So he's just had his birthday? I didn't get my invite to the party but then I'd be the one slouching in the corner after the first 5 drinks! May he go on for a long time yet as the world needs rebels. Mind you Ozzy has about 32 lives. He had that bad accident on the quad bike and came through it. There were loads of jokes going around about not being able to find a sample of blood in his body,only alcohol, etc etc. Rock on Oz. His voice was so right for Sabbath in its day and he still loves performing now.
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Lemmy Kilmister...
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Smash, can I have the name of the latest album please.
By the way, some of us just can't damn be trained!!!!! What do you do when you're a Lemmy lovin' Essex female rebel? You never let anyone train you thats what.
By the way, some of us just can't damn be trained!!!!! What do you do when you're a Lemmy lovin' Essex female rebel? You never let anyone train you thats what.
You are a true gent.
HAPPY NEW YEAR by the way.
Are you doing anything special or just the usual JD/beers/JD more JD/more beers/JD chasers/oblivion.
HAPPY NEW YEAR by the way.
Are you doing anything special or just the usual JD/beers/JD more JD/more beers/JD chasers/oblivion.
I saw Motorhead the first time at the Ipswich Gaumont in 1984 while I was stationed at RAF Bentwaters during my Air Force days. Pure hard rock bliss! This was also the show that made me seriously consider wearing earplugs for the first time. My ears rang for THREE DAYS! Which is something, since I work on jets for a day job.
I got to meet Lemmy in 1996 in Atlanta just before a show at the Masquerade. He was definitely living the rock and roll lifestyle (two strippers for company), but really a nice guy.
I read an interview with him once where he said he considers himself more of a rhythm guitarist than a bassist. He's still one of my favorite influences, though.
I got to meet Lemmy in 1996 in Atlanta just before a show at the Masquerade. He was definitely living the rock and roll lifestyle (two strippers for company), but really a nice guy.
I read an interview with him once where he said he considers himself more of a rhythm guitarist than a bassist. He's still one of my favorite influences, though.
blast_tyrant said:
Good 'ol Lemmy!!! He truly is one of a kind, and the truth is, he started off playing rhythm guitar way back when, and it was only when he hooked up with Hawkwind that he got abass thrust into his hands, he was less than thrilled at first but eventually took to it . See this vid of Lemmy and Hawkwind back in the day:
He stayed with Hawkwind until 1975 when he got busted at the Canadian border for posession of amphetamines. He was then fired from the band, got back to England and formed Motorhead to get even with them.
The Owl said:
THat's a great clip..... strange to see him ham-fisting it along at 100mph on a Gibbo instead of a Ric!
Funny thing is, every Friday AM there's a DJ here from England, and he does a bit called "the brit hit that missed" with a song that was huge in England but got nowhere in the US-- you win stuff by guessing the title and band (have to get both)-- last week was Hawkwind's Silver Machine
Lemmy sang that one, too
He told quite a bit on the air how he had a teenage crush on Anastasia the dancer.... I was too late bu about ten seconds, but I did remind him Lemmy was in the band after he said on the air that he couldn't remember the bassist's name....
Lemmy's a cool guy. Rocks out, that's all he cares about. None of the corporate BS, the MTV suck-up BS, just goes out there and does what he does.
i should say so, too. there are a lot of stoners in nottingham(well, a lot that i know) and they all love Ozzy. Metallica and maiden are more respected here, though. and we are NOT a city of bloody gun slingers!Amethyst said:
lemmy is great, not cus of his technique or skills, but beause he helped form the speed metal and thrash metal genre. and those chops are the coolest facial hair in rock
Hawkwind kinda died when Lemmy left. He kept the rock in the band, they got a little too synthy after he left.
Lemmys a great guy! i respect him, hes also really clever if youve seen a documentary about him.
...hey, they made a signature Ric after him that's worth big $$$ & he's STILL alive/playing...way cool!...
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I think he's a pretty good bass player. His intro to Ace of Spades kind of has this tricky groove that's ALMOST funky. When that dude on the "Supergroup" show played it, it sounded like even 8th notes. Also liked the breakdown in the Probot song.
The drummer and the guitarist in my band are brothers.
Rumour has it that back before they came along, before settling down and middle-aged spread, in the crazy days of the 1970s, their mother once did the horizontal tango with a crazy as f**k bassist by the name of Lemmy. I have no way to prove this one way or the other, but I want to believe.
On a similar tack, we used to practice in a studio call Backstreet, in Holloway, North London. It has sadly now shut its doors. Chris, the owner, was one of those old soldiers of the music world and, many moons ago, was a roadie for Hawkwind. One night Lemmy came off stage, thrust a bass into his hands, and told him to 'get rid of it'. He still has it to this day, though he has since deftretted it. I offered him everything bar my sister to have a go on it but to no avail.
Lemmy, I think it's fair to say, rules.
Rumour has it that back before they came along, before settling down and middle-aged spread, in the crazy days of the 1970s, their mother once did the horizontal tango with a crazy as f**k bassist by the name of Lemmy. I have no way to prove this one way or the other, but I want to believe.
On a similar tack, we used to practice in a studio call Backstreet, in Holloway, North London. It has sadly now shut its doors. Chris, the owner, was one of those old soldiers of the music world and, many moons ago, was a roadie for Hawkwind. One night Lemmy came off stage, thrust a bass into his hands, and told him to 'get rid of it'. He still has it to this day, though he has since deftretted it. I offered him everything bar my sister to have a go on it but to no avail.
Lemmy, I think it's fair to say, rules.
sounds like me but minus the whores and add in chicksDeynn said:What a truly wonderful reason to admire someone as a musician...Because he was drunk and wanted some "black whores".
Lemmy's tone on No Sleep Til Hammersmith and especially his bass solo on Stay Clean are what made me a fan.
lemmy didnt play guitar in hawkwind he went to replace huw lloyd langton who had a bad trip n disapeared in smoke!! he started with a fender bodied thing...hernadez or some thing!!that was left in the van as he was a guitarest so didnt own a bass....then he went to gibsons thunderbird,wich he still owns also had sg wich u can see on silver machine video,but he found the necks to wide and found rics a narrower neck.....just think if he found tbirds comfey he still be using it today...he likes fenders too!
stay clean is a crackin song his bass solo in it a great, but also check out another ex hawkwind bassest alan davey lemmy influenced!!
