Q. I got a bullet-belt (as I call 'em) much like you wear a lot, and
travelling from Curacao (Netherlands Antilles) to Amsterdam I got as far as
the final check in (through two customs and security checkpoints) at the
airplane door before they spotted the bloody thing, it cost me an hour to
explain I'm not any Arab terrorist and if I was I wouldn't be going after a
TAP-AIR twenty-seater.... How do you get those items (and yourselves for
that matter) get through customs? Bribes with backstage passes? Groupies
distract the officers? What? How?
A. Check 'em, you fool!
Q. About the fairness of hunting thing, I have a friend whose dream is to
hunt a grizzly bear with a bowie knife and a pair of those spikes you use
to climb telephone poles with (use your imagination), whaddya think of
that?
A. I think your friend will make a lovely rug.
Q. A friend of mine asked you a while ago if you wanted to be a pirate with
us. He pointed out how you pointed out that we need a boat, so I got one.
Also I have a cannon and a jolly roger. Wanna be a pirate now?
A. Any Food?
Q. There is this cool chick in Boston who doesn't really listen to
Motorhead, but she wants you desperately. Does it matter how old she is?
Also, since you've banged grillions of chicks, have you, y'know, had your,
uh, virility surgically decreased? If not, how many bastard children do
you think you have. you can round to the nearest hundred. Thanx.
A. Between 17 & 25. No. 3.
Q. No question; I just want to apologize for the huge idiot who threw beer
at you in Groningen at February 18th and thereby ruined your and my
evening, not to mention the other thousands of fans who had to go home much
too early. When you read this it must be some months ago for you and you
might not even wanna be remembered to it but I HAVE to make excuses for all
real fans in Holland. Please come back to Holland, not right now of course
but on the next tour. Maybe it's better to play in city's like Zwolle or
Tilburg, you won't have these kind of problems over there, I hope.
Well, hope to see you back in Holland some time - Os
A. Very pleased to play in Holland anytime. Deal with problems as they arise individually, not by country or city, OK?
Q. Hiya Lemmy! My friends are pressuring me to ask you about two songs on
Overnight Sensation. They think "Eat the Gun" is about two guys giving
head. I don't think so. Help me prove it to them!! The other song is
"Them Not Me." They think that one's about you driving around and hitting
pedestrians, but I don't think you'd do something like that. I want to
kick my friends' asses. Help me please! (Tour Canada sometime!!!)
A. Kick them. EAT THE GUN is about hunting. I don't drive.
Q. Hey Lemmy!!! You rock like there is no tomorrow. What is your recipe for
bliss? (besides extreme volume, that is)... rock on!
A. Bliss? This is no BLISS! There are moments of clarity among the confusion. Thats it!
Q. Hey Lemmy ,if you had your own tv-show, what would you call it?
(Lemmys late night show, dinner with Lemmy or 100 ways to sacrifice a goat)
A. Lemmy's Retard Phone-In.
Q. Do you think Mikkey Dee is a gay?
A. No. He just fathered a child, Max.
Q. What is the meaning of Life? And can you rent to own it? And, where's a
good place to look for it?
A. The meaning of life is "fish". You cannot rent fish. The sea.
Q. Lemmy I'm just wondering if your the guy with the stoned smile in "Jimmy
Plays Monteray Live '67"
A. No.
Q. Hey Lemmy, first, can I 'ave a fiver? Second, how will I know when I've
been loved like a reptile. Third, who's yer football club?
A. No. When you shed your skin. I HATE football.
Q. Lemmy...I've been a fan for a long time...had my hearing damaged by you
four times (would have been five...but the fuckin' bastards here in Raleigh
didn't let you play on the Judas Priest/Alice Cooper/Metal Church/Dangerous
Toys show...too bad) Anyway...my question is this...I heard there are two
songs called "Locomotive" on the cassette version of "No Remorse"...as I
have the CD and LP versions, where can I find the missing tune? And are you
ever going to release a "B" side collection (like the stuff with Wendy and
Girlschool)?
A. 1. I have no knowledge of this. 2. Maybe.
Q. Is Motorhead the rock band that Nostradamus talks about in his famous
predictions!
A. No, we are the ones he left out.
Q. What's your favorite Viking fighting tactic? Hall-burning or the flying
wedge and which do you use around the house?
A. Yes.
Q. Hello Lemmy boy. Why. A very annoying word. Why did you drop the beard?
Tired of it? Why?! Why?!! Why?!!! But you look ten years younger. Hope
you´re still the dirty bastard we want on stage. Why did Mikkey stop
playing during Overkill at the "Söderhamnsfestivalen" in Sweden this
summer? Why?! Why?!! Why?!!! I´m ashamed of the fuckin' creep that spit on
you in your face. Some people just belong in the mud with their equals...
the worms! Why haven´t you released a new live album yet, with the new
band setup? Why?! Why?!! Why?!!! Not that I don´t like the new records.
There almost as good as the old ones. But thats my opinion. Keep on
blasting our eardrums! See ya!!
A. Good.
Q. Must all your responses be so unbearably witty??
A. Yes and No.
Q. Dear East 17,
I'm a French fan and look forward to seeing you on stage for I faint every
time I hear your mellifluous harmonies. But, sorry to mention, why do you
use, from time to time, some weird symbols, such as swastikas and manly
imagery while you are much more clever and cultured than the entire bunch
of bikers, headbangers,
heavy metal musicians and body-builders altogether? I already long to read
your answer.
Yours truly,
Michael.
PS: How come you don't wear anymore these charming baggy trousers that made
your originality?! Keep on sampling!
A. 'Cos I like the design and it pisses people off. Baggy trousers? Not me.
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