![]() I can only do it my way, you know - I wasn't born in Oklahoma!" Lemmy's Top 10 rockabilly recordsġ. What do you think Carl Perkins or Buddy Holly would have made of your singing? You've always had a rather unique vocal style. We used to have a bigger lineup for gigs, but we brought it back to the three - it's tight." "For this gig, I started out playing guitar live, but I'm better at playing bass when I sing, so I went back to that. We play covers, so that's easier than writing your own songs and learning them and taking them on stage. "It's a lot easier, I'll tell you that! It's less intense. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess."Īs a musician, how different is performing with The Heat Cat from Motörhead? In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right. The word 'pop' is just shorter for saying 'popular.' Just 'cause something's popular, it can still be good. Just as long as it's a good song, that's all I ever cared about. ![]() ![]() What did you think when rock 'n' roll started getting watered down and went more 'pop' in the early '60s? I liked him more than Billy Fury, and I got to meet him, too, so that was good."įor this gig, I started out playing guitar live, but I'm better at playing bass when I sing, so I went back to that Ballads were his main thing, but he did rock 'n' roll on his B-sides - that's what I liked, the rock stuff. He was from Liverpool, same as The Beatles. "Billy had the whole star thing down, had a silver suit and the whole bit. I thought they were pretty run of the mill, actually. He had a group called The Tornados backing him. When I saw him, I realised that you could get any girl to take her clothes off if you were a rock 'n' roll singer – that was good enough for me. I liked a lot of them: Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee, Eddie – I went out and bought their 45s."ĭo you remember your first rock 'n' roll show? There was an English artist, Marty Wilde, he covered all their stuff. "Sure, we got the real Elvis, so that was all right. So we had Tommy Steele doing Singing The Blues instead of Guy Mitchell, and we got the English version of Bill Haley and people like that. See, when I was growing up, we got the English versions of all the American songs. "Elvis was the first one I really liked, then there was Billy Haley - the real one. Who was the first rockabilly artist to make an impression on you? If you can't remember something, then pick another song. Name a song, play it, see if the other guys know it – that's what we do in the studio. We can play just about anything, you know. "We just get together and play, that's all. Walk The Walk… just came out on vinyl, so that might get a bit of sales going."įor the two Head Cat records, how did you decide which songs to cover? ![]() I don't know when Head Cat is going to go into the studio again – there's no plans – but if we get two days off, we could make another record. It's all I can do to find the time to do anything else. Touring with Motorhead is so time-consuming. You've only done two albums since forming. They've got things to come to terms with." As for what other people think of me, I don't care. They happened in England before the States. The Stray Cats came over to London, so that's where we met up. "No, he knew where I was and what I liked. Was Slim Jim surprised at your authentic rock 'n' roll roots? A lot of people just know you from Motorhead. But you know, when you've got some chemistry, and everybody knows the same songs, and they're good at what they're doing, why waste the opportunity?" "I wasn't looking to start another group, so it's probably a big mistake that I went ahead with this. It came easy - and that's the best way, isn't it? That's how you know you've got something worth doing. Before you knew it, we were playing a bunch of songs. We were doing a track for this album, and when we were done, we started fooling around with guitars. The Head Cat formed when the three of you were working on an Elvis tribute, is that right? The Head Cat: Lemmy Kilmister (centre), flanked by bandmates Danny By Harvey (left) and Slim Jim Phantom.
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