#rip lemmy

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Art by Simon Bisley.

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Motorhead with the great Lemmy by Sebastian Cast 😎

Lemmy was actually in Hawkwind from 1971 until 1975 and then from 1975 until 2015 he was in Motorhead. I knew someone that was close to the situation when he left Hawkwind .

It came to a head during a trip to Ontario but they'd not been getting on for a while. Lemmy seemed to be doing everything at ten times the speed of his band mates. They were all super chilled due to the substances they'd been taking but Lemmy was on something completely different. He seemed to be a day in front, buzzing around like a fly on caffeine if you catch my drift? 😉😄. He felt they did the dirty on him in Ontario and that was the end of his time in Hawkwind.

I thought I'd put a couple of their tracks on here so you can have a listen 😉.

Killed By Death followed by Lemmy singing a cover of Enter The Sandman 😁

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Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead

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lemmy kilmister taking a classic boomer style selfie in front of the rainbow bar and grill

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Friday, July 14: Motörhead, "Tear Ya Down"

R.I.P. Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister (1945-2015), "Fast Eddie" Clarke (1950-2018), Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor (1954-2015)

By Motörhead standards, Overkill wasn’t nearly as heavy as most of the brawling barnburners they would put out over the next 35 or so years.  But it was more than a little shocking in 1979, and “Tear Ya Down” helped introduce the band’s overall concept with a distinctly Lemmy blend of aggression, speed and swagger.  Jimmy Miller’s mix put the vocals in the back a bit, but one could easily make out the classic Lemmy charm, and in a lot of ways the tune was closer to his vision and mission statement as it played like a grooving classic rock and roll number even with the stungun bass, unhinged drumming from Philthy Phil and Fast Eddie Clarke’s all-attitude soloing.  The basic influences were apparent, but Motörhead was an entity unto itself, and “Tear Ya Down” was a prime early instance of their singularity.

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Gimmie’ some motorhead