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Speaker 1: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners.

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Speaker 1: Please check the show notes for more information.

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Speaker 2: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. This is a

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Speaker 2: story about Motorhead, a band that influenced some of the

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Speaker 2: most important acts in heavy metal and punk rock history,

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Speaker 2: didn't exist before their three founding members went into the

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Speaker 2: recording studio for the first time. But this is also

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Speaker 2: a story about speed and revenge, about good and evil,

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Speaker 2: about a brutal murder, and about some of the greatest

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Speaker 2: and meanest rock and roll music ever committed to tape.

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Speaker 2: Great music unlike that music I've played for you at

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Speaker 2: the top of the show. That wasn't great music. That

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Speaker 2: was a preset loop from my mellotron called bangan Orgasmotron

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Speaker 2: MK two. I played you that loop because I can't

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Speaker 2: afford the rights to he Don't Love You Like I

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Speaker 2: Love You by Tony Orlando and Dawn. And why would

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Speaker 2: I play you that specific slice of mustache and mullet cheese?

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Speaker 2: Could I afford it? Because that was the number one

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Speaker 2: song in America on May eighteenth, nineteen seventy five, and

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Speaker 2: That was the day that let Me Kill Meister was

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Speaker 2: fired from the band Hawkwind, a fateful turn of events

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Speaker 2: most uncompromising and influential bands of all time.

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Speaker 1: On this episode.

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Speaker 2: Speed Revenge, Good and Evil, a brutal murder mustache and

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Speaker 3: I'm Jake Brennan and this is this Graceland.

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Speaker 2: Music's so loud, it's like your brains are being forced

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Speaker 2: down your nose. Music to perform lobotomies too, the best.

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Speaker 1: Worst band in the world.

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Speaker 2: These are the kinds of things the UK press set

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Speaker 2: about Motorhead when their self titled debut album was released

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Speaker 2: on Chiswick Records in nineteen seventy seven.

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Speaker 1: The so called three.

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Speaker 2: Amigos who made up the band at the time, Killmeister

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Speaker 2: Phil Taylor aka Filthy Animal on drums, could give a

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Speaker 2: pencil pushing an egghead at a London rack, sticks and stones.

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Speaker 1: And all that. In fact, the band wore.

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Speaker 2: Bad press like a tight leather jacket, just like Lemmy

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Speaker 1: The Ace of Spades on his.

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Speaker 2: Forearm, the one was born to lose and live to

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Speaker 2: Motorhead had no social message. Their only message, as fast

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Speaker 2: Eddie put it, was to quote get pissed, get stoned,

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Speaker 2: fucking chick unquote.

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Speaker 1: Lemmy in particular.

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Speaker 2: Wanted his new band to be fast, brutal and mean,

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Speaker 2: as mean as the umlaut above the second oh and

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Speaker 2: it made the band's name appear more vicious than.

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Speaker 1: It really was. And when that name was written out.

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Speaker 2: On the cover art of their debut album, the Germanic

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Speaker 1: Let me kill meister? Was a Motorhead, part speed freak

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Speaker 2: Freak, rock and roll, animal mutton chops, facial moles, bullet belt,

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Speaker 2: by nineteen eighty, the year the Motorhead finally broke into

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Speaker 2: given that Lemmy wrote the song Motorhead about speed, and

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Speaker 2: would gladly take the ten hits of LSD, then let

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Speaker 2: At first, however, it was smooth sailing through that tunnel,

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Speaker 2: But as their cars approached the border, the custom agents

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Speaker 2: fixated on Lemmy, leaning back in his seat, head bobbing,

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Speaker 2: been kicked out of the band, sacked good and all

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Speaker 2: because he was a motorhead and a band full of

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Speaker 2: acid heads. God forbid that Hawkwind be associated with a

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Speaker 2: drugs low brow as speed. Let Me kept insisting that

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Speaker 2: Let Me insist it this is true, even years later,

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Speaker 2: long after other members of Hawkwinn said it was actually

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Speaker 2: because of his difficult personality and that the arrest was

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Speaker 2: just the last straw. But let Me wasn't gonna stop

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Speaker 2: being let me. He'd been here before, kicked out of

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Speaker 1: Because truth was, That's why let me did what he did.

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Speaker 2: The music, the image, all of it just to get

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Speaker 2: different women as possible, upwards of one thousand at least

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Speaker 2: during his lifetime by his own a count, which is

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Speaker 2: exactly what he was doing now back in London. But

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Speaker 2: the women Lemmy was sleeping with were now carefully selected.

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Speaker 2: Let Me rang up the girlfriends and three of the

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Speaker 2: band with Power to Spare, a power trio that laid

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Speaker 1: In his way.

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Speaker 2: Seventeen year old let Me Killmeister was obsessed with music

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Speaker 1: The rush was immediate.

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Speaker 2: Suddenly Lemmy's whole world was in hyperdrive, as fast and

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Speaker 1: The music that he would later make with Motorhead.

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Speaker 2: Speed the very word a perfectly succinct description for how

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Speaker 2: you now felt running gunning one minute sitting next to Junkie,

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Speaker 2: Robbie and Man City, and the next scurrying out west

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Speaker 2: Four lads were twisting and shouting. But you weren't watching

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Speaker 2: losing their fucking minds all because of this music. But

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Speaker 2: Beatle John. You couldn't be sure, but you never let

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Speaker 2: and a good time is what you had. More methyl

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Speaker 2: amphetamine hydro chloride down the hatch, nine shots of liquid speed,

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Speaker 1: Out your teeth, the speed, not the OJ but you

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Speaker 2: It made you feel superhuman, unlike the atropine sulfate that.

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Speaker 1: Someone gave you by accident.

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Speaker 2: That one time, Bella Donna nightshade poison. That stuff sent

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Speaker 2: but you didn't care. You were practically born dead, or

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Speaker 2: so your mom always told you. A baby with a

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Speaker 2: But look at you now, Day thirteen thousand or something,

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Speaker 2: not just alive but thriving. Anyone who ever said speed

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Speaker 1: But you did.

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Speaker 2: And she may have been the love of your life too.

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Speaker 2: he'd ben as a newborn, looking punk as fuck in

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Speaker 2: His apartment was full of keepsakes from the Third Reich. Yes,

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Speaker 1: But that was Lemmy.

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Speaker 2: He didn't care about being super fucked up, and he

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Speaker 2: Fall, nineteen eighty one, England, Andy Elsmore returned home to

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Speaker 2: wasn't at home, which wasn't unusual. Lemmy was often on

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Speaker 2: They were jumping from the walls, tackling Andy to the floor.

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Speaker 2: Lemmy's flat was on fire. The flames licked his bleeding body,

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Speaker 2: if that's possible. His murderers also cut off his penis

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Speaker 2: leaving Andy to die. Why Andy was killed is a mystery.

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Speaker 2: He ran a porn theater in the back of a

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Speaker 2: But the paper said it was a drug slang, and

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Speaker 2: of all stripes, evil that some would say hung from

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Speaker 2: Mettally's men around Lemmy's neck good evil. Let me didn't

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Speaker 2: Filthy started smoking Heroin with the road crew fast. Eddie

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Speaker 2: Eddie refused to play on it. Even Motorhead's next out,

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Speaker 2: Eddie bounced first. He was quickly replaced by Brian Robbo Robertson,

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Speaker 2: formerly of Sin Lizzie. Robbo brought a new energy to

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Speaker 2: I'm talking to tequila and cocaine vibe. He also liked

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Speaker 2: in in the nineteen eighties, those real plumb smugglers. Not

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Speaker 2: are many accounts of Lemmy's proclivity for cutoff jeans, including

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Speaker 2: one from scott Ian of Anthrax in which he remembers

433
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Speaker 2: getting more than he bargained for when let me bent

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Speaker 2: over in front of him wearing a pair of the

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Speaker 2: shortest Daisy Duke's known to man. But I'm digressing here.

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Speaker 2: On stage was a whole other thing. Shorts did not

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Speaker 2: belong on stage, not when you're representing Motorhead. Shorts weren't mean,

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Speaker 2: Shorts weren't vicious. There was an image to maintain toxic blood,

439
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 2: iron crosses, snaggled tooth the war pick Jim Shortz did

440
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 2: not fit in with that at all. Robbo barely made

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Speaker 2: it eighteen months before he and his plump smugglers hit

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Speaker 2: the bricks. Let me tell the next guy, I trust

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Speaker 2: you musically one hundred percent. Play what you feel is right.

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Speaker 2: Just don't wear fucking shorts on stage. Even if rock

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Speaker 2: and Roll by design didn't play by the rules, there

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Speaker 2: was still a dress code, and for Lemmy's Motorhead there

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Speaker 2: was a code code as well, not that one for

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Speaker 2: all all for one horse shit. Lemmy may have been

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Speaker 2: a collector of military history, but he was no sentimentalist.

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Speaker 1: If fast Eddie or Robbo or Filthy Animal or whoever

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Speaker 1: wanted to leave, let him leave. If they wanted to

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Speaker 1: come back, like Filthy did for a bit. They could

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Speaker 1: do that too.

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Speaker 2: Lemmy's code was the code of the odd man out,

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Speaker 2: the one who would still be there no matter or

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Speaker 2: who hung on or who fell off, who quit, and

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Speaker 2: who was fired. Time itself was irrelevant. Could be nineteen

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Speaker 2: eighty five, nineteen ninety five, or two thousand and five,

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Speaker 2: could even be twenty fifteen, the last year of Lemmy's life.

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Speaker 2: Let me kill Meister, and thus Motorhead were resistant to

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Speaker 2: time and to compromise, unfazed, unchanged, stand your ground and

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Speaker 2: have faith in your credo, that one in the song

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Speaker 2: and the same one tattooed.

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Speaker 1: There on your arm. Born to lose, Live to win.

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Speaker 4: Seller Seller Slower, Sloller Sroller Slower, Seller Slller.

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Speaker 2: Sroller Slower, January two thousand and six, West Hollywood. The

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Speaker 2: VIP reception at the Rainbow Bar and Grill was at capacity.

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Speaker 1: Be real.

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Speaker 2: If Cypress Hill was passing around a joint, the smoke

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Speaker 2: wafted past Dave Grohl, passed Glenn Danzig, past porn star

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Speaker 2: Ron Jeremy, whose Ghouls Night Out T shirt seemed to

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Speaker 2: be a little too on the nose. Some kid from

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Speaker 2: Pennsylvania know him back in his small town as the

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Speaker 2: guy who spray painted Lemmy is God on the side

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Speaker 2: of a mountain, tried to gain access and rub elbows

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Speaker 2: with fellows super fans, making sure everyone saw the ink

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Speaker 2: on his chest, a gnarly tattoo of Lemmy riding a tank,

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Speaker 2: and everyone in attendance did see it, but not the

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Speaker 2: man of the hour himself, because let me kill meister

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Speaker 2: have been, to quote a Motorhead song, killed by death

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Speaker 2: about a week prior, and not by pills or other

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Speaker 2: drugs or alcohol, but by cancer, just days after he

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Speaker 2: turned the Big seven zero. Although Lemmy and thus Motorhead

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Speaker 2: were no longer among the living, his spirit was, as

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Speaker 2: the celebratory collective at the Rainbow could attest. And I

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Speaker 2: don't mean that in some cheesy way either, like oh,

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Speaker 2: we can all feel his spirit. What I mean is

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Speaker 2: the unteachable spirit of Lemmy the man and Lemmy the concept,

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Speaker 2: both of which was what people were celebrating on this

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Speaker 2: particular night, a man who for the last twenty five

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Speaker 2: years had made his home in Los Angeles, just a

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Speaker 2: quick walk up the street from the Rainbow Bar and Grill.

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Speaker 2: If Lemmy wasn't touring or making another Motorhead record, which

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Speaker 2: he did, right up until the end. You could find

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Speaker 2: him here playing video trivia on a small TV screen

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Speaker 2: at the end of the bar, nursing a stiff jack

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Speaker 2: and coke, and gladly talking to anyone who approached him.

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Speaker 2: The modesty of this scene is a large part of

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Speaker 2: why the next generation worshiped Lemmy. From Dave Navarro Jane's

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Speaker 2: addiction in the Red Aunt Chili Peppers, and Dave Grohl

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Speaker 2: and Hairvana and Foo Fighters to Slash from Guns and

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Speaker 2: Roses and Nicky six from All the Cruz. Forget Metallica,

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Speaker 2: who have said on numerous occasions that they wouldn't even

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Speaker 2: exist if it wasn't for Motorhead. But the other reason

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Speaker 2: both the punks and the metal heads claimed Lemmy for

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Speaker 2: their own was his authenticity.

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Speaker 1: He didn't just talk the talk, he walked it at.

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Speaker 2: Twenty years old, at fifty years old, at sixty five,

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Speaker 2: and even at seventy, he was the same guy he'd

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00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 2: always been, the odd man out. He still played loud,

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Speaker 2: vicious and mean, and that meant no ballace, no frills,

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Speaker 2: no bullshit, and look.

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Speaker 1: Rock and roll is all bullshit.

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Speaker 2: The Standell's you know, dirty Water Boston near my home,

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Speaker 2: Those guys weren't even from New England. See bullshit. And

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Speaker 2: that's just one of a gazillion examples I can give you.

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Speaker 2: But with Lemmy, what you saw was what you got.

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Speaker 2: Even the shocking bits and especially the problematic stuff. The

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00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 2: antithesis of a rock star like Keith Richards, a so

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00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 2: called rebel who'd long since embraced the lap of a

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Speaker 2: millionaire luxury millions of dollars, wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: Have suited Lemmy. He wouldn't have known what to do

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Speaker 1: with it.

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Speaker 2: So if you lived in or visited Los Angeles in

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Speaker 2: the nineteen nineties or in the two thousands, specifically in

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Speaker 2: a small footprint along the Sunset Strip, you had a

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Speaker 2: really good chance of running into Lemmy.

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Speaker 1: And just about everybody did. Hell, even I did. For real.

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Speaker 2: Indulge me for a second, because this is good. This

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Speaker 2: is around nineteen ninety seven. I believe my band Cast

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Speaker 2: Iron Hike was flown out to Los Angeles for this

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Speaker 2: thing called Foundations. It was kind of like the heavy

533
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 2: metal CMJ. This was my first time in Los Angeles,

534
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 2: by the way, and we weren't at the Rainbow, not

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00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 2: yet anyway, where Lemmy was often found. Like I said,

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Speaker 2: nursing a jack and coke. But we were at this

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Speaker 2: hotel where the conference was and I'm standing at the

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Speaker 2: bar and I'm waiting to order a drink and I

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Speaker 2: turn and look next to me, and damn it's Lemmy.

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Speaker 1: He's right there and he orders a jack and coke.

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Speaker 1: So naturally I just lean over.

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Speaker 2: To the bartender and I say, hey, I got that,

543
00:32:58,200 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 2: and I look at him and I say, hey, it's

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Speaker 2: on melpay for man, and he thanks me and he says,

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Speaker 2: I swear to God this is true.

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Speaker 1: He goes, you know why I like you because you

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00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: look like a young JFK.

548
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Speaker 2: Now whether or not I actually look like JFK my

549
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Speaker 2: younger years is up for debate, but I'm just telling

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Speaker 2: you what let me said to me.

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Speaker 1: So I said to him, well, hey, man, thanks a lot. JFK.

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Speaker 1: Fuck Meril Monroe.

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00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 2: And Lemmy looks at me and he goes, yeah, well

554
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Speaker 2: I fucked Raquel Welch and then he walks away. You

555
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 2: can't make this up, Like, if you were gonna have

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Speaker 2: an authentic moment with Lemmy from Motorhead, it would be

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Speaker 2: that okay. So when we were researching this episode, we

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Speaker 2: found an interview with Lemmy from Maximum magazine, in which

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Speaker 2: he said that Raquel Welch was his idea of the

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Speaker 2: perfect woman, but that he'd never slept with. It doesn't matter,

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Speaker 2: he said it, Okay, I'm not making it up. And

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Speaker 2: just like that thing with the toxic blood, though, it

563
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Speaker 2: doesn't have to be the truth. It just have to

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Speaker 2: have the spirit.

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Speaker 1: And Lemmy was into building his own myth. Clearly.

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Speaker 2: I think every rock and roll band, every heavy metal band,

567
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Speaker 2: they all want to be Motorhead, at least in spirit,

568
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 2: or they should. Anyways, back to the Rainbow Bar and

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Speaker 2: grill with Lemmy at his memorial or tribute party, whatever

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00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:13,320
Speaker 2: we're calling it. After Lemmy's funeral, his body was cremated.

571
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Speaker 2: Some of the ashes were packed inside bullet casings and

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Speaker 2: sent to his closest friends. Some were enshrined at the Rainbow,

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Speaker 2: and some were mixed with ink and then tattooed onto

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Speaker 2: the skin of Metallica's James Headfield, specifically onto his middle finger.

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00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 2: So for as long as James Hedfield lives, he can

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00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 2: flip the bird and give you not only a glimpse

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Speaker 2: of a small ace of spades inside the outline of

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Speaker 2: an iron cross.

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Speaker 1: But a taste of Mortarheads Spirit. I'm Jake Brennan and

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Speaker 1: this is Disgraceland.

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Speaker 2: All right. Thank you for listening to another episode of Disgraceland.

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Speaker 2: your motorhead? Was one of mine for sure? Doesn't have

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