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Motorhead<\/a> played rock’n’roll. Only, there was so much more to them than just that, wasn’t there? 50 years since Lemmy got the boot from psychedelic prog rockers Hawkwind and made a band that’d “kill your lawn if [we] moved in next door”, his band’s story is indelibly entwined with the history of rock, metal, punk and beyond.<\/p>\n

Because there’s the rub: Motorhead united the tribes, inspired extreme metal (there’s a reason we chose Overkill as their greatest song<\/a>) and laid the foundation for generations of scuzzy, straight-talking bands to follow in their wake.<\/p>\n

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With 2025 marking 50 years since their formation, we’ve asked just about every band we’ve come across to pick out a song by Motorhead that means something to them, and maybe share an anecdote or two if they knew Lemmy and the gang. From being baptised in whiskey to pig’s heads in guitar cases, dust-ups at The Rainbow and fall-outs over socialites, these stories represent a living, breathing history of what it meant to be a Motorhead fan even if you’re in one of rock and metal’s biggest bands.<\/p>\n

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So stick on our mahoosive playlist below, and dive into the stories around rock’n’roll’s greatest band: Motorhead.<\/p>\n

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Nige Rockett, Onslaught: Motorhead – Motorhead (Motorhead, 1977)<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually got into Motorhead because of the single, Motorhead. We were all into hardcore punk at the time and would just go down to the local youth club where you\u2019d have to fight the DJ to play ten minutes of noisy music and you\u2019d take whatever they were willing to play. We took up Motorhead one night and it blended in perfectly with the likes of Discharge, The Exploited\u2026 stuff like that.<\/p>\n

I got interested in their music and I remember hearing The Hammer and thinking it was so exciting and in your face. It\u2019s them all over. I learned all the early songs \u2013 especially the ones on No Sleep \u2018Till Hammersmith \u2013 to basically become a guitarist. The music was so raw and the way Philthy played drums was amazing.<\/p>\n

We played with them in the 80s \u2013 we couldn\u2019t believe what they did for us. We probably only got three or four weeks notice when our label Music For Nations phoned us up and said, \u2018Guys, don\u2019t plan anything for the next six or seven weeks. You\u2019re going on tour with Motorhead.\u2019 It was like, \u2018Fuck, are you for real?!\u2019 We played with them on the Orgasmatron tour, which was when Philthy [Taylor, drums] had briefly rejoined the band. We toddled off to Zurich for the first show, and I remember being in the venue when there was only like three people in there waiting for Lemmy. He walks out, stamps his foot four times and the band just crash into Iron Fist. It pinned you to the back wall! We\u2019d never played with a gig with a band of that level before and I\u2019ll never forget that moment.<\/p>\n

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We played the show and thought we\u2019d better be on our best behaviour. We\u2019re backstage and suddenly there\u2019s a bang at the frontdoor\u2026 it was Lemmy. \u2018Get the fuck back out there, they want more!\u2019 We couldn\u2019t believe it, they gave us more time! We played in Copenhagen in Denmark, so we\u2019d become good friends with the band by that point. We\u2019re sat in this bar at 3am and it was us, a few crew guys, Wurzel, Phil Campbell and Philthy. We\u2019re all completely out of it and the lift comes down, out comes Lemmy in paisley pajamas, slippers \u2013 the whole thing. We just fell about the place, it was so surreal! He just looked over, went, \u2018Fuck off you cunts!\u2019 and got back in the lift. To this day, we still don\u2019t know what he\u2019d come down for!\u201d<\/p>\n

Victoria R\u00f8ising, Witch Club Satan: Iron Horse\/Born To Lose (Motorhead, 1977)<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a teenager, I used to have vivid discussions with my friends; who were the real rockers, and who were just wannabes. We disagreed on many of that time’s most influential bands, such as Metallica<\/a>, System of a Down<\/a> and Korn<\/a>. Listening too much to older legends like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Ramones could be seen as cheating; too easy to like. But there was one band no-one would question; Mot\u00f6rhead.<\/p>\n

I made sure to include some of their albums in my CD-collection, and kept their self-titled album from 1977 as a favourite. When listening to it again now, I especially remember how the energy in Iron Horse\/Born To Lose hit me. It carries a freedom that I so badly longed for – both hopeless and hopeful. The combination of melodic riffs and rawness spoke to my young, vulnerable rock\u2019n\u2019roll heart.<\/p>\n

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On a family trip to London, I visited Camden Market for the first time. That felt like heaven. I remember the joy of finding and buying a M\u00f6torhead t-shirt (there was hardly anywhere to find them in Norway), and the pride of wearing it at school when I came back, noticing how the older rockers (some of them who even had their own bands) looked at me with admiration and jealousy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brant Bjork, ex-Kyuss, Fu Manchu: Keep Us On The Road (Motorhead, 1977)<\/p>\n

\u201cI really love the earliest incarnation of Motorhead \u2013 the one from the late 70s with Larry Wallis. I love Fast Eddie and Philth, don\u2019t get me wrong, but nothing ever sounded like that first record. I had a German pressing of Born To Lose when I was growing up and I actually got to ask Lemmy about that song when Fu Manchu toured with Motorhead years later. I was like, \u2018when did you last play that one?\u2019 and he knew the exact date!<\/p>\n

What makes Lemmy such a lovable and magical person is that he\u2019s about as authentic as you\u2019re gonna get. He\u2019s a rock\u2019n\u2019roll pirate!\u201d<\/p>\n

Dave Lombardo, ex-Slayer, Fantomas, Venamoris: Overkill (Overkill, 1979)<\/p>\n

\u201cI think my first Mot\u00f6rhead album was No Sleep \u2018Til Hammersmith<\/a>. You\u2019ve got classics like We Are The Road Crew, Stay Clean and Bomber \u2013 I love the Bomber riff. I think this was the album that took me into double-bass playing: Ace Of Spades and Overkill \u2013 those two songs, especially Overkill.<\/p>\n

Slayer<\/a> toured with Mot\u00f6rhead back in the late 80s, and my other band, Grip, Inc., also toured Europe with them. Lemmy was just such a nice, positive human being. He was always supportive \u2013 bringing a new band like Grip Inc. out on tour \u2013 and hospitable. Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee are also frickin\u2019 great guys \u2013 love them both.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mot\u00f6rhead \u2013 Overkill (Official Video) – YouTube
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\nMike Bordin, Faith No More: I Won\u2019t Pay Your Price (Overkill, 1979)<\/p>\n

\u201cMotorhead cured me from having to listen to Ted Nugent. I was 13 when Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Physical Graffiti and Burn came out, which was the real peak of classic metal. But a few years on, it\u2019s getting soft \u2013 we\u2019d gone from Stranglehold to Wang Dang Sweet Poon Tang. It starts getting repetitive, soft around the edges\u2026 then here comes Motorhead. That was it for me. It didn\u2019t just knock the door down \u2013 it blew the building up!<\/p>\n

Lemmy was fucking brilliant \u2013 smart, funny and an absolute gentleman. And that band were untouchable from Overkill to Ace Of Spades. I really love I Won\u2019t Pay Your Price \u2013 it\u2019s almost jaunty, and if you don\u2019t pay attention to the words you miss the real meaning of that song. I heard Motorhead and didn\u2019t have to do any of that late-stage butt rock in the late 70s.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prika Amaral, Nervosa: Stay Clean (Overkill, 1979)<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m crazy about 70s music and I just love the vibe of Stay Clean. When I first heard it I had no idea what the lyrics meant \u2013 I spoke no English at the time \u2013 but I loved it so much, the first time I heard his voice it was like, \u2018Does this guy smoke 40 cigarettes at once?!\u2019<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always had punk in my veins and hearing Motorhead it was like, \u2018Okay, so it\u2019s not punk, but it\u2019s not heavy metal<\/a> either.\u2019 It\u2019s everything together! I only got to see them once \u2013 I think it was in Sao Paolo in 2009 and it was the best experience of my life. I just remember how incredibly loud it was, like the bass was hugging me and the drums were shaking my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tom Templar, Green Lung: Capricorn (Overkill, 1979)<\/p>\n

\u201cMotorhead were one of the first bands I ever saw, at UEA [University of East Anglia] in 2003. It\u2019s probably the most tinnitus I\u2019ve ever had from a gig \u2013 I remember going to bed at my mate\u2019s house afterwards and there was just this buzz in my ears.<\/p>\n

Capricorn was always my favourite Motorhead song, probably because it ties to my love of Sabbath and doom, and it\u2019s a fucking bleak one! Motorhead are seen as such a party band \u2013 Jack n coke, cowboys boots, beautiful women \u2013 but watching the documentary of Lemmy where he lives in this cramped flat full of memorabilia where he seems quite lost.<\/p>\n

Capricorn captures that dark side of Motorhead, \u2018A thousand nights, I’ve spent alone\/Solitaire, to the bone\/But I don\u2019t mind I\u2019m my own best friend\/From the beginning to the end.\u2019 That\u2019s so not a party song! Lemmy had such a solo voyager vibe; so loved and celebrated by everyone in rock and metal, but going back home to a kind of lonely life because he\u2019d been on the road since his teens. It\u2019s almost like an admission that he\u2019s alone and has given it all for what he does, but he also doesn\u2019t mind. It\u2019s an early song, but he already knew his fate \u2013 and that\u2019s doom as fuck!\u201d<\/p>\n

Gordon Morison, Raging Speedhorn: No Class (Overkill, 1979)<\/p>\n

\u201cNo Class is my favourite Motorhead song, it\u2019s just banging drums, I love it! I love the rock\u2019n\u2019roll edge that it has. We only played with them once, on a festival, can\u2019t remember where. But it was us, Motorhead, One Minute Silence and a load of American bands.<\/p>\n

We met Lemmy and I remember that Phil [Campbell, guitars] was on one, just chucking the rider everywhere and destroying the room. Lemmy walked out, calm as anything, smoking a cigarette, and just started chatting to us. There was all this carnage going on all around him and he was just cool as fuck.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mot\u00f6rhead \u2013 No Class (Official Video) – YouTube
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\nMilkie Way, Wargasm: Limb From Limb (Overkill, 1979)<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t even pinpoint the exact moment I discovered Motorhead \u2013 Lemmy was always there, in a way. Like Ozzy, he\u2019s one of those figures that just floats around in the hemisphere of popular culture, just everywhere when I was growing up. I heard Ace Of Spades on a Tony Hawk soundtrack, I was just so enamoured. Then I saw what he looked like, it was like, \u2018Jesus it just gets better!\u2019<\/p>\n

I was actually watching a live set from Wacken recently and it\u2019s just fucking relentless \u2013 that\u2019s what I love about them, they’re relentless, and sexy. Limb From Limb is my go-to soundcheck riff. I love hearing the sleazy, lustful side of Motorhead and when the track switches from a sultry blues<\/a> romp up into a thumping raging machine in the second half and we hear Lemmy scream \u2018Don’t stop now!\u2019 It gets me every time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marko Hietala, ex-Nightwish: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Bomber, 1979)<\/p>\n

\u201cDead Men Tell No Tales is the Motorhead song that really woke me up. Of course, there was Lawman \u2013 that whole album is brilliant \u2013 but that slogan, \u2018Dead Men Tell No Tales\u2019, was just so cool. It had a really heavy first impact on me.<\/p>\n

I heard it first on some metal and rock hour on a Finnish radio station, which got me into a lot of stuff as a young dude, from punk to metal. I loved those speeding and loud guitars, so this one really stuck with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anastasiia Khomenko, Death Pill: Stone Dead Forever (Bomber, 1979)<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m actually in love with Motorhead. Them and Black Sabbath<\/a> are the must-love bands if you\u2019re a true rocker. If you don\u2019t like either, you don\u2019t like rock! I was a very young child when I first heard Stone Dead Forever \u2013 maybe 10 or 11 \u2013 but even then I knew it was about greed, about a man who has achieved success but loses his humanity. It\u2019s a very true-to-life thing! Greed dehumanises you.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a bit in the middle where only the bass is playing, and every time I listen to Bomber I have that in my head for hours afterwards. It\u2019s got a dirty riff and real energy \u2013 what more do you need? When we formed Death Pill, Mariana [Navrotskaya] always used to put her mic really high like Lemmy because she\u2019d read he did that so even if nobody turned up he wouldn\u2019t see the crowd and she was so nervous she thought that was a good way around it!\u201d<\/p>\n

Ace, Skunk Anansie: Step Down (Bomber, 1979)<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first show was Motorhead on the Ace Of Spades [tour] at the Odeon in Birmingham. I saw everybody there; AC\/DC, Judas Priest Accept\u2026 From that day, I walked out and was like, \u2018That\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do.\u2019 It was my pivotal point where I started playing guitar and everything flowed from that. I was obsessed with Fast Eddie Clarke, but Lemmy was also the man, right? He was something from another planet.<\/p>\n

As the years went on, I actually became friends with him when Skunk [Anansie] were starting out. I even had my stag night with Lemmy in [famous London gentleman\u2019s club] Stringfellows. Lemmy introduced me to Peter Stringfellow and in the end it was just us, sat in the bar until 4am smoking Marlboro Reds until we got kicked out. I had a hangover that lasted a week!<\/p>\n

Even though he was supposedly a madman, he always had a fantastic moral compass and was incredibly clever and generous. Motorhead were everything I loved about a band: short songs, cool image, great people. My brother and I would play their records to death, literally wearing them out. The track that stood out most to me was Step Down, because it was Fast Eddie Clarke singing. As an inspiration, he was the coolest bloke on the planet so him doing that song with this solo at the start and [the fact its] also a lot more mellow than a lot of their other songs.<\/p>\n

I actually wrote a book on how to play guitar a few years ago and in the foreward, I thanked Fast Eddie for his inspiration. His wife sent a text with a lovely message from him saying he was really flattered to have inspired me, so I asked if he\u2019d do a masterclass with me in a college. But unfortunately he died not long after. I didn\u2019t get to do that, but I did get the utter pleasure of playing Overkill onstage with him for their 25th anniversary\u2026 the day after I\u2019d got married! I was on-stage with Brian May, Fast Eddie, Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee on drums. Jeff Beck was watching us backstage \u2013 it was like walking into a waxworks!\u201d<\/p>\n

Blasphemer, Ex-Mayhem\/Ruim: Bomber (Bomber, 1979)<\/p>\n

\u201cMy sister and her boyfriend took me to see Motorhead in Oslo in 1985. I was 10 years old, and it was the Never Gets Dark tour. I remember getting Ace Of Spades and the other records from my sister\u2019s boyfriend, who was listening to them on the stereo before the show.<\/p>\n

You can wake up completely fucked up and then you realise, \u2018Wow I had a great time yesterday\u2019. Then you see Bomber is still on the stereo – and it\u2019s like, \u2018Hey there’s more beer in the fridge, let\u2019s go.\u2019 It introduced me to a world I didn’t know anything about.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cLemmy was the real deal, right to the fucking end. When I first saw the cover of Ace Of Spades, I just fucking knew man. I\u2019d heard Overkill before that and remember thinking, \u2018this is way faster than Scorpions or UFO. Overkill, cool!\u2019 But then a week or whatever later I saw that Ace Of Spades cover and was just like, ‘Okay I\u2019ve gotta buy this album.’<\/p>\n

I got home and put it on\u2026 Oh my god. Lemmy opens up his voice and starts singing, my mind fucking exploded. Me and all my friends were into punk rock<\/a>, right? Local San Francisco hardcore bands; me and my friends fucking loved it. The tone of Lemmy\u2019s voice was like he\u2019d got a distortion box in his throat. The sound of that bass too! I felt like I was in the mud with those guys. It\u2019s so dirty and aggressive, so real!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nRiley Pinkerton, Castle Rat: Love Me Like A Reptile (Ace Of Spades, 1980)<\/p>\n

\u201cI covered Love Me Like A Reptile. I was playing a benefit show for Planned Parenthood in Queens, New York that they do every Valentine\u2019s Day. It\u2019s all artists singing love songs with a house band. So I took on Love Me Like A Reptile; I felt so nervous beforehand, which I always do when I\u2019m covering a song.<\/p>\n

I was working all day in this retail job, so when nobody was around I was blasting that song on repeat all day so I could memorise the lyrics, hoping nobody would interrupt me! That song is deeply ingrained in my mind and helped me overcome this hurdle of just singing instead of playing guitar too. I love Motorhead so much, I\u2019ve named my dog Lemmy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barney Greenway, Napalm Death: Shoot You In The Back (Ace Of Spades, 1980)<\/p>\n

\u201cMotorhead were the first band that I really loved. My dad was a massive rock fan and he took me to see them in the really early days, and it kind of changed my life. Listen to the gravel tone of Lemmy\u2019s voice \u2013 I think, even inadvertently, that would be an influence on anyone doing really throaty sort of vocals.<\/p>\n

The thing for me as well was that they straddled a lot of different styles. They were arguably more of a punk band than anything else. I certainly don\u2019t think they were a heavy metal band. It\u2019s hard to narrow down my favourite song, but I\u2019d probably say Shoot You In The Back. It\u2019s just a really menacing track. The whole thrust of it, and what they were doing at that point in time, is natural aggression at its finest without even trying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott Ian, Anthrax: (We Are) The Roadcrew (Ace Of Spades, 1980)<\/p>\n

\u201cI could pick 50 Mot\u00f6rhead songs, but I\u2019m going to go with (We Are) The Road Crew. Ace Of Spades was a classic album for me as a kid, and of course the title track is legendary, but Road Crew means a lot to me because Lemmy actually got up and played that with us once when we were touring together in the UK in 2012.<\/p>\n

Looking over and seeing this guy that I\u2019d grown up listening to on the same stage with us was one of those moments that I\u2019ll never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nick Holmes, Paradise Lost: The Chase Is Better Than The Catch (Ace Of Spades, 1980)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Chase Is Better Than The Catch is a sleazy, slow song, which I always kind of liked. Ace Of Spades was probably one of the first albums I ever bought, and it was so loud and heavy compared to anything else that was around. I like the whole album, but that one, it was loud, the lyrics were a bit saucy, which my mum frowned upon because I was, like, 11 years old.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if this actually happened or if it\u2019s folklore, but he was once presenting a Headbangers Ball with Vanessa Warwick and they played one of our videos. She said, \u2018That was Paradise Lost,\u2019 and he said, \u2018Paradise Lost? Paradise Shit, more like!\u2019 We still say that to each other even now. That\u2019s actually the closest I got to meeting Lemmy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kim McAuliffe, Girlschool: Please Don\u2019t Touch (The Saint Valentine\u2019s Day Massacre, 1981)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did our first single with Vic [Maile] and he ended up doing [1980 debut album] Demolition which turned out moderately successful. Motorhead heard it, and decided they wanted Vic too \u2013 they nicked our bloody producer!<\/p>\n

Vic and Lemmy got on like a house on fire because they both loved old rock\u2019n\u2019roll songs, so they came up with this idea of doing a collaboration between Girlschool and Motorhead, do these songs for Valentine\u2019s day that would could massacre and call it the St Valentine\u2019s Day Massacre. Vic suggested Please Don\u2019t Touch and Lemmy already loved that song, so it was perfect.<\/p>\n

In the studio\u2026 tantrums all over! Eddie [Clarke] chucked his guitar, Phil [Taylor] had broke his neck so couldn\u2019t even shake a tambourine. We had a good laugh though and ended up on Top Of The Pops with Phil dancing in these. Wherever we went, we shared everything so we shared a minibus to White City to record Top Of The Pops. They were so excited, like little kids. We went to this massive big warehouse where they do props and everything; \u2018Look at all this stuff!\u2019 We all went into this olde-worlde pub straight after and these little old blokes were staring at us like we were aliens.<\/p>\n

The original trio of Motorhead were pure rock\u2019n\u2019roll, from start to finish. Nobody else could have written a song like Overkill. They haven\u2019t! It\u2019s the kind of stuff that makes your hair stand up on end. Metropolis was one of my favourites to hear live. There\u2019ll never be another band like Motorhead.<\/p>\n

Girlschool had been going for two years before we linked up with Motorhead on the Overkill tour. We basically stole my mum and dad\u2019s Bedford van and drove it into the ground, going all around these little clubs in Europe. We had a right old laugh, but I don\u2019t think we\u2019d do any of that now, having the Marshall cabs laid out at the back with our sleeping bags top to toe and hallucinating little green men because you\u2019d been driving so long.<\/p>\n

Kelly [Johnson] was living at my mum and dad\u2019s because it was too far for her to keep coming and going between rehearsals. One day she comes in with this single somebody had given her, it was Motorhead\u2019s first 10\u201d. We took one look at the picture and went, \u2018What the hell is that? Look at the state of them!\u2019 And that was before we even heard the bloody racket they made.<\/p>\n

We were great friends with a band called UK Subs and my boyfriend Tim was sharing a house with their drummer, Pete Davies and the bassist of this band called Fingerprints. It was a whole house of musicians. Anyway, we\u2019d recorded a single in this dingy basement in Soho that stank called Take It All Away and on the way out, we ran into [Radio DJ] John Peel. He said, \u2018What you lot been up to?\u2019 When we told him, he said he\u2019d play our single. Sure enough, he did, and Lemmy heard it. So one day he called up and offered us that Overkill tour.<\/p>\n

Touring with Motorhead was one of the most special times ever. We had such a laugh, we didn\u2019t know them at all at first and obviously they looked all tough, but they were really pussycats. We were quite young, so these little girls watching these blokes drink Special Brew and do god knows what. We were only getting paid a pound a day, so we had to choose whether or not we spent that on a pint or a sandwich. Beer usually won out! But then the lads would come in with big crates of beer to look after us. We got on like a house on fire. They\u2019d always come wish us luck before we went on, because it was our first time on big stages.<\/p>\n

One night Lemmy lingers around a bit longer than normal, so we\u2019re like, \u2018That\u2019s a bit odd.\u2019 I opened my guitar case and nearly fainted because I thought there was a human hand in there. It turned out, it was half a pig\u2019s head. Cheers Lem, I\u2019d got brains all over my guitar!\u201d<\/p>\n

Mot\u00f6rhead & Girlschool \u2013 Please Don\u2019t Touch (Official Top Of The Pops Performance) – YouTube
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\nJB Christoffersson, Grand Magus: Iron Fist (Iron Fist, 1982)<\/p>\n

\u201cMot\u00f6rhead are one of the biggest inspirations for Grand Magus, the idea for us to be a hard hitting three-piece certainly came from being a fan of them. There are so many songs that I love, from all eras of the band, that I could probably pick one each day as one of my favourites.<\/p>\n

Today I\u2019ll pick the title track from the end of the Eddie Clarke era: Iron Fist. Certainly the best track on that album, and for me on the Mot\u00f6rhead top ten songs of all time. Blistering power and a fucking awesome lyric. Three of the most ferocious minutes of metal music ever. Gets me going every time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Evan Seinfeld, Biohazard: Loser (Iron Fist, 1982)<\/p>\n

\u201cI always thought there was a mastery to Lemmy\u2019s bass playing. I remember being about 14, trying to figure out how to get that sound. I was listening to Loser on Iron Fist and there\u2019s a bit where he goes, \u2018Son of a bitch, you can\u2019t steal my sound\u2019. I remember thinking he was talking to me.<\/p>\n

When I first met Lemmy, I was at the Rainbow and I\u2019m rarely starstruck, but I was that kid with the Motorhead T-shirt. I remember walking over and going, \u2018Mr. Lemmy, sir. My name\u2019s Evan. I\u2019m from a new band called Biohazard. I want to let you know I\u2019m your biggest fan and you\u2019re the reason I play the bass and sing.\u2019<\/p>\n

He\u2019s like, \u2018You\u2019re a big fan, huh? What\u2019s the last album you bought?\u2019 And I go, Orgasmatron. He says, \u2018Yeah, you missed one\u2019 and he turned his back on me. This was a young, macho, tough guy Evan Seinfeld and I had to be dragged out of the fucking Rainbow by bouncers because I was trying to take a swipe at him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mikkey Dee: Back At The Funny Farm (Another Perfect Day, 1983)<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are so many Motorhead songs that don\u2019t get the dues they deserve. I really liked the Another Perfect Day record, though Lemmy wasn\u2019t too keen. I think it represented some pretty hard times for him and the band \u2013 Robbo [guitarist Brian Robertson] wasn\u2019t the nicest guy to deal with, apparently, but those songs are brilliant.<\/p>\n

Back At The Funny Farm, I Got Mine, I think its an overall great record and Brian Robertson put some Thin Lizzy<\/a> into the riffing. It was more melodic in a way, because Motorhead before that was almost more punk rock \u2013 fast and furious. Perfect Day comes around and it turns into a melodic hard rock record with a Motorhead sound. Phil [Campbell] and I could write a song that sounded like Rush, but the second Lemmy put his bass on it sounded like Motorhead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Max Cavalera, ex-Sepultura, Soulfly: Dancing On Your Grave (Another Perfect Day, 1983)<\/p>\n

\u201cI bought Iron Fist and Ace Of Spades from a record store in Belo Horizonte. I remember showing my mum, and she got scared: \u2018These guys look dangerous.\u2019 They definitely looked like someone you didn\u2019t want to fuck with. But Another Perfect Day is an extremely underrated record – it\u2019s one of Mot\u00f6rhead\u2019s best.<\/p>\n

The addition of Brian Robertson from Thin Lizzy brought melody into Mot\u00f6rhead that was never there before. You had all these cool melodies throughout the whole record \u2013 Shine, Back At The Funny Farm, Marching To War and Dancing On Your Grave, which had a great guitar intro. Dancing On Your Grave is also where the song which I got the name Sepultura<\/a> from. I was a kid translating the lyrics with my dictionary, and the word \u2018grave\u2019 is \u2018sepultura\u2019 in Portuguese.<\/p>\n

The first time I met Lemmy was in a bar in London. I was bugging him, saying, \u2018I\u2019m from Brazil! I am a big fan!\u2019 He just wanted to drink and play his slot machines. Finally, he had had enough and he threw his whole whiskey glass over my head. To me, that was the great thing in the world \u2013 in my crazy, warped mind, it felt like I\u2019d been baptised by Lemmy. People get baptised in the River Jordan by a priest, I got baptised by Lemmy in a pub. I read an interview with him years later, and he said that he liked me because I was an arrogant son of a bitch like him. That was one of the coolest things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Danko Jones: Shine (Another Perfect Day, 1983)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was in high school, I got the No Remorse compilation. My favourite songs were Killed By Death, and Shine. Brian Robertson put his stamp all over [Another Perfect Day] and maybe that\u2019s why I really like it \u2013 it\u2019s like the best of both Thin Lizzy and Motorhead. When we toured with Motorhead, they played I Got Mine off that album and I was so surprised \u2013 and happy \u2013 that they did.<\/p>\n

We toured with the band in the UK on [2008 album] Motorizer. We\u2019d already done a tour with them before that, but it was amazing \u2013 they treated us so well and every night Lemmy asked if I wanted to come up and do Killed By Death – one of my favourite songs! I think was one of, if not the, best tour I\u2019ve ever done. One night, Lemmy comes up and he says, \u2018Will you do Born To Raise Hell instead?\u2019 It\u2019s a no-brainer, right? If Motorhead asked me to sing Happy Birthday, I would.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m not as familiar with that song, so I was panicking because I didn\u2019t know the verses, so I had to go hide in a closet with my iPod \u2013 because this is before streaming \u2013 and listened to the song over and over to sing the song back to Lemmy, face-to-face in his dressing room. I passed the audition! I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s anything more intimidating than singing Lemmy\u2019s song to him in his dressing room.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dani Filth, Cradle Of Filth: Claw (Orgasmatron, 1986)<\/p>\n

\u201cClaw is really fun. It always used to remind me of a guy from the Wild West, I think someone like (British pulp horror author) Guy Smith, I think, used to write about him. It was this really violent story of this guy that chopped people\u2019s heads off, and I was convinced Lemmy was writing about that. It obviously wasn\u2019t, but it\u2019s still a really fun song.<\/p>\n

I met Lemmy many, many times. We actually fell out over (British socialite) Tara Palmer-Tomkinson of all people! He came to her defence when I made a crude comment about her… it wasn\u2019t that crude. She was presenting an award to us and I said that she looked like she was wearing a cheap dress, because, you know, what\u2019s she doing here? Just this rich socialite pretending to be into metal.<\/p>\n

So, we kind of fell out in the press for a while. The we made up at the Graspop Festival and had a little cuddle, and I bought him a drink… at a free bar!It just went backwards and forwards like that for a few years. But he was great, a bit of a rebel, but that\u2019s why we all loved him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joe Nally, Urne: Mean Machine (Orgasmatron, 1986)<\/p>\n

\u201cOrgasmatron isn\u2019t Motorhead\u2019s best album by any means. It\u2019s got some absolute classics on, but the production is really muddy. But I really loved the name of Mean Machine and in my kid brain I associated it with the movie Mean Machine which starred Vinnie Jones. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s got anything to do with it!<\/p>\n

But I loved that track and it was the first time they were playing as a four-piece, the riff comes in and it just ticks all the boxes for a classic Motorhead song. I just love having this quick, aggy song with some cool vocal hooks. It\u2019s really stuck with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andreas Kisser, Sepultura: Orgasmatron (Orgasmatron, 1986)<\/p>\n

\u201cOrgasmatron is a really big deal for us, and we still jam it [live] because its our best cover. It has almost become our song; a lot of people in Brazil who never listened to Motorhead think it\u2019s an original Sepultura song because we play it so much! Lemmy was always very respectful, we jammed Orgasmatron together many times, us with him, him coming on with us and we even jammed Overkill with them in Brazil at Rock In Rio.<\/p>\n

Being onstage with Motorhead… WOW! We were in Brazil and Motorhead were scheduled to play this big gymnasium, which had a shitty sound. Motorhead played two songs and stopped, Lemmy went off and came back, he\u2019d dragged the promoter onstage and he said \u2018Now this guy is going to explain to you why we\u2019re not going to play anymore songs.\u2019 The guy was like, \u2018Uh! Sorry guys, we\u2019ve had some problems, we\u2019re going to reschedule the show in three days in a better venue!\u2019 So, they did a different place a few days later and it all sounded much better, and they did Orgasmatron with this green light under Lemmy\u2019s face. It was so powerful.<\/p>\n

I was there with Max [Cavalera], Iggor [Cavalera] and Paulo [Jr.], all together, and it just summed up the power of that show. So, when Roadrunner asked us to do some bonus tracks for Arise we decided to do Orgasmatron because we were still so impacted by the song.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brann Dailor, Mastodon: Killed By Death (Single, 1987)<\/p>\n

\u201cKilled By Death is one of my favourite songs ever, not just Motorhead songs. Whenever they would launch into that live it was like \u2018Oh boy, here we go!\u2019<\/p>\n

Killed, by death. Can you imagine?! Death gets us all, but this makes it personal\u2026 and badass.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nShavo Odadjian, System Of A Down\/Seven Hours After Violet: Eat The Rich (Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll, 1987)<\/p>\n

\u201cI love Eat The Rich! Damn, man, \u2018C\u2019mon baby eat the rich, put the bite on the son of a bitch\u2019 that was the coolest shit ever when I was a kid! We were once playing a festival in Europe \u2013 it might\u2019ve been Download actually \u2013 and I\u2019d overslept. I got out the bus and was pretty groggy \u2013 I think we\u2019d been drinking the night before \u2013 and I\u2019m wearing this Motorhead shirt, so I asked someone, \u2018Hey, where\u2019s our dressing room?\u2019<\/p>\n

This girl grabs me and is like \u2018Over here!\u2019 and drags me to this door. She opens it, and Lemmy is sat on the other side. They thought I was in Motorhead! He just grins and says, \u2018Get in here you son of a bitch!\u2019 and I end up sat with him while he plays this slot machine\u2026 in his dressing room. God rest his soul. That was on his rider! There\u2019s an ash tray with like 200 cigarette butts in, so I just sat there soaking it in, playing slots with Lemmy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sammy Urwin, Employed To Serve: Cradle To The Grave (Eat The Rich B-Side, 1987)<\/p>\n

\u201cCradle To The Grave\u2019s a strong example that Mot\u00f6rhead were still churning out absolute rock\u2019n\u2019roll anthems a decade deep into their career. I saw them twice, albeit much later. I want to say in 2005, but it\u2019s a bond between me and my dad because he\u2019s a big Mot\u00f6rhead fan.<\/p>\n

It was a rite of passage going to see Mot\u00f6rhead with my dad and experiencing how ballistically loud it was. I\u2019ve always worn earplugs, but even with both earplugs in, my ears were ringing chronically after both shows. They really were just a force of nature and I feel extremely grateful that I got to see him [Lemmy]. They would definitely be a band that, if I missed out on them back in the day, I would have been incredibly disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Randy Blythe, Lamb Of God: Just \u2018Cos You Got The Power (Eat The Rich B-Side, 1987)<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s just something about Just Cos You Got The Power man. That full line, \u201cJust \u2018cos you got the power, that don\u2019t mean you got the right.\u201d There\u2019s a real groove there and the lyrics are very humanistic.<\/p>\n

They display a level of empathy that isn\u2019t just \u2018Fuck the system\u2019, it\u2019s \u2018Hey, stop and think about things.\u2019 Think about how you act \u2013 act like a decent fucking human being. That\u2019s what Lemmy was saying, I believe and I\u2019m a firm believer in that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Einar Selvik, Wardruna: I\u2019m So Bad (Baby I Don\u2019t Care) (1916, 1991)<\/p>\n

\u201cHow could you not be a fan of Motorhead? Like almost everyone, Ace Of Spades was my gateway into their music and I just loved the grit, the attitude. Music is energy and if I can\u2019t feel that, it doesn\u2019t hit me. What they project, it comes from somewhere real \u2013 they never wore masks.<\/p>\n

You can always tell who it is when they play too, because they have such a signature sound. We exist in a world where everybody wants their sound to be perfect and polished and so well produced, and Motorhead are the opposite of that. The man started a song with \u2018I make love to mountain lions!\u2019<\/p>\n

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\nDoro Pesch: Love Me Forever (1916, 1991)<\/p>\n

“Love Me Forever is one of my absolute favourites. I listened to it a thousand times. And I was so super stoked that I could record this song as a duet with Lemmy for my Calling The Wild album. That was my very first duet ever. I still love it so much, and I still remember the great fun I had being in the studio with Lem.”<\/p>\n

Joakim Br\u00f3den, Sabaton: 1916 (1916, 1991)<\/p>\n

\u201c1916 is probably my favourite Motorhead song \u2013 either that or Hellraiser, which he wrote for Ozzy. When it came to Sabaton <\/a>covering it, everything just fell into place, especially with how it fit into what we were doing on the album [the track was recorded around the same time as The War To End All Wars, but released on the Stories From The Western Front EP].<\/p>\n

We were very much in World War One era and had reached a point where it was like, \u2018I\u2019m not sure there are any songs we can cover that\u2019d fit in with this era.\u2019 But then it struck us \u2013 we\u2019re missing something obvious! It turned out to be a hugely popular track for us, so it was great to see people really getting into it when we played Wembley Arena [in 2023].<\/p>\n

Around 2010, we actually got to meet them \u2013 we already kind of knew Mikkey [Dee, drums] because he\u2019s a fellow Swede, but at some point as a touring band you find yourselves running into each other for an entire summer. For us, that was when we touring Coat Of Arms, and we were coming to the end of the run and I bumped into Lemmy. He was like, \u2018you again?\u2019 So he must\u2019ve recognised us ha ha.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lzzy Hale, Halestorm: Hellraiser (March Or Die, 1992)<\/p>\n

\u201cHellraiser came on the other day, and it reminded me of how I learnt to play guitar. Growing up, my dad was a bass player, so my first real experience playing \u2018guitar\u2019 was on his bass. My dad was like, \u2018Think about Lemmy from Motorhead! He plays bass like a guitar!\u2019<\/p>\n

Lemmy was a rhythm guitarist in disguise, and tracks like Hellraiser really shaped how I play. Not to mention he was also so supportive when it came to LGBTQ rights and mental health. So I was inspired by his playing, and how he used his voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zakk Wylde, Ozzy Osbourne\/Black Label Society: I Ain\u2019t No Nice Guy (March Or Die, 1992)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you think of Motorhead, you don\u2019t think of ballads, so I\u2019m going against the grain and picking I Ain\u2019t No Nice Guy. I love that song; it\u2019s amazing. Obviously you\u2019ve got Ozzy on there, and you\u2019ve got Slash playing on it as well. Lemmy\u2019s really singing on it too; I love that one.<\/p>\n

Lemmy was the best. I remember when we toured with them, I didn\u2019t realise Ozz had known Lemmy forever. He toured with him when Randy [Rhoads] was around, they did shows [together] all the way through to the No More Tours Tour. Lemmy was out every night. He was amazing, just the most down to earth guy. One thing you could say, as far as being an inspirational person to look at in life for any young person, he was just like \u2018Do what you love, and that\u2019s that, man.\u2019<\/p>\n

Lemmy was always told, \u2018Well, you need to do more stuff like Bon Jovi!\u2019 Some people could be swayed, but the only way you\u2019ll ever thrive and shine is if you\u2019re doing what you love. That\u2019s Lemmy all over. He never forgot that once in his entire life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nIce-T, Body Count: Born To Raise Hell (Bastards, 1993)<\/p>\n

\u201cI was requested specifically by Lemmy for Born To Raise Hell, because he was asked to bring a rapper in and he picked me. I was honoured. I didn\u2019t get to record in the studio with him, but I did do the video and he\u2019s a big dude. A lot of these cats who are legends, they don\u2019t have do much when you\u2019re around them, you just know they\u2019re bad motherfuckers. I remember there were some people late to the shoot and he was like, \u2018a lot of these guys are all inspiration, no perspiration.\u2019<\/p>\n

Motorhead was the style of rock we emulated on [Body Count’s] Cop Killer \u2013 to me that was the sound of someone going down the highway on a Harley. That\u2019s the image they had and the vibe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phil Campbell: Don\u2019t Let Daddy Kiss Me (Bastards, 1993)<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t Let Daddy Kiss Me from Bastards was a great song to work on. I went to sleep for the solo, Howard [Benson, producer] tapped me on the shoulder to wake me up. That was my favourite album of ours. People forget our softer songs, unfortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ginger Wildheart, The Wildhearts: Devils (Bastards, 1993)<\/p>\n

\u201cI toured with Motorhead twice. Once on The World Is Yours [with Michael Monroe], and in The Wildhearts in the early 2000s [2003] when it was us, Motorhead and Young Heart Attack. My little lad got to meet Lemmy, back in the days when giants walked the earth. He was a gentleman, which is the thing I liked about him most. He never talked down to people and you could tell he\u2019d always wanted to be in music, but didn\u2019t have a plan for how that\u2019d happen. To me that was reassuring.<\/p>\n

He was a real, genuine, \u2018what you see is what you get\u2019 kind of person. They made a documentary when The Wildhearts were on tour with them, and he said, \u2018Do you want to come on with us?\u2019 I was like, \u2018Okay, can I do Overkill?\u2019 \u2018Yeah, sure.\u2019 \u2018Can I do London instead? Everyone I know will be there.\u2019 And he just turned and walked away, so I thought I\u2019d blown my fuckin\u2019 chances. Come the London gig, he came up like, \u2018You getting on tonight then?\u2019 I still can\u2019t believe I got to do that.<\/p>\n

Nobody was really talking about Motorhead when they released Bastards, except for us people who went to see them and brought every album. I was one of those people and in 93 I was hitting things pretty hard. I\u2019d not long passed my driving test and had got a car, but hadn\u2019t done a long journey yet because I\u2019d been living in London. At Christmas, people were giving me all this advice about what to do before I made the journey back to Newcastle, one piece of which was to get a bag of peanuts and a 2p coin, just in case you get breathalysed.<\/p>\n

So I embarked on this long journey from London to South Shields. I was about 20 miles away, playing Bastards the whole time because it\u2019d just come out. But nobody has warned me about black ice. So I\u2019m playing Bastards, probably going way too fast as I\u2019d done the whole journey on speed, and I hit this ice at a roundabout. I couldn\u2019t stop and flew through all this traffic \u2013 god knows how I didn\u2019t hit anything \u2013 and went up this embankment where they\u2019d planted all these young trees. I took the lot out.<\/p>\n

I came to a stop upside down and as I\u2019m lay there like, \u2018What the fuck just happened?\u2019 Devils is blasting out its last refrain \u2013 \u2018Angels in my heart tonight\u2019 over and over. Of course the police turned up and breathalysed me, but I\u2019d got me bag of nuts and 2p coin, so nothing came up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fernanda Lira, Crypta: Sacrifice (Sacrifice, 1995)<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a huge King Diamond<\/a> fan, therefore I\u2019m a huge Mikkey Dee fan and I think Sacrifice is a perfect mix of Mot\u00f6rhead and Mikkey Dee\u2019s styles. First time I heard it, I couldn\u2019t believe it was Mot\u00f6rhead; it\u2019s darker, kind of hypnotic, because the same melody and drum line repeat for most of the song.<\/p>\n

My friend was actually friends with Lemmy. Years ago \u2013 like, 2008 \u2013 she brought me to his dressing room. When I met him, I couldn\u2019t talk, but he was the kindest person. It was one of the first times I\u2019d been in a big band\u2019s dressing room, and there were a lot of Kinder eggs. I love them, but they\u2019re expensive here in Brazil and I was just staring at this pile when he said, \u2018Hey, you can have one.\u2019 He was talking to my friend, but he\u2019d noticed. It was so silly!\u2019<\/p>\n

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\nJamey Jasta, Hatebreed: Civil War (Overnight Sensation, 1996)<\/p>\n

\u201cI really think Overnight Sensation is criminally underrated. If you want Motorhead that is more fast, kinda hardcore sounding, go with Civil War. It\u2019s so perfect, Lemmy\u2019s asking, \u2018What are we fighting for?\u2019 The lyrics could have been written today and be relevant in a bunch of different countries all over the world.<\/p>\n

We had a real trial by fire in 1999 going on tour with them and watching them every day. I would say this about Lem, obviously many people know he was very popular with the ladies, but at the time I was, like, barely 20 years old. You would see these beautiful women [with him] every day, Jack Daniels bottles on the pool table, maybe some other party favours as well, depending on where we were and what city we were in, and they all loved him. You never heard one bad word about him throughout the years, because he really took care of people behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to have him on my podcast right before he passed and he said to me, I\u2019m not even sure if we kept this in the show, but he said in his own way that he loved everybody. He really did love and care for everybody; every city, every show. He proved you can still be hard and spread the love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whitfield Crane, Ugly Kid Joe: I Don\u2019t Believe A Word (Overnight Sensation, 1996)<\/p>\n

\u201cBackstage, Lem always had a poker machine. Even if it was no smoking, he\u2019d be there with his hat on puffing away, with a Jack and coke on one side and a lyric sheet on the other. He was just always in it, there was no vacation for Lemmy, he was a real poet.<\/p>\n

Just look at the lyrical content for a song like I Don\u2019t Believe A Word \u2013 it\u2019s incredible. I feel like he was talking to himself. He\u2019s asking, \u2018What\u2019s real? What\u2019s bullshit?\u2019 There\u2019s a lot about his own travails in there too, getting ripped off. He\u2019s done the whole fuckin\u2019 thing and just kept keeping on, keeping on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brock Lindow, 36 Crazyfists\/Paradise Slaves: Murder Show (Overnight Sensation, 1996)<\/p>\n

\u201cMotorhead were the loudest band of all time, right? I\u2019d disovered the band through MTV \u2013 Beavis and Butthead watching the Ace Of Spades video. I dug a bit deeper into Lemmy as an artist and found out he\u2019d been in Hawkwind and had even been a roadie for Jimi Hendrix. What a fuckin\u2019 rock\u2019n\u2019roll pedigree!<\/p>\n

The guy drank Jack Daniels and did speed all day but I\u2019ve never heard a story about him being belligerent. It was [James] Hetfield who got me into Murder Show, he gave that song a shout-out a bunch of times and Metallica were always my favourite band, so as soon as he\u2019d said it I went out to go stick that track on. So raw!\u201d<\/p>\n

Courtney Cox, Burning Witches: One More Fucking Time (We Are Motorhead, 2000)<\/p>\n

\u201cOne More Fucking Time has gotten me through many hard times and is very underrated. Although Mot\u00f6rhead was known for being an in-your-face, loud, full-throttle type of band, Lemmy always knew how to bring it down and grab us all by the heartstrings with the same power. Lemmy was an incomparable poet and a true master of writing everything from heavy to so-called ballads.<\/p>\n

A masterpiece of a “ballad” that is so powerful with its sombre groove, lyrics, and solo… Just a full package. We musicians all started out throwing fast notes\/licks together, playing chords for days to validate our own egos from day to day, but it wasn’t until we were exposed to and latched onto bands like Mot\u00f6rhead that we all learned and experienced, while listening to all of their albums, the true art of writing a song. Thank you for the music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jayant Bhadula, Bloodywood: The Game (Hammered, 2002)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Game was probably the first time I heard Motorhead. I remember, it was a match where Triple H wasn\u2019t scheduled to appear, but suddenly you\u2019d hear that opening riff\u2026 \u2018Oh shit!\u2019 \u2018It\u2019s time to play The Game\u2026\u2019 Oh. My. Fucking. God.<\/p>\n

The sound is so on point, pure domination. That song could give you all the confidence in the world. It was so simple and so heavy. That laugh at the start, too!\u201d<\/p>\n

Derrick Green, Sepultura: In The Name Of Tragedy (Inferno, 2004)<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting encouragement from Lemmy [when I joined Sepultura] was incredible. We got to tour with them for the Inferno album and it was one of the best runs we\u2019ve ever done. There was a song that they were playing on that tour called In The Name Of Tragedy, and I loved it when they played new songs.<\/p>\n

I just remember the groove on that song was so impactful, it was great. Every night when they played it I was like, \u2018This is my jam!\u2019 it was just such a groove and so moving. It makes you really wanna bang your head and move around. I was like \u2018This is Motorhead, but modernised! Now! Today! In the moment!\u2019<\/p>\n

Rob Halford, Judas Priest: Rock Out (Motorizer, 2008)<\/p>\n

\u201cLemmy was such a brilliant songwriter. I\u2019m so glad we have songs like Rock Out, where Lemmy can just growl \u2018Rock out with your cock out.\u2019 It\u2019s pure genius! It says so much about who they are, about going to a show and just letting loose.<\/p>\n

It seems like just yesterday we last saw them \u2013 it always feels like I\u2019m just going to bump into him at a festival somewhere. But their music will live forever and that\u2019s all that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Megan Targett, Vexed: One Short Life (Motorizer, 2008)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever I hear a song by Motorhead, it brings me back to my family. My mum used to work in a place called Hide Out Leather in Cambridge. Lemmy and the gang would come down to the shop and she\u2019d take all their measurements and ask them what they wanted. I never got to meet him, my big sister did, but it was like he was this family member that I hadn\u2019t met.<\/p>\n

Then when I got much older, and entered into the world of metal and discovered bands that I liked myself, it really sunk in how much of an icon he is. I hadn\u2019t comprehended that in the slightest as a kid! To me, it was just another bloke that looked like he rode motorbikes that my mom was friends with.<\/p>\n

One Short Life is a bit more groovy [than other Motorhead tracks], and I\u2019ve always grown up loving groove metal, so it hit a spot with me. But it\u2019s also the lyrics. [Lemmy\u2019s] talking about how he\u2019s not one of the bad guys, and he always listens to what his mama said.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neil Fallon, Clutch: Heroes (Motorizer, 2008)<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of my favourite Motorhead songs is actually their cover of Heroes. It\u2019s an amazing song \u2013 as gruff as Lemmy\u2019s voice was, he hits all the notes and it\u2019s so melodic. They didn\u2019t try to over-Motorhead-ize it either, it\u2019s still got this soaring melody.<\/p>\n

We actually toured with them twice; once in the UK in 2006, then in the US in 2014. It was near the end, but you wouldn\u2019t know it. I\u2019m sure anyone who saw them in the 80s might\u2019ve been able to tell the difference, but just watching them play was incredible. They had this notoriety for being animals, but that whole operation was one of the most professional tours I\u2019ve ever seen. Lemmy was the captain of the ship and everybody knew their job; you could do whatever you want, as long as you didn\u2019t fuck with the show, because that was a sacred thing.<\/p>\n

Some of the people who worked with Motorhead had been there for ages, it was almost telepathic communication. Usually on tour you won\u2019t always watch the bands, but that was one I saw every single night. I didn\u2019t hang out much with Lemmy \u2013 I\u2019m always of the mind to give people their room and I got pretty starstruck with Lemmy. I ended up in the elevator with him at one of the first shows we did together and he looks at me and goes, \u2018You\u2019re the singer of Clutch. You\u2019re very\u2026 consistent.\u2019 I didn\u2019t dare ask him to elaborate!\u201d<\/p>\n

Wednesday 13: Victory Or Die (Bad Magic, 2015)<\/p>\n

\u201cI came out of COVID miserable, like rest of the world. It took me a while to get out of it. When I went back hard on my gym thing, getting in shape, I needed to listen to something fast every day to run. The song Victory Or Die, from Bad Magic was on my shuffle, so I\u2019d just run to that song every day. It kind of set my brain and I went. \u2018I gotta get this victory.\u2019 It literally was my anthem.<\/p>\n

I love some of the later recordings, Mickey Dee\u2019s drumming is so badass on those records. That got me through a rough few months. I used to see Lemmy every time I went to The Rainbow in Los Angeles. He was there every single time. I remember waiting in line to go to the bathroom with him one time, and I didn\u2019t want to just start up a conversation about Motorhead, so I\u2019m just literally waiting in line to take a piss and I went, \u2018I like Twisted Sister too.\u2019 (laughs) I think that\u2019s all I said to him! He started telling me a story about Twisted Sister.<\/p>\n

On my second album [Fang Bang], I was working with a manager who was close friends with Lemmy, and there\u2019s a song called Too Much Blood that I wrote because at the time Lemmy, according to the manager, was going to guest on vocals on it. It never happened. So, if you hear that song and can imagine Lemmy singing on it, it\u2019ll make a lot more sense when you hear it next time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mot\u00f6rhead – Victory Or Die (Bad Magic 2015) – YouTube
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