Not the best way to start a Sunday
This was posted on blabbermouth earlier......
According to a posting on the Facebook page of Tim Butcher, MOTORHEAD leader Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister's longtime bass tech and "right-hand man," former MOTORHEAD guitarist Michael "Wurzel" Burston died earlier today (Saturday, July 9). He was 61 years old.
Before joining MOTORHEAD in 1984, Burston had been a corporal in the Army, serving in Germany and Ireland with the 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, and had played in the bands BASTARD and WARFARE. Joining another relatively unknown guitarist, Phil Campbell, they played together at a MOTORHEAD audition, and both were taken on.
Burston acquired the nickname Wurzel while in the Army, being compared to the character Worzel Gummidge due to his scarecrow-style hair and bumpkin-like manner. Lemmy reportedly demanded that W?rzel add an umlaut to the "U" in his name, for "heavy metal effect."