Motorhead was a band I got into pretty early thanks to the older brother influence, I think I was 12. Lucky enough to see them live 3 times, the last time a ridiculously loud show at Flames Central.
There aren't many guys that can say they're responsible for an entire genre of music. Lemmy was it. Speed metal exists because of him, even though he never put Motorhead in the metal category.
"We are Motorhead, we play rock and roll." RIP, Lemmy. I will celebrate your entire catalogue today.
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I credit Lemmy with turning me into a metalhead in the first place. I was about 9 years old and saw Motorhead on The New Music one night. Lemmy's yelling upwards into the microphone, beating up his bass and whipping his hair around, and an impressionable young Puppet Guy is thinking "this is strangely cool!". The rest is history.
Thanks, Lemmy.
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Don't normally feel anything when people I don't know die - but I admit to being a little sad yesterday when I heard the news. Even my wife who is not really into metal said, "Nice tribute" when she came home to Motorhead cranking
Ironically I was never a huge Motörhead fan but was lucky enough to see them play in a pub up Hammersmith way back in '77, I think it was the Red Cow picked up a copy of white line fever, Chiswick Records picture cover 45 as well, my mum probably threw it away, must be worth a penny now!
I credit Lemmy with turning me into a metalhead in the first place. I was about 9 years old and saw Motorhead on The New Music one night. Lemmy's yelling upwards into the microphone, beating up his bass and whipping his hair around, and an impressionable young Puppet Guy is thinking "this is strangely cool!". The rest is history.
Thanks, Lemmy.
That upwards singing style was a huge influence on the 1990s gunge movement as well as many of the vocalists tried to emulate that sound.
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Could Lemmy be remembered by naming a new element after him? I sure hope so!
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A petition is calling for a newly discovered heavy metal element to be named after late Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister, and has suggested the brilliant name “Lemmium”.
The petition, launched today by Change.org user John Wright from York, UK, is calling on The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC, aka the peeps who deal with these sorts of things) to give Lemmy’s name to one of the four new elements, which currently have the pretty boring temporary titles ‘ununtrium (113)’, ‘ununpentium (115)’, ‘ununseptium (117)’ and ‘ununoctium (118)’.
“Heavy rock lost its most iconic figure over Christmas with the sudden and unexpected death of Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilminster,” says Mr Wright, before stating his very scientific case for Lemmium becoming a thing.
“Lemmy was a force of nature and the very essence of heavy metal,” he says. Geddit?
