Who is Lemmy Kilmister?

Who is Ian Fraser Kilmister? The Heavy Metal music world knows him as Lemmy Kilmister, Kilmister is an English singer and bass guitarist. He is best known as the founding member of the heavy metal band Motörhead. His appearance, friendly mutton chops (sideburn-moustache combination), and gravelly voice have made him a cult icon. Kilmister was placed forty-eighth by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Singers of All Time list.

 Childhood and early life

Lemmy was on 24 December 1945 on Christmas Eve in 1945 in Burslem, Stoke on Trent, England. When Lemmy was three months old, his father, an ex-Royal Air Force chaplain, separated from his mother. His mother and grandmother settled in Newcastle-under-Lyme then moved on to Madeley, Staffordshire.

When Lemmy was 10, his mother married George Willis, who had two older children from a previous marriage, Patricia and Tony, with whom he did not get along. The family moved to a farm in Benllech, Anglesey, North Wales and it was during this time that he started to show an interest in rock and roll music, girls and horses. He attended Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones school in Amlwch, where he was nick-named Lemmy, although he is unsure why, and it would later be claimed that it originated from the phrase "Lemmy a quid till Friday" because of his habit of borrowing money from people to feed his addiction to fruit machines.
He saw The Beatles perform at the Cavern Club when he was 16, then played guitar along to their first album, learning the chords. He also admired the sarcastic attitude of the group, particularly that of John Lennon. Upon leaving school and with his family relocated in Conwy, Lemmy undertook menial jobs including working at the local Hotpoint factory while also playing guitar for local bands, such as The Sundowners, and spending time at a horse riding school. At the age of 17, he met a holidaying girl named Cathy and he followed her to Stockport where she had his son, Sean. Sean was put up for adoption.

Recording and performing career

1960-1970: Early years

In Stockport, he joined local bands The Rainmakers then The Motown Sect, who enjoyed three years playing northern clubs. Wanting to progress further, in 1965 he joined The Rockin' Vickers who signed a deal with CBS and released three singles and toured Europe, reportedly being the first British band to visit Yugoslavia. With the band living in a Manchester flat, he had a relationship with a girl named Tracy who bore him a son, Paul, although it would not be until the boy was 6 that Lemmy had any involvement with the child.
Wanting to progress even further, Lemmy relocated to London in 1967. Sharing a flat with Noel Redding, he got a job as a roadie for The Jimi Hendrix Experience. In 1968 he joined Sam Gopal and recorded the album Escalator and the single "Horse". After meeting Simon King in a Chelsea shopping centre during 1969, he joined the band Opal Butterfly, but the band soon folded, having previously failed to raise enough interest with their preceding CBS singles.
At this point Lemmy thought about changing his legal name to his stepfather's surname of Willis, but with his actual father's surname of Kilmister, he decided changing his birth certificate and passport would be too much hassle, so did not bother. An attempted reconciliation in 1970 between Lemmy and his birth father broke down, with Lemmy describing him as a "nasty little weasel".

 1971-1975: Hawkwind

In 1971, Lemmy joined the space rock band, Hawkwind, who were based in Ladbroke Grove, London. He had no experience as a bass guitarist, but quickly developed a distinctive style that was strongly shaped by his early experience as a rhythm guitarist, often using double stops and chords rather than the single notes preferred by most bassists. His bass work was a fundamental part of the Hawkwind sound during his tenure, perhaps best documented on Space Ritual. He also provided lead vocals on a number of songs, including the band's biggest UK chart single, "Silver Machine", which reached No.3 in 1972.

 1975-present: Motörhead

Main article: Motörhead

In 1975 Lemmy was fired from Hawkwind after he was arrested at Canadian customs on drug possession charges; he spent five days in jail. He went on to form a new band with guitarist Larry Wallis (former member of the Pink Fairies, Steve Took's Shagrat and UFO) and drummer Lucas Fox. Lemmy's connection with Took (formerly of T. Rex) was not limited to Wallis, as they were personal friends and Took was the stepfather to Lemmy's son, Paul. This new band was originally called Bastard. When his manager informed him that a band by that name will never get a slot on "Top of the Pops", Lemmy changed the band's name to Motörhead – the title of the last song Lemmy wrote for Hawkwind.

Lemmy playing bass live.

Soon after, both Wallis and Fox were replaced with guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke and drummer Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, and with this line-up the band began to achieve success. The band's sound appealed to both Lemmy's original fans and, eventually, to fans of the punk rock scene. In fact, he asserts that he generally feels more kinship with punks than with heavy metal; he even played with The Damned for a handful of gigs when they had no regular bassist—and Lemmy's guttural vocals were unique in the world of rock at that time. The band's success peaked between 1980 and 1981 with a number of UK chart hits, including the classic single "Ace of Spades" (still a crowd favourite today) and the #1 live album No Sleep 'til Hammersmith. Motörhead have since gone on to become one of the most influential bands in the heavy metal music genre, and although Lemmy is the only constant member, are still performing and releasing records to this day. Despite Motörhead's many member changes over their 35-year history, the current lineup of Lemmy, Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee has remained constant since 1995.
Lemmy has also worked with a number of other musicians over his career, and occasionally guests with Hawkwind. He wrote the song "R.A.M.O.N.E.S" for the Ramones, which he still plays in his live sets as a tribute to the band. He was brought in as a songwriter for Ozzy Osbourne's 1991 No More Tears album, providing lyrics for the tracks "Hellraiser", (which Motörhead would later record themselves and release a single), "Desire", "I Don't Want to Change the World", and the single "Mama I'm Coming Home". Lemmy has noted in several magazine and television interviews that he made more money from the royalties of that one song than he had in his entire time with Motörhead. After being diagnosed with Type-2 diabetes in 2000, which led to a brief hospitalization, Lemmy again appeared with Motörhead at WrestleMania 17. Lemmy published his autobiography, White Line Fever in November 2002. In 2005, Motörhead won their first Grammy in the Best Metal Performance category with their cover of Metallica's "Whiplash". He lives in a two room flat in Los Angeles, two blocks away from his favourite hangout the Rainbow Bar and Grill.

An officially licensed Lemmy figurine has been produced. Available as a "regular" or "special" edition, Lemmy recalls:

I had to stand on this platform while the camera went around and did the hologram thing and then they made the model, only smaller. They said it's an action figure, and I said, 'So, you're gonna put a dick on it?' They said, 'No.' I said, 'Well, then it's not going to get much action then, is it?' A bad name for it, right?Lemmy appeared as an unlockable character in the game Guitar Hero: Metallica. He also stars as a character in Brütal Legend named Kill Master, whom he voices.In October 2009 it was announced that he had been involved in recording a cover of "Stand by Me" featuring Lemmy on Vocals and Bass, Dave Lombardo of Slayer on Drums and produced by DJ and Producer, Baron. The song was made for legendary Pro Skateboarder Geoff Rowley.

Lemmy appeared on the song "Doctor Alibi" from Slash's self-titled solo album. The digital downloads of "Doctor Alibi" include the comment "Featuring Lemmy Kilmeister". This comment spells his surname with an 'e' not previously included in the "Kilmister" spelling. It is not known if this was a simple error or an intentional spelling change by the artist.

 Singing Style

Lemmy is noted to have an extremely distinctive, gruff voice, which fits the band's aggressive sound. Lemmy is capable of expressing a degree of traditionally "melodic" singing, but has to date rarely shown a "clean" vocal performance except on early Hawkwind cuts such as "Silver Machine", "Lost Johnny" and on Motorhead's "I don't believe a word" where he sings in a conventional manner for long passages, & in the "Metallica Tribute" album on iTunes, which he sung part melodic, the gruff and blunt approach having become something of a trade-mark for himself and Motörhead. His voice type is low, akin to baritone, though because of his style being more expressive than technically driven, it is hard to classify him with any particular voice type.

Film and television

Cameo appearances

Lemmy has made a number of appearances in film and television, including the 1990 science fiction film Hardware and the 1987 comedy Eat the Rich, for which Motörhead also recorded the soundtracks. In the 1980s Motörhead were the musical guests on the cult British TV show "The Young Ones", episode entitled "Bambi". In the 1994 comedy Airheads (in which he is credited as "Lemmy von Motörhead"), one scene involving Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler, and Steve Buscemi, has Brendan Fraser's character, "Chazz" Chester Darvey talking to an undercover cop who is pretending to be a record executive—Chazz asks him, "Who'd win in a wrestling match, Lemmy or God?", the cop replies, "Lemmy", to which Rex, played by Steve Buscemi, imitates a game show buzzer and the cop quickly changes his answer to "... God!". Rex replies saying, "Wrong, dickhead, trick question. Lemmy is God". Lemmy appears in the film and shouts out (truthfully) that he edited his school newspaper as other people in the crowd admit geeky pastimes in their youth. Lemmy has also appeared in several movies from Troma Entertainment, including the narrator in 1996's Tromeo and Juliet and as himself in both Terror Firmer and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.
Having a predilection for self-deprecating parody, he once appeared in an advertisement for Kit Kat chocolate bars, miming a piece of chamber music on the violin, in an upper-class tea-room, and he also appeared in an ad for Walkers where he gets his crisps stolen. He also appeared on an intro scene on The Drew Carey Show in which Motörhead play outside Carey's home, startling him awake. Lemmy is one of the few musicians to have been mentioned on Beavis and Butt-Head without being made fun of. Upon seeing Lemmy making a cameo appearance in the Ramones' "Substitute" video, Butthead exclaims, "He's Lemmy. He can walk into any damn video he wants!" and Beavis adds that Lemmy "rules," the highest compliment that the two are known to pay to an artist. Lemmy made an appearance in the music videos for the 1986 Boys Don't Cry song "I Wanna Be A Cowboy" and the 1998 Rap song "Freak of the Week" by adult film star Ron Jeremy.

Motörhead performed the entrance theme song "The Game" for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)'s Triple H (who at one point wore his mustache and sideburns like Lemmy as a tribute), as well as "Line in the Sand" for Triple H's now defunct wrestling stable, Evolution. In 2006, they once again provided theme music for WWE as they recorded the song "King of Kings" for Triple H on the Wreckless Intent CD. He also provided his voice for the video game Brütal Legend, voicing the Kill Master, a character designed and based on his likeness.
Lemmy also appears in the new Airbourne music video for "Runnin' Wild". He plays a trucker driving wildly while the police chase him down a highway.
Lemmy recently has appeared on Down and Dirty with Jim Norton as the series deejay, and also created the theme music.
Lemmy also appears briefly, but with some confiding words, in the Penelope Spheeris film "The Decline of the Western Civilization, Part II".
Lemmy also took part in a comedy skit titled "The Easy Guitar Book Sketch" with comedian Rowland Rivron and fellow British musicians Mark Knopfler, David Gilmour, Mark King from Level 42, and Gary Moore.

 Lemmy: The Movie

A documentary/rockumentary on Lemmy has been announced for release in 2010. Entitled simply "Lemmy" and directed/produced by Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski, the film is some two years in the making and is being shot on a combination of 16 mm film and HD video. It will feature interviews with friends, peers, and admirers such as Dave Grohl, Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, Peter Hook of Joy Division/New Order, Dee Snider, Mick Jones of The Clash, Jim Heath of Reverend Horton Heat, Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats, Mike Inez, pro skateboarder Geoff Rowley, pro wrestler Triple H, C.C. Deville of Poison, Fast Eddie Clarke, Johnny Knoxville, Jarvis Cocker, Marky Ramone, former Hawkwind bandmates Dave Brock and Stacia, and Steve Vai. The film is said to set the record straight on a number of rumours and myths regarding Lemmy's lifestyle. To help promote the movie, Kilmister designed a t-shirt for sale on the film's web site.

 Image and celebrity status

Dave Grohl, on his Probot website, summarises musicians he worked with. For Lemmy's entry he wrote:

We recorded his track in Los Angeles in maybe two takes about a year and a half ago. Until then I'd never met what I'd call a real rock 'n' roll hero before. Fuck Elvis and Keith Richards, Lemmy's the king of rock 'n' roll - he told me he never considered Motörhead a metal band, he was quite adamant. Lemmy's a living, breathing, drinking and snorting fucking legend. No one else comes close.

 'Sex Legend'

In a Channel 4 documentary called "Motörhead: Live Fast, Die Old", broadcast on 22 August 2005, it was claimed that Lemmy had "bedded" in excess of 2,000 women. Maxim magazine has Lemmy at number 8 on its top ten "Living Sex Legends" list, as they claim that he has slept with around 1,200 women.
In the documentary he explained that while in school he noticed a pupil who had brought a guitar to school and had been "surrounded by chicks". His mother had a guitar, which he then took to school, even though he could not play, and was himself surrounded by girls: "In those days just having a guitar was enough... that was it".

Lemmy at age 60

Lemmy is one of the characters in the book Sex Tips from Rock Stars by Paul Miles to be published by Omnibus Press in July 2010.

 Drugs

During Lemmy's time with Hawkwind, he developed an appetite for amphetamine and LSD and was to become renowned for his use of amphetamine. Before joining Hawkwind, he recalled Dik Mik, a former Hawkwind sound technician, visiting his squat in the middle of the night and taking speed with him. They became interested in how long "you could make the human body jump about without stopping", which they did for a few months, until Mik ran out of money and wanted to return to Hawkwind, taking Lemmy with him.

I first got into speed because it was a utilitarian drug and kept you awake when you needed to be awake, when otherwise you'd just be flat out on your back. If you drive to Glasgow for nine hours in the back of a sweaty truck you don't really feel like going onstage feeling all bright and breezy... It's the only drug I've found that I can get on with, and I've tried them all — except smack and morphine: I've never fixed anything.

—Lemmy

In November 2005, he was invited to the Welsh Assembly as a guest speaker by Tory Welsh assembly member William Graham. He was asked to express his views on the detrimental effects of drugs. However he shocked the Assembly Members and Welsh public when he called for the legalisation of heroin: "I have never had heroin but since I moved to London from north Wales in '67 I have mixed with junkies on a casual and almost daily basis," he said. "I also lived with a young woman who tried heroin just to see what it was like. It killed her three years later. I hate the idea even as I say it, but I do believe the only way to treat heroin is to legalise it." He stated that legalisation would eradicate the drug dealer from society.

 Collector

Lemmy collects Nazi memorabilia, and has an Iron Cross encrusted on his bass, which has led to accusations of Nazi sympathies. He has stated that he collects this memorabilia for aesthetic values only, and considers himself an anarchist or libertarian, and that he is "anti-communism, fascism, any extreme," saying that "government causes more problems than it solves". According to Keith Emerson's autobiography, two of Lemmy's Hitlerjugend knives were given to Emerson during Lemmy's time spent as a roadie for The Nice. Emerson used these knives many times as keyholders when playing the Hammond Organ during concerts with The Nice and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

 Equipment

Lemmy positions his microphone in an uncommonly high position, angled so that he appears to be looking up at the sky rather than at the audience. He said that it was for "personal comfort, that's all. It's also one way of avoiding seeing the audience. In the days when we only had ten people and a dog, it was a way of avoiding seeing that we only had ten people and a dog".
He has used Rickenbacker 4001 and 4003 bass guitars almost exclusively since his Hawkwind days, although some of these instruments were modified with the installation of Gibson Thunderbird pickups in the neck position. Rickenbacker produced a 60-bass run of Lemmy Kilmister signature basses, the 4004LK, which is fitted with three pickups, gold hardware, and elaborate wood carving in the shape of oak leaves. Lemmy currently uses a customised 4004.

He uses hot-rodded Marshall JMP Superbass II amplifiers from the late 1960s/early 1970s. Each amp, with a nominal output of 100 watts, is used with a 4x12 speaker cab and a custom-made 4x15 cab. He uses two such stacks, one on each side of the drum riser. For many years the amps were nicknamed "No Remorse", "Killer" (left side amp) or "Murder One" (right side amp) with appropriate nameplates. "No Remorse" was subsequently replaced by a new amp nicknamed "Marsha" when, as Kilmister said in an October 2004 interview, it "blew up". "Killer" and "Murder One" were believed to have been destroyed in Argentina when all the other equipment was stolen but this was later proven to be untrue. In 2006 Marshall designed new, prototype versions of "Murder One" which were then put into production, whilst the original amplifier was retired. A limited number of these bass heads have been released by Marshall in 2008 as the "1992LEM", a signature series copy of Lemmy's 1992 100 Watt Super Bass Head, "Murder One".
The phrase "everything louder than everyone else" sums up Lemmy's sonic approach, as he plays at the loudest possible levels. He uses the bridge pickup exclusively (giving his bass sound more definition) and turns all the tone and volume knobs on the bass up full. On the amplifiers, he turns off the bass and treble, and the midrange up all the way, with the volume and presence up to the 3:00 position. The result is a biting mid-range sound which is somewhat distorted but not "fuzzed out" or "blurry", a formula well-suited to his use of open-string drones and power chords. In the 1990s after a Motörhead show at Hultsfred, Sweden a radio reporter asked Lemmy "If you were to play here again in ten years, how do you think you would sound?" Lemmy replied "Same, but louder..."
Lemmy has occasionally played electric or acoustic guitar, notably on the acoustic song "I Ain't No Nice Guy" from Motörhead's March Ör Die album, the title track on 1996's Overnight Sensation, "Limb from Limb" on Overkill (on which he plays the second lead break), "Boogeyman" on Rock 'n' Roll, and a mouth harp on "Whorehouse Blues" from the Inferno album. On "lost Johnny " by Hawkwind he play sings, plays bass, lead and rhythm guitars.
In September 1996, his Rickenbacker bass was featured in the Bang Your Head exhibition at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

 Discography

For releases with Motörhead see the Motörhead discography

As a member of The Rockin' Vickers

1965 – "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" / "Stella" (7" single)

1965 – "It's Alright" / "Stay By Me" (7" single)

1966 – "Dandy" / "I Don't Need Your Kind" (7" single)

2000 – The Complete: It's Alright (compilation)

As a member of Sam Gopal

• 1969 – Escalator
• 1969 – "Horse" / "Back Door Man" (7" single)

As a member of Hawkwind

1972 – "Silver Machine" / "Seven by Seven" (7" single)

1972 – Glastonbury Fayre – contains "Silver Machine" and "Welcome to the Future"
1972 – Greasy Truckers Party – contains "Born to Go" and "Master of the Universe"
1972 – Doremi Fasol Latido
1973 – "Lord of Light" / "Born to Go" (7" single)
1973 – "Urban Guerrilla" / "Brainbox Pollution" (7" single)
1973 – Space Ritual
1974 – Hall of the Mountain Grill
1974 – "Psychedelic Warlords" / "It's So Easy" (7" single)
1975 – "Kings of Speed" / "Motorhead" (7" single)
1975 – Warrior on the Edge of Time
1983 – The Weird Tapes (live and out-takes, 1967–1982)
1984 – The Earth Ritual Preview EP
1985 – Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin (live 1973)
1985 – Space Ritual#Volume 2 (live 1972)
1986 – Hawkwind Anthology (live and out-takes, 1967–1982)
1991 – BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert (live 1972)
1992 – The Friday Rock Show Sessions (live 1986)
1997 – The 1999 Party (live 1974)

As a member of Robert Calvert's band

1974 – "Ejection" / "Catch a Falling Starfighter" (7" single)
1974 – Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters
1980 – "Lord of the Hornets" / "The Greenfly and the Rose" (7" single)

Side projects and career spanning

1990 – Lemmy & The Upsetters – Blue Suede Shoes
2000 – Lemmy, Slim Jim & Danny B – Lemmy, Slim Jim & Danny B
2006 – The Head Cat – Fool's Paradise
2006 – The Head Cat – Rockin' the Cat Club: Live from the Sunset Strip
2006 – Lemmy – Damage Case (Compilation)
2007 – Keli Raven & Lemmy Kilmister "Bad Boyz 4 Life" (single).

Band collaborations

1979 – The Damned – "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" / "Ballroom Blitz" (with Lemmy on bass) / "Turkey Song" (7" single) – available as bonus track on the reissued Machine Gun Etiquette album
1980 – The Young & Moody Band – "Don't Do That" (7" & 12" single)
1981 – Headgirl (Motörhead & Girlschool) – St. Valentine's Day Massacre EP
1982 – Lemmy & Wendy O. Williams – Stand by Your Man EP
2007 – (Keli Raven)- & Lemmy Kilmister "Bad Boyz 4 Life" (single / Video).

Charity collaborations

1984 – Hear'n'Aid –
1985 - The Crowd - You'll Never Walk Alone (Bradford City F.C. Fire Disaster)

Guest appearances

• 1988 – Albert Järvinen Band – Countdown
• 1989 – Nina Hagen – Nina Hagen - guests on "Where's the Party"
• 1992 – Bootsauce – Bull – guests on "Hold Tight"
• 1994 – Fast Eddie Clarke – It Ain't Over Till It's Over – guests on "Laugh at the Devil".
• 1994 – Shonen Knife – Rock Animals – guests on "Tomato Head" single remix (Track 3 – "Lemmy In There Mix") – not the album track
• 1996 – Skew Siskin – Electric Chair Music
• 1996 – Ugly Kid Joe – Motel California
• 1996 – Myth Dreams of World – Stories of the Greek & Roman Gods & Goddesses
• 1996 – Skew Siskin – Voices from the War
• 1997 – The Ramones – We're Outta Here! – guests on "R.A.M.O.N.E.S."
• 1999 – Jetboy – Lost & Found
• 1999 – Skew Siskin – What the Hell
• 1999 – A.N.I.M.A.L. – Usa Toda Tu Fuerza – guests on a version of AC/DC's "Highway to Hell"
• 2000 – Doro – Calling the Wild
• 2000 – Swing Cats – A Special Tribute to Elvis – guests on "Good Rockin' Tonight", "Trying to Get to You" and "Stuck On You"
• 2001 – The Pirates – Rock Bottom
• 2001 – Hair of the Dog – Ignite – guests on "Law"
• 2002 – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Mike Batt and guests – Philharmania – guests on "Eve of Destruction"
• 2003 – Ace Sounds – Still Hungry
• 2003 – Skew Siskin – Album of the Year
• 2004 – Probot – Probot – guests on "Shake Your Blood"
• 2005 – Throw Rag – 13 Ft. and Rising – guests on "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down"
• 2006 – Doro – 20 Years A Warrior Soul – guests on "Love Me Forver" & "All We Are"
• 2007 – The Warriors – Genuine Sense of Outrage – guests on "Price of Punishment"
• 2007 – Keli Raven single "Bad Boyz 4 Life" (co-writer & guest vocalist)
• 2008 – Airbourne – Guest actor on Airbourne's "Runnin' Wild" Music Video
• 2008 – We Wish You a Metal Christmas – Run Run Rudolph
• 2008 – Legacy – Girlschool album – Don't Talk to Me vocals, bass, triangle and lyrics.
• 2009 – Queen V – Death or Glory – guests on "Wasted"
• 2009 – Brütal Legend (video game) – The Kill Master (voice)
• 2010 - Slash - Slash - "Doctor Alibi" (vocals and bass)
• Appearances on film soundtracks, tribute, wrestling and various artists albums
• 1990 – Hardware: Original Soundtrack – contains "A Piece of Pipe" by Kaduta Massi with Lemmy
• 1990 – The Last Temptation of Elvis: Blue Suede Shoes – contains "Blue Suede Shoes" by Lemmy & The Upsetters
• 1994 – Airheads: Cameo on film and performing "Born to Raise Hell" on the soundtrack
• 1997 – Dragon Attack: A Tribute to Queen – performs on "Tie Your Mother Down"
• 1998 – Thunderbolt: A Tribute to AC/DC – performs on "It's a Long Way to the Top"
• 1998 – ECW: Extreme Music – contains a cover of Metallica's "Enter Sandman" by Lemmy and Zebrahead
• 2000 – Bat Head Soup – Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne – performs on "Desire"
• 2001 – Frezno Smooth: Original Soundtrack – contains a version of Twisted Sister's "Hardcore" by Lemmy
• 2001 – A Tribute to Metallica: Metallic Assault – performs on "Nothing Else Matters"
• 2002 – Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three – performs on "Thirsty & Miserable"
• 2002 – Metal Brigade – performs on "Good Rockin' Tonight" by Lemmy and Johnny Ramone
• 2005 – Numbers from the Beast: An All Star Salute to Iron Maiden – performs on "The Trooper"
• 2005 – Metal: A Headbangers Journey
• 2006 – Flying High Again: The World's Greatest Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne – Performs "Desire" with Richie Kotzen
• 2006 – Cover Me in '80s Metal (Fantastic Price Records) – Metal artists covering the hits of others. Performs AC/DC's "It's a Long Way to the Top".
• 2006 - Butchering The Beatles - Performs "Back in the USSR".
• 2009 - Flip Skateboards Presents Extremely Sorry - Performs "Stand By Me" with Baron and Dave Lombardo.
• 2010 - Danko Jones - Full of regret - Starrs in the music video along with Elijah Wood and Selma Blair

Videography

Video tape/laser disc

• 1982 Live In Toronto – Castle Hendering
• 1984 Another Perfect Day EP
• 1985 Birthday Party
• 1986 Deaf Not Blind
• 1988 EP
• 1988 The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years
• 1990 Hardware (Lemmy was cast as a water taxi driver; and plays a recording of "Ace of Spades" for his passengers).
• 1991 Everything Louder than Everyone Else
• 1994 John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut

DVD

• 1987 Eat the Rich
• 1997 Tromeo and Juliet – cast as Narrator, Troma pictures
• 2001 25 & Alive Boneshaker
• 2001 WrestleMania X-Seven – Performing Triple-H's entrance theme "The Game" live
• 2001 Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV -as a Tromaville citizen
• 2002 Motörhead EP
• 2002 The Best of Motörhead
• 2003 The Special Edition EP
• 2004 Everything Louder than Everything Else
• 2005 Stage Fright (Motörhead DVD) (also HD-DVD 2007)
• 2005 Ringers: Lord of the Fans
• 2005 WrestleMania 21 Performing "The Game"
• 2005 Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
• 2006 The Head Cat Live: Rockin' the Cat Club
• 2006 Foo Fighters: Hyde Park

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Who is Mike Vallely?

Who is Mike Vallely? The entertainment and skateboarding world knows him as Mike V. He is a professional skateboarder. Mike is also a musician, actor, television personality, and stuntman.

 Early life

Mike was June 29, 1970(1970-06-29)), in Edison, NJ to Art and Mary Vallely. Mike has an older brother, Joe, and a younger sister, Amy. Growing up Mike played little league baseball and describes life as "Doing what most young kids do.", and that was trying to fit in. But in 1984 at age 14 Mike would become what he describes as truly "Becoming alive." This is when Mike discovered skateboarding and punk rock music.

 Personal life

Vallely currently resides in Long Beach, California. Vallely married his longtime girlfriend Ann in 1992 and in December of that year their daughter Emily was born. He has a second daughter Lucy.
Mike also has a long love for Professional Wrestling, he is a trained Pro Wrestler who occasionally wrestles at indy events. He once also wrestled TNA superstar Frankie Kazarian in a triple threat match, which also involved a wrestler called The Skate Devil.
Mike also loves playing ice hockey. He plays at a professional level for the Danbury Whalers in the Federal Hockey League.He signed a contract with the club on June 23, 2010.

 Skateboarding

After getting into punk rock music and meeting some punk rockers at school, Vallely began to borrow one of their skateboards and thus began a life long passion and dedication to skateboarding skill. Mike began to skateboard everyday and naturally excelled at it. On Christmas of 1984, Vallely no longer had to borrow friend's skateboards as a brand new Sims brand, Jeff Phillip pro model skateboard was waiting for him under the tree on Christmas morning. Besides street skating Mike was also a vert skater and often skated Tom Groholski's ramp and The Barn Ramp, both located in New Jersey.He also skated The Brooklyn Banks, a skate spot under the Brooklyn Bridge. It's one of his favorite skatespots.

In 1986, Mike moved with his family to Virginia Beach, Virginia for a short time and while living there befriended the local skaters. Skating with a local team "Subculture" in the Kempsville area of Virginia Beach, Mike honed his skills on the streets in local contests, and on neighborhood quarter pipes and launch ramps. In the spring of '86 the Virginia Beach Skatepark, Mount Trashmore hosted a professional vert skateboard contest. Mike and a few friends headed down to the contest early to watch the pros practice. After a short time of watching the pros and getting inspired, Mike could no longer just sit and watch. He headed to the nearby parking and began skating. After a short while, Mike began drawing attention from the visiting pros from atop the vert ramp. Neil Blender was particularly impressed and came down from the ramp to talk to Mike and asked to show him some more of his tricks. The next day at the contest the word was out about Mike and his new and inventive tricks and style and attracted the attention of professional skateboarder, Lance Mountain and Stacy Peralta, both of Powell Peralta and Bones Brigade fame. After seeing Mike riding a board that was in such poor condition, Lance Mountain gave him a brand new complete skateboard. After putting on an impromptu demo in the parking lot of the contest, Lance asked Mike if he would like anymore skateboards. Confused by what Lance meant at first, Lance was in fact offering Mike a sponsorship to Powell Peralta Skateboards and Mike answered with a resounding yes. This day is also historic for the first interactions Mike had with Mark Gonzales and Steve Rocco.
It wasn't just Peralta who plucked Vallely out of obscurity that day. Thrasher Magazine also took photos of Vallely performing his tricks in the handplant circle, one of which eventually made its way onto the cover of Thrasher's August, 1986 issue. It was also at this time that Vallely's new sponsor had him on an airplane for the first time to fly to California to compete at the Oceanside "Street Attack" contest in July in Oceanside, CA. Vallely won the amateur division which got him a full page spread in Transworld Skateboarding's September issue. Also in 1986, Mike was filmed for a part in the third and now classic Powell Peralta video "The Search For Animal Chin" which premiered in May 2007 in Santa Monica, California.

In 1987, Transworld Skateboarding Magazine published a photo of Mark Gonzales and Jasper McLean, Mike Valley's best friend pointing to Mike. While the two veteran pros were really pointing to a 'recently busted nose' on Vallely's face, skaters from around the world interpreted these pictures to represent Mike's acceptance into their elite street skating clique. This photo would put him on the "map" of skateboarding at the time, and accordingly, make room for the growth and further acceptance of street style. Shortly after Powell Peralta released "The Search For Animal Chin" on May 1, 1987, Mike embarked the first Hell Tour with Steve Rocco, Per Welinder and others. On the final stop of the tour, a vert contest in Toronto, ONT, CAN, Mike turned pro against Powell Peralta's wishes and entered the vert contest. Mike got last place in the contest.
In 1978, Powell Peralta released Vallely's first pro model skateboard. After a bad start of trying to release Mike's pro model with ugly graphics of a large bug, it was later changed to the now iconic "elephant" graphics. Mike states the idea for the graphics came to him after watching a National Geographic television special about elephants and because one of his skateboard heroes, Mark Gonzales, said "Elephants are cool." The graphics to Mike's "Elephant" board were drawn by legendary skateboard artist V. Courtland Johnson aka VCJ.

Mike's pro model on Powell Peralta became a top seller and helped launch him into skateboard superstardom. Also in 1988, Mike was filmed by Stacy Peralta and Craig Stecyk for a segment for the fourth Bones Brigade video, Public Domain. Filming took place in New Jersey, New York City and Washington state over a three day period. Filming for this video part didn't go exactly how john envisioned it and coupled with the request of running through a graveyard for the segment added to the already strained relationship with Powell Peralta. Despite problems and being rushed through the filming process Mike's video part still shines and is considered a classic and ground breaking video part, one that is still referenced to this day.
In 1989, Mike quit Powell Peralta at a trade show. At the time Powell Peralta was the biggest and best skateboarding brand in the world which sponsored the best and most talented skaters. It was unheard of at this time for someone to quit Powell Peralta and Mike quitting sent shockwaves through the industry.
After quitting Powell Peralta, Mike helped form the small skater run company called World Industries with Steve Rocco and Rodney Mullen.When he was with World Industries he help create a new model for the skateboard, which is the model that all skaters use today. The model included rounding both the tail and nose instead of having a just a rounded nose and straight edged tail. These boards he help create, created a new revolution in skateboarding. More flips tricks, "going big" on your tricks and a lot more.
In 2010, Mike quit Element skateboards to start his own company called By The Swords. Mike created this company with long time skateboarder Jason Filipow.
Contrary to the clean-cut and non-racist image he portrays, Mike has been shown on the website www.theberrics.com driving a Hummer, as well as a Firebird with a confederate flag licence place.

Music

Resistance: Mike's first band from 1985. Mike only played one show with the group with 7 Seconds and Aggression. He was kicked out of the band for spending too much time skateboarding.
Mike V and the Rats:

Revolution Mother: Glory Bound(2007), Rollin' With Tha Mutha(2009)
In 2003, Greg Ginn invited Mike to sing for Black Flag at their 2003 reunion shows in Los Angeles. Mike performed the entire My War album from cover to cover.

Mike has also released three solo albums, "Weekend In Pittsburgh" with Joe Grushecky, "California Angel" and "Alone."

Video games

Mike has appeared in the highly successful Tony Hawk Pro Skater skateboarding video game series since the fourth release of the game, appearing as a secret character. From the fifth release of the game he has been a major character in each game. In Tony Hawk's Proving Ground he is also a playable character on two player mode.
The storyline to the fifth game in the series, Tony Hawk's Underground (THUG), is based on Mike V's skateboard career.
Vallely has his own skateboarding video game for iPhones and the iPod Touch entitled "Mike V: Do or Die - Skateboarding".

Hockey Incident

In November 2009, Mike was attending an Anaheim Ducks game with his wife and 8 year old daughter. After the game Scott Niedermayer pointed at Mike's daughter at the glass and tossed his hockey stick over the boards to her. Mike and a man got into an altercation and several punches were thrown. Since the incident, the Ducks have cut all professional ties with Mike and even un-invited him from a charity event that was supposed to happen weeks later. Mike later said on the Jason Ellis Show on Sirius/XM said that he was only party charged.

Filmography

• Paul Blart: Mall Cop - Rudolph
• The Hangover - as Alan's friend in the tuxedo van
• Elementality- Element video part
• Viva La Bam - Helping Bam's Uncle get revenge on Bam
• This Is My Element - Small video part.
• XxX - Vin diesels friend
• Drive - His show on Fuel Tv
• Grind - Mike has a small cameo as himself
• The Truth - Mike plays a security guard for the evangelist, Evan Jealous in this mocumentary.
• Jonah Hex- Mike does stunt work in this Warner Bros. / DC Comics film.
• Red Dawn- Mike plays a weapons dealer and also did stunt work as a Russian Special Forces soldier.
• Mulberry Park- Mike plays Danny, the leader of an Irish gang.
• 7-Teen Sips- Mike plays the reclusive rock star Charlie Monroe.

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Who is Brent Hinds?

Who is Brent Hinds? The music world knows him as a guitarist/singer for the Atlanta, Georgia metal band Mastodon, in which he shares guitar duties with Bill Kelliher and vocal duties with Troy Sanders.

In Mastodon's early years, Hinds would work as a full-time carpenter when not touring to promote the band. Hinds is also lead guitarist/singer for the Surfabilly band Fiend Without A Face, and is involved in other projects, including classic rock band The Blood Vessels, West End Motel, Four Hour Fogger and The Last of the Blue Eyed Devils.

Early life

Brent was born in Pelham, Alabama  in 1974. He first asked his father for a guitar at age 13. His father agreed to buy him one, on the condition that Brent first learn the banjo, take lessons and learn to read music. Brent reluctantly agreed, attending the Alabama School of Fine Arts for several years.

Musical career

Hinds subsequently left Alabama for Atlanta, Georgia in pursuit of a music career. It was at this time that he met Troy Sanders, a future member of Mastodon. According to Troy, he "lived in his van for the next five years", becoming a member of Troy's then band Four Hour Fogger. The first practice he attended with this band he allegedly "showed up so wasted he couldn't even play".
Once Four Hour Fogger fell apart, the two stuck together, eventually meeting Brann Dailor and Bill Kelliher at a High on Fire concert in "their friend's basement".

The four began a new musical venture with then singer Eric Saner, touring the southern USA, working 40-hour weeks and committing to the band in their spare time. The band's mainstream success would ensue after Saner left the band, pushing Brent to the forefront not just as a guitarist, but as a vocalist also, the duties of which he would share with Sanders.
Hinds continues to concentrate on Mastodon, with the majority of his time spent touring or in the studio. He also enjoys promoting his lesser-known psychedelic rockabilly band Fiend Without A Face and his classic rock band The Blood Vessels. Hinds composed the score to Jonah Hex.

MTV VMAs incident

In 2007 Hinds attended a MTV music video awards after-party, where he partied and drank heavily with members of Motörhead, Queens of the Stone Age, and Foo Fighters. Hinds left the party in an inebriated and drugged state, reportedly swinging his shirt at pedestrians on the sidewalk, where System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian and singer-songwriter Rev. William Hudson were walking back from the VMA's to their hotel. According to a police report the Las Vegas Weekly cites:

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Hinds was the instigator and allegedly took off his shirt and hit Odadjian with it, then punched Hudson in the face and chest.

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Hinds concedes that he struck Hudson in the head, who then returned the hit back to Hinds. Hinds wound up with a broken nose, two black eyes, and a brain hemorrhage as a result of falling and having his head hit the floor.
Following the incident, Hinds revealed that his doctors advised him to moderate his drinking and drug-use while he recuperated, but that he ignored the advice, saying "I was back doing drugs and everything by 28 days. But I don't drink as much as I used to, I don't smoke crack anymore, and I don't do tons of fucking pain pills."

Equipment

Hinds favours Gibson Flying V's, typically in silver burst finishes, but also owns a wide variety of guitars including a Goldtop Les Paul, a Les Paul Florentine, a Lucite Flying V built by the Electrical Guitar Company, a Gibson SG,a Gibson sg custom, Gibson Explorers and a Michael Kelly Phoenix Hollowbody.

He also has two custom First Act guitars: a 6-string used in the video for Colony of Birchmen (which has asymmetrical horns such as those seen on a Mosrite guitar, a Bigsby vibrato, silverburst finish and a Mastodon logo inlaid on the headstock) and a 12-string dc lola, also with a silverburst finish, used on the Unholy Alliance 3 tour to capture a fuller sound while guitarist Bill Kelliher was too ill to perform.

Bill Kelliher owns a guitar similar to this one, though Kelliher's has only 9 strings. He also used a '64 Fender Stratocaster and a '52 Fender Telecaster while recording "Crack the Skye".
During live performances, Hinds favors his various Silverburst Flying V's. He often performs the solos and more melodic parts, whereas Bill Kelliher takes rhythm duties.

As revealed in the "TUNE-UPS" section of the October 2007 issue of Guitar World, the two guitarists use three tunings: D Standard (E standard down one whole step, D G C F A D), Drop C tuning (Drop D tuning down one whole step, C G C F A D), and a third tuning similar to Drop C, but with the low E string tuned down to A (A G C F A D). The tunings are so low, the guitarists have to use heavy gauge strings.

Regarding amplifiers, Hinds was featured in the Marshall magazine as a JCM 800 2203 player. In his pedal board he currently uses a Boss Compressor CS-3, Boss Tuner TU-2, Monster Effects Mastortion, Ibanez Tubescreamer TS-9, Voodoo Labs Pedal Power and the Enema FX Mingebox.

Influence and style

Originally playing the banjo, Hinds learned his "signature style" of fast hybrid picking by emulating banjo fingerings on guitar. He frequently utilizes the minor pentatonic, natural minor, and the harmonic minor scales in his playing as well as many hammer-ons, pull-offs and legato slides.


Hinds grew up listening to country, but when he entered his late teens he started listening to Neurosis and Melvins, bands that would have a profound influence on his musicianship. Hinds has also stated that he is a big fan of the progressive and psychedelic rock genres, especially from the '70s.
 
On June 12, 2007, Hinds and bandmate Bill Kelliher won the Metal Hammer Golden Gods award for best shredders, the first time the Mastodon guitarists had been awarded for their guitar virtuosity.
Hinds was featured along with Kelliher on the cover of Guitar World's 300th issue alongside guitar legends like Jimi Hendrix, Angus Young, and Kirk Hammett.

Hinds' vocal style is reminscent of a more extreme Ozzy Osbourne voice. Hinds performs clean and harsh vocals in Mastodon, where he shares lead vocal duties with Troy Sanders.

Guest appearance(s)

• "Horse Hunter" by The Dillinger Escape Plan on the album Ire Works. (vocals)
• "White Dwarf" by Zoroaster on the album Voice Of Saturn. (guitar solo and backing vocals)
• "At Arms Length" by Mouth of the Architect on the album The Ties That Blind. (vocals)
• "Jonah Hex" as a Union soldier (cameo)

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Who is Rafael Márquez Álvarez?

Who is Rafael Márquez Álvarez? The Soccer world know him as a Mexican footballer, who is currently a free agent after being given a free transfer by his previous club Barcelona in La Liga. He plays as a centre back or defensive midfielder. He also captains the Mexico national team.

Club career

Atlas

Márquez was born 13 February 1979 in Zamora, Michoacán. He began his career at Atlas, for whom he debuted in 1996 at the age of 17. Márquez rose to prominence while with Atlas, making 77 appearances for the team and being runner-up in the league losing the final against Deportivo Toluca in penalties.

Monaco

In 1999, Monaco purchased him for €6 million. Monaco scouts had gone to see Pablo Contreras on a Copa América match against Mexico, but they were impressed with Márquez's performance, so they signed the two defenders. Marquez was an immediate success with Monaco, helping lead the team to the French title in his first season with the club. Despite pressures from larger clubs, he would remain with the Monegasque club until 2003, when Barcelona signed him for €5 million to revitalize their back line. In doing so, he became only the second Mexican to play for Barcelona, after Horacio Casarín.

Barcelona

In his first season with Barcelona, Márquez appeared 21 times, helping the team to a second place finish in La Liga. During his second season, he was moved from his natural position as a center back to a defensive midfield role, due to injuries to players Thiago Motta, Edmílson and Gerard López. He completed a great season, being one of the main players that helped Barcelona win its 17th league title on 14 May 2005 after a 1–1 tie with Levante. After an injury in his left knee, he returned after a month to play against Milan in the first leg of the 2006 UEFA Champions League semi-final. Barcelona, playing away at the San Siro, won 1–0.

Márquez was present in the Champions League final on 17 May 2006 for Barcelona, in which they won the tournament over Arsenal. This achievement made him the first Mexican football player to ever win this competition, something Hugo Sánchez was not able to do during his time in La Liga with Real Madrid. After the 2006 World Cup, Barcelona extended his contract for the following 4 years to €38.5 million which will see his contract end in June 2010. Despite sustaining injuries, he was rumored to be up for sale at the end of the 2006–07 season. His future at Barça was up in the air until the 2007 Copa América, where Márquez regained his best form and was one of the best players of the competition, helping Mexico to an acceptable 3rd place.
In the 2007–08 season, Márquez got off to an excellent start, as he managed to form a solid partnership with new signing Gabriel Milito while captain Carles Puyol was out injured. However, constant injuries threw off his form. Márquez's success declined with the rest of the season leading Barcelona to end up in 3rd place after a miserable second half where injuries lead to his contribution being negligible. Even so, new coach Josep Guardiola continued to rely on his contributions; with the departure of Ronaldinho, Márquez has become the last original signing of the Rijkaard era to remain on the team. He was Guardiola's first choice at center back along with captain Puyol for the 2008–09 season. On 13 December 2008, Márquez played his 200th match for Barcelona in the clash against Real Madrid, which they won 2–0. He got injured on 28 April 2009, in a match against Chelsea in the semi-final. Márquez was told he needed surgery on his left knee, forcing him to miss the rest of the season.^[2] Barcelona would go on to win a historic treble after winning the 2008–09 Champions League, in which Márquez was present but was sidelined. Márquez also received an offer from Fiorentina.^[3] However, Márquez admits he would like to end his career at Barcelona and insists he is not concerned about the fact that his current contract runs out during the summer of 2010.^[4] Márquez signed a new contract with Barca in November 2009 that will keep him at the club until 2012.^[5] On 20 February 2010, he scored his first goal since his return against Racing Santander. Rafael officially left Barcelona after being released on a free transfer on 31 July 2010, he is currently without a club but has been consistently linked with a move to New York Red Bulls which would reunite him with Thierry Henry. ^[6]

International career

Since making his international debut on 5 February 1997 against Ecuador, but was not chosen for the 1998 FIFA World Cup squad. Márquez has been one of the Mexican national football team's most important players. Márquez has played various tournament's with the Mexican team, winning the 1999 Confederations Cup and the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Márquez started all four of Mexico's games during the 2002 World Cup in Korea/Japan, where he was given the Captain's Armband by then coach Javier Aguirre despite his young age of 23. Despite a strong performance during the group stage of the tournament, he received a red card during Mexico's second round 2–0 loss to the United States for a deliberate midair head butt on Cobi Jones in the final minutes of the match. Márquez was an integral part of Mexico's subsequent World Cup qualification campaign and was selected by Ricardo Lavolpe for the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
During the 2006 World Cup, Márquez played in all of four of Mexico's opening round matches, and scored the lone Mexican goal in a 2–1 loss to Argentina in the second round off a Pável Pardo free kick which was headed to the far post by Mario Méndez, allowing an unmarked Márquez to strike the ball into the back of the net. The winner was scored by Maxi Rodriguez in extra time after Hernán Crespo had equalised for Argentina. Since Mexico's second round exit, he has spoken out about the need to encourage future Mexican football players to play in Europe to increase the competitiveness of the team.

Former Mexican coach Hugo Sánchez asked Márquez to participate in the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup and the 2007 Copa América. Rafael joined up with the team Mexico for the Gold Cup's championship game against the United States after the conclusion of 2006–07 La Liga; Rafa started the match, a game that Mexico lost 2–1.
Marquez captained the Mexico national football team at the 2010 World Cup. Marquez scored Mexico's first goal against South Africa in the 79th minute against the hosts tieing the game one a piece. In Mexico's 2-0 win against France, Marquez played a tremendous ball to Javier Hernández Balcázar which put them up 1-0 in the game.

Personal life

He was married to Mexican actress Adriana Lavat, the couple married in December 2001 and had 2 children, Santiago Rafael and Rafaela, before separating in early 2007^[7]. He is now dating Jaydy Michel.^[8][9]

 

 

Honours

 

Monaco

• Ligue 1: 1
  

2000

• Trophée des champions: 1
  

2000

• Coupe de la Ligue: 1
  

2003

Barcelona

• La Liga: 4
  

2005, 2006, 2009, 2010

• Copa del Rey: 1
  

2009

• Supercopa de España: 3
  

2005, 2006, 2009

• Champions League: 2
  

2006, 2009

• UEFA Super Cup: 1
  

2009

• Club World Cup: 1
  

2009

International

• FIFA Confederations Cup: 1
  

1999

• CONCACAF Gold Cup: 1
  

2003

Individual

• Ligue 1 Best Defender: 1
  

2000

• Best North American player: 1
  

2005

• IFFHS 3rd Most Popular Player in the World: 1
  

2006

• Free Kick Masters: 1
  

2008

Career statistics

As of 25 April 2010.^[10]

Club performance			League		Cup		Continental		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Mexico			League		Cup		North America		Total
1996–97	Atlas	Primera División	24	2	—		—		24	2
1997–98			20	1	—		—		20	1
1998–99			33	3	—		—		33	3
France			League		Coupe de France		Europe		Total
1999–2000	Monaco	Ligue 1	23	3	2	0	6	0	31	3
2000–01			15	1	0	0	4	0	19	1
2001–02			19	0	3	0	—		22	0
2002–03			30	1	0	0	—		30	1
Spain			League		Copa del Rey		Europe		Total
2003–04	Barcelona	La Liga	22	1	6	0	3	0	31	1
2004–05			34	3	1	0	6	0	41	3
2005–06			25	0	4	1	8	0	37	1
2006–07			21	1	7	0	7	0	35	1
2007–08			23	2	5	0	8	0	36	2
2008–09			23	1	4	1	10	1	37	3
2009–10			15	1	3	0	5	0	23	1
Total	Mexico		77	6	—		—		77	6
	France		87	5	5	0	10	0	102	5
	Spain		163	9	30	2	47	1	240	12
Career Total			327	20	35	2	57	1	419	23

National team

As of 8 February 2008.^[11]

All-Time National Performance

Nationality	Year	Games Played	Minutes Played	Goals Scored	Yellow Card	Red Card
Mexico	1997	1	29	—	—	—
	1999	13	1177	1	2	—
	2000	10	902	2	1	—
	2001	12	1020	—	5	1
	2002	7	557	1	—	1
	2003	7	299	1	1	—
	2004	8	676	1	3	—
	2005	11	710	1	3	1
	2006	6	554	1	2	—
	2007	10	810	1	2	—
	2008	6	540	1	2	—
	2009	2	155	—	2	1
	2010	6	496	1	—	—
Career totals		93	7925	11	23	4

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	5 February 1999	Hong Kong Stadium, Wan Chai, Hong Kong	Egypt	1 – 0	3 – 0	1999 Carlsberg Cup
2.	13 February 2000	Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, United States	Trinidad and Tobago	1 – 0	4 – 0	2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup
3.	3 September 2000	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, Mexico	Panama	5 – 1	7 – 1	2002 World Cup qualifier
4.	12 May 2002	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, Mexico	Colombia	2 – 1	2 – 1	Friendly
5.	24 July 2003	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, Mexico	Costa Rica	1 – 0	2 – 0	2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup
6.	19 June 2004	Alamodome, San Antonio, United States	Dominica	0 – 3	0 – 10	2006 World Cup qualifier
7.	7 September 2005	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, Mexico	Panama	2 – 0	5 – 0	2006 World Cup qualifier
8.	24 June 2006	Zentralstadion, Leipzig, Germany	Argentina	0 – 1	2 – 1 (a.e.t.)	2006 FIFA World Cup
9.	28 March 2007	McAfee Coliseum, Oakland, United States	Ecuador	2 – 2	4 – 2	Friendly
10.	10 September 2008	Estadio Víctor Manuel Reyna, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico	Canada	2 – 0	2 – 1	2010 World Cup qualifier
11.	11 June 2010	Soccer City, Johannesburg, South Africa	South Africa	1 – 1	1 – 1	2010 FIFA World Cup

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