Who Was LEMMY KILMISTER of MOTORHEAD? Legendary Home

[Music] well good morning Lionhearts that your old pal toward the line how are you all doing today I hope you said great we're gonna have a great vlog today because I have mentioned this to a friend of mine for about two years and we've never been able to set it up but today we're gonna do it my friend Earl Skakel has quite an interesting story he was born and raised out here in Los Angeles he his mother her sit no no his father's sister was Ethel Kennedy who was married to Bobby Kennedy Earl grew up in bel-air his next door neighbor was OJ Simpson and at one time earl was dating the manager of Motorhead and so a role was in the Motorhead world and had to take let me on quite a few excursions help him out quite a bit and has quite a few stories so since a lot of people over time have said hey can you do something on Lemmy we all loved Lemmy everybody in rock-and-roll I think loves Ian Lemmy Kilmister the guy was great in Hawkwind he was really really famous for Motorhead but I think more than anything anyone that ever knew anything about Lemmy was more blown away just by him being him so today we're gonna talk about the great letme Kilmister days with jordan the lion begins now today's vlog will be patreon sunglass vlog for Richard Bruner Smith hope you enjoy the history of Lemmy alright I just got some meal that I ordered I recently saw an interview with a guy that I used to watch in a lot of movies and he had a tracheotomy because of lung cancer and he recently wrote a book so I bought it from this place because they always have signed copies of the book well certain titles for the same price that you would pay for the book new anyway so I just paid the $30 for this from them yeah the autobiography or the memoir of the Isle Kilmer Ben in everything there's a signature it's pretty cool huh the gang's all here already well it's interesting one of the last times we were here I just bragged about how all the dogs are so well behaved and everything and then I went walking up this dirt path up here a couple of dogs started barking at me and one of them bit my ankle and the owner just sat there and did nothing gentle of LA so Lemmy was raised in North Wales fell in love with music even from a young age and as he said he could remember the days before rock and roll when Little Richard Elvis and Jerry Lewis came out he said the world never looked back and he got all into rock and roll said he would go to a local furniture store and would have to ask the guy there to place orders for him to get records and eventually joined a band he was clean-cut in those days called the vicar's and when you couldn't get anyone to let him play he would be a roadie so that's originally how he made his way into the vicar's was being a roadie he also was a roadie for Jimi Hendrix at one point let me once made a funny comment he said Jimi didn't really like to do a lot of drugs despite what people think but he did like to do acid and he said you know they said you couldn't do acid two days in a row but Jimi proved him wrong you could if you doubled the dosage let me eventually joined a band that I really loved called Hawkwind it was kind of a psychedelic rock band and they used to go all out he said they would play long long songs and he said we can remember gigs where they would lock the doors behind the people so that they couldn't get out and this was one of those things that became legendary they played loud and when letme eventually form Motorhead which would basically be what most people knew him for they would go on to be one of the loudest rock bands in the world actually not one of they were named the Guinness Book of World Records loudest band in the world and for a big part of Lemmy's rock-and-roll life he lived out here in los angeles in the same apartment so today we're gonna go by see lemmy's apartment we're gonna see where let me used to hang out and where Lemmy is buried well actually we're Lemmy's ashes are laid to rest because he was cremated Wow Robert he's against me today [Music] dog was barking at me but now those two became friends maybe JA can put in a good word for me now let me style is pretty unmistakable though he started out a guitar player he said he was never really that great of a guitar player there was always a better guitar player around than him so he gravitated towards playing bass where you had an easier chance of getting in a band however he never really learned how to play the bass properly or not with your fingers or anything like that so he played the bass kind of like a guitar he kind of strummed it and because of that it definitely developed its own sound and when you hear someone play like that you they always try to call it the Lemmy style Metallica has joked about that because Metallica everyone in that band they were huge Motorhead fans in fact Lars has said that Lemmy is one of his idols and that Motorhead's his favorite band and James Hetfield said that he got a lot of his phrasing especially early on and his look with the chops and the facial hair and everything from Lemmy Earl kind of lives over here by Lemmy you can see they boarded up the Hornburg Jaguar place they weren't taking any chances hey there's pretty mercury in that guitar over there there's a twin some of the shops over here by the Viper Room are boarded up and the hustler store sit down this little dead-end street right down at the end was wearing Lemmy lived for decades so right here at the Heritage was where Lemmy lived and he literally lived right there apartment 24 now one of the things he said was he'd never moved because he said he would never find a rent-controlled apartment close to the Sunset Strip or close to the rainbow his favorite hangout so he just lived there for decades upon decades and my friend Earl here had the pleasure of knowing let me pretty well so you can actually see the apartment right over Earl's head now Earl how did you come to know Lemmy and how well did you know lemon I know him very well I was dating the manager of Motorhead there's two managers Shelly and Todd I was dating Shelly not there would be anything wrong with dating Todd but I don't fly that way and so since I lived right down the street they would ask me to check up on lemme at times because lemme would go off the grid for a few days and since I was local and they both live far away I was the guy tasked with coming over here make sure he was okay it really scared me to do that because I didn't want to be the guy who found him dead because he had a lot of vices didn't he he had a lot really not that many I take that back he had like two or three but they would kill an elephant right a lot of guy said that you know Lemmy they never as much as he did they never saw him inebriated or or like too screwed up to perform or anything no he was like a marathon runner he had built up such a tolerance to drugs that his doctor I told him don't stop pissin Lebanese mind the speed and whatever else he was doing was regulating his body and he was diabetic also wasn't he he this shows me where his mindset was he stopped doing whiskey drinking whiskey and switched to vodka for health reasons Wow so I had to come over here many times just to make sure I wasn't dead and almost every time he'd be at the pool with a black stripper just sunbathing and his famous gene dolphin shorts and he would look up at me go I'm okay at all and then probably the funniest thing is one time they were on tour you know they made most of their money on t-shirt sales and tours not necessarily their music you know just the way it works and they toured a lot I mean they were always on tour almost every year weren't they I would say 10 months out of the year they did like festivals in Europe and beyond there kind of like a I mean this in a complementary way abbey version of Iron Maiden whoo Iron Maiden America does okay but in Argentina and the UK they show us football stadium but Motorhead's really considered almost like the foundation of heavy metal when you say I mean they go back that far I mean Megadeth Metallica they all say they wouldn't be doing it and Motorhead it paved the way so I dare on tour somewhere in the I think UK and Shelley said hey you gotta go get Lindy's mail I'm like worse the key is like we have the key to the apartment just going this top dresser drawer in the living room so I go over there you know and the documentary doesn't do that place justice it you couldn't see the carpet it was so much he said he had more stuff in his apartment than most museums he had been to absolutely he had a couple base it's not as many bases he as you think probably hundreds of the t-shirts all black all cut off at the slaves lots of military stuff wasn't he obsessed with military history Nazi history he wasn't a Nazi he was just fascinated by the occult of it yeah I think he had Hitler's China or something his knives or something and there was so much good in the kitchen he's like it's undescribed oh man I heard on the documentary of the guys who made the documentary said they they had to talk let me into letting them film him making fries chips and then they said when we came over he didn't want to do it once we got over here so we had to spend an hour talking him into it then he didn't want us to do it because the kitchen was so filthy so we had to spend two hours cleaning his kitchen to get him to make that and he goes then we only use ten seconds of it and then let me spent the hour afterward telling us that it was stupid even film it well I mean I would have to water his plants and it would take me probably an hour no he only is a two-bedroom in there I still talk about him like he's a lot and there were so many plants and potholes and nooks and crannies where there'd be a little pot potted plant behind a computer that hadn't been turned on in 30 years and so I go to get the mailbox key I open up at the top dresser drawer hundreds of Polaroids fall out and I wasn't really paying attention because it's a place I mean I love them but creeped me out that place not him but he was just his own guy like from the style the way he was just everything about him you take a man like kiss it's probably my favorite band they change styles constantly disco is popular they did a disco album the cars were popular they put out a cars type out Motorhead without the same literally the same album every two years they just didn't care this is who we are you like the music great if not go listen to the Village People so I'm starting to put all these Polaroids back and I'm not really looking keep it somewhat clean if you can look at one and it's like let's just say a black female giving Lemmy oral copulation and I look at another picture and it's a different female doing the same thing and I look at another one that's the same thing I'm like Jesus Christ then I start to look at the picture and I'm like I'm standing in the spot where all these pictures were taken and then I it's like a fog of war I freeze and then I started looking around and there's like three cameras on tripods pointed right where I'm standing and I was like I had to get out of here and get this mail it's kind of let me in a nutshell and he says in the documentary cuz like you said he had a pretty big collection of Nazi memorabilia he said people often ask or would accuse him of being racist she said well all of my girlfriend's my last six or seven have all been black women so ya know he people have to understand that Lemmy was just he loved the style of that military dress so that's what he would have his the guy who created his boots and everything he would have him create that stuff and he would hand draw ideas and take it to the guy to make his wardrobe that's how into it Lemmy was it was very well read so he just was fascinated by the subject yeah actually I had heard that he would watch documentaries and then argue with the documentaries and go get books out to prove that he was right on dates that they got wrong or airplanes that were supposedly in one war that weren't even created yet so he he was a very interesting guy but you actually had to help run errands with him didn't you say you had to take him to the dentist one time yeah I took him a couple of times my dentist is in Westwood which is I don't know three or four miles west where we are now and I pick him up right there at nine in the morning once right probably Carr is he gets in the car I said can we go to Turner's liquor which is on Sunset Doheny and I'm like yeah sure what do you want for there at 9:00 in the morning yeah it's a couple beers made and so I go in there and with them and I buy like an energy drink for me and he buys his gigantic Foster's lagers like they're not cans of beer they're like miniature kegs and he opens one up in my car you know in Los Angeles you're not really supposed to drink in your car or have an open container and then he opens up the second one he hands it to me and I'm like oh I don't drink I've never to drive in my life he's like well you should start and by the time we got to Westwood which is literally a five minute drive both beers were finished that's amazing I am I heard what you see in the documentary there's I forget who it is telling a story but says I think was Mike Inez he says there they're sitting down let me says you want to have a drink and then he opens up a Jack Daniels hands it to him Mike drinks it passes it to the next guy he drinks it then he says and then Lemmy is opening up two more bottles to give to us three meaning he thought we were gonna drink one bottle each yeah his level of drinking is beyond any ones that I've ever met and I had know some pretty severe drinkers like you know he would start his day with like a shot and a beer like just to get it going like where I would drink an energy drink you and maybe I have orange juice or whatever you know he he would literally start drinking the second he got off now let me had one place that he really hung out here in Los Angeles they always say if he wasn't on tour he's at this place and it was just a few blocks away so we should go over to the rainbow Bar n grill they probably still are saving his seat of his seat at the rainbow Bar and Grill is so iconic no one sits it like everyone knows its lemons too even teenagers who go there who have no idea to Motorhead as even they know oh we can't sit there and they now have a Lemmy statue there so hopefully we'll be able to see that as well yeah I was the other night they did the whole reveal and it's scary this statue looks like oh and if we're lucky we'll get to see the trivia machine that Lemmy was always playing said Lemmy was always kind to any fans or anyone that came up one two picture anything but then he got back to business and got back to the trivia and there's his apartment it was apartment 24 if you watch there's a lot of documentaries on Motorhead and let me but he participated in one in 2015 called Lemmy and that's the one I had seen about two years ago they show him inside this apartment with just stuff all over the place lots of tribute stuff things that fans had made him porcelain figures of him and lots and lots of military regalia and in the documentary they show him coming out of his apartment walking down the stairs and then passing a woman as he walks through these doors so I'll just kind of show you the doors that he would have passed through for over three decades those would have been where he got his mail his apartment was just to the right so if you're leaving lemmie Street you make a left one block you're right up here at sunset and just to the left is the Roxy and the rainbow so here it is the famous rainbow Bar & Grille let me always used to drive his car up mark it right over here by the mural of Lemmy we're actually just here for the Cheech and Chong vlog but here's the mural of Lemmy and it's pretty much right directly across from where he used to sit because the bar is right over here and let me used to sit right at the end of the bar where that tribute machine is so here we have a great picture of Lemmy and up here this is all to let me and then here's his statue right here how cool is that they've got the mask covering his face right now but that's so cool look at the doorway that takes you up the back stairs it's all lamina and not to see he's always that they're playing that machine she's gonna do the mask down for us and it is they even call the back part Lemmy's lounge so this is kind of cooler right here and let me see they actually have a plaque for him alright now we're gonna head out of here we're gonna go see Lemmy's final resting place and then over here on their Brick section you can see they have a Motorhead brick and then this is the billboard before you walk in to the main entrance so right now we're heading to Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills so let me pretty easy to find you enter this section where Betty Davis is right over here and you follow these tears a few levels back so you get to the very back now once you get back here that one in the corner is Ronnie James Dio and let me is right over here in this room to the right columbarium of sacred trust looks like they're about to have a service so we won't stay long but as soon as you walk in right on the bottom Ian Frazer Lemmy Kilmister born to lose live to win with his signature and the ace of spades and a lot of guitar picks let me past away the age of 74 days after his 70th birthday and two days after he found out he was terminally ill so sad if she died of a couple of different things there's some lipstick prints I want to leave a pic as well so the pic that I brought him if you can see it says on it Francis and the reason that I have this is because when I went to see kiss and I got to go backstage Paul Stanley's guitar tech gave me a handful of kiss pics and this was in there this is his band this is his pic and he's one of the most rock-and-roll people I've ever met so when I yeah I was coming today I thought yeah let's leave him at Francis pick the official cause of death for Lemmy was listed as prostate cancer cardiac arrhythmia and congestive heart failure he lived it all and did it all rest in peace Lemmy and here's Ronnie James Dio like I mentioned man on the silver mountain and looking over at Lemmy's Columbarium over here from where I'd be it was buried and we walked in through this entrance over here alright my friends were gonna call it a night I hope you enjoyed this vlog and I hope you enjoyed hearing some firsthand stories from Earl about Lemmy he is a total rock legend and unfortunately I never got to see motor had the only time I saw Lemmy was when he performed at Dave girl's birthday party and Dave Grohl introduced him as the greatest living rock musician and I would have to agree with that hope you guys enjoyed hearing about him if this was the first time you've heard of him hope you want to explore a little of his history go check out ace of spades of course and damage case those are great Thank You Brendon Castle Johanna boost amento angie to hone the forest paul Lemoine tommy O'Neil al Delgado Angela Chapman our Monte Tammy Mullins sandy Johnson Ralph no Daryl marbly Jimmy Beasley and amber and Mikey for becoming my newest patreon and Richard I hope you enjoyed this vlog have a great night everyone [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 24min 6sec (1446 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 26 2020