No one is more rock and roll then Lemmy, bass player and singer for one of metal’s greatest bands, Motörhead (although really, Lemmy is Motörhead). And, at 63, he’s still doing his thing. IrishTimes.com posted a longish article about the man today: Lemmy the Legend. One of the most surprising things in the article (to me) was this:

He still lives in the same two-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles – by choice given his peripatetic lifestyle, and by necessity given his means. “It’s hardly a fucking mansion in Beverly Hills. I’m stuck in the place now. There’s so much stuff in there, I can’t bear to think of moving.”

A lifetime in the music business hasn’t made him rich, he says, and for that he blames the record companies. Motörhead have never been huge album sellers, and tours break even.

Sheesh, even Lemmy can’t make some dough in the music business? Now that’s depressing.

Motörhead’s latest CD (August, 2008) is Motörizer.