One more proof that we are not what we say, but what we do, left Lemmy Kilmister with the example he gave, making good the phrase of dying with your boots on and leaving everything on stage until the last of your days. Recently, Mikkey Deethe once long battery life Motörhead next to “god of rock”has remembered “hard” which was the last tour with their increasingly ill leader, ensuring that “The one who didn’t want to stop was him.”
The current battery Scorpionsto which soon we will have in our country with the 40th anniversary tour of ‘Love at First Sting’participated in a new episode of the podcast “Riki Rachtman’s Cathouse”where he remembered how Lemmy, whom he already told us a long time ago He was quite a “fighter”, He never wanted to stop that tour that ended on December 11 2015a few days before the day 28 of the same month will leave us forever: “Yeah, it was hard. You see, I was trying to get us to postpone it. We were having a bit of a hard time and I said, ‘Maybe we should take a break,’ but the one who didn’t want to stop was Lemmy. He said, ‘Absolutely not.’ We have to do this tour.” And he wanted to be on stage all the time. That’s who he was. But we had some problems, because he started getting a little sick, more than before, and he was more tired and stuff. And it was a tour. hard”.
Mikkey thinks about how Lemmy would have to push himself at those concerts where he had to push himself to the limit: “This is the question: if I had to give 150 percent out there, and Phil (Campbell) He did it too, I can’t even imagine… Lemmy must have given five hundred percent to be able to endure these concerts. I mean we played December 11th as our last show in Berlin, and Lemmy passed away on the 28th, just a few weeks later. And the guy was rocking like crazy. So, for me, it’s impossible to even think that you can actually do that.”
Lemmy didn’t even consider using any kind of help on the tables: “Can you imagine the effort it took for him to stay on stage? I had all kinds of ideas… Because he also had back problems, and he said: “The bass is so heavy that my back burns.” But that must have been to be part of his illness, thinking about it now. But he had back problems. So he said he had to stand on one leg at a time and it was like he had fire on his back. And I said, “Maybe you should sit on it. a stool and…” And he said, “No way, Mikkey. You’re crazy? I will never sit through a concert.” And again, without making any concessions, without changing anything. So all the credit went to Lem. He really died with his boots on. Sometimes I think about that tour a little bit, and it was amazing that we were able carry it out.”
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