BOC: Lemmy on BOC

[Ben Fagin]

And then when Blue Oyster Cult supported Motorhead [Needless to say] They were
totally screwed themselves. Excellent Book.

On Monday 03 Mar 2003 22:50, you wrote:
> 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