{"id":10126,"date":"2024-12-27T11:01:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T16:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=10126"},"modified":"2024-12-27T11:01:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T16:01:31","slug":"in-memoriam-ian-fraser-kilmister-24-december-1945-28-december-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=10126","title":{"rendered":"IN MEMORIAM\u00a0: Ian Fraser Kilmister\u00a0(24 December 1945 \u2013 28 December 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MOTORHEAD’S MISSION: To Be ‘The Dirtiest Rock and Roll Band in the World’
Originally written by: Jeff Giles December 29, 2015 for www.ultimateclassicrock.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“They’ll be the dirtiest rock and roll band in the world. If you moved in next door, your lawn would die.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those words served<\/a> as Lemmy Kilmister<\/a>‘s memorable manifesto for Mot\u00f6rhead<\/a>, the band he founded in 1975 after being fired from Hawkwind<\/a> in the wake of an arrest for drug possession. There was more than a hint of defiance in his plans for the new group, and for good reason \u2014 as he told Spin<\/a><\/em> years later, he felt he was being unfairly singled out for an indulgence he’d essentially shared with his former bandmates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It was more that I was messing with the ‘wrong’ drugs,” he argued. “Everybody was doing acid; I was just doing speed with it, too. Even in the drug culture, there was this snobbery: ‘Oh, you\u2019re taking that awful speed?’ Well, f\u2013 off, then. I can\u2019t be bothered with people\u2019s class awareness.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A different sort of speed \u2014 of the musical variety \u2014 proved a crucial component of Mot\u00f6rhead’s sound, adding an essential element to the band’s aggressive attack and helping bridge the gap between punk and metal. Although Lemmy always argued that Mot\u00f6rhead weren’t really a metal band, their seething energy and raw, unbridled power helped inspire countless younger artists, adding a sinewy strand to the genre’s DNA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along the way, Mot\u00f6rhead more than lived up to Lemmy’s boastful prediction, selling millions of records around the world and achieving legendary status as a live act even as they settled into elder statesmen status. And although his hard-living reputation threatened to overshadow the music on occasion \u2014 and ultimately didn’t help the health problems he faced later in life \u2014 the band’s many classic records haven’t lost an ounce of their power over the last 40 years. And as for that famous quote? Lemmy later admitted he’d stolen it from Dr. Hook \u2014 and it might not have been all that accurate anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In truth, if you lived next door to us in those days, you probably would\u2019ve never stopped to see if your lawn was dead,” he told Spin<\/em>. “You would\u2019ve just moved out because of the f—ing racket.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MOTORHEAD’S MISSION: To Be ‘The Dirtiest Rock and Roll Band in the World’Originally written by: Jeff Giles December 29, 2015 for www.ultimateclassicrock.com “They’ll be the dirtiest rock and roll band in the world. If you moved in next door, your lawn would die.” Those words served as Lemmy Kilmister‘s memorable manifesto for Mot\u00f6rhead, the band he founded in 1975… Read More »IN MEMORIAM\u00a0: Ian Fraser Kilmister\u00a0(24 December 1945 \u2013 28 December 2015)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10128,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10126\/revisions\/10128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}