MOTÖRHEAD's Lemmy - "JON LORD Was To A Large Extent Responsible For Me Being In Rock And Roll"
August 4, 2012, 12 years ago
In an interview with ThePhoenix.com's Michael Christopher, MOTÖRHEAD frontman Lemmy Kilmister discusses DEEP PURPLE/WHITESNAKE composer, pianist and Hammond organ player JON LORD, who died on Monday, July 16 in a UK hospital at the age of 71, suffering a fatal pulmonary embolism at the London Clinic after a long battle with pancreatic cancer:
"It's just a shame, because Jon Lord was to a large extent responsible for me being in rock and roll," Kilmister reveals. "He was in a band called the Artwoods years ago, with Ronnie Wood's brother Arthur. They were sort of a jazz-blues band, I guess. They played at the place in Wales where I was living, this dingy little boozer, and I was talking to Jon and, like an idiot, he gave me his address in London. So of course I went down there and he wasn't there, but he was living at Art's mother's house where Ronnie Wood, who was in a band called THE BIRDS, was living and they let me crash on the couch. I woke up and I've got all The Birds standing around me going, 'What are you doing on Mom-mom's couch?,' all poking me with this terrible cockney rabble."
He continues: "I never forgot that Jon — a complete stranger, and I'm some kid — gave me his address to come down to London and see him. I often told him thanks for that. I saw him late last year in a hotel in Germany in Cologne. He was over there doing some orchestral stuff, and we talked in the bar for awhile... I'm glad I saw him, since he's since departed."
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