Lemmy : Memories of a Rock 'N' Roll Legend by Ian Carroll

Author:Ian Carroll [Carroll, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-03-01T04:30:00+00:00

“I’ve met Lemmy a total of three times but before I

go in to that I’ll give you a brief history of my

Motorcareer.

I was brought up by my Grandmother from a baby

and during the 1970’s was an overweight, under

confident child with zero social skills. In

fact my Grandmother had

such trouble finding clothes to fit she actually made

me write to Ronnie Corbett at the BBC to see if I

could blag a few of his tank tops etc.

In 1979 I was given a tape recorder as a gift but

had nothing to play on it. I bought a 3 pack of blank

cassettes and gave them to my older cousin to

record some of his albums. He duly did and this

included the albums: ‘Motörhead’, ‘Overkill’ and

‘Bomber’. I was completely blown away by

this and especially the ‘Overkill’ album. My

life totally changed from that moment. I grew up.

1980 I grew my hair, bought t-shirts and owned

my first pair of Levi jeans and a leather jacket.

I then went to my first Motörhead concert in

November 1980 – my 14th birthday.

I’ve gone on to be an outgoing, confident,

successful man – still long hair and numerous

tattoos etc. I have seen Motörhead over 40

times now in several different countries – most

of mainland Europe and even as far as

Australia.

The first time I met Lemmy was in July 1987.

Thames TV, as it was, did a report on rock

music in South London and decided to feature

my friend’s band at a pub in Croydon. The film

crew turned up, a load of cash was put over

the bar and we proceeded to enjoy said freebies.

Then low and behold there was Lemmy in the

pub. The film crew were concentrating on the

band and the beer was flowing. I eventually

plucked up the courage to talk to Lemmy.

I found him very friendly and approachable,

we had a chat about music and I showed him

my ‘Born to Lose, Live to Win’ tattoo which is

the same as his. He rolled up his sleeved,

placed his bare arm and said tattoo

against mine announcing that we are ‘tattoo

brothers’. I nearly fell through the floor with the

honour of it all.

The film crew then went on to interview him

about music, with the infamous Danny Baker

asking him inane questions. One of which

was “do you bath???”

Lemmy replied – “yes at least once a year

whether I need it or not, it’s the scraping

that’s the hard part.”

He left by taxi soon after and we as rock fans

were interviewed by Danny Baker –not making

much sense as we had been at the free bar for

some time.

The second meeting was several years later.

It was my 27th birthday myself and two friends

had been at The Astoria in Charing Cross

Rd to see a band and then we went on to

the St Moritz Club in Wardour St. We settled in

at the bar with a drink and were chatting

away above the music. My fiend then pointed

out that Lemmy was there playing on the one

armed bandit. I thought back to the time in

Croydon and decided I must say hello.

Not wanting to say obvious things like ‘hey

man ‘Ace of Spades’ is great’ or ‘what’s the

real story behind finishing in Hawkwind’.

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