MOTÖRHEAD's LEMMY Is The Last Man Standing

Libby Molyneaux of LA Weekly recently conducted an interview with MOTÖRHEAD's Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister. An excerpt from the article follows below.

Lemmy has stuck to his calling of inflicting musical and other mayhem since he discovered rock & roll as a lad in North Wales. At age 9, Ian Fraser Kilmister and a fellow hell-raiser were caught trying to derail a train. He was every mother's nightmare.

"I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn't let you play with," he says.

"My stepfather hated it," Lemmy recalls as he tells the story of how he went off to pursue a career in rock and roll. "But my mother secretly supported it and would send me a fiver here and there."

For nearly 35 years Lemmy Kilmister's throaty growl has been the main attraction of the heavy rock that is MOTÖRHEAD. He looks taut and fit for a man of 62, but admits that just climbing the stairs to the second-story lair at his local bar, the Rainbow, has him out of breath.

"I gotta get back on the road," he says, sitting down in the club's upstairs hideaway, lighting up (yes, inside),with the first Jack and Coke of the day at his side.

"That's how I stay in shape. That," he adds, "and sex."

Read the entire article at LA Weekly.

Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister was interviewed by Eric Blair of "The Blairing Out With Eric Blair Show" on the "black carpet" of this month's (April 7) Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles. Watch the chat below. Lemmy also presented the "Metal Industry" award to the Rainbow Bar & Grill at the event, which will be broadcast on MTV2 as a one-hour special debuting Saturday, May 2.