KILLED BY DEATH
Dec. 30th, 2015 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogYou know that Lemmy is gone.
And it’s sad in the sense that really, it was a miracle he lived as long as he did. He wasn’t exactly in the same league as Keith Richards – no one is – but his reputation and his band Motörhead lent itself to the mythological and decidedly unhealthy Rawk lifestyle.
And yet Lemmy just kept on going to the point where you figured he was indestructible. According to legend, when he collapsed from dehydration during one show in 2005, his solution was to start adding ice to his Jack and Cokes. (Earlier this year, he switched from Jack Daniels and Coke to vodka and OJ for “health reasons”.) He certainly outlived at least two former bandmates.
Anyway, Lemmy was a true rock legend. Some people will point to his days in Hawkwind as the real highlight of his career. But to be honest I’ve never heard a Hawkwind record in my life. Motörhead was my first and only Lemmy experience (starting, obviously, with that guest slot on The Young Ones), and you have to admire the fact that he pretty much stayed true to his mission for 40+ years. For the last few Motörhead album releases, I’ve joked about how Motörhead has made a new Motörhead album that sounds like Motörhead – but really, there aren't many bands that can stick to more or less the same basic LOUD ROCK formula for four decades and still make it work (albeit with varying levels of quality).
Put another way, as standard as their rock blueprint may have been, you know when yr listening to a Motörhead album. They had their own sound, and Lemmy was a key reason why. He was like no one else in the business.
Also, he was mates with Samantha Fox.
That counts for a lot with me.
Anyway, let’s go with the obvious choice for the selected music video.
He knew how to die,
This is dF
And it’s sad in the sense that really, it was a miracle he lived as long as he did. He wasn’t exactly in the same league as Keith Richards – no one is – but his reputation and his band Motörhead lent itself to the mythological and decidedly unhealthy Rawk lifestyle.
And yet Lemmy just kept on going to the point where you figured he was indestructible. According to legend, when he collapsed from dehydration during one show in 2005, his solution was to start adding ice to his Jack and Cokes. (Earlier this year, he switched from Jack Daniels and Coke to vodka and OJ for “health reasons”.) He certainly outlived at least two former bandmates.
Anyway, Lemmy was a true rock legend. Some people will point to his days in Hawkwind as the real highlight of his career. But to be honest I’ve never heard a Hawkwind record in my life. Motörhead was my first and only Lemmy experience (starting, obviously, with that guest slot on The Young Ones), and you have to admire the fact that he pretty much stayed true to his mission for 40+ years. For the last few Motörhead album releases, I’ve joked about how Motörhead has made a new Motörhead album that sounds like Motörhead – but really, there aren't many bands that can stick to more or less the same basic LOUD ROCK formula for four decades and still make it work (albeit with varying levels of quality).
Put another way, as standard as their rock blueprint may have been, you know when yr listening to a Motörhead album. They had their own sound, and Lemmy was a key reason why. He was like no one else in the business.
Also, he was mates with Samantha Fox.
That counts for a lot with me.
Anyway, let’s go with the obvious choice for the selected music video.
He knew how to die,
This is dF
