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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Up to You & Down to Me by lemyh Listen to Lemmy and Würzel on Leader Of Down track Paradise Turned Into Dust. Leader Of Down’s debut album Cascade Into Chaos is to be released later this month. The band was the brainchild of late Motorhead guitarist Michael “Würzel” Burston and bassist Tim Atkinson, who began working on the record back in 2008 with former Fastway drummer Steve Clarke . Those sessions included the track Paradise Turned Into Chaos which was written with Lemmy to sing on, with the Motorhead icon recording the song at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles in 2015 – shortly before his death later that year. Now a video for the track has been released and can be watched below. Lemmy also provides vocals on the album track Laugh At The Devil . The core lineup of the band consisted of Atkinson, vocalist Matt Baker and guitarist Alex Ward, and, following Würzel’s death in 2011, they continued to work on the album, bringing in Phil Campbell, “Fast” Eddie Clarke, Lee Richards, Bruce Foxton and Cliff Evans. As a result, Leader Of Down – named after Würzel misheard the lyrics to Status Quo’s Down Down – will now release Cascade Into Chaos on September 28 via Cleopatra Records. It feels very strange without Würzel being here, and I know he would be thrilled with the final result Tim Atkinson. Atkinson says: “It's a very bittersweet feeling now that the album is being released. It feels very strange without Würzel being here, and I know he would be thrilled with the final result. “It was a real pleasure writing with Würzel as we instinctively knew what both of us were thinking when we put our ideas forward. “We always wanted Lemmy to sing on Paradise Turned Into Dust , and it was a very emotional session in Los Angeles when Lemmy completed the track. I just wish that Würz had been there to see it.” Atkinson adds: “It was amazing that so many friends helped us to finish the album with guest appearances and I can only thank them from the bottom of my heart. To hear Phil playing with Würzel again was absolutely fantastic.” Leader Of Down - Cascade Into Chaos 1. Paradise Turned Into Dust (Feat. Lemmy) 2. Cascade Into Chaos 3. People Say I'm Crazy 4. Serial Killjoy (Feat. Bruce Foxton) 5. Children Of Disease (Feat. Phil Campbell, Whitfield Crane & Lee Richards) 6. Snakebite (Feat. “Fast” Eddie Clarke) 7. Punch & Geordie 8. Feel Good (Feat. Cliff Evans) 9. The Killing Rain 10. Laugh at the Devil (Feat. Lemmy & Fast Eddie Clarke) Lemmy: "Might as well die of something you like than be 120 and bored" “Don’t look at his toe,” says Lemmy’s press guy, Nik. Too late. In a hotel room in London, Lemmy Kilmister is surrounded by empty bottles of Jack Daniel’s and old prescription slips. Lemmy’s done something to his foot, you see, and has been confined to this room for over a week. Before we can look away, he holds his foot up as evidence – his big toe looks like a mouldy old parsnip that’s been lying in a pool of stale milk at the bottom of your fridge. It’s enough to drive you to drink. So we let it. Despite all this – or maybe because of it – Lemmy’s on top form, doling out JD and Cokes all afternoon, playing us tracks scheduled for a forthcoming solo album (Lemmy with guests including Dave Grohl and the Reverend Horton Heat), and holding forth on everything from drugs to marriage to Emperor Hirohito. So hold on to your hats and prepare yourself for the wisdom of Lemmy – what he’s learned in his 59 years of rock and rolling. Or at least what he can remember. All I learned at school was how to dodge fighting and how to smoke. And what girls’ tits looked like. There’s a fine line between a heavy drinker and an alcoholic. Just like there’s a fine line between just fishing and standing on the bank looking like an arsehole. The line is whether the fuck you know what you’re doing when you drink ’cos if you don’t know what you’re doing, you just become a terrible boring drunk. Whereas, if you know when to stop, you become an amazing, anecdotal man of the world. Which is better than being the guy having a shit in the bath tub. I don’t even get drunk any more. A kid once said to me: “Do you get hangovers?” I said: “To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.” Journalists are the worst drinkers in the world. Or were. Rock journalists are a really boring crowd now. Sit around drinking plastic bottles of fucking Evian. The music business is all geared up to stealing your money. It’s just like any other business – they’re out to make money, not to be good people. If you’re a businessman you can’t be a pleasant person. Business is ‘how to be a cunt’, basically. The bigger the cunt, the more successful the businessman. I know what I’m doing. I know what Motörhead’s for. I know who it appeals to. And I know it could appeal to a lot more people if we had the coverage. I’ve never understood why anyone would need a double-necked bass. I don’t even understand why you’d need a five-string. What’re you gonna do? Play bigger chords? Have more room to twiddle on? I hate twiddlers and they hate me. And that’s just fine. Scotch makes me hit people. Bourbon’s a mellow high. I used to drink Scotch but I went off it. I hit a door post once and it really fucking hurt. Who did I miss? Oh, nobody famous. He would’ve been famous if I’d connected. People are much weirder up north, aren’t they? You get real quality shit up there. You don’t get people with affectations: these people are fucking serious. I am a womaniser, but that doesn’t mean you can’t respect people. I don’t understand racism or sexism – I don’t get any of it. As far as I can see, a lot of feminist things that have happened have made men happy, not women. It’s given women unattainable goals to shoot for. The people expounding the thing in the first place are college people, sitting in a studio in the city. But some girl in fucking Newcastle has got no chance of following them. If a girl isn’t strong enough to buck the system, they’re just gonna get married like they would have in any other generation but they’re gonna be even more unhappy because of all this freedom they’ve read about which they aren’t getting. To a lot of people, magazines are like pictures of another world – because they are pictures of another world. That world’s never gonna show up in Cowdenbeath. If a woman likes you, you’re not bothered why they like you. I’m really shallow like that. People say: “Doesn’t it bother you that they just want you because you’re famous?” And I say: “No. Never did. Ever. Not for one second.” They can have me – I’m a whore, always was. In fact they don’t even have to pay me. People would say: “Have you slept with her?” I’d say: “Oh, we didn’t have time to sleep. We were too busy fucking.” Aids wasn’t a wake up call, it was a go-to-sleep call. Love’s a rather miserable condition. Makes you act like an idiot, knocks all your defences down, you tear yourself in knots, and then they leave you. Brilliant. Most love is unrequited, which is where we get all the good songs from. Thank God it’s unrequited, when you look at it like that. If I settled down, I wouldn’t be hungry any more. I’d be thirsty. Monogamy is possible – I’m doing it – but I don’t think it’s advisable. I think polygamy is a really good idea. Nothing works over any extended time. I’m a sucker for romance but the trouble is that you can’t make the fucker last – you can’t have that blaze happening all your life. The William Morris Agency made me take drugs! We did a tour in 1979 – the Bomber tour, which was 53 shows in 56 states – and I don’t care who the fuck you are, you’re not gonna do that without some help. Drugs are very subjective. They’re in the brain cell of the beholder. When I was growing up, drugs were all the go, everybody was doing them, so I did them. Smoking dope and acid. But there was a great innocence attached to them. No one had died yet. Heroin hadn’t showed up and downers hadn’t come in. The deals were a lot better then too. Then came the birth of the rabid dealer – with the gun in his pocket. And that’s what changed it – the money you could make. I would not advise drugs to any person, ever, of any kind. If you think you have to try them then go ahead. I can’t stop you. If you’re thinking about it, you’re going to do it anyway. But drugs are very powerful things – you can’t just try it and go back to the way you were before, because they’re going to change you.

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