when they are alive;
they are just a guy who plays guitar. Suddenly they die and they
are a great influence. It is all bollocks. I am not saying Randy
was not great because he was but the death thing really elevated
things. Randy was really a quiet little guy. He was very
straight and humble. He was very small, about five foot nothing.
He couldn't play Asteroids for nothing; I beat him all across
the United States.
Jeb: Motorhead
didn't develop a style. You were honestly about leather and
tattoos and long hair.
Lemmy: I was like that in my hometown the
only thing is that I was the only one like that.
Jeb: Look how many bands have been fucked
up by drugs and how many musicians have died from drugs. Seeing
as you have done your share of drugs, how did you survive it?
Lemmy: I didn't do heroin.
I have only seen people die on heroin. I have never seen anyone
die on cocaine or acid. They may have got shot for it in a deal
or something but they never died just from cocaine.
Jeb: Others drink
themselves to death.
Lemmy: That's true. It didn't work on me. I
have been drinking a long time. I just drink continuously
through the day so I suppose you develop an immunity to it. I
have been pretty lucky.
Jeb: How infested
was the rock scene with drugs?
Lemmy: From the late sixties to 1975
everybody I knew was doing drugs whether they were in a band or
not. There were no exceptions; everybody in my age group did
drugs. I believe that a third of the advance for Johnny Winter's
record advance was cocaine.
Jeb: You are an
advocate to legalize drugs, even heroin.
Lemmy: They have tried throwing the police at
it for thirty years and there is more of it now than there ever
was. It is time to change the attitude toward it and try
something else.
Jeb: People get
fucked up on other drugs than heroin. Do you really think that
is not a problem?
Lemmy: The difference is that they do not
usually die. Heroin will kill you.
Jeb: Let's take someone like Ozzy and
compare them to you. Why do you get away with it and he can't?
Lemmy: Ozzy is different from me. If you give
something to him then he will take it and put it in his mouth
and not care what it is. I went through a little period of that
in the early 60's but I got out of that because I figured I was
going to die if I kept that up. Heroin and downers are the bad
ones. I never wanted to be asleep all the time. I wanted to be
up and running around.
Jeb: One song I
want to talk about is the Motorhead remake of "Stand By
Your
Man" that you did with Wendy O. Williams.
Lemmy: That was a good version of that song.
Jeb: I have to ask you what Wendy was
like.
Lemmy: Wendy was great. She is an exception,
as she never did drugs. You would think of all people she would
have done them. She was a workout freak. She had muscles like
steel ropes. She used to ring me up when she was in New York and
say, "Whatcha doing Lemmy? Can I come over and jump ya?" Believe
me, when she jumped you, you stayed jumped. She was a really
strong woman. It is so awful the way she died. She was a really
good person. She got a lot of slack for being the way she was.
That thing that happened in Detroit was fucking terrible, as she
did not deserve the fucking police to abuse her. She took them
to court and beat them and got damages. The same night she won
the court case she blew up another fucking car on stage.
Jeb: You two
would have made a great couple.
Lemmy: Yeah, really [laughter]. Although I
hope I would have drawn the line at the alligator wrestling.
Jeb: Fast Eddie threw a fit over "Stand
By Your Man."
Lemmy: It was because of Wendy. She didn't
learn fast and he had to go over it a lot with her. He didn't
have any patience.
Jeb: He was
basically just being a dick?
Lemmy: I suppose you could say that
[laughter].
Jeb: Was that why he left the band?
Lemmy: It was an accumulation of things. He
left the band about 25 times. This time he just ran out of
patience. I said, "Do you want to go talk to him" and Phil
[Taylor] said, "No" so this time he really did leave.
Jeb: Were you the
leader of the band by that point?
Lemmy: I have always been the leader in
Motorhead. What could they do without me? I had to start my own
band because everyone else fired me.
Jeb: Next up you
brought in Brian Robertson from Thin Lizzy. Did you think that
was the right move?
Lemmy: I wasn't sure about that. Phil was the
big Thin Lizzy fan. I like Thin Lizzy too
and we thought he was
going to be like he was when he was in Thin Lizzy but he wasn't.
He was really screwed up.
Jeb: I remember a
gig where he was wearing pink cloths.
Lemmy: He would wear those little fucking
shorts too. He was just a lemon. He was intent on being Brian
Robertson and not being a part of Motorhead. He wanted to be the
star. He wanted to be the special guest of the band. We were
supposed to go; "We are so lucky to have you with us, Brian."
Look how well it has worked for him. State Trooper fired him for
God's sake. He never really was in the band because he was just
Brian Robertson, Guest Star.
Jeb: Did that
lineup change make your record company, Bronze Records, not want
to release an new album?
Lemmy: Actually, we had a little contest. We
asked the audience what direction they thought the band should
go. Phil and Brian were on one side and I was on the other. The
record company sent out people to canvas kids to ask them what
we should do. Everybody said the same thing that I did and it
really pissed Brian and Phil off. It started them on the road to
leaving - we fired Brian but Phil left. They put a band together
after they left Motorhead.
Jeb: The record
company didn't put out a new release. Instead they put out a
Best of.
Lemmy: They put out
No Remorse but
Brian made them put four tracks by the new band on it.
Jeb: You had two examples in your career
where you put out songs at the perfect time. The first was when
you released "Ace of Spades" and the second was at this time
when you released "Killed By Death." Was it just luck?
Lemmy: I think it is. When
you are writing a song, it is just another song. I know it is
not the best song we ever did but I don't mind playing it, you
know. I didn't think it was special at all; it was just another
song.
Jeb: How do you
stay prolific?
Lemmy: I am good with words. I am English and
we have a better vocabulary than you fuckers [laughter]. I can
pull in words that others might not think of. I got good at it,
as I was not good at it at first.
Jeb: You ended up
having to sue your record company.
Lemmy: They wouldn't let us sign with anybody
else and they would not release the new album. It took us two
years to get out of that so we just toured the whole time. We
fought them in court and we won because our cause was just. I
didn't have to appear in court; we just sent lawyers. If I had
been there, I would have been fucking locked up for contempt.
Jeb:
No Sleep Till Hammersmith
was the perfect album for you to release at the time.
Lemmy: It was the first live album we ever
did. People had been waiting for it for the past three or four
years. The thing is, how do you follow it? How do you follow a
live album that went straight to # 1? You can't follow it with a
live album and a studio album is going to stand a bit tame next
to it. As it happened, we followed it up with a bad album called
Iron Fist. That
is the only album I have made that I have not been happy with.
Jeb: Your live
energy is amazing. You do a good job of keeping the energy in
the studio but it not quite the same.
Lemmy: You can never capture live in the
studio; it just doesn't work. They are two different animals.
Jeb: You were in LA during the 1992 riots
recording an album. What was that like?
Lemmy: We were in Sunset Sound Studios, which
is right near Normandie where the whole thing started. I was
doing a vocal and I finished and came into the lounge and there
was a TV on that was showing a house burning. I looked out the
window and I saw the other side of the same house. The guy came
in and said, "I think we are going to lock up a bit early
today." Eddie had a car out there and we just left. Driving out
of there was like driving through a war zone as the whole city
block was on fire. Everything went dark and all you could see
was entire city blocks burning. It was fucking great.
Jeb: What was
your take on the riots? Do you feel they were justified?
Lemmy: Fucking right they were. Are you going
to tell me that Rodney King didn't get beat up by the cops? They
filmed the thing happening and then they let all the cops go
free.
Jeb: Some say he
was resisting arrest.
Lemmy: That may be but they didn't have to
keep beating him once he was handcuffed. They were beating him
for twenty minutes after he was cuffed. The beating that guy
took was fucking horrendous. I don't give a fuck if he was
resisting arrest, you don't have to do that. It was fucking
extreme. You can't have a huge organization like the LA Police
without having some assholes in there. They gravitate together.
The good guys gravitate together and so do the bad guys. I can't
believe they got off free. They never did retry the case. It was
wrong.
Jeb: On a pleasant
note, I wish I would've been there at your 50th
Birthday Party. Did you know that Metallica were going to show
up and rename themselves The Lemmys for the night?
Lemmy: They planned it as
a surprise. They interrupted their new album to fly down and do
it. They are the only ones who have really gave us back for what
they say we gave them. We played with them in Germany and Europe
in festivals. We also did the Superdome in Seattle, the Rose
Bowl and another big arena somewhere. We left one of the tours
with Ozzy to play three gigs with Metallica and Guns & Roses and
we got fired off the Ozzy tour for it.
Jeb: How did it
feel to win a Grammy?
Lemmy: Even when they decided to give us one
they still didn't give us one for one of our songs. It would
have been more important if it had been one of our songs. It was
just a cover of Metallica's "Whiplash."
Jeb: What did you
think of the 80's when Hair Bands ruled the world?
Lemmy: I didn't mind it. There are really
only two kinds of music in the world: Music you like and music
you don't like. It didn't bother me.
Jeb: You have
said that you have never wanted to be a rock star. Can you
expand on that?
Lemmy: I wanted to be in a band. They tried
to call it Lemmy's Motorhead. It was on the posters. I was the
only person that people had heard of so they wanted to exploit
that. I found out about it and I told them to stop that. I was
not about that at all.
Jeb: Do you feel
you have become a rock star?
Lemmy: As soon as you become a star you
become a fucking asshole. I guess I am what they call a
celebrity, if anything.
Jeb: You have
even been in movies.
Lemmy: How about that. Let me tell you being
in movies is fucking boring. You have to be there at five in the
morning and then you hang around all day and they come in and
say, "We don't need you today." I have a lot of things I want to
do in my life and none of it involves sitting around talking to
fucking actors.
Jeb: Did you call this
person this name because you don't like him or because you were
just being funny? You called Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson, Dick
Brucington.
Lemmy: Dick Brucington
[laughs]. It is just an old joke. Bruce is okay. If you have
interviewed him then you know why I said that. He is a great
front man, you have to give him that. He is a great singer too.
Jeb: How can you
be in the music business and not care about sales or the charts?
Lemmy: That is what is wrong with rock n'
roll, man. There are too many musicians who are businessmen. The
way I see it is if you are a musician then you shouldn't be a
businessman. You should be enough of one to hire the right
lawyers and that is all. Otherwise, you should concentrate on
the fucking music.
Jeb: It takes a
lot of the danger out of rock music.
Lemmy: It takes all the danger out of it. As
soon as you are sitting there after the show on your laptop
going through your finances... that is not what it started for.
It started through blind, stupid rebellious joy and that is all
it should be.
Jeb: When you see
a band like Van Halen reunited...
Lemmy: Is it any good?
Jeb: I actually didn't go.
Lemmy: I think a lot of people feel that way;
they are not even going to bother. Michael Anthony got screwed.
If they would have got back together with David Lee Roth the
first time - if they hadn't welched on him - then everybody
would have gone. After that I don't think anybody really
believes it. It's for the money. They must all be broke by now.
Jeb: It would be
hard to spend that much money.
Lemmy: Oh you can spend it man, all you have
to do is apply yourself. I have spent a bit of money. If you
don't spend it then the taxman takes it so you might as well
spend it
Jeb: Tell me the
story about your hat.
Lemmy: You are talking about the hat incident
where somebody stole my hat?
Jeb: Yes.
Lemmy: Somebody stole my cowboy hat and I was
really pissed off about it. Somebody from our fan club posted it
on the web. Some guy went from Portland to Seattle and got it
and brought it back to me. It restores your faith in human
nature. He went to a party and this chick had it. She had stolen
it out of our dressing room after she was invited in for a
drink. He stole it back off her and he brought it back to me.
That guy went home with some merchandise that day, I'm telling
you. Our fans are pretty faithful and hardcore.
Jeb: You have said you
feel more kinship to punk bands than metal bands. Yet bands like
Metallica and GNR are metal and they worship you.
Lemmy: Metallica sound
like a punk band to me. I think they have more in common with
punk bands. Look at the speed of the music. Metal was like Black
Sabbath and Judas Priest. Metallica aren't like that at all. The
whole New Wave of Heavy Metal sounds like punk to me. I think
punks are more interesting and they are angrier. Metal guys run
out of anger as soon as the money starts coming in. Metal lost
the revolution thing that we all thought it would. It became a
money machine and they started playing arenas. Punks never went
to large arenas.
Jeb: So you don't
like Priest?
Lemmy: Priest are okay, actually. They are a
lot better than people gave them credit for. They are a lot
better than Sabbath. I don't like the high voices.
Jeb: So Dio is
good.
Lemmy: Dio has a great voice and it comes out
of that little body. Pat Benetar is another one. She has no
fucking build on her at all and she has this huge voice. I can
remember going to see her back in 1984 and she hit all of those
notes. She hit the high note in "Fire and Ice" and she hit the
high note in "Promises in the Dark." She is amazing.
Jeb: Is there any
music that you cannot listen to?
Lemmy: Hip-Hop. I think that is the worst
music black people have ever made. I started out because of
black people's records. I started out with the blues and then
got into Chuck Berry and then Stax Records and Motown. Is
Hip-Hop an extension of that? I don't think so. I would kill for
Little Richard, as he is the best rock n' roll ever.
Jeb: How hard was
it for you to get that music when you were growing up in
England?
Lemmy: You wouldn't believe it. We lived in
this little place called Coventry in North Wales. We lived on a
farm three miles out of town. I had to go to town and go to an
electrical appliance store that sold washing machines and
fucking hair dryers and order the fucking record. I would give
them the label and the person singing it and they would order it
and it would take four weeks for it to come in.
Jeb: That is
dedication.
Lemmy: I guess it is but we didn't know it
was because there wasn't any other way of doing it. That was
great music. England stayed with Buddy Holly longer than America
did. We always liked Gene Vincent and even came to live in
England and later on in France when his career was over in
America.
Jeb: When you say
Motorhead is a rock n' roll band...
Lemmy: I have always said that.
Jeb: But you don't sound anything like
Little Richard.
Lemmy: No, but we are doing our version of
him. AC/DC are a rock n' roll band. They are too quick to be
heavy metal. I can't hit the high notes so I can't be heavy
metal.
Jeb: I have to bring up
the article that was in Brave Words and Bloody Knuckles that
came out and said you were bisexual.
Lemmy: We sent him a
message and he printed a retraction. I think the message went
something like, "How are you going to go to the store and get new
software from the store with a screwdriver through both your
knees." People will say anything just to make themselves
important.
Jeb: I never
lived on the West Coast and I never got to experience the glory
days of The Rainbow.
Lemmy: I have a place just for me there in
the smoking section. They built a patio bar outside just for the
smokers.
Jeb: What was that place like for us who
never got to experience it?
Lemmy: The first time I went in there one of
Zeppelin's roadies was fucking this chick on a table in the
restaurant. When they finished, everyone gave them a standing
ovation. That is what rock n' roll has lost to a large extent
when they became businessmen. They lost the lunacy and that was
the fun of it. Two years ago we were on tour in Australia with
Motley Crue and it was just like the old days. We all just had
such a good time. There wasn't ten thousand people working
security and chicks were getting backstage. It was really fun.
It was so fucking good. I take my hat off to Motley Crue.
Jeb: Do you think
you can go too far or is anarchy the rule?
Lemmy: Anarchy looks good on paper but it
doesn't work in reality because you can't trust people. If you
divided up all the money in the world evenly today then the same
people would have it back within the end of the year.
Jeb: Tell me the
story of how you saved a girl who was about to be kidnapped in
LA.
Lemmy: I was standing at the traffic light
going across the street to the Rainbow and I saw these two
chicks I knew vaguely from the Rainbow walking up the hill at
the same time. We were waiting for the stoplight to change and
this van ran buy with two guys and they yelled something at the
chicks and this one chick tells him to fuck off and flipped the
bird at him. The van pulled over and this guy gets out with a
big silver 45 automatic. He's got a hold of her by the shoulder
strap and he is dragging her off into the van. I ran over and
pulled her away from him. I said, "Fuck off and leave her
alone." He got back into the van and split. I was thinking while
I was walking over there, "You are going to get shot and you
don't fucking even want to screw this chick. You don't even find
her attractive. What are you doing?" I just couldn't see her
getting into that van. I couldn't live with that. Nobody
deserves that. I didn't want to read about her two days later
being found in a dumpster. There were a lot of people around. If
he had shot me then it would have been very bad for him. It
wasn't that big of a deal. That fucking chick never said thank
you either.
Jeb: I know that you
were Jimi Hendrix roadie back in the day. I also know that you
drove the van across England while you were high on Owsley
acid....
Lemmy: I drove the van up
to Jim Marshall's factory in Bexley with prism glasses on; one
lens was blue and one lens was green. You used to buy them in
head shops. The prism lenses made everything look like a fly's
vision - like a kaleidoscope. I drove the fucking van up there
on acid.
Jeb: Other than
that what was it like being Jimi's roadie?
Lemmy: There were only two of us loading all
of his shit. This was before the days of big crews. There were
no mics on the drums; you just had to play loud. We just had a
good time. Those were the really good days of rock 'n roll.
There was unlimited nookie. Jimi attracted chicks like snakes. I
have seen him go into the bedroom with three chicks and they all
came out smiling.
Jeb: Motorhead is
going back in the studio.
Lemmy: We are going back in this month. We
are thinking we will release it in May.
Jeb: Is the material ready?
Lemmy: Not a thing. We always write under the
clock; it works for us. We will meet and write some songs. It
has worked on every album other than
Iron Fist. We
were complacent after Hammersmith.
Jeb: You had sex
with a ton of women. Yet you are not exactly Robert Redford good
looking...
Lemmy: Although I look better than he does
now [laughter].
Jeb: You have done well with the opposite
sex. What is your secret?
Lemmy: Don't stop talking. Just blitz them
into it and be a gentleman. Be a right guy as chicks see a lot
of wrong guys. I have always been a gentleman. Hendrix was a
gentleman too. You wouldn't have thought that. Hendrix used to
jump up and pull chairs out for chicks and I have always been
like that too. There are some extreme feminists that would say
it was patronizing but I don't see it like that. I just see it
as good manners. All the ones that complain are ugly
motherfuckers that wouldn't get any dates anyway.
Jeb: Last one: You have
come to America from England and you make your residence here.
That gives you and a different view on things. I am wondering
what you think of the upcoming Presidential election.
Lemmy: I better not give
you my opinion on that because I would be arrested tomorrow. I
think what you think; the man is a disaster. There is no one to
replace him. The best bet is... I don't think there is a best
bet. I think American's are too trusting. You trusted Bush to do
a good job and then he didn't do it. I don't think a lot of
people want to admit they were wrong. America is ruled by
extremes. You are either extremely violent or extremely open or
extremely religious. It is never about just getting along with
everybody. America has always been very assertive of itself
because everyone is coming here from everywhere else. Now it is
the most powerful nation in the world. It only takes one guy to
misdirect that power. For you to go into Iraq is like going to
Vietnam. Two thousand kids ain't coming home no more because
Bush wanted the oil. Now he has the oil and gas prices went up.
The prices are just getting jacked up while he is in office. I
am sure he is getting plenty of money from that oil.
I think all politicians
are assholes. I remember back in 1966 when Harold Wilson got
elected in England. I went to see him speak at the public square
in Manchester. I remember thinking, "What a fucking liar." I
noticed that there was nobody to vote for; there was only a guy
to vote against. When you have to pick the lesser of two evils
then that is not a good thing. You need to have someone you can
believe and have someone who will vindicate that belief. Kennedy
was the last good President. Looking back on it now, Clinton
wasn't so bad. He is looking pretty good now. We all bitched
when he was in there but we don't have room to bitch now.
Jeb: My biggest
disappointment with Bill is that he could have got a lot better
looking chick than Monica Lewinski.
Lemmy: Exactly, Kennedy was fucking Marilyn
Monroe. I rest my case.
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