Important Lemmy news

[Pilgrim]

Two beers is my usual limit, with an extension to three if I start early, stay up late and don't drive.

[Highlander]

A glass of malt, once a week, whilst having a soggie and reading a book... slainte...

[TBird1958]

A glass of malt, once a week, whilst having a soggie and reading a book... slainte...

Kenny.....What's a soggie?   

[gweimer]

Since getting divorced, I no longer have a reason to drink.   

I'm still trying to figure out how Lemmy's imbibing habit constitute "news".   

[Dave W]

Lemmy is always newsworthy. Always was.

He's outlasted a few folks.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

No BS, I've never had a beer in my LIFE. Growing up, my neighbors were alcoholic sisters transplanted from Ohio and one of them drank Ol' Milwaukee by the CASE and saved her (mostly) empty cans in trash bags outside. The smell that wafted over from over a football field away put me off beer for life. I have a similar problem with vodka; a years worth of fermented rotten potatoes stored in a broken deep freeze created an aroma worse than a human corpse, one that I can smell in ANY potato based vodka. I still run on the same bile and piss I've always had and soon getting off nights in about a month will put me back onstage again. 8x10 therapy carrying AND playing my cab also ought to help with my damned kidney stones (and no, they aren't the ones that beer helps) and my wonderful gf will help with everything else.

Seeing Lemmy in person 15 years ago, at the start of the set he looked his age and then some, but as the show progressed, he grew younger while dispensing nuggets of wisdom from the stage about sex, life, and rock 'n roll, all of them admonitions to treat women decent (in bed at least) and live every day like it is your last.  The man does what he does: everything louder than everything else. I like that philosophy. ...and whiskey. Whiskey is OK by me. 

[westen44]

I don't much care for drinking, but I have tried various things through the years.  It's funny that Old Milwaukee should be mentioned.  Out of the different kinds of beers I've had, it's the worst.  I probably do 90% of my drinking when I'm in Europe.  That's every few years.  I'm around friends who drink.  Hardly any of my friends in the U.S. drink.  I don't like drinking alone.  So, for the most part I don't drink.  Plus, in general, American beer usually just doesn't taste very good to me anyway.  All joking aside, though, I can't even imagine a worse beer than Old Milwaukee.  I can easily see how it could totally turn someone against beer forever.  Even the cheapest German beer I've had is light years ahead of it.  Of course, Dutch and Belgian beer are also very good. 

Edit:

Now that I think about it, I am getting Old Milwaukee and Milwaukee's Best mixed up.  It's Milwaukee's Best that I found so horrible.  I can't remember anything about Old Milwaukee, but I've probably had some at one time or the other.  But I can name other beers I don't like--Bud, for instance, is almost as bad as Milwaukee's Best.  We've had this discussion before at the LBO.  Even though it's supposed to be a cheap beer, the only American beer I can name which I kind of like would be Pabst.  I haven't had any in a long time. But it used to be very inexpensive and it was well worth the money. 

[Highlander]

PBG... Bravo, Sir...! Bravo...!

Dave posting that picture of him with Nancy and Sid reminded  me of images of him with Wendy "O" ... it would be nice to see a pic of him and Keef, together...

Space Ritual I bought second hand in '74 having become a fan in '72 when I bought Silver Machine (along with Cooper and Slade, so an early musical hero, sort of) and whenever I think of Hawkwind in that era Lemmy and Stacia immediately come to mind, not necessarily in that order... bought the single Kings of Speed on release, which had an interesting b side, resplendent with a Simon House violin solo... this is how I discovered Motorhead...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOc8AynSUm8

I still have my (their) first tour-shirt and it gets an outing from time to time... getting rather moth-eaten and worn, considering its age... (I heard that; the Tee, not me! )

Sums up his life as it's emblazoned on the front with "Born To Lose" and on the back "Live To Win"...

Kenny.....What's a soggie?   

I have a bath once a (delete as preferred) week/month/year, whether I need it or not...

[Dave W]

Bad news, Motörhead cancels Texas shows.

Here's a video from the Austin show where Lemmy stopped after three songs. Toward the end he apologizes.

[wellREDman]

Bad news, Motörhead cancels Texas shows.

Here's a video from the Austin show where Lemmy stopped after three songs. Toward the end he apologizes.

That makes me sad

[Granny Gremlin]

I have a similar problem with vodka; a years worth of fermented rotten potatoes stored in a broken deep freeze created an aroma worse than a human corpse, one that I can smell in ANY potato based vodka.

The Polak in me finds this hilarious and tragic.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

That makes me sad

Props to Lemmy for gutting it out as long as he did. He's clearly near the end. Better to die in your boots than on your back.

[Highlander]

Not looking good... one day, even Keef will go...

[Dave W]

Props to Lemmy for gutting it out as long as he did. He's clearly near the end. Better to die in your boots than on your back.

Maybe he can just stop touring and still have a decent life. OTOH maybe he knows more than he's letting on. If he knows his number will be up soon regardless of what he does, that might explain why he's still out on tour.

[patman]

Maybe he truly loves to play...if time is limited, might as well do what you love.