OverKill’s Bobby Blitz recalled his memories with Motörhead in a recent interview with The Metal Voice while discussing his career and musical experiences. The vocalist told the story of his duet with Lemmy Kilmister and how he embarrassed Blitz on stage.
The band’s twentieth studio album, ‘Scorched,’ will be released this April, and they have been working on its promotion for a while. Their vocalist, Bobby ‘Blitz’ Ellsworth, has recently attended an interview to talk about the album and revealed a memory from the band’s old days.
Remembering a US tour OverKill went on with Motörhead and Slayer in 1988, Blitz explained that the band repeated the experience on a similar tour in 2007. He stated that Motörhead invited them to join their Germany tour, and they did several shows together there. According to him, his interactions with the band were warm and joyful, just as they were in 1988.
He expressed his experience as follows:
“Years later, in 2007, Motörhead had us come on and do the German shows. We did like 12 or 13 German shows with them, and the last night was in Berlin. It was just like ’88; you know what I’m saying? I mean, they never forgot my first name and [were] always cordial, and I’d have beers with them at a festival or something.”
Then, the musician depicted that Lemmy Kilmister asked him to sing Motörhead’s ‘Overkill’ with them for the last piece. The musician was so excited that he wrote the first lines of every verse on his arm to remember them correctly. When what he did was discovered by Kilmister, Blitz got exposed to the audience, which created a fun memory.
The OverKill vocalist recounted the memory by saying:
“The light man, Big E, walks in and goes splits: ‘Lemmy wants to talk to you.’ And I was like, ‘Huh, alright.’ So, I walked down, and he was sitting there. He’s getting ready for the show. ‘Because I wanted you to come up on stage for the last song and sing ‘Overkill’ with.’ And I was like, ‘Holy sh*t!’ I mean, this is like I was dreaming this. Twenty-five years ago, this was a dream of mine. So, I go back to the dressing room. I know the song cold, but I open my arm like this and take a sharpie, and I write the first word of every verse, so I don’t f*ck it up. Because I’m going to be nervous, right? [I’ll] forget the first word; everything else is going to fall. He wants me to sing in his mic during the chorus, so we’re both up on his mic on the sides. And then I would have my mic over here to do it. Sure enough, we sing the chorus, and I look down at my arm to get the next line. He goes – He walks up to the microphone and goes, ‘He’s got cheat notes! He’s got cheat notes!’ He threw me under the bus of 12 000 Germans.“
Bobby Blitz’s excitement to share the stage with Motörhead and Lemmy Kilmister was so intense that after a series of events it caused, a sweet memory with the late musician occurred for him to remember after all these years. Now, the artist fondly recalls even the embarrassing moments.
