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The Lemmy bar…

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That’s literally thirty minutes drive from my house. Unfortunately, this bar is thirty years too late.

Lemmy has been dead for over a decade, Phil died this year, anyone under 40 hardly knows Motörhead, few people under 30 listen to rock and metal (especially in Stoke); and remember, Motörhead were on Top of the Pops in their heyday. They’re just not culturally relevant anymore. Add to that the price of drinks is skyrocketing in the UK. Last night I spent £20 on two drinks! Drinking as a whole is plummeting over the nation, and young people hardly drink at all.

Now I LOVE metal and play in a metal band. I want metal to be popular again. Good luck to them, I hope they are successful and have a booming business for years!
 
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kyral210 said:
That’s literally thirty minutes drive from my house. Unfortunately, this bar is thirty years too late.

Lemmy has been dead for over a decade, Phil died this year, anyone under 40 hardly knows Motörhead, few people under 30 listen to rock and metal (especially in Stoke); and remember, Motörhead were on Top of the Pops in their heyday. They’re just not culturally relevant anymore. Add to that the price of drinks is skyrocketing in the UK. Last night I spent £20 on two drinks! Drinking as a whole is plummeting over the nation, and young people hardly drink at all.

Now I LOVE metal and play in a metal band. I want metal to be popular again. Good luck to them, I hope they are successful and have a booming business for years!
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I love the idea. Sounds like it would be more successful here in Florida 🤘
 
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That is a wonderful place and idea.
Good to keep history alive

Sure turns the area into a tourist destination.
Wonder if they did the same thing with Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy, near his statue?
 
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kyral210 said:
I am totally down with the Gwar bar. Partly because members of Gwar work there!
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My daughter was married in 2014 about a month after Brockie died. His successor was at the wedding. Several of the attendees came from France and are huge fans of GWAR, got the biggest kick out of being invited to the Slave Pit to hang out and try on some of the various costumes and props. It was one of the highlights of their visit to the US.
 
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Relsom said:
My daughter was married in 2014 about a month after Brockie died. His successor was at the wedding. Several of the attendees came from France and are huge fans of GWAR, got the biggest kick out of being invited to the Slave Pit to hang out and try on some of the various costumes and props. It was one of the highlights of their visit to the US.
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I always get the impression the Gwar guys are really decent humans. It’s probably why Gwar chose them to be their slaves!
 
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kyral210 said:
That’s literally thirty minutes drive from my house. Unfortunately, this bar is thirty years too late.

Lemmy has been dead for over a decade, Phil died this year, anyone under 40 hardly knows Motörhead, few people under 30 listen to rock and metal (especially in Stoke); and remember, Motörhead were on Top of the Pops in their heyday. They’re just not culturally relevant anymore. Add to that the price of drinks is skyrocketing in the UK. Last night I spent £20 on two drinks! Drinking as a whole is plummeting over the nation, and young people hardly drink at all.

Now I LOVE metal and play in a metal band. I want metal to be popular again. Good luck to them, I hope they are successful and have a booming business for years!
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I'm in my early 30s and Motörhead is one of my favorite bands of all-time! Lemmy (RIP) is one of my biggest influences as a bassist and a guitarist.

There's a line in the song "We Are Motörhead" that sums their cultural relevance up perfectly: "we are the ones you've heard, and the ones you've never heard" (time stamp 1:53). That song and album were released in 2000 and nothing has changed about their cultural relevance. To this day, if you know about Motörhead, you know how amazing they were/are. If you don't know about Motörhead, you probably have heard of them without knowing it.



As for the Motörhead bar, unfortunately, I'm not in the UK, so I can't easily go there in person. But I'm probably a two hour drive (with traffic) away from The Rainbow in LA. That's where Lemmy practically lived when he wasn't touring. I need to go there over the summer when business is slow!
 
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MrAB4003 said:
I'm in my early 30s and Motörhead is one of my favorite bands of all-time! Lemmy (RIP) is one of my biggest influences as a bassist and a guitarist.

There's a line in the song "We Are Motörhead" that sums their cultural relevance up perfectly: "we are the ones you've heard, and the ones you've never heard" (time stamp 1:53). That song and album were released in 2000 and nothing has changed about their cultural relevance. To this day, if you know about Motörhead, you know how amazing they were/are. If you don't know about Motörhead, you probably have heard of them without knowing it.



As for the Motörhead bar, unfortunately, I'm not in the UK, so I can't easily go there in person. But I'm probably a two hour drive (with traffic) away from The Rainbow in LA. That's where Lemmy practically lived when he wasn't touring. I need to go there over the summer when business is slow!
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Look all around society, rock and metal are no longer relevant. Thirty years ago the charts were dominated by bands, no there’s zero bands in the charts. Rock is dead
 

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