Motorhead: C or D

The image: classic, no two ways about it.

The music: Very enjoyable in small doses, but as with most Metal, it all ends up sounding a bit samey to me after the fourth song.

According to AMG he'll be 57 on Christmas Eve

The album suffers from a very weak sound, so it's the live recordings that make this song so great.

The remaster work is much improved over the old CD master of "No Remorse" that I had until it got lost. (My first copy of No Remorse was a cassette that I bought at a truck stop on a road trip.)

Motorhead make riding a big Harley hog and doing mounds of speed seem like a good idea.

Also, what's their best recenbt album? Recommendations?

Overkill is great, maybe just a hair below Ace of Spades as an album. Bomber isn't quite as great, but it is still pretty good.
Both were produced by Jimmy Miller, which was a bit of a surprise.

I'm sure all of Motorhead's early records were done on a tight budget. Lemmy plays chords with a distorted bass tone on quite a few tunes, which tends to blend with the guitar into a big overdriven pudding.

The thing I dig about the albums compared to Motorhead comps is that they leave off many good mid-tempo boogie numbers.

'Damage Case' may be the best Motorhead song

but

'Killed by Death' is the best video clip in the history of hard rock. It has Lemmy and the gang riding around with chicks on motorcycles and dirt buggies, then a bunch of cops shoot Lemmy with shotguns, then it cuts to Lemmy's funeral, where he rides out of his grave on a motorcycle.

The thing with Motorhead is that every single one of their albums has at least three songs, and sometimes four or five, that are totally mind-destroyingly brilliant. Hammered, the most recent one, is no exception, but of their "recent" stuff (since 1991, say), I'd pick Overnight Sensation. Not just for the title track and "Love Can't Buy You Money," but for "I Don't Believe A Word," which is, I think, even better than "Orgasmatron" for total everybody-sucks-and-there's-no-hope fatalism.

I really actually love 1916, even thought it's maybe a bit of a "leftfield" album for them....How is that album regarded by hardcore MH fans?

No Voices in the Sky, the title track, Ramones, and a bunch of others are pretty great imo.

http://www.motorhead.ru/art11damagecase.htm

I couldn't sleep last night and stumbled across the Classic Albums episode on Ace Of Spades. There's some extras which made it onto YouTube - the one to check out is the semi-reunion (Clarke is in a different studio) of Lemmy, Clarke, and Taylor who blast through "We Are The Road Crew" as an instrumental. Amazingly fantastic even with Clarke effectively pasted in.

I've been listening to the reissues today and I love how inverted the early records are compared with subsequent metal albums. Guitar solos aren't mixed up higher, bass solos are (check out the reissue version of "Stay Clean"!). Drums sound more like Keith Moon or Chuck Biscuits rather than the same Bonham mix every metal band goes for. For all the press that Jimmy Miller gets for his work with the Stones, I think Overkill and Bomber are his best production jobs.

Anyone who says "dud" should be ripped apart by famished hyaenas.

Soooo true then. Soooooo true now.

alex in nyc otm

i don't much go for metal, but i love those two records (and have the reissue versions)

lemmy is the only bass player that makes playing full voiced chords through the whole song fucking ROCK.

Anyone else heard Motörizer yet? I haven't listened to anything since 1916, which was a long, long time ago. In other words, I don't know if they were still this great the whole time, but it's amazing how much 2008 Motörhead is every bit as kickass as 1978 Motörhead.

Which of the late-period albums are worth looking for?

Inferno is as solid a Motorhead album as there's been since Orgasmatron.

I quite like Sacrifice too, and the last one Kiss of Death was good fun.

Hammered is another good one.

I hate that this is going to sound like snark, because I honestly love the shit out of Motorhead, but here goes... you can tell the difference between albums?

Heh, it's a fair point, but some of them just don't seem to grab me that much - I don't really like much of Bastards or We Are Motorhead (which I think was one of those "stunning return to form" records at the time, but I never got into it).

I have "Motorhead," "Bomber," "Overkill," "Ace of Spades," "Orgasmatron," "1916," and the "No Remorse" comp, and it's no big heresy to put 'em all on shuffle. Sez me.

>you can tell the difference between albums?

This is actually a fair question. Motörhead albums don't tend to stick in my head; individual songs do, and sometimes it's hard to remember which album a particular favorite song is on. They're a rock 'n' roll band, and they structure their albums in the old-school "hits 'n' filler" way: They open strong, plod along a bit, pick up momentum around the midpoint (where you'd switch sides in vinyl days) and rocket to the end. So I'll rarely listen to a whole album - I'll listen to the good songs off each one.

Another thing: The current lineup is the best lineup. They've been together for over 15 years now (Phil Campbell's been in the band 24 years!), and they're tight enough and comfortable enough with each other that they can experiment and make it work. The so-called "classic" lineup would never have had the guts or ability to write or record songs like "I Don't Believe A Word," "I Am The Sword," "Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me," "1916," or any of a dozen or more other "hey, that doesn't sound like Motörhead!" tracks they've put out since the early '90s.

I'm seeing them in two weeks at PNC in NJ. It's gonna be my eight-year-old nephew's first concert. Can't wait.

I wasn't actually aware Motorhead had a new album out until this thread got revived, and hey presto it appears in my blog reader a couple of hours later ;)

Thanks all. I might just do some random cherrypicking of recent albums and see what happens.

Another thing: The current lineup is the best lineup. They've been together for over 15 years now (Phil Campbell's been in the band 24 years!), and they're tight enough and comfortable enough with each other that they can experiment and make it work.

Completely agree. And they sound massive live as well.

you can tell the difference between albums?

I can definitely tell the difference between every album up to, say, 1916, that's for sure. Sonically, pretty much each of those records are actually quite distinctly different.

Surely Lemmy is allowed to smoke on stage? FFS.
Riot. Anarchy. tear the walls down etc

A couple of tours ago they only played two songs from their normal 'greatest hits' setlist, the rest was all taken from their 85-00 albums. Fucking awesome that was, all sounded like bonafide classics. Really made me reassess those albums. The fact that they can pull this off where every other 30+ year old classic rock band would be booed off if they didn't deliver the hits.

I picked this up while record shopping Friday - http://www.rock-n-roll-action-figures.com/lolekimoacfi.html - I want it to come to life and do my bidding.

I can't wait for the documentary to come out!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0501437/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg0mjnFkeqw

Lemmy is SO cool.

I wish I could find more of those reissues around here, it doesn't even seem like Amazon has them. I picked up the Ace of Spades and Another Perfect Day ones, but I'm hungry for more.

Meanwhile I've been working my way backwards through the recent albums - Motorizer, Kiss of Death, Inferno, and Hammered. And yeah, I've pretty much discovered that each of them has anywhere between 3-6 songs I absolutely love - and a lot of interchangeable filler.

I still listen to Hammered a fair bit - it's a good one, except for that poem at the end, which is totally shit but still good somehow. Highlights on that album are the two songs where he's appreciating two sexy women - Dr Love and and Mine All Mine (?). I love Lemmy when he's giving appreciative props to hot biker chicks - clearly the viagra is working.

The newer Motorhead albums are slower, fatter and warmer, to my ears. The songs are as good as ever, and there is the odd surprise - the band will experiment from time to time with multitracked vocals, pitchshifting, death metal
riffs, psychedelic guitar solos, etc.

Another band I think is worth getting back into is Venom - once again, solid, fat riffs, no huge surprises, a smattering of small surprises.

LOVE ME LIKE A REPTILE

LOVE ME LIKE A REPTILE

Anybody buy the stupidly overpriced deluxe editions of the early albums? I looked at 'em but couldn't justify it.

no, i'm pretty much with max

get 'em used. Another Perfect Day Deluxe has a great show on the second disc.

gah! fuckin motorhead
saw the lemmy interview in that 'metal: a headbanger's journey' documentary and he talks about the name motorhead being some character from a comic or something?? google not helping here

I thought it was a slang term for someone on a speed binge. Which is what he wrote the song about. And eventually named the band after the song.

ah he mumbles something about a comic character . . .

Another thing: The current lineup is the best lineup. They've been together for over 15 years now (Phil Campbell's been in the band 24 years!), and they're tight enough and comfortable enough with each other that they can experiment and make it work. The so-called "classic" lineup would never have had the guts or ability to write or record songs like "I Don't Believe A Word," "I Am The Sword," "Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me," "1916," or any of a dozen or more other "hey, that doesn't sound like Motörhead!" tracks they've put out since the early '90s

I'd kinda like to hear a Motorhead (Not Motorhead) comp.

Reading the Hawkwind bio - their relationship with Lemmy is hilarious. 'He always had to be right about everything'. How's the new(ish) album Motorizer?

How's the new(ish) album Motorizer?

I can't compare it to recent albums, because I still haven't heard all of them, but it holds its own again the first few. I'd recommend.

It charted in the UK apparently. That must be nice for an old Lemster.

Motorizer rocks. Definitely one of the best of their recent albums.

Yeah, that album's a lot of fun. Actually their last three have been above average...the band's been on a nice little roll as of late.

Hopefully this ends up on Youtube or something.

>> news archive
motörhead news in german
03/03/2010Gimme Lemmy! SXSW Interview Wed. March 17
Celebrating the world premiere of the film LEMMY at SXSW, Motorhead's bass-playing frontman sits down for a chat. The living embodiment of rock and roll, Lemmy played with Hawkwind, spent time in Jimi Hendrix's road crew, and formed Motorhead in 1975. For decades, Motorhead has rocked audiences worldwide with maximum volume and no frills. Lemmy's take-no-prisoners approach to rock inspires countless musicians to this day.

The SXSW Interview with Lemmy takes place on Wednesday March 17 at 5:00pm in Room 18ABC of the Austin Convention Center. Share an hour with a truly influential artist. Noted writer and lifelong metalhead Phil Freeman will ask the questions. Music and Platinum Badges are invited, as well as allShowcasing Artist wristbands. Don't miss this ass-kicking event!

I'm sure it'll wind up being recorded and probably streamed on the SXSW site, or something like that. Plus, I'll have my own flip camera and record some personal footage that I'll upload myself. (I'm Phil Freeman, for anyone who doesn't know.)

I knew you posted around here from the Miles Davis threads and I figured their might be some ILM people that would want to know.

I've been on a huge Motorhead kick for the past six months or so and if I was in Austin, I would definitely check it out. Lemmy is a trip, I read his autobio a month or so ago. I'd love to read a book with just Lemmy talking about rock records. Lemmy is just one of those guys that has the long view of the whole thing.

Have fun.

"ah he mumbles something about a comic character . . ."

that's a comic character he hallucinated after a massive speed binge.

My favorite Motorhead disc is "Orgasmatron." It sounds like no other Motorhead album, has a line-up that purists don't give a lot of stock to, but the songs and sound of it all that still allow Lemmy's attitude to shine through is awesome.

RIP Würzel

Aww RIP.

Good obituary, he sounded like a nice guy. RIP.

Motorhead: Don't buy our new box set
By Ed Payne, CNN

Call it "Overkill" if you must, but the iron-fisted metal band Motörhead doesn't want its fans to buy their extravagant new 15-disc box set that comes out Tuesday.

Why?

At over $600, it's too expensive.

"Unfortunately greed once again rears its yapping head," said frontman Lemmy Kilmister. "I would advise against it even for the most rabid completists!"

Housed in a Motörhead-style skull with red light-up eyes, the package includes the eight early albums -- from the self-titled debut to "No Remorse" -- plus the band's early singles, along with some posters and a photo book.

"Motörhead have no control over what's done with these early songs, and don't want fans to think that the band is involved in putting out such a costly box set," the band said.

The price for the "Complete Early Years Box Set" is similar to The Beatles 2009 Japanese remastered box set, which included 16 discs and a DVD, according the website most-expensive.net. The U.S. version can be purchased these days for less than $200.

ABBA's nine CD box set went for about $500.

But are fans willing to slap down six big bills for set?

In the forum on the band's official website, the limited reaction was negative.

"No way, there's nothing new in that box, not even one new song," said a fan, who goes by the handle MotorLaw. "For serious collectors only."

At least one fan seemed tired of the new spin on the old albums.

"Except for the nice packaging it's just a re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-release!" said Juggernaut.

If its fans aren't spending money on the new box set, what would Motörhead have them do instead?

The band does have a new album and DVD out -- "The Wörld Is Yours" and "The Wörld Is Ours - Vol 1 - Everywhere Further Than Everyplace Else." Both were released late last year.

CNN

What label is putting this out anyway?

ABBA's nine CD box set went for about $500.

Rumors flying like crazy because of this

http://www.noise11.com/news/motorhead-drop-off-german-festival-because-of-ailing-lemmy-20130804

Lemmy is in my short list of people that need to live forever.

This picture says it all.

http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Lemmy+is+God.+Who+likes+short+shorts_2119ee_3881421.jpg

http://31.media.tumblr.com/37e7773686c0bc847a046cc35eb0e881/tumblr_muj2gqTJc11sui0b1o1_1280.jpg

anyone heard the new album?

yeah, it's great

lol @ "your lawn would die"

just watched the great Lemmy documentary, listening to Bomber now. Do bands exist like this now? Do people exist like Lemmy? The closest I can think of is Darkthrone, because they've got a handful of acknowledged classic records, a LOT more records that fans like, but few others can distinguish between, and just keep doing their thing regardless of trends. (Except in true internet-era style, Darkthrone don't tour or participate much in the outside world beyond their records, interviews, Fenriz's blog, etc) Lemmy just defies real life, like the gods decided he was going to be the symbol of a rock and roll lifestyle, and gets to drink, smoke and fuck as much as he wants for as long as he wants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ieYSBZTfCI

Lemmy is a fucking machine. If you'd told me this was an outtake from Overkill, I'd have believed you. But no, it's new!

Lemmy is looking more and more ill and frail these days, sadly. Here he is bringing last night's show to a premature end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX7P6c0VwBQ

One of my friends just won tickets for the Motorhead rock cruise later this year. I hope he holds it together for that, or else she's just going to be stuck out in the ocean with Anthrax and shit.

And today of all days, my piece ranking all their albums for Stereogum goes live. Enjoy!

lol fuck the world for putting (post-Hanneman, post-Lombardo) Slayer as top billing above Motorhead.

http://www.motorheadcruise.com/

It feels so fucking weird to see Lemmy like that.

philthy animal taylor has left us. :-(

http://loudwire.com/motorhead-phil-philthy-animal-taylor-dies/

RIP. Great drummer and the documentary about Ace of Spades where he and Lemmy are happily talking shit to each other is one of my favorite things ever.

it's a bummer, it's a bummer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2S9rwyQkJE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q3E5TTjuaw

The pull quote about his audition for Motorhead is "what a horrible little cunt, he's perfect!"

Good GRIEF. Now Phil Campbell has suddenly passed.

http://www.hornsuprocks.com/news_view_full.php?id=4544#.VlydfPldXTo

Note from Ade though:

https://twitter.com/basementgalaxy/status/671405519286833153

Update confirms, Phil C still among us:

http://www.hornsuprocks.com/news_view_full.php?id=4544#.VlynqfldXTp

phew!

No official confirmation so it may be a hoax hopefully

http://www.spin.com/2015/12/motorhead-lemmy-dead-ian-fraser-kilmister-70-rip

starting to trickle in from more sources, but nothing "official" yet. if it's a hoax, they sure fooled a lot of people :(

Sadly it appears to be true.

True sadly :( RIP Lemmy

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMotorhead/posts/1107561019276205?pnref=story

There is no easy way to say this…our mighty, noble friend Lemmy passed away today after a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer. He had learnt of the disease on December 26th, and was at home, sitting in front of his favorite video game from The Rainbow which had recently made it’s way down the street, with his family.

We cannot begin to express our shock and sadness, there aren’t words.

We will say more in the coming days, but for now, please…play Motörhead loud, play Hawkwind loud, play Lemmy’s music LOUD.
Have a drink or few.

Share stories.

Celebrate the LIFE this lovely, wonderful man celebrated so vibrantly himself.

HE WOULD WANT EXACTLY THAT.

Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister

1945 -2015

Born to lose, lived to win.

Good lord, 2 days? Fucking hell. RIP.

there goes a man who enjoyed life without compromise, and left us with a whole lot of kick ass music so we can share in some of the fun ourselves. RIP Lemmy.

Fucking hell, man, I never thought this would happen, ever. Dude just seemed eternal. Coincidentally been listening to Hawkwind all day, guess it'll be Motorhead all night.

I'm sure I've told this story before, but here it is anyway.

The first time (of 3) I interviewed Lemmy was in 2002 or 2003, when I was editing High Society magazine. We brought two models to the interview, which was being conducted in the basement of The World, a Times Square club owned by the WWE; the plan was to do the interview, then take photos. Interview goes great, time for photos. The girls begin to disrobe, and the WWE publicist freaks the fuck out. Drags me upstairs to the club manager's office, where I swear up and down that no WWE logos will be visible in any of the photos, and that we won't mention the venue by name, we'll just say Lemmy was interviewed and photographed "in New York." We go back downstairs, and the photos get taken. Then the photographer and I go off to watch the show, and the models decide to hang out with the band. Sometime between the interview and the start of Motörhead's set, the photographer gets a panicked call from one of the models, in the dressing room: "You need to come get us. They're doing crystal meth back here."

Fast forward to 2010, when I'm asked to come down to South by Southwest to interview Lemmy again onstage, to celebrate the premiere of the documentary about him, which my friend Wes co-directed. Backstage beforehand, we shake hands, and I say, "You probably don't remember this, but I interviewed you in 2002 or 2003 in New York, and we brought two models..." Lemmy lets out that gravel-and-cigarettes laugh, and says, "Oh yeah, I remember. You got in some trouble for that."

I've been a Motörhead fan for 30 years. I'm gonna miss that fucker.

said this on the other thread but RI, jamming "Orgone Accumulator" right now

if you haven't seen his cameo in the movie Down And Out With The Dolls, I highly recommend it

RIP DAMMIT NOT RI

So sad. Really thought he'd live forever. Still remember November 3rd 1980, Edinburgh Odeon more clearly than 99% of concerts I've been to subsequently.

fuck. this is such a shock. I mean not cos a guy like him couldn't die, with his age, recent health issues, and years of hard living, but I literally just saw him live a few months ago, and although he seemed to not have the same energy as his youth, he put on a great show. the latest album was great too.

RIP, man lived the way he wanted to.

always liked this pic...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Brj_cyQCUAEm0t9.jpg

Just saw this one on FB

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlp1/v/t1.0-9/1462_10154378955777506_2401080379241354165_n.jpg?oh=303e66a8dd7db0d7c33d84972a244490&oe=571AE931

http://fs5.directupload.net/images/151229/49yb3lbh.jpg

I feel like the proportion is wrong there

You know when you see a thread revive, and you go "Uh oh" ?

Lemmy RIP, not too young to die

xp Possibly common knowledge on ILM but the pic with Ozzy brings to mind Lemmy's writing credit on "Mama I'm Coming Home."

Please bury him on a motorbike, you never know:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIJB6Yrj17Q&t=3m30s

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/lemmy-death-225x300.jpg
http://fastnbulbous.com/lemmy/

ive spent most of this winter playing Dark Souls while listening to Hawkwind and Motorhead, will be doing the same today. RIP, Lemmy.

This years Motorhead album was excellent, at least they went out on a high.

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10672078_10153811170038610_1701385693986819610_n.jpg?oh=d4b0bad7a93177771cbfc5b8214b1a89&oe=57103F7B

“Motörhead is over, of course. Lemmy was Motörhead,” Dee said of his long-time bandmate, who died yesterday of what’s being reported as “aggressive cancer.” Dee clarified that the group’s recently completed European tour would be its last, and that Bad Magic, released earlier this year, would likely be its final album. “We won’t be doing any more tours or anything,” Dee said. “And there won’t be any more records. But the brand survives, and Lemmy lives on in the hearts of everyone.”

r.i.p. the band, long live the brand

some of the songs on the first Motorhead album could have worked in Hawkwind if they were slowed down a ton lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6sGfUnOqhY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu2cSj_Ew4g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XywzjXvcurA

this song FUCKING RULES

RIP big man

listening to No Sleep Til' Hammersmith, man this just torches the studio albums, damn

"The Watcher" <was> a Hawkwind song! His first writer's credit with them, on Doremi...

Just woke up into a world that does not have Lemmy in it. Sigh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz2KnXcwPN0

This situation basically sucks and puts my own recent problems into sharp perspective. RIP Lemmy.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUkNcimCo3k

All the obvious tribute songs have been played already, but broadcasting that two minutes after the announcement? Oh, Matinee Idle. It's what he would've wanted.

RIP Lemmy, Valhalla will be a LOUDER place today.

I'm so bummed last night/today - his 70 years are a hurricane on this earth, and we're now in the eye - I want someone/some band to really take up the backwind. I'm especially going to miss the camaraderie at Motörhead shows, I can almost count two hands of times I had a beer of mine spilt, and then promptly, friendly replaced by someone who was as into the show as I was ...

http://i.imgur.com/vNekF9s.jpg

didn't the other band members say in no uncertain terms that mötorhead died with lemmy? it's done

r.i.p. the band, long live the brand

I filled in for the host at a bar quiz tonight. I played Motörhead and Hawkwind tracks between rounds. I had to conduct a tiebraker, which I chose to do in the form of an AirGuitar-Off.

I picked "Ace of Spades" for the song.

One of my contestants in this contest hopped up on a table and then jumped off.

He did this for a $5 giftcard to the bar.

I posted a bunch of motorhead songs on facebook on tuesday with one linked in the OP and several following in the comments down below. Last night, I got a solitary "Like" from my dad, for the song 1916. He's an old peacenik, so I can see a ballad mourning the brutality of war being right up his alley. But it was toward the end of the pack so I'm imagining him sitting through a slew of live renditions of more classic Motorhead tracks like Overkill and Iron Fist before he got there.

Spotted a tall stack of flyers for the upcoming Motörhead gig at a luxury department store today, on the counter of the perfume section.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35240744/motorhead-fans-want-newly-discovered-periodic-element-named-after-lemmy

I picked "Ace of Spades" for the song.

One of my contestants in this contest hopped up on a table and then jumped off.

He did this for a $5 giftcard to the bar.

i'd do the same tbh, the song earns it

also, $5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReT3s0siI_Q

Feel like my intro to Lemmy may have been Del Preston from Wayne's World 2.

"Memorial Service and Celebration of Ian Frazer "Lemmy" Kilmister"

(Livestream in about 20 minutes on yt channel 'Motörhead Official')

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPCDmtTU-W4SdA8abZtWpA

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35274499

first thing i see when i click that article is a photo of fucking dave grohl

so sick of dave grohl.

saw a nice clip of Triple H's speech at the memorial

listening to Motorhead and On Parole today. i prefer the On Parole versions of these songs, especially "Vibrator", which has a really cool trippy Revolver-style drone ending. i can't seem to find that version on youtube otherwise i'd post it.

On Parole is such an incredible album. i have a hard time picking between it and Space Ritual

they recorded it in 1975. that is insane. had anything as fast as this album in rock been done before?

its GOOD to be FREE again

its GOOD to be ME again

stop me now before i kill myself
stop me now before i kill myself
stop me now before i kill myself
stop me before i kill somebody else

you never know who's gonna be the next to go

really the only analogs i can think of are proto-rock garage and psych speed freak anthems like "My Generation" and "Psychotic Reaction"

this would be a really nice day for someone to leak a Lemmy-Hendrix jam, they must have taped something sometime.

if not then they are now. RIP

if not then they are now. RIP

the motorhendrix experience!

i prefer the On Parole versions of these songs

They're really, really good - as a fan of the Pink Fairies w/Larry Wallis, hearing him play with Lemmy is awesome and I kind of wonder how it would've gone if he'd stayed with the band. I mean, just in an alternate universe sci-fi scenario, you know, because I wouldn't want to lose Overkill, Bomber or Ace of Spades.

This from last year is very Lemmy:

There ain't no rules to follow, you can't predict tomorrow
I know just who my friends are, the rest can turn to stone
Your memories are yours alone;
They're yours until your dust and bones
I know the things I'm looking for, I know just what I want

In my life the times has changed, I'm still the man I was
I don't want to hear your fairy tales
All I know is who I am; I'll never let you down
The last one you can trust until the end, until the end

In your life, you'll be amazed at all the love you lose
You can never live that life again
The one thing you will never lose is the singing in your head
That will still be with you until the end

http://www.achewood.com/comic.php%3Fdate%3D01292016

http://www.achewood.com/comic.php?date=01292016

Listening to bunches of Motorhead over the past few years, I got to say their discography is very consistent. There are good tunes on all of the later records with Phil and Mikkey Dee. I'd think as time goes on, you will see quite a few covers come out from other bands on their list of songs. You could make a damn good rockabilly record of all Motorhead covers.

People say it about many (underserving) bands, but Motorhead really never fell off.

RIP http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/fast-eddie-clarke-dead-motorhead-aged-67-dies-died-cause-best-songs-albums-a8153266.html

Oh no! They're all dead now! RIP Eddie.

yeah the last of the original line-up :-(

awwww man

rip Fast Eddie

RIP :(

no!! the 2nd gig i ever went to was motorhead on the 'ace up your sleeve tour'. a forever cherished memory seeing those three play together and hard to believe they are all gone now. so long, eddie.

let er rip
https://youtu.be/D5_oPyavUaw

i know it’s the motorhead thread, hopefully allowance made for a fastway classik given the circumstances? :D

sadly I only have one motorhead record at home at present: killed by death

rip mr eddie

Fast Eddie's lead vocal turn with Motorhead on "Step Down" from Bomber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDwQ7VMg2Sg

aw man, RIP. I can always appreciate any Motorhead, but the Fast Eddie-era was always my favourite, particularly for this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RUEKIWfEg8

RIP Eddie. Step Down is a jam btw, but then so was pretty much everything he did with Motorhead.

BTW I only recently discovered Eddie played lead on the two Curtis Knight (&) Zeus albums! Tasty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW3xZAGWUDM

Step Down is cool, it's one tune where you can really hear the Hendrix in his playing.

Yeah that Curtis Knight connection in a good rock and roll happenstance, considering Hendrix was a side man with that guy too and Lemmy roadied for Jimi.

So for various reasons over the years I had never really listened to Motorhead. Obviously I've heard them, I mean I've read Lemmy's book & watched the doc, but I never owned a record or sat and really listened. Even though I am pretty good friends with a Motorhead fanatic (actually that might explain some of it) and I generally love greasy, English 70s freak rock (Pink Fairies, Stack Waddy, Deviants, I love Mick Farren, etc).

Anyway, a gap in my knowledge.

So I sort of randomly decided on the 28th, since I was on vacation I would listen to Motorhead and I listened to a lot! They were pretty good! They have way better songs then anyone gives them credit for and more, I don't want to say "groove" exactly but there is something going on in the rhythm section. "On Parole" and "Overkill" are my faves.

Motorhead, check them out!

My wife coming home from work last Saturday night: "Have you just been listening to Motorhead all day?"
Me: "Yes"

They have way better songs then anyone gives them credit for

Well... in actuality, lots of people give Motorhead immense credit for having written many, many great songs.
And Lemmy is regarded by the cognoscenti as having been one of the all-time great rock bassists.

I've been contemplating that the 1981 Who track "The Quiet One" was Entwistle taking on Motorhead, the way "Rough Boys" and other Townshend tracks of the era are directed to the punks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E8as7xpR34

If I was a big music manager mogul working for Ozzy Osbourne, I would tell him to make a cover of "Till the End" off the last Motorhead record.

"The Quiet One" would have been an excellent song for Motorhead to cover.

Lots of excellent tracks on the last few albums, always underrated as a songwriter.

That fairly recent covers collection was good too: Lemmy was a fair judge of other people's songs as well.

Lemmy would have been 74 today. I'm listening to a live concert from 1983, included as a bonus disc with the deluxe edition of the very underrated Another Perfect Day. Brian Robertson was a great choice to be their guitarist; it's a shame he didn't want to fully commit to the Motörhead weltanschauung.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ju9QRonoY0

yeah was listening to Another Perfect Day for the first time a couple weeks ago

really a great album, he added a lot on guitar

Lemmy died 5 years ago today

:(

Considering the number of musicians who dies in 2016, I'm reminded of his comment on the line "I don't wanna live forever" from 'Ace Of Spades': "I'd like to die the year before forever, to avoid the rush."

Yes was just thinking of the count in 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDWJYYBkl8A ass for spayeds was cool!

WIll depend on Rollins tolerance but this long tribute podcast is really good: https://www.henryrollins.com/podcasts/2018/8/29/henry-heidi-podcast-lemmy

I still have the flyer for their scheduled Feb 2016 show (with Saxon & Girlschool!) on my refrigerator door.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy6NcxDdDWo

On Leno in 1992. I love Lemmy goes over to the house band and gives Branford something before his short interview with Jay.

I forgot that the quartet lineup lasted almost a decade.