Lemmy was like everyone's family member. His peers & fans ADORED him. Everyone has a story about meeting or hanging out with him. Everyone says he was the coolest, nicest rock star ever.
I had a buddy in Trondheim, Norway, who had a girlfriend that ended up with Lemmy in a hotel room.. He was so proud that she cheated with Lemmy. He actually said something about her in a interview in a newspaper. "Her boyfriend calls me pussy" he said.. My buddy kept that article and showedit proudly around :)
Today, most people think of them as heavy metal but at the time they straddled the worlds of punk and heavy metal. When Lemmy was asked which it was, he usually said "we play rock n roll".
The holy (unholy?) trinity of Metal! 😄🤘 Lemmy on vocals/bass, "Fast Eddie" (Eddie Clark) on guitar and "Philthy Animal" (Phil Taylor) on drums. Rest in Peace legends ❤🤘
The first song I heard from Motörhead was "Overkill" and after 40 years this is still my favorite live song from them. Motörhead reunited in heaven. rock in peace
Love Motorhead, been a fan since I first heard them in 1979 - to this day the loudest gig I've been to was Motorhead at the Heavy Metal Holocaust in 1981. Lemmy always said they were Rock n Roll but they were obviously Heavy, Metal, Punk, Blues Rock n Roll. I'm getting my 2nd Motorhead tattoo on Wednesday 🤘
Lemmy, Eddie and Phill are all gone but they will never be forgotten. They all made their mark in rock n'roll's truest form on and off the stage (especially Lemmy). Legends!
Dominika passed the Motorhead test.... she's an official metalhead. I love the quote from Lemmy: "if we move in next door to you, your lawn will die" 😂😂😂
These were the guys who were in at the start of heavy metal. Very powerful and full of energy. Motorhead always called themselves a heavy rock band, but all metal bands developed from them, and they were equally respected by punk rock aficionados. These are REAL musicians. Phil 'Filthy Animal' Taylor developed the use of two bass drums and speed thrash metal drumming. Lemmy played a bass guitar like a lead guitar! Fast Eddie Clarke played superbly sweet lead guitar to absolute perfection. Their sound was unique. Someone once said that this song was a bar fights national anthem. Some said that the drummer needed a new drum kit after this. And yes Punks loved them too. So you were right Dominica. This song is absolutely full of energy. Motorhead were highly respected.
Lemmy Kilmister and Richard Kruspe had also worked together ! You should check out "Emigrate - Rock City" ! One of my favorites from Emigrate along with "I have a dream" 😉 Nice reaction 👍🏻
You were very perceptive to pick up on the punk aspect of Motorhead. I remember an interview with them by the NME in Rickmansworth sewage works where Lemmy stated that the band was rooted in rock but had punk energy. During this interview he was drinking Special Brew with Smirnoff chasers, what a legend. RIP.
Lemmy ...here's a real rocker who had it in his blood.... unfortunately there aren't many...He's a real legend and besides, I'm not sure he was very recommendable... well, nobody's perfect 😊
Andrei, your wife is a real metalhead/headbanger. Love it! Motorhead is my favorite band. I've seen them many times over the years and I've been to a lot of rock concerts and club shows. Hey, I'm 70 years old and still love the music.
"Lemmy always insisted that they were a rock and roll band. He said they had more in common with punk bands, but with their own unique sound, Motörhead is embraced in both punk and metal scenes" - Wow! You are spot on with that nuance in your review. Motorhead was a very influential rock and roll band with a lot of punk energy. Motorhead definitely was not a metal band although so many people forced them into that genre..., a genre even the band did not claim.
Lemmy was with the flying vicars,,,then later with hawkwind where he did silver machine and motorhead, when he needed a name for his own band he chose motorhead....hawkwind is worth checking out.
That's the show I never got to see live...had one chance at the Monsters Of Rock in Sao Paulo 2015, but Lemmy felt worse that day and couldn't perform...he would pass away 8 months later, but not before recording and releasing one more studio album
Actually, Motorhead were the archetypal Heavy Metal group with a loyal army of “head badgers” who I saw in Hammersmith, West London. They certainly were not a punk band.
Wonderful reactions. This song (?) is beautiful fast noice. But the language of that beautiful woman made me dizzy! She sounded like North Londonder with a twist of Dublin. East Dublin. And a bit' Welsh. South Welsh. Multilangwistic. Anglistic. Creetings from Finland! Here we speak lot' of USA language. In English...
Before Möterhead Lemmy played in a band called Hawkwind. A free festival band of the 70's. Space Rock would be one way to describe them 🤪😎 They had a song called Motorhead, with Lemmy on bass.I guess this is where the name of his group came from when he left Hawkwind? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pwJOiIz_p6E.html
Lemmy as well as saying they were a Rock and Roll not metal always said he aligned himself more with punk than metal anyway, he was very close friends with The Damned, even playing bass for them on many occasions and was just a big fan of Punk in general, he felt less affinity with bands such as Black Sabbath, Judas Priest et al
Filthy Animal was what the drummer called himself and i feel he sort of thinking himself as the drummer in Sesamy street. But to be serious i had played drums for a year and played music like Abba, disco Beatles, all cind of music but never metal. I needed to find music that was harder to play as a drummer so i tested Blues and classical but i never liked the energy of it. So i found out about this "new" music called metal at the rtecord store, in those days u actually went and bought records. And the guy in the store told me if i wanted some real metal this is what i should get, so i bought an album with Motörhead and Iron maiden. As soon i started to play these songs i fealt, jesus this is hard and i got cramp in my arms and legs afte just a couple of songs. A year later after playing these and other metal music i was a metal head and started to find more and more, went to play Rush wich was challenging in a different way. I love metal and still today i listen to almost all type of metal.
Punk ??? yes they are more punk than heavy metal at that time. maybe check out some 80's punk bands. Like The Partisans, Zyklome A, Millions of death cops, Anti Cimex,The Shitlickers, The Legion of Parasites, B.G.K. , Urban Waste, Kaaos, Larm, Kuro, and tons more
