The Last Bass Outpost
Main Forums => The Bass Zone => Topic started by: Denis on August 13, 2012, 12:38:04 PM
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I got a kick out of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86NNIAex3I
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Outake from Lemmy the Movie... excellent stuff...
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I'll take the regular bass player sound, please.
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Lemmy is extremely cool. An icon.
But I don't like his bass playing and his bass sound.
Sloppy drunk... :-\
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I can attest that Lemmy is tight as a drum live. The 'goofing around' stuff is just that. I have a Metallica tribute album where he plays with an actual bassy tone. Don't be fooled; the man is a hell of a musician AND self-promoting marketeer.
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Don't be fooled; the man is a hell of a musician AND self-promoting marketeer.
No doubt about it.
But I saw Motörhead several times live and I wasn't impressed.
But I did have a mighty good time. That's what counts in the end, doesn't it ;)
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There are very few musicians - "bassists"* even less so - who have such a unique tone or style that you know it's them from hearing just a few notes from any song of theirs.
Of those musicians who do have such a tone Lemmy must be right up there at the head of the line. That is an achievement in itself.
He can play precisely too, I've seen him do it. That piece is full of volume distortion, making it sound bad.
* he says he's not a bassist - he's a rhythm guitarist - who happens to use a bass.
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That's not my idea of bass tone at all.......
It doesn't matter tho, I think Lemmy is fricken cool, without doubt he revels in just being himself.
He isn't pretty, just Badass.
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Lemmy banged Wendy O. Williams. How many other bassists can say they've done that? ;D
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It doesn't matter tho, I think Lemmy is fricken cool, without doubt he revels in just being himself.
Lemmy banged Wendy O. Williams. How many other bassists can say they've done that?
Probably Gene Simmons. He produced an album for both W.O.W. and the Plasmatics (if memory serves) and he will sleep with just about anything female.
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Lemmy banged Wendy O. Williams. How many other bassists can say they've done that? ;D
He's still alive too! ;)
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He's still alive too! ;)
That's what I was thinking! ;D Lemmy is cool in my book. His autobiography is a great read, and his signature sound may not work in my band but it works great for him so I'm cool with it.
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I have to say that I have never liked Motorhead, but Lemmy is certainly an institution. He's as much as survivor as Keith Richards. Wasn't it his extensive drug use and inability to get work visas across the globe part of why he was removed from Hawkwind?
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Played him at pinball once (no contest for him :rolleyes:) at the Cambridge Corn Exchange in '77, back in the days when the first and last song was eponymous, but have always regretted missing him with Hawkwind...
Jason Newstead commenting on Lemmy's 50th bash - "He touched me with his wart...!" :mrgreen:
Famous London pubs that should have and may yet be...
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/Humour/thelemmyswart2.jpg)
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Wasn't it his extensive drug use and inability to get work visas across the globe part of why he was removed from Hawkwind?
He reckoned he was just an average user among the band, but was caught at the Canadian border with cannabis, & detained which the band took as an excuse to get rid of him. There'd been friction because his voice was used on the single release of "Silver machine" though he wasn't usually on lead vox.
Lemmy said he just went home & scr**** all their wives as revenge.
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The original recording of Silver Machine wanders all over the place and has Calvert "singing" the lines in a monotone - iirc it was first to be heard on the Greasy Truckers or Glastonbury set or something like that - truly awful - I sold both LPs on fairly quickly - Lemmy was the last one they tried and were gutted when it turned out to (effectively) be their only real hit record - I only ever saw the Fast Eddie line up... an earlier lineup supported BOC in '76 but was a flop...
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If you listen to Hawkwind's Space Ritual Live album his bass playing was undistorted, chordy and melodic, in fact similar to Peter Hook of Joy Division/New Order. He's been playing bass long enough to play it tightly, but like Keith Richards he often enough doesn't give a damn.
I've seen Motörhead in 1977, 1983 and 2010: Their progression in all these years was amazing, second only to AC/DC's.
That was irony. :-X
Lemmy live has his "bass" guitar sound get in the way with the Saxon guy's guitar, they sound all middish live with heavy metal drums underneath, courtesy of that King Diamond drummer. They are tight, but they are not Philthy and Fast Eddie. Better than the Thin Lizzy guitarist in 83 though who looked, felt and played just plain out of place live (though "Another Perfect Day" was a good album), but you could tell that Brian Robertson did not enjoy playing the older material at all live nor know what to do with it.
I like Lemmy as an interview partner and for his work with Hawkwind - his bass playing with Motörhead is an acquired taste, indeed rhythm guitar. What Motörhead needs live is indeed someone who plays bass!
And if there is one thing I am happy about in my life then it is not screwing Wendy O., with all due respect for the late girl!
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He still seems to favour the neck pickup according to the sound and the position of the switch (or is the switch on LK bridge-all three-neck?).
My favourite Lemmy bass sound is on the "Golden Years" live EP from 1980 with a great version of "Leaving Here":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6RDWo88GdU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6RDWo88GdU)
Really metallic and cutting sound.
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Lemmy does Johnny Cash. From the album Lemmy, Slim Jim & Danny B. In an interview when the album came out, Lemmy said Big River was the first record he ever owned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Dulkqafzk