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Post by Monsters of Rock on Nov 27, 2022 11:43:19 GMT 10
LEMMY LOVED WHISKEY AND SPEED
"Motorhead" is a slang term that means "a person who takes a lot of amphetamines." Motörhead was suitably named, then, because the group's frontman Lemmy Kilmister was a long-term amphetamine enthusiast. In his memoir White Line Fever, Kilmister recalled the time in "'69 or '70" when he accidentally ingested what he thought was amphetamine but was really poisonous belladonna — and 200 times a fatal dose at that. He passed out and woke up in a hospital, where a doctor told him he was about an hour away from death had he not been treated.
In 1975, according to Rolling Stone, Kilmister was arrested at the Canadian-American border with amphetamine sulfate in his pants. After a night in jail, the charge was dropped — he was busted for cocaine, not speed, and was released on that technicality. Kilmister also liked booze, and he drank a bottle of Jack Daniel's every day for decades. As he aged, he had to scale back. "I don't drink much," he told Classic Rock (via Blabbermouth) in 2013, because the Coke he mixed with his whiskey "wasn't good" for his diabetes.
In his later years, Kilmister lived in Los Angeles, specifically a few blocks from the Rainbow Bar and Grill. He was such a frequent customer that after Kilmister's death, the establishment held a memorial service (where the drink of choice was Kilmister's favorite, whiskey and Coke) and erected a statue of the singer, according to Rolling Stone.
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"Motorhead" is a slang term that means "a person who takes a lot of amphetamines." Motörhead was suitably named, then, because the group's frontman Lemmy Kilmister was a long-term amphetamine enthusiast. In his memoir White Line Fever, Kilmister recalled the time in "'69 or '70" when he accidentally ingested what he thought was amphetamine but was really poisonous belladonna — and 200 times a fatal dose at that. He passed out and woke up in a hospital, where a doctor told him he was about an hour away from death had he not been treated.
In 1975, according to Rolling Stone, Kilmister was arrested at the Canadian-American border with amphetamine sulfate in his pants. After a night in jail, the charge was dropped — he was busted for cocaine, not speed, and was released on that technicality. Kilmister also liked booze, and he drank a bottle of Jack Daniel's every day for decades. As he aged, he had to scale back. "I don't drink much," he told Classic Rock (via Blabbermouth) in 2013, because the Coke he mixed with his whiskey "wasn't good" for his diabetes.
In his later years, Kilmister lived in Los Angeles, specifically a few blocks from the Rainbow Bar and Grill. He was such a frequent customer that after Kilmister's death, the establishment held a memorial service (where the drink of choice was Kilmister's favorite, whiskey and Coke) and erected a statue of the singer, according to Rolling Stone.
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