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One interview with another band, Motörhead had time slots before them in studio and everything was tuned to them, so they assume, "great maybe we sound similar" , they connected all instrument and sound was awful .
His accent wasn't that bad, I saw them in 1983 and after the concert I was lucky enough to drink with the band for a few Hours, most of that talking to Lemmy . I didn't go all fan girl on him and just treated him like another guy at the gig, he appreciated that and we about everything but music funnily enough ! When I said I was going he got a pair of drum sticks from Phil Taylor and a few of his guitar picks and gave them to me, I still have his picks. He was a great guy, very down to earth....
Tangential, Rob and, I thiiiiiink it was Dio, while being interviewed, Lemmy out of nowhere walks in behind and gives Rob a "wet willy." Essentially an inserted wet index to an unsuspecting ear. Clearly these got along. I miss that silly comradery
Hi, German here. It's Lemmy's fault that I made a fool of myself at scholl back in the day. I thought it was pronounced "Motörhead", you know, with an "Ö".
It sort of is. Motörhead is the one English speaking band that uses the umlaut correct, although by pure chance. Lemmy just thought it looks mean. Motor isn't pronounced "motor," but "moter" or "motör." And the t is rather pronounced d. This is the phonetic spelling of motor: məʊtə (Eng.) or mō-tər (Am. Eng.). The o and o aren't pronounced the same. An upside down letter means "sound like." I would liken the second o in "motor" to the e in "her" and i in "girl." Dictionaries have the same upside down e for the e and i in those words. Pronouncing it motor, with both os as o works too. Or modor if you like. Not only does the UK have tons of dialects, English is truly a global language. You can even pronounce it like Alexei Sayle does in Ullo John! Gotta New Motor? ruclips.net/video/OGMTCfjnP6Y/видео.html
Had the absolute honor of seeing Motorhead back in 1988 as the supporting act for Slayer on their South of Heaven tour. I've been a Motorhead fan for a LONG time and even though they weren't hugely popular or as iconic as they became I was THRILLED to see them live.
In some cases he used a more natural vocal style, actually singing instead of the distorted shouting. My examples for it would be the song I Don't Believe A Word and also 1916 (Sabaton released a decent cover of it).
The reply Lemmy offered to a black kid who wrote to him, being socially ousted from being a fan of rock/metal, is legendary. I think the video is up here at YT somewhere.
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Shout out to Fast Eddie Clarke whose iconic bluesy guitar really helped define the Motörhead sound. Everyone always talks about Lemmy, but Eddie was just as crucial to the band’s success.
Yeah Eddie Ckark, top guitar player I think he decided to leave when Lemmy wanted Motorhead to do a single with the Nolan sisters. Can't blame him , Eddie that is. Lemme just fancied a few of them !
My favorite Lemmy moment is the documentary of him from 2011 or 2010. He is showing off all the stuff he collected in his years of touring the world. The interviewer asked him what the most precious thing he has. Without hesitation, he goes "My son." It's so on brand that Lemmy didn't know he was a father for years until he met his own son at a drug deal. Upon learning he was a father, Lemmy made continuous efforts to remain in his son's life as much as he could.
Some of their later albums were indeed musically much more mature and "better"... but us morons wanted more of the raw hard and never bought those albums (well, not in the numbers that Bomber, Overkill and Ace of Spades sold. And frankly, I class myself as one of those neantherthals: Motorhead made me into a metalhead, and I wanted that Motorhead. Only decades later did I realise that Lemmy was right.
I know that Lemmy denies that Motörhead was heavy but their influence on the genre cannot be denied. It doesn't matter what sub-genre of metal you're a fan of; all metal fans love Motörhead. The same can be said of punk.
he started to hate it cos its the only song people would talk about. Even with Metallica covering 4 non AoS songs it's still the only one that would get commercial play.
To his selfless credit, he understood what it means to give the people what they want. He said he'd continue to play it at every show because the fans want to hear it and that it'd be like going to see Little Richard (one of Lemmy's favorite singers) and not hearing him play Tutti Frutti.
So, late 70's, I worked for an agency supplying crew for gigs - loading, unloading, rigging, lights, etc. I was incredibly lucky to get a few gigs with this line up of Motorhead. Lemmy was the best guy I ever worked for - he really cared about the crews. if you were his crew, he was on your side. RIP.
As soon as you demonstrated how a nice, clean crooning version of "the Ace of Spades" wouldn't work, I immediately decided I wanted to hear a cover by Puddles.
Motorhead is one of the few bands that transcends the music style...Motorhead is iconic. I am lucky that I've seen them many times live and it was always epic.
I always assumed that Lemmy had the microphone set high in order to improve his singing, but then I saw an interview where he said that he did it because he had terrible stage fright and didn't want to look at the audience...🤣 Now you've done Motorhead and mentioned Hawkwind, it might be fun to react to a Hawkwind song! Have a go at Spirit Of The Age or Brainstorm for starters. DO get somebody to prewatch videos for you though, because some of the early ones feature a topless/naked dancer: the immortal Stacia!
And those are a couple of how many possible suggestions for Hawkwind reactions? I wouldn't know where to start recommending Hawkwind....... Quark? Damnation Alley? Psy Power? Wrong Step? High Rise? Masters of the Universe? Psychadelic Warlords?
@@trevorfolker3665 Oh hell yeah, it never stops, but you've got to start somewhere. The trouble is finding high quality videos: reactors, especially vocal coach reactors, prefere live video to just listening to the track.
An iconic song by the band who pretty much invented both extreme metal and hardcore punk. Lemmy is one of my biggest heroes. There's a great documentary about him from 2010 called Lemmy .... with a rude subtitle that I won't mention here ..., but I highly recommend the movie.
That's nothing like extreme metal or punk, how the hell did you come to that conclusion ? Motorhead played blues, rock and roll, on steroids and VERY loud, Lemmy pushed that point for years. I'm a 61 year old musician, been playing metal since the late 70's.
@@MickH60 I came to that conclusion when I saw them being cited as a big influence by the likes of Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, GBH, Venom, Discharge, and Napalm Death. I think I'll take their opinion over that of some rando in the RUclips comments. And as far as Motorhead being classified as metal, Lemmy himself said many times, including in the documentary that I mentioned, that he disagreed with it and thought of them as just a rock and roll band. If they were classed as metal often enough for Lenmy to be repeatedly asked about it, then it's pretty commonplace. Of course, all of these things could have been found from a simple google search, but randos in the RUclips comments don't seem to be able to do that. Also, your age is irrelevant. Ignorance can happen at any age.
Lem stated when asked, you can yell easier if you're positioning your head up, it allows him to be louder. There's a video some where in which he states this.
Got tears back in mEyes when I hear Motörhead songs en this is a speicil one. I miss that band so hard. Saw them 5 or 6 times live and had each concert a fucking blast and awesome time. R.I.P Lemmy
Lemmy credited Little Richard (and 'Tutti Fruitti' especially) as a big inspiration, and how for the initial 'WOP BOP A LOO WOP', Little Richard sounded like he was shredding his larynx.
My fave by Little Richard is 'Rip it up', in which he also does quite some vocal artistry, but the entire abandonment, attitude, drive, dynamic, energy, groove, immediacy, pressure, release, tightness of that title is pure magic and goes ever so well with its lyrics. Such a bawler! Almost like the seed of thrash metal long before there was heavy metal, a pure rock'n'roll song going hard as hell, as shorthanded as throwing a tantrum and yet taking a long shot into the future.
I've only seen them 3 times. I was functionally deaf for 3 days after every show. Yes, I wore ear plugs. The sound pressure alone could alter your heart rhythm. Everyone sounded like Charlie Brown's parents. ISYN. In their contract, it was specified.. "EVERYTHING LOUDER THAN EVERYTHING ELSE!!!"
Early on Motorhead toured as support band for Hawkwind. I met Lemmy at one of those gigs after soundcheck, I was barely 16/17 at the time and nervous as hell. however, despite his demeanour, he was the sweetest friendliest dude and even gave my mate his last Motorhead badge. That night Motorhead blew Hawkwind off the stage. They were like an artillery barrage lasting 40 minutes, you felt it as much as heard it.
The definitive versions of all of those classic early 'Head songs are to be found on the live album 'No Sleep til Hammersmith'. At the time of its release, it was promoted as being a live album that will 'melt speakers and short circuit turntables'. And so it still is, decades later....
Thats a blast from the past, I haven't listened to Hawkwind for about 30 years. So we can all be glad that 'Ace of Spades' wasn't called 'slot machine'!
I wish I could remember the band name but it was a group 30years younger than Lemmy. They came back stage and Lemmy asked them if they wanted a drink. Sure! He turned around and grabbed a bottle of Jack, took the top off and handed it to one of them. Turned around grabbed a second bottle and handed it to the other one and said cheers! They looked at each other like “we are in way over our heads!” No, I wasn’t there I heard it in a documentary.
Just a guess, but the mic position might (!) also be a result of him having a (pretty heavy - that Rickenbacker is not really light-weight) bass hanging around his shoulder. Maybe that slightly backwards posture just felt more relaxing for him.
Hawkwind were annoyed that the only "chart success" they had was with Silver Machine, sung by Lemmy. They hated playing it after he left. On the Live 79 album, the last track is Silver Machine (requiem) which suddenly explodes part way through. Fun times.
I have the 12" single rerelease of "motorhead" by Hawkwind. Lemmys vocals are a bit different... worth a listen "Silver Machine" is worth checking out too
BETH! Awesome! And plaudits to you for being the first reactor I know of to even mention HAWKWIND! 😃. A totally underrated band mostly known only to musos for their seminal contributions to developing punk, metal, psychedelia AND electronic music! The Sex Pistols said if it were not for Hawkwind, they would never have existed. And Motorhead spanned the punk and metal scenes, of course. A Hawkwind reaction would be awesome. Nick Turner's vocals on Brainstorm are totes proto-punk. The live version from Space Ritual (1973!) is the best. It's quite long so you might want to edit it down. But it's a seminal moment in metal.and punk history that deserves more attention I think ❤
Welcome back to the gooood of music. 😉 Lemmy put his head in this position, because he wouldn t see that there only some people in the audience. Some nice insides about Lemmy and Motörhead you could see in "Lemmy the Movie" from 2008/2009. Lemmy was in an another band before Hawkwind. 😉 Wikipedia say: Kilmister played in various bands, including The Rainmakers and then The Motown Sect for about three years. In 1965 he finally became guitarist with Reverend Black and The Rockin' Vicars (later The Rockin' Vickers). [22] With them he recorded the singles Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart (1965), It's Alright (1965) and Dandy (1966). He left the band in early 1967 and went to London.
This is just a pure example of pure exuberance and don't give a fuck.... really unashamedly bombastic and pure fun and aggression with a bit of Rye irony in the lyric as well. Truly a forever classic. There's no way these guys could have known they were basically inventing a genre in real time as they recording this album but damn.. it's still holds up.
Lemmy was in many bands before Hawkwind from the mid 60s, most notably The Rocking Vickers. Others include Opal Butterfly, Sam Gopal, The Rainmakers, The Motown Sect, plus some after Hawkwind and during Motorhead. Absolute legend.
I was lucky enough to have met Lemmy before a gig back in 1999, what a great guy, approachable and funny. We took some photos with him, and that photo of me standing next to him is one of my most prized possessions. When he passed, he became the first celebrity I actually grieved for. I shed real tears for him.
I really freaked out the first moment I listened to Motorhead. My dad had bought me their No Remorse compilation. I went on to buy everything from them and am glad to have seen a good number of their concerts in Brasil (including the first one that was so messy he wrote a song about it)
Lemmy was interviewed and said he held his head in that position because in the beginning, motorhead would get " 10 people and a dog watching us. I didn't want to see that there was only 10 people and a dog there. Therefore, I put the micrplophone in that position."
I saw Motörhead with Clutch at a small theater and it was the most adrenaline packed, ear splittingly painful experience of my life. I loved every second of it. That was almost 14 years ago and I still haven’t recovered.
It takes a while. I saw em on 1916 tour at Bradford. Then cobbled together the entire bands autographs afterwards. Doctors tell me I have to come to terms with never fully recovering.
another band who lift are Status Quo. I remember back in the day, if a party was dying you would stick a Quo album on and before the first track was done, everyone was moving - certainly worth a listen
One of the most iconic frontman of all time. Lemmy was bigger than Motorhead. He was bigger than music itself. Motorhead were a punk band that got labelled as heavy metal because of how loud they sounded. I like to call it punk metal. The biggest band that was equally popular with punks and metalheads alike. Another band that was popular with both the punk and metal scene was horror punk band Misfits. Metallica did covers of both Motorhead and Misfits. Glen Danzig of Misfits was an Elvis style punk crooner. If you have not already reacted to it, then start with his solo band Danzig and their song Mother. Not punk sounding, but still a great song and vocals, too.
yea, Metalheads like a lot of early 80s Hardcore. Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Bad Brains. all very influential on Thrash, which evolved into the Extreme Metal subgenres.
Beth, I love you because YOU are such a Rock & Roll bird finding all this stuff out for yourself (and then, passing it unto the world your age and younger!)
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An absolute rock 'n roll classic🤘and iconic lineup! I would love to have you react to Robin Trower, "Day Of The Eagle". Another timeless masterpiece of rock 'n roll history!
Question: Who wins in a fight? Lemmy?, or God? In all seriousness, "God Was Never On Your Side" and his covers of "Heroes" and "Stand By Me" are just amazing. I think his "Stand By Me" is better than the original. It's just him, his bass, a little drums, and you.
I'm a huge Motorhead fan 🖤 I love seeing the introduction of new people to the band...you look like you had fun ❤️ I'd recommend his very first vocal performance, from Hawkwind called Silver Machine. 😁👍
For a completely different side to the band, check out their songs 1916 and Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me. I bet you won't though. Also, for many years, he would sing "Eight OF Spades" and nobody noticed.
Slotmachine of Spades, Fruitmachine of Spades, LOL ! You mention lifting chin, from what I understand, seems like Steve Perry, the former Journey singer does something similar, tilting his head in certain moments. Live version of "Don't Stop Believin" is a good example. It was the live album "No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith" which probably was their sharpest peak, also a best of album. In his book Lemmy mentioned that after that kind of peak, the only way can't be but down, and how to relate to that was the question.
Firstly Beth, LEMMY, YA BEAUTY! 😆 I have no idea where you got that story about the song being written in a transit, I've been a fan for 40 years and NEVER heard that nonsense. The real story is actually that Lemmy ALWAYS had a notepad on him and slept with it by his bed. He said he went to sleep one night, and woke up with the lyrics on his pad in his handwriting the next morning, with no memory of writing it. He would often then joke that the Devil himself must have written it. Unless the Transit part relates to the musical riff which I doubt, that story is bollox.
Lemmy wrote songs for Ozzy as well, Philthy Phil Rapper, their drummer was the first drummer to tour with a double bass kick drums... In my opinion they are the Founder Fathers of Thrash (Speed) Metal.
My late father had to go on stage with Motorhead in the 1980s, to measure sound levels for the Channel 4 show The Tube. His review wasn't very complimentary: "That bloody man! That wasn't singing. He was just shouting!"
If anyone ever asks how to define a rock star, you might just say, "LEMMY!" He might not have made as much money as some others but his influence on the music itself is like gravity...it's there, whether you know it or not, LOL He brought his "A game" as a singer, songwriter and performer to every show, from the first time Motorhead took a stage until he simply physically couldn't do it any longer.
I was at work rigging at a festival in Norway, when I got a notice from someone that "there's a junkie backstage stealing equipment". So I went behind, and found Lemmy. I told him, and he laughed his arse off 😅
You should listen to a younger Lemmy to hear how his voice has changed. Try Silver Machine by Hawkwind. (1972) One of only 4 songs where he was lead vocalist and was their big seller
All time banger! I saw them twice, first opening for Ozzy Osbourne with Randy Rhodes on lead guitar in a large arena, very loud and awesome performance by both bands, they both had their A games going. The 2nd time it was just Motorhead in a large bar, they had a wall of Marshalls, all at 10 and blew us right out of that hall, they were the loudest band I ever saw because of the confined space they played in. Deep purple was much louder but outside in a huge open park, the sound was able to disperse where Motorhead played like they had to go all out, all concert in a confined space and just blew us away. Ringing ears for a couple days and took time to recover from that night! More Motorhead! Do One Track Mind and enjoy! 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎸🎶🔥
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Please can you do Rainbow cos I think he's one of the best singers of all time and really underrated? Thank you!!
It's time for Eddie Berg one take reaction!. ❤ 🤞
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I'll never forget Lemmy, whiskey and cigar in hand, asking Rob Halford, 'How do yeh keep yeh voice in soch prasteen cundishun?'
🤣🤣🤣
One interview with another band, Motörhead had time slots before them in studio and everything was tuned to them, so they assume, "great maybe we sound similar" , they connected all instrument and sound was awful .
His accent wasn't that bad, I saw them in 1983 and after the concert I was lucky enough to drink with the band for a few Hours, most of that talking to Lemmy . I didn't go all fan girl on him and just treated him like another guy at the gig, he appreciated that and we about everything but music funnily enough ! When I said I was going he got a pair of drum sticks from Phil Taylor and a few of his guitar picks and gave them to me, I still have his picks. He was a great guy, very down to earth....
Lol
Tangential, Rob and, I thiiiiiink it was Dio, while being interviewed, Lemmy out of nowhere walks in behind and gives Rob a "wet willy."
Essentially an inserted wet index to an unsuspecting ear.
Clearly these got along. I miss that silly comradery
Hi, German here. It's Lemmy's fault that I made a fool of myself at scholl back in the day. I thought it was pronounced "Motörhead", you know, with an "Ö".
It sort of is. Motörhead is the one English speaking band that uses the umlaut correct, although by pure chance. Lemmy just thought it looks mean. Motor isn't pronounced "motor," but "moter" or "motör." And the t is rather pronounced d. This is the phonetic spelling of motor: məʊtə (Eng.) or mō-tər (Am. Eng.). The o and o aren't pronounced the same. An upside down letter means "sound like." I would liken the second o in "motor" to the e in "her" and i in "girl." Dictionaries have the same upside down e for the e and i in those words.
Pronouncing it motor, with both os as o works too. Or modor if you like. Not only does the UK have tons of dialects, English is truly a global language. You can even pronounce it like Alexei Sayle does in Ullo John! Gotta New Motor? ruclips.net/video/OGMTCfjnP6Y/видео.html
Had the absolute honor of seeing Motorhead back in 1988 as the supporting act for Slayer on their South of Heaven tour. I've been a Motorhead fan for a LONG time and even though they weren't hugely popular or as iconic as they became I was THRILLED to see them live.
He's a bloke that's for damn sure
In some cases he used a more natural vocal style, actually singing instead of the distorted shouting. My examples for it would be the song I Don't Believe A Word and also 1916 (Sabaton released a decent cover of it).
The reply Lemmy offered to a black kid who wrote to him, being socially ousted from being a fan of rock/metal, is legendary. I think the video is up here at YT somewhere.
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All wrong! if you read Michael Morcock, "Dancers at the end of time" Trilogy, you'll see Lemmy lord Motorhead in the books!, he was a big reader.
And also don't come at me like a sofa advert! mustard and shit blue ! please
We are Motörhead and we play rock n roll! 🤘🤘Miss em... 😭 R.I.P Lemmy!
If I remember correctly he started having his microphone that high to awoid seeing the lack of audience In the start of Motörhead 😃
Exactly right. That's what he said in his book.
Lemmy had a vocal range of about six notes. But they were six fucking good notes.
For an Older , Wiser Lemmy you need to hear 1916 , the greatest anti-war song ever written , brings a tear to a glass eye .
1916 is one of the greatest ballads in history.
Absolutely the song that needs to be looked at for 11 november remembrance day
Yes! 1916 was the first Motörhead album I bought, and that title track just left me stunned.
Orgasmatron. Unbeliavable good lyrics and very different for MH
A classic "Soldiers Lament"
Shout out to Fast Eddie Clarke whose iconic bluesy guitar really helped define the Motörhead sound. Everyone always talks about Lemmy, but Eddie was just as crucial to the band’s success.
So, soooo true!! Eddie Clarke is one of my all time Heroes!!
Yeah Eddie Ckark, top guitar player I think he decided to leave when Lemmy wanted Motorhead to do a single with the Nolan sisters. Can't blame him , Eddie that is. Lemme just fancied a few of them !
And Philthy Animal too! Motorhead was never as good when he was replaced... Mikkey Dee had no feel.
My favorite Lemmy moment is the documentary of him from 2011 or 2010. He is showing off all the stuff he collected in his years of touring the world. The interviewer asked him what the most precious thing he has. Without hesitation, he goes "My son."
It's so on brand that Lemmy didn't know he was a father for years until he met his own son at a drug deal. Upon learning he was a father, Lemmy made continuous efforts to remain in his son's life as much as he could.
Filthy Animal: We're ARTISTS! We're sensitive as shite!!!
Some of their later albums were indeed musically much more mature and "better"... but us morons wanted more of the raw hard and never bought those albums (well, not in the numbers that Bomber, Overkill and Ace of Spades sold. And frankly, I class myself as one of those neantherthals: Motorhead made me into a metalhead, and I wanted that Motorhead. Only decades later did I realise that Lemmy was right.
Cirith Ungul 'Frost and Fire's
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Enjoy!
I for one do love Another Perfect Day from the bottom of my heart.
I know that Lemmy denies that Motörhead was heavy but their influence on the genre cannot be denied. It doesn't matter what sub-genre of metal you're a fan of; all metal fans love Motörhead. The same can be said of punk.
with years Lemmy started to hate this song, but never refused to play it, cause motorhead fans love this song
he started to hate it cos its the only song people would talk about. Even with Metallica covering 4 non AoS songs it's still the only one that would get commercial play.
To his selfless credit, he understood what it means to give the people what they want. He said he'd continue to play it at every show because the fans want to hear it and that it'd be like going to see Little Richard (one of Lemmy's favorite singers) and not hearing him play Tutti Frutti.
So, late 70's, I worked for an agency supplying crew for gigs - loading, unloading, rigging, lights, etc. I was incredibly lucky to get a few gigs with this line up of Motorhead. Lemmy was the best guy I ever worked for - he really cared about the crews. if you were his crew, he was on your side. RIP.
As soon as you demonstrated how a nice, clean crooning version of "the Ace of Spades" wouldn't work, I immediately decided I wanted to hear a cover by Puddles.
Singing upwards like that, reminds me of Liam Gallagher... there is a reason they assume that stance, it's for power and projection
Motorhead is one of the few bands that transcends the music style...Motorhead is iconic. I am lucky that I've seen them many times live and it was always epic.
Seeing them live was always one of those rare times where I was actually afraid for my hearing afterward. haha!
Great! I remember them popping up in the living room of The Young Ones playing this song. Fantastic, in a time when metal was rarely on the telly.
I remember that as well! As a huge Motörhead fan and heavy metal over all we were lucky as hell stumbling on to stuff like that back in the time.
One of the baddest human beings to
Ever walk our planet. But also a great gentleman. We won’t see his like again.
I always assumed that Lemmy had the microphone set high in order to improve his singing, but then I saw an interview where he said that he did it because he had terrible stage fright and didn't want to look at the audience...🤣
Now you've done Motorhead and mentioned Hawkwind, it might be fun to react to a Hawkwind song! Have a go at Spirit Of The Age or Brainstorm for starters. DO get somebody to prewatch videos for you though, because some of the early ones feature a topless/naked dancer: the immortal Stacia!
And those are a couple of how many possible suggestions for Hawkwind reactions? I wouldn't know where to start recommending Hawkwind....... Quark? Damnation Alley? Psy Power? Wrong Step? High Rise? Masters of the Universe? Psychadelic Warlords?
@@trevorfolker3665 Oh hell yeah, it never stops, but you've got to start somewhere. The trouble is finding high quality videos: reactors, especially vocal coach reactors, prefere live video to just listening to the track.
I've met and drank with Lemmy, he didn't have stage fright ever, that's his wacky sense of humour...!!!
@@MickH60 Maybe, or maybe he just got over it in time.
An iconic song by the band who pretty much invented both extreme metal and hardcore punk. Lemmy is one of my biggest heroes. There's a great documentary about him from 2010 called Lemmy .... with a rude subtitle that I won't mention here ..., but I highly recommend the movie.
That's nothing like extreme metal or punk, how the hell did you come to that conclusion ? Motorhead played blues, rock and roll, on steroids and VERY loud, Lemmy pushed that point for years. I'm a 61 year old musician, been playing metal since the late 70's.
@@MickH60 I came to that conclusion when I saw them being cited as a big influence by the likes of Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, GBH, Venom, Discharge, and Napalm Death. I think I'll take their opinion over that of some rando in the RUclips comments. And as far as Motorhead being classified as metal, Lemmy himself said many times, including in the documentary that I mentioned, that he disagreed with it and thought of them as just a rock and roll band. If they were classed as metal often enough for Lenmy to be repeatedly asked about it, then it's pretty commonplace. Of course, all of these things could have been found from a simple google search, but randos in the RUclips comments don't seem to be able to do that. Also, your age is irrelevant. Ignorance can happen at any age.
Lem stated when asked, you can yell easier if you're positioning your head up, it allows him to be louder.
There's a video some where in which he states this.
Got tears back in mEyes when I hear Motörhead songs en this is a speicil one. I miss that band so hard. Saw them 5 or 6 times live and had each concert a fucking blast and awesome time. R.I.P Lemmy
Absolutely love Philthy Animal on the drums as well
Lemmy credited Little Richard (and 'Tutti Fruitti' especially) as a big inspiration, and how for the initial 'WOP BOP A LOO WOP', Little Richard sounded like he was shredding his larynx.
My fave by Little Richard is 'Rip it up', in which he also does quite some vocal artistry, but the entire abandonment, attitude, drive, dynamic, energy, groove, immediacy, pressure, release, tightness of that title is pure magic and goes ever so well with its lyrics. Such a bawler! Almost like the seed of thrash metal long before there was heavy metal, a pure rock'n'roll song going hard as hell, as shorthanded as throwing a tantrum and yet taking a long shot into the future.
One of the few bands respected by both punks snd metal heads. Of which I was both at one time in my teens.
Lemmy was and still is a legend
The irony of being kicked from the Hawks for drugs ;)
Their early albums are worth a listen
Hawkwind is epic
Underrated Hawkwind album:
"The Machine Stops"
(It's like a mind movie.)
WHEN I DO CPR WE TILT THE HEAD UP TO OPEN THE AIR WAY
The Greatest R'n'Rer ever walked on this Planet ! LEMMY 4EVER !
I've only seen them 3 times.
I was functionally deaf for 3 days after
every show. Yes, I wore ear plugs. The sound pressure alone could alter your heart rhythm.
Everyone sounded like Charlie Brown's parents. ISYN.
In their contract, it was specified..
"EVERYTHING LOUDER THAN EVERYTHING ELSE!!!"
Early on Motorhead toured as support band for Hawkwind. I met Lemmy at one of those gigs after soundcheck, I was barely 16/17 at the time and nervous as hell. however, despite his demeanour, he was the sweetest friendliest dude and even gave my mate his last Motorhead badge. That night Motorhead blew Hawkwind off the stage. They were like an artillery barrage lasting 40 minutes, you felt it as much as heard it.
Of course, Lemmy was in Hawkwind before Mötorhead
@@pdcrmr indeed he was. I saw Hawkwind when Lemmy was still in the line up. January 1975.
The definitive versions of all of those classic early 'Head songs are to be found on the live album 'No Sleep til Hammersmith'. At the time of its release, it was promoted as being a live album that will 'melt speakers and short circuit turntables'. And so it still is, decades later....
I saw them live and that's exactly how we shows. A unique energy, which I have not seen anymore.
Lemmys voice was an iconic mix of whiskey, Marlboros and rusty nails, it was perfect for motorhead
Roger Daltrey tends to raise his head up a lot when he sings too.
Sometimes I think that ENTIRE WORLD'S sure that Motörhead have only one song and it's Ace Of Spades... Shame.
Thats a blast from the past, I haven't listened to Hawkwind for about 30 years. So we can all be glad that 'Ace of Spades' wasn't called 'slot machine'!
I wish I could remember the band name but it was a group 30years younger than Lemmy. They came back stage and Lemmy asked them if they wanted a drink. Sure! He turned around and grabbed a bottle of Jack, took the top off and handed it to one of them. Turned around grabbed a second bottle and handed it to the other one and said cheers! They looked at each other like “we are in way over our heads!” No, I wasn’t there I heard it in a documentary.
Always ask your self WWLD. What Would Lemmy Do .
You know it’s going to be a great day when Beth gets to breakdown God singing!
Just a guess, but the mic position might (!) also be a result of him having a (pretty heavy - that Rickenbacker is not really light-weight) bass hanging around his shoulder. Maybe that slightly backwards posture just felt more relaxing for him.
Обидно за Motorhead.Столько шикарных песен,a обсуждают в основном только Ace of Spades
Hawkwind were annoyed that the only "chart success" they had was with Silver Machine, sung by Lemmy. They hated playing it after he left. On the Live 79 album, the last track is Silver Machine (requiem) which suddenly explodes part way through. Fun times.
I have the 12" single rerelease of "motorhead" by Hawkwind. Lemmys vocals are a bit different... worth a listen
"Silver Machine" is worth checking out too
BETH! Awesome! And plaudits to you for being the first reactor I know of to even mention HAWKWIND! 😃. A totally underrated band mostly known only to musos for their seminal contributions to developing punk, metal, psychedelia AND electronic music! The Sex Pistols said if it were not for Hawkwind, they would never have existed. And Motorhead spanned the punk and metal scenes, of course. A Hawkwind reaction would be awesome. Nick Turner's vocals on Brainstorm are totes proto-punk. The live version from Space Ritual (1973!) is the best. It's quite long so you might want to edit it down. But it's a seminal moment in metal.and punk history that deserves more attention I think ❤
Welcome back to the gooood of music. 😉
Lemmy put his head in this position, because he wouldn t see that there only some people in the audience.
Some nice insides about Lemmy and Motörhead you could see in "Lemmy the Movie" from 2008/2009.
Lemmy was in an another band before Hawkwind. 😉
Wikipedia say:
Kilmister played in various bands, including The Rainmakers and then The Motown Sect for about three years. In 1965 he finally became guitarist with Reverend Black and The Rockin' Vicars (later The Rockin' Vickers). [22] With them he recorded the singles Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart (1965), It's Alright (1965) and Dandy (1966). He left the band in early 1967 and went to London.
This is just a pure example of pure exuberance and don't give a fuck.... really unashamedly bombastic and pure fun and aggression with a bit of Rye irony in the lyric as well. Truly a forever classic. There's no way these guys could have known they were basically inventing a genre in real time as they recording this album but damn.. it's still holds up.
Lemmy was in many bands before Hawkwind from the mid 60s, most notably The Rocking Vickers. Others include Opal Butterfly, Sam Gopal, The Rainmakers, The Motown Sect, plus some after Hawkwind and during Motorhead. Absolute legend.
I tried singing Ace Of Spades...just got through my 4th box of Strepsils 😂
😂
I too loved Lemmy's voice and bass playing.
I was lucky enough to have met Lemmy before a gig back in 1999, what a great guy, approachable and funny. We took some photos with him, and that photo of me standing next to him is one of my most prized possessions. When he passed, he became the first celebrity I actually grieved for. I shed real tears for him.
If you analyze “Dancing in the Flames” please do the live version! Less produced vocals from The Weeknd
I really freaked out the first moment I listened to Motorhead. My dad had bought me their No Remorse compilation. I went on to buy everything from them and am glad to have seen a good number of their concerts in Brasil (including the first one that was so messy he wrote a song about it)
Lemmy was interviewed and said he held his head in that position because in the beginning, motorhead would get " 10 people and a dog watching us. I didn't want to see that there was only 10 people and a dog there. Therefore, I put the micrplophone in that position."
Please make a video about Guilherme de Sá specifically with the song "Deo Vero"
Lemmy IS God
This song is short, fast, beautiful and us metal heads love it ! RIP Lemmy xx
I saw Motörhead with Clutch at a small theater and it was the most adrenaline packed, ear splittingly painful experience of my life. I loved every second of it. That was almost 14 years ago and I still haven’t recovered.
It takes a while. I saw em on 1916 tour at Bradford. Then cobbled together the entire bands autographs afterwards. Doctors tell me I have to come to terms with never fully recovering.
Lemmy was a darn good musician too. Motorhead's bass lines are crazy hard
Young Lemmy sang in a pychedelic 60s band called Sam Gopal. His voice couldn't be more different, clear, melodic, delicate 😅
Long live Motörhead!!
Iconic song this, bloody amazing!!
Thank you Beth 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
another band who lift are Status Quo. I remember back in the day, if a party was dying you would stick a Quo album on and before the first track was done, everyone was moving - certainly worth a listen
Status Quo were dull as hell. Nothing like Motorhead.
A song about hope, love, and redemption of the human spirit. A song that emphasizes the innocence of youth and the resilience of family. 🙂
That 🎵Ace of Spades🎵is Amazing!💖🔥💖🌞
BACK IN THE 1980 THEY WERE TITLED THE WORST BAND IN THE WORLD
Liam Gallagher of Oasis has the same mic position as Lemmy.
One of the most iconic frontman of all time. Lemmy was bigger than Motorhead. He was bigger than music itself. Motorhead were a punk band that got labelled as heavy metal because of how loud they sounded. I like to call it punk metal. The biggest band that was equally popular with punks and metalheads alike. Another band that was popular with both the punk and metal scene was horror punk band Misfits. Metallica did covers of both Motorhead and Misfits. Glen Danzig of Misfits was an Elvis style punk crooner. If you have not already reacted to it, then start with his solo band Danzig and their song Mother. Not punk sounding, but still a great song and vocals, too.
yea, Metalheads like a lot of early 80s Hardcore. Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Bad Brains. all very influential on Thrash, which evolved into the Extreme Metal subgenres.
Everything louder than everything! Love u Lemmy!
Beth, I love you because YOU are such a Rock & Roll bird finding all this stuff out for yourself (and then, passing it unto the world your age and younger!)
(I can tell when you bop around when you are really enjoying rock & roll....
It touches my heart!)
Before we had Lemmy, now all we have is Lammy.
I learned something new on vocal techniques !
one of those songs that has to be played at 11!
I love seeing you rock out to this, Beth,
Do you know Alirio Neto?
Singing Show Must Go On
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Stole my heart
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When I First Saw You
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BRAND NEW ME
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Lemmy is Rockin still ♠️🎼🎵🎶🎤🎸🎸🥁🔈🔊🔉🔊🔈🎼🎵🎶☠️🤘 Ace of ♠️🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨🏴☠️‼️
An absolute rock 'n roll classic🤘and iconic lineup! I would love to have you react to Robin Trower, "Day Of The Eagle". Another timeless masterpiece of rock 'n roll history!
Hey, that's Motörhead! And they play rock 'n roll.
Long live Motörhead, probably the best live band in the world.
Question: Who wins in a fight? Lemmy?, or God?
In all seriousness, "God Was Never On Your Side" and his covers of "Heroes" and "Stand By Me" are just amazing. I think his "Stand By Me" is better than the original. It's just him, his bass, a little drums, and you.
I'm a huge Motorhead fan 🖤
I love seeing the introduction of new people to the band...you look like you had fun ❤️
I'd recommend his very first vocal performance, from Hawkwind called Silver Machine. 😁👍
Thank you Beth
For a completely different side to the band, check out their songs 1916 and Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me. I bet you won't though.
Also, for many years, he would sing "Eight OF Spades" and nobody noticed.
Slotmachine of Spades, Fruitmachine of Spades, LOL !
You mention lifting chin, from what I understand, seems like Steve Perry, the former Journey singer does something similar, tilting his head in certain moments.
Live version of "Don't Stop Believin" is a good example.
It was the live album "No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith" which probably was their sharpest peak, also a best of album. In his book Lemmy mentioned that after that kind of peak, the only way can't be but down, and how to relate to that was the question.
Firstly Beth, LEMMY, YA BEAUTY! 😆 I have no idea where you got that story about the song being written in a transit, I've been a fan for 40 years and NEVER heard that nonsense. The real story is actually that Lemmy ALWAYS had a notepad on him and slept with it by his bed. He said he went to sleep one night, and woke up with the lyrics on his pad in his handwriting the next morning, with no memory of writing it. He would often then joke that the Devil himself must have written it. Unless the Transit part relates to the musical riff which I doubt, that story is bollox.
Lemmy wrote songs for Ozzy as well, Philthy Phil Rapper, their drummer was the first drummer to tour with a double bass kick drums... In my opinion they are the Founder Fathers of Thrash (Speed) Metal.
My late father had to go on stage with Motorhead in the 1980s, to measure sound levels for the Channel 4 show The Tube. His review wasn't very complimentary: "That bloody man! That wasn't singing. He was just shouting!"
Awesome to see, you do a reaction on Motörhead! Lemmy had such a unique style and
Sound. Nothing else like them
I never thought I'd hear Lemmy Kilimister compared to Ariana Grande. I'm pretty sure this is a sign of the End of Days, isn't it? 😅
If anyone ever asks how to define a rock star, you might just say, "LEMMY!" He might not have made as much money as some others but his influence on the music itself is like gravity...it's there, whether you know it or not, LOL He brought his "A game" as a singer, songwriter and performer to every show, from the first time Motorhead took a stage until he simply physically couldn't do it any longer.
Hawkwind sacked Lemmy, not because he took drugs, but because he took the wrong drugs. He liked speed, the rest of hawkwind preferred LSD.
I was at work rigging at a festival in Norway, when I got a notice from someone that "there's a junkie backstage stealing equipment". So I went behind, and found Lemmy. I told him, and he laughed his arse off 😅
You should listen to a younger Lemmy to hear how his voice has changed. Try Silver Machine by Hawkwind. (1972) One of only 4 songs where he was lead vocalist and was their big seller
All time banger! I saw them twice, first opening for Ozzy Osbourne with Randy Rhodes on lead guitar in a large arena, very loud and awesome performance by both bands, they both had their A games going. The 2nd time it was just Motorhead in a large bar, they had a wall of Marshalls, all at 10 and blew us right out of that hall, they were the loudest band I ever saw because of the confined space they played in. Deep purple was much louder but outside in a huge open park, the sound was able to disperse where Motorhead played like they had to go all out, all concert in a confined space and just blew us away. Ringing ears for a couple days and took time to recover from that night! More Motorhead! Do One Track Mind and enjoy! 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎸🎶🔥