Lemmy Page #2

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"Oh, that's LA. La-La land."

Or whatever they call it.

"It's a land of pretentious people,"

and all that kind of thing.

There's a real weight to this town.

There's a real history to it.

I think it's got a lot more balls

than a lot of big cities, frankly.

Lemmy looks like an LA rocker to me.

He's just got that thing about him.

He's got the part

that's combination biker-musician,

or guy that works at the car wash.

He's got that old-school LA look.

He doesn't change it,

and I don't think it was created.

That's the good part of LA.

It's the people that don't try to be.

I was in bands as a kid,

and I came to California to do that.

This cat I knew wanted me to come

to an acting class, so I went.

Next thing you know,

I was in some theatre group.

I realised I was making a little bit

of money doing acting so I stuck with it.

No, I doubt we get it this day and time.

I always figured my music is very popular,

I must be doing something wrong.

Yeah, me too.

I grew up in that.

Oh, yeah, it's great...

Oh, I'm telling you...

Oh, yeah...

I worked with him once on a TV show.

He was there.

He pulls up in an old Cadillac,

and all these guys get out in suits

and everything.

And he met my son.

My son at the time was only like

three or four, you know.

And Little Richard goes, "Hey, baby!"

And I told my kid, I go,

"Hey, Willie, listen.

"It's OK to talk to this cat,

but don't sit on his lap!"

Lemmy is like

a f***ing radioactive cowboy.

Hard-rock Johnny Cash.

- A biker.

- World War II chic!

- He's Black Bart meets Mad Max.

- He's Captain Hook.

A bit of cowboy, a bit of metal,

a bit of rock and roll.

He would be the perfect description

of my dream dude, for sure.

Lemmy's look is something

that is probably a little cultivated

from back in the '50s,

and added to that, some of the sh*t

that he picked up along the way,

bikers, punk rock, whatever.

Although, he's been around

for a long time.

Maybe some of the punk stuff

they got from him.

Describing Lemmy's style

is not that easy,

because, you know, from boot to boot,

it always changes substantially.

D Let me tell you, babe

d What I say is right d

He's got a very distinctive

and good aesthetic sense.

He actually will bring me drawings

of what he wants.

If I was to really give it

a specific name,

I would probably say it's like

a Western jack boot,

because he likes these boots

with a squared-off nose,

almost military-looking.

Almost like a cavalry kind of boot,

with Motrhead flair to it of course!

We were at a rehearsal place

in the Valley in the mid '90s,

and Motrhead was right next door.

Every day we would see Lemmy out

at this video game in this lobby area.

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