Prepare to ‘Die’: Motorheads Will Roll--and Rock : Music: Front man Lemmy marches his speed metal band into the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano on Monday.

Lemmy, a.k.a. Ian Kilmister, is the man behind Motorhead, the British quartet of whom he once said: “If we moved in next door, your lawn would die.”

Motorhead--which has just released “March or Die,” yet another album of raucous speed metal sure to anger parents the world over--will be in San Juan Capistrano on Monday night to play the Coach House. Because the bad will just be passing through, there’s probably no need for horticultural paranoia. But if all the dogs within a 12-block radius of the club are howling, well, you’ll know the show has begun.

Lemmy has been in bands since the mid-’60s. His Rocking Vikars was the first Western band to play behind the Iron Curtain. Later he was in the very spacey British sci-fi/art rock/what-the-heck band, Hawkwind. Motorhead’s been around since 1975. (“There’s been, let’s see, 10 different members in Motorhead,” he notes. “Not bad for 17 years.”)

Although Lemmy has been living in Los Angeles, no one’s made a dent in that accent of his, and he doesn’t give a damn about the Dodgers. But let Lemmy tell it:

Question: So you’re a Los Angeles kind of guy now. What’s it like compared to London?

Lemmy: I’ve been here two years and a couple of months now, and I think it’s very much like London except the girls wear less clothes.

Q: What is the rock ‘n’ roll attitude?

L: You mean, what’s my attitude? Don’t listen to people who say it won’t work, and just do it your own way. I’ve gone around the world and been to fabulous places that people only dream of.

Q: Is there such a thing as too much fun?

L: Yeah, there is. People die from heroin. It’s too much fun. I won’t allow it in my house.

Q: Who goes to Motorhead gigs?

L: Well, I go to every one. My mom goes sometimes. We even get completely normal people who have smartened up and actually got jobs now. Then we get the typical metal yabbo, with a beer clutched in a greasy fist.

Q: What’s the best thing about your job?

L: It’s not a job; it’s a life. You don’t stop doing it at 5:30. I’m Lemmy 24 hours a day. You create your presence, then it sort of takes over.

Q: How did you get started in all this?

L: In the music biz? I saw Little Richard in the ‘50s when he toured England. That’s why I sing like this--I’m doing Little Richard. That’s why John Lennon sang the way he did--he thought he was doing Elvis.

Q: You were in the first Western band to play behind the Iron Curtain. What was that like?

L: We played Yugoslavia in 1965. It was very bleak. We had dinner with Tito, but by then he was sort of over the hill. England got the the Red Army Choir, and they got us.

Q: Can music change the world?

L: It already has changed the world. Imagine a world without rock ‘n’ roll; what would people be doing instead of going to concerts?

Q: Has the music biz changed Lemmy?

L: It’s made me more smug. It makes you cynical, being artistic.

Q: Long hairs used to be mellow. What happened?

L: They all became like Jerry Brown, I don’t know. They weren’t so mellow. There was Abbie Hoffman and that Bader-Meinhoff gang who were always blowing everything up. I guess everyone is an anarchist after all. Also, no one can see your ears if you have long hair.

Q: What was your strangest gig?

L: I was on an island made out of garbage off the coast of Holland. They dumped their garbage in the ocean and put dirt over it. It was great. It’s a good idea--don’t you hate the word landfill ? Anyway, a storm was blowing around the north coast, and I thought we’d get washed into the sea. There were four people and a dog there, and one of them clapped.

Q: There’s a song called “Ain’t No Nice Guy” on your new CD. So are you becoming a nice guy in your old age?

L: I have to think so, although I could find 10 people right now who would disagree.

Motorhead plays Monday at 8 p.m. at the Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano. $25. (714) 496-8930.