MotörHeädings

Eden Gauteron
1 min readDec 30, 2020
Motörhead: Lemmy, “Fast” Eddie Clarke, “Philthy Animal” Taylor

Motörhead flew the rock and roll flag harder than anyone. The group’s leader, Lemmy Kilmister is the gnarliest of rock gods and Motörhead has the distinction of being the one band that all metalheads and punk rockers could both worship. For decades, Lemmy and co. effortlessly fired off instant classic albums like ACE OF SPADES and OVERKILL. But one thing that wasn’t so easy for the band was deciding on what to name the group in this first place. Recent acquisition of Lemmy’s notebook from the mid-’70s reveals a long list of possible band names that were rejected. Enjoy this look behind the denim.

Bastards

Sick Vicars

SpeedDemon

EngineBrain

MotorHog

MotorHonky

MotorBoogie

MotorMortar

White Line Chooglin

MotorMummy

MotorBoats

MotorMuuMuu

MotorLizzy

SpookyHead

MotorTooth

Led Head

The Head

MotherHead

MudderHead

MommieHead

MotorHeathcliff

Mungo Jerry England

Mumford & Bastards

RoadRash

RugBurn

CarpetCramps

Mister Motor

Max HeadVroom

MordorHead

GollumHead

MotorFrodo

Lemmy and the Motortones

HawkSchwantz

Rock n Roll Sex Train

Born to Get Lost

Live to Tweek

Cigarette Fever

PickleParty

Bay City Bastards

Coldplay

OverBite

GirlsTool

4 of Clubs

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Eden Gauteron

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