rai
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Post by rai on Dec 30, 2015 13:40:44 GMT -5
Beerbelly, Rotte and Lionheart747 - I think we are all long-lost siblings in the way we deal with our grief! I'm gonna raise a glass to you guys (and everyone else on here!) later on tonight
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gorehog
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Post by gorehog on Dec 30, 2015 14:45:32 GMT -5
Oh yes, that film is powerful, especially now. And welcome to the forum, to both of you. Oh wow, yeah it is! I watched both 'Live Fast Die Old' last night AND the Lemmy movie Obviously bits of both were hard to watch, but other bits seemed strangely and darkly funny at the same time! I did the whole thing while drinking Jack and Coke, and then promptly remembered why I usually drink Jack with soda - I had to brush my fucking teeth twice to get rid of the sugary film covering the whole inside of my mouth (I have OCD with regards to dental hygiene, haha!) Bless my husband too - he's not a huge Motorhead fan, but thinks they're 'OK', and I only managed to get him to come to one show with me (which he did really enjoy), and he's been really accommodating to my moping around, getting drunk and listening to lots of loud Motorhead! He probably secretly thinks there's something wrong with me but he's been nice enough not to say anything! I've really enjoyed reading so many stories about how Lemmy has influenced so many and touched the lives of so many, and I hope at some point in the not-too-distant future that we can all have some kind of massive get-together and celebration of the man's life and music. I watched "life fast die old" also. Then threw on the Birthday Party and my disc is scratched to bloody hell!! Watchin "Stage "Fright" now. Couldnt start the Lemmy movie. Try again tonight.
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metalkeith
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Post by metalkeith on Dec 30, 2015 18:06:50 GMT -5
I found out when I got about fifteen text messages from friends and even my dad about it. It was a shock, but it felt so real and... Solid. I think when someone dies, there's a sense of surreality that has to be broken through before absorbing the loss. In a way, Lemmy's was less surreal and more at the same time. I understood, logically, immediately. He's been having health problems for a few years. However, I'm sure in a lot of ways, I haven't processed it yet.
I haven't spent much time listening to Motörhead in the past couple of days. Like Riccardo said, we are Motörhead now. I am Motörhead. Like Andy Dufresne in the Shawshank Redemption, I have all the music in my head. Various lines from some of my favorites have crossed between my ears, and that's good enough for now. Rather, I've spent most of this time thinking about the amazing times I've had because of my hero, Lemmy: seeing Motörhead for the first time (saw them alone because I didn't want my friends to talk through it hahaha); waiting outside the gigs to meet the man himself, actually meeting him, talking to him (he talked to me like an equal!!!), having his autograph tattooed on my arm, having the Warpig/Snaggletooth tattooed on there too; meeting my Argentinian friend Leandro in the front row of a Motörhead show, seeing Motörhead again together the next day, and hanging out with him for the next few days, chasing Motörhead's bus through the streets of Austin, meeting Lemmy again but letting Leandro do the talking; seeing the band at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago with my friend Ryan, flying to Switzerland to see them at Sonisphere with Metallica and the REAL Slayer, driving to Las Vegas with my mom in August to see what would be her first and my last Motörhead show. I didn't get a shirt (only time I'd ever seen them and not bought one). I had tickets to see them in Dallas in September, but sadly Lemmy couldn't do it. Instead, I went with my bass player to a bar, where I hung out with the crew, drank with and traded shirts with a particularly friendly member of their crew (names withheld to protect the guilty haha), so my final Motörhead tour shirt is a crew shirt. When I look back on all this stuff (and plenty more) my only regret is that I didn't have more time with the band. I'd love to have been able to experience the band the same way Tim and DesertRat have. I really only got to catch the last decade of Motörhead, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Like I said, I haven't spent much time listening to them since I found out, but I have spent a little. The four-piece has always been my favorite lineup, so I cranked Bastards all the way though yesterday, and watched the 1916 VHS with some friends last night. I haven't had much alcohol yet. I'll save that and the heavy listening for New Year's Eve.
Keith Brown MHB 4044
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Post by Legion on Dec 31, 2015 23:55:51 GMT -5
You know guys - I'm getting this sense of pride these days. Lemmy is dead, truth, but he had a goal and he achieved it. He actually achieved it long ago, and kept piling on it, never losing his integrity or becoming anything he didn't want. I think he really completed the mission and so much more. And now the love is everywhere, and Phil and Mikkey did the right thing and ended the band, and so the whole thing becomes musical history. Sad as death is, I feel like this a happy ending as well. I think we can be proud of this whole community and legacy.
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motorajzd
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Post by motorajzd on Jan 1, 2016 14:22:45 GMT -5
well, he kinda did die on stage, he literally didn't stop till the end, it was really no sleep at all.
he died like 2 weeks after last show. people usually have long battles with the cancer, but in his case it was almost like the death waited for him to finish touring and tell him "ok, lem,the time has come".
time had to come soon, we all knew that, and i think we should be happy about the way it ended, it was short and with no suffering. he almost died too perfectly, after playing overkill in front of german crowd under the bomber rig at nicely rounded 70 years of life and 40 years of running motorhead.
i am sad, and it's still strange for me to accept the fact that there is no motorhead, but in the end....as much as it's hard for me to write this, i think we really don't have anything to cry for, we should be thankful for all the great music and impact he made on music and us as people. it would be selfish to ask anything more.
thank you for everything and i hope you're in some better place now goodbye, lemmy
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Post by Fester on Jan 1, 2016 19:04:17 GMT -5
Been away for a few days, but that's just given me more time to gather my thoughts about the whole that Lemmy's death has left. I have also wondered what Lemmy himself would think of all these tributes,... irritated?, nonchalant?, very 'matter of fact' that's for sure.
In the car on NY Eve, I put the Motorhead Mp3 player on random, and the first track came on 'I Know How To Die', that freaked me out... but it's a fantastic track....... then came 'We Are Motorhead', which seemed very fitting. Then came my wife's favourite, 'One More Fucking Time', which apparently is Phil Campbell's Mum's favourite too. (He told us so in Manchester last year) That track talks about him being in bad shape, and being only 'bones and skin' All these tracks brought a shiver to my spine, so I turned the music off and drove in silence. But, to be honest I would have probably found meaning in almost any track the machine threw at me as things are.
I'm sure we'll all have more thoughts to add as the days go by, but for now it's enough of a blow to realise that for the last 37 years I have looked forward to seeing a Motorhead live show, at least once as if it some kind of God-given right. But, the highlight of my year will NEVER happen again. I can only apologise for how selfish that sounds.
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Post by Legion on Jan 1, 2016 19:18:59 GMT -5
It's not selfish. Everyone tackles it their own way, you know. Personally, I haven't listened to any of the sad songs yet. It will be some time.
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Post by regina on Jan 3, 2016 17:45:31 GMT -5
Lemmy's passing sparked an interesting conversation with the boyfriend, who simply cannot get his head around the fact that I would feel saddened by the death of someone I'd never been close to; who wasn't a friend or family member. So during the weekend this kept my mind pretty busy, and while I'm aware I haven't found the universal answer to this seemingly simple question, here goes what I figured out for myself: Lemmy's passing genuinely saddens me because when I heard about it, it triggered a flood of memories associated with the band - buying their records, going to gigs and reading interviews - all of these things suddenly making me aware of the merciless passage of time; Lemmy's death shook me up and leaves me sad not only because the loss of an unbelievable talented musician and obviously all round good bloke, but also as an indication of my own mortality. All of a sudden I'm sharply reminded that it's been 35 yrs since my first Motörhead gig with my mind being blown away and profoundly rewired. The thing with grief in this circumstance is that it's different from when a loved one dies .....but what I find with the demise of the musicians from my world is something different; not as powerful but a sign of how time is passing by and we're all here only for a brief moment. I'm thinking of how music has weaved its way into my life and how it's always been a shelter from the rocky paths of life. All the little difficulties with school, work, relationships: setting them aside for the length of an album or even wiping them off my brain while having the ears pinned back at a fantastic gig, happy in the company of friends or alone but united in the mass euphoria of a shared experience with some crowd. And then there's of course the pure pleasure brought by music: the best gig I've ever been to and the best record I've ever heard (until of course the next Best Record and the next Best Gig appear, lol!). Knowing that I will never have that pleasure again with Lemmy and the boys is a sobering thought alright. So what's left to do is grab a record and crank out the favourite tunes, raise my glass to the memory of the fallen and celebrate the happy times associated with their music. And finally I took a damn good look at my own curcumstances and thought to myself that right here and right now life is good and I'm with people I love and I promised myself not to take them for granted but try and enjoy every moment of their company. Even if they like to advise me to "grow the fuck up and stop living in cloud-cuckoo's-land"
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Post by Legion on Jan 3, 2016 20:41:29 GMT -5
Yes, some moments stick out in time, sometimes for no apparent reason. I remember very vividly being in Florence and going to the university, listening to Hammered as I walk through an underground gallery that exists there. Not a particularly important day, but it's there.
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Post by mark321 on Jan 4, 2016 6:48:16 GMT -5
Well Regina ,having read your post I was always on the side of your boyfriend. When I see famous people die and their fans are in tears etc I could never understand why. I mean how can anyone be upset over someone they've never met/met a few times!!!! I mean -grow the fuck up ,it isn't a family member or a mate. My 2 loves are Leeds United and Motorhead. When players /past members have died i've always been "shit-what a bummer" type of feeling, but with Lemmy -i'm with you on this one. Its not just Lemmy that's gone ,its a way of life as you say.Despite over the years, they aren't even the band that I most look forward to seeing.In fact they aren't even my favourite band over the last 6/7 years.But its everything/everybody that goes with Motorhead.Its more than just a gig,or an iconic frontman. As I said -it really is a way of life- One that cant be replaced.
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meanmachine
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Post by meanmachine on Jan 4, 2016 10:01:48 GMT -5
Hello fellow MHB's. I am just now getting time to post my thoughts on here. Been out of town over the holidays and just now getting back into the work routine. Lemmy's passing has really left me with an empty feeling. I was late to the Motorhead party so to speak as I had only been a serious fan the last 7 yrs. I knew of the band of course but didn't really get into their back catalogue much until around 2008 when I first had thoughts of seeing the band live for the first time. I had tickets for the Metal Masters tour in Pittsburgh about 6 hrs away where my brother lived but I didn't go because I had to drive up the day of the show and drive back the next day. Of course knowing what I know now, I would have done it. 2009 brought the perfect opportunity to see the band only 3 hrs away. Then about a month before the show, Mikkey did the jungle reality show and no offense to Matt Sorum but I wanted 100% Motorhead or nothing at all. Finally in 2011 I got to see the band in Charlotte, NC and I was blown away! The guys were in a great mood as they joked around a lot on stage and I couldn't believe how tight the band was in person. Normally the volume is the main thing mentioned about a MH show but these guys were hitting all their marks. I also joined the MHB's club and looked forward to every issue. Of course 2013 brought some health issues to Lemmy but I never lost my enthusiasm. Which brings me to an event last year I will always regret. I had a ticket for their show in Charlotte last Sept so I put the word out. None of my friends could go, not even the guy who went with me to the last show. So I figured I would go on myself. The day of the show my blood pressure went high and I decided not to go as I didn't feel the best. Looking back now, I am pretty sure it was more anxiety than anything. If there was anything I could do over from last year, it would be that. Blame on the fact I had never been to a show by myself or the fact I do have high BP and have had past anxiety issues but it still sucks. Then as I was reading Desertrat's post about the Motorboat cruise, I thought I would do that this coming year. I asked the wife to go but when she wasn't interested she told me to go ahead and I actually found a buddy to go with me. I was thinking, YES! I have something Motorhead related to look forward to in 2016. Then the news of Lemmy's passing came down and I realized how much the band has been important to me the last few years. If I had a bad day at work or just a bad day in general I would either play some MH music or get on here and try to find some news about the band, a funny quote by Lemmy or something. I do regret not going on to the show in September but more importantly I regret not getting into the band earlier. All the past shows and albums I missed out being excited the day they were announced. Seeing the band throughout the years. I am thankful for the one show I caught as I have read comments from some who never saw the band. But the one thing I want to state is that Motorhead was REAL. You could always count on a new record, a new tour, constantly hitting the road and kicking ass. My other favorite band is Van halen and to say they've had some disappointing years is an understatement. But Motorhead always delivered. Yes they've had some hiccups the last few years, but you always knew what you were going to get. Lemmy never changed, never wavered. He played rock and roll the way he thought it should be played and I commend him for that. I loved the way he played it! I just hate in this age of bands getting more and more out of touch with what their fans wanted, the one band that still seemed real in this day and age is now sadly over. Certain songs have come to mind since I heard the news about Lemmy. I think it will be a long time if ever, I could listen to Til the end again. I am glad though that several friends sent me messages of them sorry to hear about Lemmy because they knew I was such a fan. I was proud to fly the Motorhead flag in an area where hard rock music is not the norm. This year will be our first without Lemmy and the band and I know it will be hard. Time moves on but it is hard to imagine a new year with no more Motorhead shows or new music in the future. My condolences to Paul on Lemmy's passing and to Phil and Mikkey who adjust to life in the coming months without their leader and friend.
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Post by Fester on Jan 4, 2016 19:09:22 GMT -5
Hey Regina, that was a fantastic and well thought out post. I can identify with lots of it, you see I had a mate who was in tears when Elvis died, I was a bit sad but I thought WTF? I had a group of female employees who wore black arm bands when Take That split up. I thought it was childish and ridiculous. But, now as Lemmy disappears from our lives, I think Regina is spot on when she says its about our own mortality.
That, plus the fact that a giant character, the like of which I have never seen, has gone forever. the likes of Lemmy are irreplaceable. That's why Motorhead carried on for 4 decades when other members came and went, (infrequently though to be fair) Phil Taylor died recently, and we all felt bad for him and his family, but to be blunt that was as nothing compared to how we all feel now. No more Motorhead gigs, at all.... ever! Its a lot to absorb. For those who really love Motorhead music, every other band are basically shit in comparison, that's how I felt that day in 1978 when they erupted on stage in Bradford. I have been to hundreds of other gigs, I like Judas Priest, Venom, Vardis, Jethro Tull... the list is endless, but nothing ever came close to Motorhead. Everything else became instantly shit. The urge I had to wander all around Europe watching them in my late teens, Christ, I wouldn't dare do that now.... but I did it then. Where did the money come from? It didn't seem to matter back then. Sleeping in doorways, trying to figure out trains between Germany and Holland. Sitting in bars near to the concert venue praying that the band might walk in, failing that maybe the roadies?.... and the feeling of proud camaraderie when another Motorhead fan came in and looked at my t-shirt and acknowledged it. Yep, Lemmy's passing has taken away the last vestiges of our youth. That brave time when we were invincible and there was always a new album and tour to look forward to.
3 weeks from now, I should be sitting in the Apsley Cottage pub in Manchester all day. Waiting for the gig. Drinking beer amongst other people dressed similar to me.... wondering how the gig might go tonight? Over the years it has resulted in several back stage passes, a beer or 7 with Phil Campbell, a couple of impromptu interviews for the DVD's which were being filmed there that night. Getting in to the gig, hearing the l low buzz of the amplifiers, seeing familiar faces clambering around the stage setting up that well known equipment..... and then.... eventually...... the lights go down, and from the gloom that swaggering giant ambled out, strapped his bass on, and thumped out those ugly (but so beautiful) 6 or 7 disjointed notes to warm up. You all know the exact rasping ones I'm referring to. Then, he looks disdainfully around the auditorium, cranes his neck upward to the microphone and utters those magic, wonderful, eternal words. The ones that never changed, but the one's I'll never hear again.
........ 'We are Motorhead............ and we play Rock and Roll'
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Post by Fester on Jan 5, 2016 19:54:23 GMT -5
Here is Lemmy's last full length interview, just days after the Paris terrorist attacks. Its 15 mins long, I loved every second..... he might be frail and a little pissed, but he's funny as fuck, and relatively well looking. Enjoy... www.youtube.com/watch?v=eluYcLz4s54
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Post by lardomatic on Jan 8, 2016 18:27:54 GMT -5
I listened to Snakebite Love earlier and when Dead and Gone came on I fell apart. All I want to do right now is meet with you guys, get mad drunk and listen to Motorhead at ridiculous volume
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Post by Legion on Jan 9, 2016 11:02:08 GMT -5
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