That’s a different way of using your voice - something fans have never heard from you in Motorhead. I wanted to ask you about your version of “Big River”. We were all busy doing other stuff and then it just came up that we had a few days off all at the same time. When did The Head Cat first start playing together?Ībout five years. You can write a song and three different people will write three different stories. It’s for the fans to interpret a song, you know. Well, you’d have to, because I can’t judge it, because I’m in it! (laughs) You can’t judge what you’re in the middle of. What does each member of The Head Cat bring to the sound of the band? Did you read that book, Poison Heart? (Dee Dee’s autobiography). I never really got the thought that he was ever happy, that he had the opportunity to be happy with his life. So there was always that baggage he was carrying around with him, you know. He was very damaged, you know, Dee Dee, damaged goods. But Dee Dee was … you didn’t always get much from Dee Dee because he was kind of busy in his head. You had the strongest personal relationship with Joey right? I think that crippled Joey, because he had no buddies in the band then. I think they kind of died when Dee Dee left, you know, in a way. I mean, Johnny and Dee went within seven months of each other? Ridiculous. Johnny wasn’t so friendly but then he never was. I just fell in well with Joey and Dee Dee, you know. I met them back in 1977 when they came to England, actually I think it was 1976. (Lemmy wrote a song called “R.A.M.O.N.E.S” for the band, and performed it with them at their last show in 1996). Tell me a little about your relationship with The Ramones. We get the originals, and their kids, and their kids. There’s no particular idea of it, but it’s really about rebelling.Īnd that’s a concept that keeps repeating. It’s supposed to outrage the civil dignitaries. I mean, if your parents like it, you ain’t doing it right. I mean, I realize I’m the same age as your grandpa is now but that’s what it’s for. Real rock n’ roll is to piss your parents off, basically. The Head Cat is a reintroduction of real rock n’ roll - simple, stripped down. We talked about Head Cat, Elvis, sequined jackets, and the state of rock n’ roll. Sharing a smoke with Lemmy an hour before he would rock a sold out show. Leaning against the bar in the basement at the Double Door (“I feel most at home at the bar,” he said when I asked him where we should go), it felt like one of those great rock n’ roll moments. Most didn’t really have anything to say but hello, they just wanted to meet him and get a photo. Hanging out with Lemmy before the show, I had to stop my questions three times - people kept coming up to him, wishing him a good show and shaking his hand. The Head Cat come close, packing the house with bikers, metal heads, and rockabilly girls and making them dance. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, and not a single artist has yet to catch up with the genius of Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly, and Johnny Cash. It’s pure rock n’ roll - in Lemmy’s own words - with no ulterior motive. Supporting their new record “Fool’s Paradise”, The Head Cat rip through a set of classics like “Somethin Else”, “Not Fade Away”, and a perfect “Big River”. Harvey on guitar (13 Cats, Lonesome Spurs) and classic tomcat Slim Jim Phantom on drums (Stray Cats). Fans packed the Double Door on a Monday night to see Lemmy’s new project, The Head Cat - a classic rock n’ roll trio consisting of Lem on vocals, Danny B.
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