The 15 wildest stories from the life of Lemmy Kilmister
“I can’t say that I was really surprised when the doctor told me that I needed a defibrillator in my chest,” Lemmy Kilmister told 2013 in various stories revolver. “If you lived a life like me, you should always count on something like that. I was not a good boy. I had too much fun.”
Gambling is something for fools. But that’s how he liked it. The Motörhead front man was always ready to accept the consequences of an extreme lifestyle. If it meant living in his own way. He did exactly that. Until he got too sick to celebrate like a rock star. And even then he almost continued to make music and playing concerts.
Here are 15 of Lemmy’s wildest, strangest and most fascinating experiences. Of which he experienced most between the 1960s and nineties. The time when the Motörhead front man seemed unstoppable and invincible.
Extraterrestrial encounter
In one of his ensembles from the early 1960s, the Rocking Vicars, Lemmy had not yet discovered the thrill of masha. But that didn’t prevent him from making a few extraordinary experiences. “In 1966 we drove back over the Yorkshire Moors. Which was by the way before I drank beer. So it couldn’t have been a LSD flashback,” he said Inced. “This thing came over the horizon and stopped in the middle of the sky. Then it went straight to the top speed from the standstill. We don’t even have airplanes today.
Hendrix lessons
Before his time at Hawkwind, Lemmy earned his spores as part of the road crew for the Jimi Hendrix Experience. “Jimi taught me how to find drugs in the most unlikely places. Because that was one of my tasks for him,” Lemmy told the magazine revolver.
“This is how I learned to get along with five LSD trips. But I also learned something about theatrics and performance. Jimi was so effortlessly cool. And moved like an elegant spider. He was always interested in the crowd. He went very bad. Because he was so crazy. People couldn’t find out what he said when he was done. But he was certainly the best guitar. Probably at all. “
A teaspoon of sugar
In 1969, before Lemmy joined Hawkwind, a friend convinced his girlfriend, who was a nurse to get them some amphetamine sulfate from the pharmacy in which she worked. She accidentally brought a glass of atropine sulfate home. Lemmy took a teaspoon full. What was “200 times overdose” according to his statement. And then “everyone played crazy”.
In his memoirs “White Line Fever” He remembered how he spoke with a television under his arm. Then passed out. And woke up in the hospital. “If we hadn’t treated them within an hour, they would have died,” said the doctor to him. Even after the treatment, he had sporadic hallucinations for two weeks. “I was sitting there, reading a book and leafing on page 42. But there was no book.”
“Noises in E”
Lemmy applied to the Space rock band Hawkwind in August 1971. Hoping to get a place as a second guitarist. At an open-air concert at the Powis Square in Notting Hill Gate, her bassist did not appear, so the keyboarder Dik Mik, who wanted to score with Lemmy, suggested that Lemmy should play the bass.
“I’ve never played bass in my life!” Lemmy said in his memoirs. After he had come to Hawkwind for the show, the singer and saxophonist Nik Turner told him: “Make a few noises in E. The piece is called ‘You Should not do that’.” Lemmy existed and played bass in the band for the next four years.
Greasy Truckers Party Live
After three days in which they had taken together with Dik Mik Dexedrin, Lemmy and his bandmate Mandrax took. A sedative to reduce the intensity of the high. But Lemmy bored. So he took acid and mescaline. And then Mandrax again.
Dik Mak drove to the venue, where they took cocaine and eight Black Beauties each together. “Damn, Mik, I can’t move,” said Lemmy. “Can you?” As he explains in his book, the band’s roadies helped them on the stage for the show. “That was one of the best gigs we ever taped,” enthused Lemmy. “The jam between me and [dem Bandleader Dave] Brock was great. We got ‘Silver Machine’, our only hit – and number two – during this appearance! ”
Pilled by Death
Lemmy and a friend sat in a car and shared 100 blue pills. A mixture of speed and sedatives – as a police car next to them. The speed junkies stuffed the pills into their mouths to make the evidence disappear. And the police couldn’t find smuggling goods.
When Lemmy fell asleep that night, his heartbeat and breathing slowed down drastically. “It looked like I stopped breathing. Although that was not true,” he said in “White Line Fever “.”I was open with both eyes [und] Had difficulties to speak. ” At least two people thought he was dead. Until they realized that he was still breathing.
Thrown out of the ‘most cosmic band in the world’
In May 1975, Lemmy was caught on the border with Toronto with a gram of amphetamine sulfate in his pants. He spent one night in prison. And then received a combination of good and bad news. “The police accused me of the cocaine. Although I actually had amphetamines with me,” said Lemmy.
“It was an incorrect accusation, so they had to let me go.” Although he returned to Hawkwind the next day, he was thrown out by the band after the next show. “If I had been caught because of LSD, everything would have been fine,” he said. “But they were only concerned with the psychedelic experience. The most cosmic band in the world fired me because I was caught with the wrong drugs!”
Appearance of “Philthy Animal”
When Lemmy Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor met Taylor for the first time in the summer of 1975, he never thought that the stoner would land Motörhead in his new band. “I was at the Hell’s Angels at the time. And he always came to our home to stock up on drugs,” said Lemmy revolver.
“Then he lit one. And became passed out. We woke him up in the morning and sent him home. He always told us that he was a drummer. But we never took him seriously.” When drummer, originally committed by drummer Lemmy, did not harmonize with the band in the studio, Lemmy turned to Taylor. “Phil said: ‘Sure, I will be damn by and do it for you.’ We have overplayed it on our first album except for one title.
Spit take
In the late 1970s there was a time when the audience showed his appreciation at punk rock shows in England by spitting or “sunking” the bands on stage. Motörhead, a favorite band of the punk, was sometimes the goal of spit attacks.
“I never liked that. But we accepted that we couldn’t prevent it,” said Lemmy Inced. “Once I saw a guy spit a big green thing on my arm, and I borrowed a line from Winston Churchill. I pulled it off my arm and rubbed it in my hair. And said: ‘I will see that? Tonight I will take a shower and be clean. But tomorrow you will still be a stinking asshole.”
Public love of love
“Something cool happened in the seventies when a bride simply [auf die Bühne] climbed and me a bleed, ”said Lemmy Inced. “I sang – well, I couldn’t stop, right?”
Head
Shortly before the start of the rehearsals for the groundbreaking Motörhead album Ace of Spades From 1980 Lemmy collapsed after a show in the Stafford Bingley Hall behind the stage and had to be revived for the encore. In his memoirs he wrote that he told the press that he was exhausted. Because he had already received three blowjobs the same afternoon. “That was actually right,” he said. “There were girls everywhere and this was really sweet Indian. She was one of two.”
Evil blood
Since he believed that 15 years of regular alcohol and drug use had added to his body, Lemmy decided in 1980 to undergo complete blood transfusion. He thought it was like an oil change. Get out with the old. Purely with the new. But Lemmy hesitated after his doctor had carried out a few tests and found that he would react badly to healthy blood.
“He told me that I no longer had any human blood in my system,” he said Inced. “Apparently I was so poisoned, mainly through the many speed and alcohol that fresh blood had killed me.”
This is spinal tap
For the Iron fist-Tour from Motörhead In 1982, a team built a stage frequency in the form of a huge fist with headlights on the fingertips. The band started the show by falling off the ceiling. When she had reached the bottom, the fist opened. And the band started playing. “Of course it didn’t work properly on the first evening,” wrote Lemmy in White Line Fever. “We were also stuck when we drove up again. The stage lifted at halfway up. And stopped, and the curtains caught on the stage. Philthy almost stepped into forgetting from his drums.”
German obsession
A lot was written about Lemmy’s fascination for Nazi Germany and his collection of German war and wars. “The Germans had the best uniforms,” he said. “The evil always have the best things. The confederated. Napoleon.” In interviews for Al Jourgensen’s biography, the Ministry front man spoke about how he caught Lemmy in 1995 after a show in Austin in a particularly compromising situation. “I knocked on [den Bus von Motörhead]. No answer. So I opened the damn door. And there was Lemmy in a complete Gestapo uniform that spanked a naked bride with a riding crop. She thought it was great. He too. I apologized and closed the door. “
Kind of Blue
When a dangerous arrhythmia was diagnosed in Lemmy in 2011, a miniature cardioverter defibrillator was implanted in the chest during an operation, which was pissed off when he found an irregular heartbeat. After the operation, Lemmy gave up smoking. And reduced his alcohol consumption to an alcoholic drink a day.
But complications occurred during his recovery. He started to store water and was bedridden for two weeks. The doctors could not explain why he increased so much. Until they examined his diet and found that he stuffed himself with blueberries to replace drinking. “I guess everything is not good for you. Even things that should actually be healthy,” he told the magazine revolver.