Mothers finest band biography

Lemmy named his band Bastard before he decided on Motörhead.

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Lars Ulrich thought Thunderfuck was the way to go, before taking the name of his friend’s fanzine titled Metallica. And as Joyce ‘Baby Jean’ Kennedy recalls, the greatest of all funk rock bands once considered calling themselves The Motherfuckers. 

“We wanted to say that,” she says, laughing, “but we couldn’t have gotten away with it.

So we just took the ‘MF’ and became Mother’s Finest.” 

With a multi-racial line-up and a sound described as ‘Sly And The Family Stone-meets-Led Zeppelin’ – a combustible mix of soul power and hard-rock muscle – Mother’s Finest emerged in the early 70s as a band on a mission.

As Kennedy puts it: “We wanted to make music that anybody could enjoy. We wanted to entertain and to be