Lemmy Page #4

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When it comes

to rock and roll,

you need something

to believe in.

Integrity means everything.

Musically, of course,

when you go and you see a band,

and you know it's coming from the heart,

it touches you more because

there's some sort of human connection.

If you go and see some robots

just moving around the stage,

you might as well go home

and play a video game.

But when someone is doing...

When someone is playing

rock and roll from the heart,

and they really walk it like they talk it,

you pay more attention,

because it makes you feel

like a human being, in a way.

To connect to someone doing

something really honest or true,

it's important.

So, to me,

more than any other rock musician...

I consider Lemmy a legend, you know.

But, to me,

more than any other rock musician,

he is... the baddest motherf***er

in the world.

Mm-hm.

Know what would be cool?

If I could get one of those lyric sheets.

For the instrumentals

there's two 12 bars in a row.

Let's check the levels with Lemmy,

make sure he can hear himself.

That one little spot

when it's on the double chorus...

Yeah, it's a double chorus!

F***! For Christ's sake,

what was Chuck Berry thinking?

I remember a show in England

that I did with Meat Loaf

where the show was held up cos Chuck

Berry thought he hadn't been paid.

He wouldn't go on

until he had a wad of money.

He had been f***ed so many times.

In the '50s there were no rules at all.

A guy could pull a gun

and say, "I'm not paying you."

Even in the '60s, late '60s,

Hendrix got burned f***ing blind.

He never saw any of the money.

I was standing outside of LAX once,

getting ready to get on a plane,

and this young black guy

comes up to me and says,

"Hey, I read in an interview

that the only person

"you ever wanna meet

is Little Richard."

I had always said that. I didn't

give a f*** about anyone else.

I said, "Little Richard?"

And he goes, "Yeah. He's my dad."

I said, "Shut the f***... Really?"

He goes, "Yeah. Come here."

And there's this limo

parked out front and he goes...

The window comes down

and f***ing Little Richard

is sitting right there!

And I'm like, "Oh, my God!"

And he goes, "Hey, Dad, this guy..."

He's like, "What?"

He said, "This guy's a musician."

And the f***ing window comes down

and he goes, "God bless you!"

How weird must it have been

to be gay and black

in Macon, Georgia in the '50s.

- And an amazing singer.

- The best rock and roll singer ever.

I don't know who people consider

the originator of rock and roll.

It's Little Richard, because

nobody else had... He was crazy.

Him, Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis.

That's it. Those three.

You can't tell

who did the first whatever,

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