Lemmy - "Every Seven Years It Becomes Fashionable To Like MOTÖRHEAD Again"; The Quietus Video Interview Available
December 9, 2010, 13 years ago
Ben Graham of The Quietus reports:
The shadow of Lemmy Kilminster, clad in tight jeans and jackboots, looms large over British music of the past 35 years, yet he remains a curiously unsung hero. As he says to Ben Graham in our interview, "every seven years it becomes fashionable to like MOTÖRHEAD again. Another six months and we'll be back in the shade. Been alright, done it before."
As a live band, Motörhead outstrip nearly every other group not only in volume but in relentless, convincing energy. This they have both from Lemmy's presence - legs apart, head back, roaring out those songs - and his skill as a bass player. He says that HAWKWIND's biggest mistake was to kick him out, because "they fired the engineroom" and suspects that the group never got their due because - "they looked like drug-addled tramps, which is basically what we were half the time anyway. We never had a good organisation to get past that first horrified image. We didn't make commercial records - the best thing we made was 'Urban Guerilla', but that good pulled off the racks because it was when the IRA bombed Harrods. Went down like a concrete parachute, that".
Read the full report at this location and check out the video interview below.
(Photo: Marc Broussely)
