[kj] Item about Motorhead in NY Post page 6 gossip column

[Alex Smith]

I think Lemmy just decided to become yet another British tax exile, and finds the climate more to his liking in So.Cal. I also highly recommend his autobiography, WHITE LINE FEVER -- although I can't remember if he addressed this issue in that.

Alex in NYC

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>From: "B. Oliver Sheppard" <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>

>Sent: Apr 9, 2007 10:15 AM

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>Subject: Re: [kj] Item about Motorhead in NY Post page 6 gossip column

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>Had no idea Lemmy lived in So. Cal. For some reason he doesn't seem the 

>type. But neither does Glenn Danzig and apparently he lives there now. 

>And also, I don't know much about Lemmy's life. I just always pictured 

>him in seedy London bars or something.

>

>-Oliver

>

>

>

>Alexander Smith wrote:

>> Yeah, it's ultimately just gossip-column space-filler, but it's rare 

>> that any anecdote involving our Lemmy doesn't provide big opportunity 

>> for laughs. Bless'im.

>>

>> When my friend Tim was living in Silverlake, he used to quasi-date 

>> this girl in Hollywood who lived in the same run-down condo-complex 

>> that Lemmy lives in (right down a sloping street from the Rainbow 

>> Bar'n'Grill). I was somewhat incredulous when we stopped by to hear 

>> that he lived there -- until I saw his name listed on the buzzer ("I. 

>> Kilmister"). I was shocked. It was one of those endearingly shitty 

>> L.A. sorta places you see in movies like "Repo Man" and "Suburbia". 

>> The complex was built around a communal pool. Carol (the girl in 

>> question) said that Lemmy would often hang out around the pool wearing 

>> black speedos (!!!!), strumming an acoustic guitar. One time, Carol 

>> came out of her apartment and Lemmy spotted her from poolside, and 

>> busted into an impromptu rendition of Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman." 

>> Not sure if it's a true story, but it always makes me laugh.

>>

>> Alex in NYC

>>

>>

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