The Sound of Young America's trip to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas was supported by Phillips Cinema,

celebrating short film, online at facebook.com slash Phillips Cinema.

I'm Jesse Thorne, live on tape from My House in Los Angeles. It's the Sound of Young America

from MaximumFun.org and PRI, public radio, international.

It's the Sound of Young America. I'm Jesse Thorne. We just got back from South by Southwest in Austin,

Texas. A lot of cool stuff went down while we were in Austin, but there was one thing that I was

bragging about to everyone who would listen when we got back. We met Lemmy. Yes, Lemmy, the legendary

front man of Motorhead, and he was super, you know, Lemmy-ish. In a few minutes we'll get to my

interview with Lemmy, the man, and in just a minute we'll talk with the directors of Lemmy,

the film, it premiered at South by Southwest. Here's Lemmy in Lemmy, describing what makes his

bass guitar playing so different.

It's the Sound of Young America. I'm Jesse Thorne, where it's South by Southwest in Austin, Texas,

where my guest Greg Oliver and Wes Orchowski have just premiered their new documentary, Lemmy.

It's about one of the most iconic figures in the history of rock and roll. Lemmy, the front man

of the metal band Motorhead. Gentlemen, welcome to the Sound of Young America. It's great to have

you here. Thanks for having us. Thanks, man. Great to be here. I'm going to go out on a limb and

guess based on gazing upon you that it's possible that you guys were Motorhead fans before you

started making this movie. You know, actually, dude, I was kind of a casual fan. Same here, man.

I was only an Ace of Spades fan, believe it or not. I'm a massive fan now, but how did it

come to you then? Well, I mean, I grew up a huge metalhead. I mean, I'm the kind of door to

videotaped headbangers ball, you know, on Saturday nights when I was a kid, I was a teenager,

but the funny thing is, man, Motorhead was kind of like too much for me, man. They were too extreme,

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