One night only: Riverview Theater screens Lemmy

“Fuck Keith Richards,” blurts Dave Grohl on Lemmy’s teaser trailer. “Fuck all those dudes who survived the ’60s, flying around on Lear jets, living up their gunslinger reputation. ... You know what Lemmy’s doing? Lemmy’s probably drinking Jack and cokes and writing another record.”

At the age most people consider retirement, Motörhead frontman Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister is still touring, recording, and puffing Marlboro Reds. Having seen The Beatles at The Cavern Club, roadied for Hendrix, and participated in Hawkwind’s most cohesive (and coherent) era, Lemmy had plenty to draw from while crafting the steely, speedy, and seminal early Motörhead albums that helped lay the thumping foundation for ’80s hardcore punk and thrash metal, and made him a cult superstar. Advance word says Lemmy, which gets a late-night screening at the Riverview Theater on Saturday, Jan. 15, is a biography both celebratory and clear-eyed—talking heads from all over the music world gush about Motörhead’s influence, but that doesn’t boost Lemmy’s album sales, or change the fact he now adds blood pressure meds to his menu of recreational chemicals.