'Lemmy' Filmmakers: For Anyone Who Has A Low Opinion Of MOTÖRHEAD, Our Movie Will Change That

Amy Sciarretto of AOL's Noisecreep recently conducted an interview with Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski — directors/producers of "Lemmy", the long-awaited documentary examining the life and career of MOTÖRHEAD frontman and rock icon Lemmy Kilmister. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

Noisecreep: What is the status of the "Lemmy" documentary now?

Wes: We've just emerged from a 32-day stint at a post house in Midtown Manhattan, where we mixed the film and a bunch of the bonus material in 5.1 Surround Sound, and cut the killer crop of extras, which includes plenty of featurettes and live footage — Lemmy's extended jam with METALLICA in Nashville and some "Borat"-style pranks we filmed with MOTÖRHEAD guitarist Phil Campbell. Just great, great stuff. People are gonna love it! This stuff is only going to be available on the DVD. We wanted to give people every possible reason we could to actually buy the physical product. You kind of have to, in this day and age.

Greg: We've got two hours of amazing movie and four hours of amazing bonus material, so it feels like all our time and effort has paid off. After three and a half years it's, time to take a nap.

Noisecreep: What is the one most surprising things you learned about Lemmy while doing the doc?

Wes: For one, I didn't realize how big of a BEATLES fan he was. He saw them at the Cavern Club — and even saw John Lennon deck a heckler there, I think. The first two weeks we were on the road with MOTÖRHEAD, Lemmy was listening to George Harrison's greatest hits before gigs, which is pretty awesome. I'd be sitting in his dressing room listening to "My Sweet Lord" and then 10 minutes later, he was pummeling Glasgow or Sheffield with "Dr. Rock". There are a lot of complexities to Lem as a person, as a man, that you only really pick up on from knowing him and his circle for a few years. From things he's said time to time, I can tell it kind of burns him that MOTÖRHEAD doesn't get the respect that they deserve. When the band was recording the super-underrated "Motörizer", their last studio album, I brought in a music magazine one day to show him this article someone had written about the fact that we were making this movie, and he said something about it being the first time the band had been in that mag for like 30 years. Not sure if that's true — and I don't want to mention the magazine — but I think sometimes it feels that way to him, that they're sort of the Rodney Dangerfield of rock. But when I look around, especially when I peer out at a packed house in Russia or London, it sure doesn't feel that way to me. For anyone who has a low opinion of MOTÖRHEAD, I think our movie will change that. Besides, anyone who doesn't like MOTÖRHEAD, well, they kinda suck, don't they? I mean, come on? Would you really want to have a beer with that person anyway?

Greg: I was surprised that he yelled at me for being drunk. We were in Las Vegas and came back to the hotel casino after a long night of drinking and found Lemmy working one of the slot machines. I said "Hey Lem." And he said, "Ahh, get away from me. You guys are drunk." I belly laughed all the way back to my room, because I got yelled at by Lemmy for drinking!

Read the entire interview on Noisecreep.

A trailer for "Lemmy" can be viewed below.