It seems like the good stories of Lemmy are never ending, and now it's Alice Cooper's turn! Cooper's story is one that deals with Lemmy pretty close to the end, though it sounds like the man didn't lose his sense of humor even a little. Cooper explains Lemmy "quitting drinking" in a recent interview with Rolling Stone.
"Lemmy was one of those salt-of-the-earth guys," Cooper says. "Find me somebody who didn't love Lemmy. He's just one of those guys that's impossible not to like.
"He was always funny," he continues. "I'm a 'healed' alcoholic and I haven't had anything to drink in 35 years. A lot of people that drink always feel a little bit like they owe an explanation to me. A couple weeks before his death, Lemmy came up to me and said, 'Alice, I've quit drinking.' And he's got a glass in his hand. And I go, 'Really?' And he says, 'Yeah, I don't drink whiskey anymore. I drink vodka.'" Cooper laughs. "And I went, 'Lemmy, do you think your liver has any idea what color the alcohol is?' He said, well it's a step down from whiskey.' And I went, 'OK. Any step's a good step.'" He laughs.
Cooper says he and his band, Hollywood Vampires (consisting of Johnny Depp, Aerosmith's Joe Perry, and Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan) might do a rendition of "Ace of Spades" in Lemmy's memory, though Cooper just might do it in his own style… because let's face it. Who else is ever going to sound like Lemmy?
"I might do it more 'Alice Cooper style,' but it would still have to have that growl, that guttural voice to make it work. I can't picture, like, Creedence Clearwater doing that song."
John Fogerty, we're looking at you. Ball's in your court.
