BOC: Lemmy on BOC

[Nick English]

I recently underwent surgery, and a friend of mine decided to help me recover by going on Amazon UK and getting me Lemmy's autobiography, "White Line Fever".

I'm surprised nobody made a bigger deal when the book first came out about Lemmy's thoughts on BOC. . . or maybe this all went down and I just didn't catch it for some reason.

Well, Lemmy's not much of a fan, but mainly because he felt BOC screwed them over quite badly when Motorhead opened Hammersmith for them -- giving them no soundcheck and that sort of thing.  Lemmy says, "I've noticed that a lot of American bands treat their openers poorly, like they want to destroy the competition before it even has a chance to compete!  British bands don't do that -- at least mostly they don't -- nor does Motorhead."

Lemmy must have been scarred pretty deeply by this, because he mentions this incident two more times in passing later in the book.

Overall, BTW, I think it's a cool book.  Not quite as entertaining as a book by Lemmy should be, but a lot of fun nonetheless.

--Nick