MOTÖRHEAD's Lemmy Kilmister On Touring With MEGADETH - "I Don't Mind If You Want To Worship The Great Poobah In The Sky, As Long As You Don't Expect Me To Do It"
February 22, 2012, 12 years ago
Dave Pehling from SF Weekly caught up with MOTÖRHEAD mainman Lemmy Kilmister recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:
SF Weekly: Your taste for Jack and Coke is pretty well known, and it's pretty clear from some of your song lyrics you don't have time for organized religion. You're currently touring with Megadeth, a headliner that has a couple of members who are sober born-again Christians.
Kilmister: "Well, the great thing about my philosophy is live and let live, you know? I don't mind if you want to worship the Great Poobah in the sky, as long as you don't expect me to do it, too. And nobody has so far preached to me on this tour, so it's alright."
SF Weekly: So you don't try to steer clear of certain subjects? You just go about your business?
Kilmister: "No, no. We hardly ever see Megadeth anyway. They come late and we leave early after we finish to beat the traffic out of there. So we don't see much of them. I've stayed a couple of times to watch their show, but that's about all."
SF Weekly: You've been open to working with a lot of people, both contemporaries and younger musicians you've influenced, like Dave Grohl (FOO FIGHTERS). Is there anyone you'd like to work with in particular?
Kilmister: "JANET JACKSON [laughs]. I don't know. There are a lot of people out there who are great players. It's just whether the spark arrives. Whether somebody wants to do it and I've got some free time. I'm three quarters of the way though a solo album right now. I've got two tracks with THE DAMNED, two tracks with [German hard-rock band] SKEW SISKIN, one with JOAN JETT one with Grohl and two with the REVEREND HORTON HEAT. So I've got quite a mixed bag on there. I'm trying to get one with Skin from Skunk Anansie."
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