You go, Lemmy!

[Denis]

I got a kick out of this.

[Highlander]

Outake from Lemmy the Movie... excellent stuff...

[Pilgrim]

I'll take the regular bass player sound, please.

[Basvarken]

Lemmy is extremely cool. An icon.
But I don't like his bass playing and his bass sound.
Sloppy drunk...

[Psycho Bass Guy]

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.

[Basvarken]

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 

[Big_Stu]

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.

[TBird1958]

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.   

[Dave W]

Lemmy banged Wendy O. Williams. How many other bassists can say they've done that? 

[Nocturnal]

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.

[TBird1958]

Lemmy banged Wendy O. Williams. How many other bassists can say they've done that? 

He's still alive too! 

[OldManC]

He's still alive too! 

That's what I was thinking!  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.

[gweimer]

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?

[Highlander]

Played him at pinball once (no contest for him ) 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...!"

Famous London pubs that should have and may yet be...

[Big_Stu]

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.