I ordered this to read whilst on leave and it was delivered to me yesterday morning together with Paul Di'anno's and Pamela Des Barres autobiographies.
I started reading it at about 6 with the idea of just reading it for a few pages then keeping it for the beach.....hohohho finished the book in time to watch everton klap man city but i digress.
If you are a Lemmy/Motorhead/Rock n Roll lifestyle fan this is an excellent read. Lemmy spends a bit of time on his childhood an upbringing but the meat of the book is the hawkwind/Motorhead period specifically the meteoric rise of Motorhead in the late 70's. Not much space is dedicated to his time working for hendrix and his honesty in that regard is admirable. (he could easily have inflated his importance on the hendrix tours but quite honestly says he was just a gopher type person).
With Lemmy what you see is what you get....school drop out ,picked up the guitar and by his own admission was not very good at it , was given a bass and had to play live that night with it and promptly continued with the bass. No hoity toityness with Lemmy at all. A detailed description of his drugging and his penschant for groupies.
Lemmy been around the block thats for sure. an excellent read however only available as an import and takes about 14 days to deliver .
Edit: One thing Lemmy cannot be faulted on is honesty ,right down an simple honesty and calls a spade an ace of spades but i digress. Motorhead toured with Ozzy as openers in the USA and his view on RR is that he became a much better player after his death as muscicians often do. ?
I started reading it at about 6 with the idea of just reading it for a few pages then keeping it for the beach.....hohohho finished the book in time to watch everton klap man city but i digress.
If you are a Lemmy/Motorhead/Rock n Roll lifestyle fan this is an excellent read. Lemmy spends a bit of time on his childhood an upbringing but the meat of the book is the hawkwind/Motorhead period specifically the meteoric rise of Motorhead in the late 70's. Not much space is dedicated to his time working for hendrix and his honesty in that regard is admirable. (he could easily have inflated his importance on the hendrix tours but quite honestly says he was just a gopher type person).
With Lemmy what you see is what you get....school drop out ,picked up the guitar and by his own admission was not very good at it , was given a bass and had to play live that night with it and promptly continued with the bass. No hoity toityness with Lemmy at all. A detailed description of his drugging and his penschant for groupies.
Lemmy been around the block thats for sure. an excellent read however only available as an import and takes about 14 days to deliver .
Edit: One thing Lemmy cannot be faulted on is honesty ,right down an simple honesty and calls a spade an ace of spades but i digress. Motorhead toured with Ozzy as openers in the USA and his view on RR is that he became a much better player after his death as muscicians often do. ?