RIP Lemmy

RIP Lemmy..

Huge loss to rock n roll. And it’s Lemmy not Lemmie..

RIP!!

I saw them a couple of months ago… glad I got to do that.

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/motorheads-manager-lemmys-cancer-prognosis-gave-him-two-to-six-months-to-live/

King Badass.

From Kirk Hammett

https://www.yahoo.com/music/metallica-kirk-hammett-wrote-touching-135141469.html
Shortly after the news of Lemmy Kilmister’s death broke, Metallica released a joint statement praising the late Motörhead singer, who died on Monday “after a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer,” the band wrote on Facebook.

Now, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has released a heartfelt tribute to Lemmy via Rolling Stone. “Lemmy was the finest of gentlemen,” Hammett begins. “Back in 1979 when I was 16 years old, I heard Overkill [Motörhead’s second album] for the first time. I thought it was the fastest thing I’d ever heard, and I declared to all my friends that Motörhead were the fastest band in the land.

And I remember very distinctly having a realization that moment — I realized that it was ok to be an outsider and that it was ok to not feel like I had to conform to anything that I objected to in my teenage life because clearly the Motörhead guys in this picture looked like they didn’t conform to anything at all and boy it sure looked and sounded like they were enjoying themselves as a result.”

Read Hammett’s full letter below via Rolling Stone.

Lemmy was the finest of gentlemen.

Back in 1979 when I was 16-years-old, I heard Overkill for the first time. I thought it was the fastest thing I’d ever heard, and I declared to all my friends that Motörhead were the fastest band in the land.

When I had first seen pictures of what these guys looked like, I noticed a certain authenticity about them. I imagined they lived the way they looked and looked the way they lived.

And I remember very distinctly having a realization that moment — I realized that it was ok to be an outsider and that it was ok to not feel like I had to conform to anything that I objected to in my teenage life because clearly the Motörhead guys in this picture looked like they didn’t conform to anything at all and boy it sure looked and sounded like they were enjoying themselves as a result.

So I got a lot from that pic and that massive sound and that attitude.

And I have to thank Lemmy, Fast Eddie and also the recently departed Philthy Animal for the inspiration, spark and fire that I felt so strongly from that night in 1979.

That inspiration will always be there with me and may the music of Motörhead live on!

The Kieth Richards of Metal……Not a huge Motorhead fan, but I was a huge Lemmy fan. He was the epotime of Rock N Roll, but the difference seem to be that he didn’t conform when the chips were down for the band and still kept riding the crest of the wave……..He lived and breathed what rock n roll should be about and never sold out.

RIP