Watch Dave Grohl’s Tearful Eulogy At Lemmy’s Memorial Service

The memorial service ceremony for Motörhead frontman Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, who passed away last week, held at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood last night. Their drummer Mikkey Dee, Dave Grohl, Slash, Matt Sorum, Alice In Chains’ Mike Inez, Anthrax’s Scott Ian, Judas Priest’s Rob Halford, and Metallica’s Robert Trujillo, and Lars Ulrich among whose spoke. Dave Grohl tooks on the last 10-minute slot and he delivered an emotional eulogy. Grohl briefly said:

“He’s my hero. He’s the one true rock and roller that bridged my love of AC/DC, and Sabbath, and Zeppelin, with my love of GBH, the Ramones, and Black Flag. So I walked up, and said, ‘Excuse me Lemmy, I don’t want to bother you, but you’ve influenced me so much. You’re my musical hero. I’m a musician, I play in the Foo Fighters, and I was in Nirvana.’ He looked up to me from the video game, and the first think he ever said to me, he said, ‘I’m sorry about your friend Kurt.’”

Stream full memorial service in the video (via Official Motörhead Youtube channel) below, Dave Grohl’s spoke starting at 1:51:31.

R.I.P. Lemmy Kilmister

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Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, bassist and frontman of heavy metal legends Motörhead and former member of Hawkwind, has died of cancer, only two days after his initial diagnosis of cancer and following years of other serious health problems. He was 70 years old. The rest of the band have shared an official statement via Facebook. Read below.

Watch Trailer For Rock Myth Film Gutterdämmerung Starring Slash, Lemmy, Iggy Pop, Josh Homme, Mark Lanegan, & More

The Belgian-Swedish visual artist Bjorn Tagemos has directed a movie called Gutterdämmerung, a mythic silent movie that features a cast full of rock stars. The truly insane cast of this thing features Slash, Josh Homme, Lemmy, Grace Jones, Iggy Pop, Justice, Slayer’s Tom Araya, Volbeat, Mark Lanegan, Nina Hagen, Jesse Hughes, and Henry Rollins, who also serves as co-writer. It also has a plot about a Satanic guitar and a fallen angel. Watch the trailer below.

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