For et par uger siden oplevede Politikens Erik Jensen Motörhead, tungrockens svar på The Ramones, i Berlin, og skrev da på Facebook om hvor forstemmende det var, at opleve bandets leder Lemmy i så svag en forfatning som den aften bød på. Det havde så åbenbart sin gode grund, for Lemmy er siden i går ikke mere. Her et track med ham og Motörhead, et band vi aldrig så live, men som var kendt for at spille til og trykke på volumenspeederen så det gjorde noget. Mit eneste møde med Lemmy var således en gang i firserne, jeg bogstaveligt talt løb ind i ham ved indgangen til Huset i Magstræde. Han bar sit jernkors, sine signatur-ansigtsvorter og var stor som et tårn, så det var indiskutabelt mig der måtte vige for ikke at ende sidelæns i rendestenen…

Den engelske producer Ian Caple skriver følgende mindeord om Lemmy på sin Facebookside:

Very sad to hear about Lemmy’s passing …
I’ll always have fond memories of him, as Motörhead were the very first band that I engineered for… one of their earliest gigs.
It was the long hot summer of 1976, I had left school but was trying to avoid getting a real job. I knew a guy who was a roadie for a local 3 piece band called Stray. They had a big P.A. system & a wall of Marshall amps & were constantly gigging round the country. I would jump in the van help him out from time. As the roadie’s assistant I was just about the lowest in the food-chain – lifting huge flight cases in & out of the van & down flights of stairs in dodgy clubs & student unions around the country for £5 a gig – but I loved it.
That summer they played an all-night gig at the Lyceum ballroom in the Strand – a beautiful old theatre in the West End, opposite the Savoy Hotel.
The first band would go on at about 10.00 pm & it would finish at about 7.00 in the morning !
Stray were second on the bill to Motörhead who went on stage about 4.00 am. The engineer doing the sound had been smoking large amounts of weed all night & just as Motörhead were due to go on, he was found collapsed in a heap in the dressing room – so I was pushed into the space behind the desk & suddenly became the sound engineer !
I stood nervously behind the desk as Motörhead came on stage & they burst into the first number – Lemmy didn’t look happy – he kept signalling in my direction to turn it up. I stared at the faders & found the one marked ‘bass’ & in desperation pushed it up to the top. The ground shook, Lemmy looked happy. I then found the master fader & pushed that to the maximum. The volume was deafening, Lemmy looked even happier.
Despite complaints about the noise from the manager of the Savoy, we continued til the morning & I drove the van home with my ears still ringing.
It was my first experience behind a desk & thanks to Mr. Kilmister I learned a valuable lesson – when in doubt, turn the bass up & then turn it all up !
R.I.P. Lemmy.