Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. Why do I always say that well I say that
because I'm seeing a lot of really fancy advertising from a lot of vocal coaches
on the internet where they still display absolutely no singing. There's a lot of
smoke and mirrors but look really closely they're not singing and they
show no student singing and I'm telling you run from that. If they can't prove it
themselves they can't teach you how to do it.
Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I had to do a vocal coach reacts to
Motorhead obviously the vocalist is Lemmy and I chose the song "Ace of Spades".
Before I do that I want to give you some backdrop between me and Lemmy so Lemmy
used to hang out at the Rainbow Bar & Grill all the time in LA and you know a
lot of us did. We went down there I met Robert Plant there and just all kinds of
people. In fact I want to share a Robert Plant story that you'll get a kick out
of in the midst of all this so hang in there. Fun Ken Tamplin stories but we
were signed to a label at the time called Music For Nations and they were
based out of the UK. The head of the label's name was Martin Hooker and on the
same label was Metallica and Stryper and you know various bands or whatnot and so
they were hooking us up with MTV Europe which was in the UK. It was the first time
that I met Lemmy and he was hosting the show and he was asking me questions and
before we got off to any start at all, I noticed this big fresh scar on his arm
and I'm like what happened dude he goes oh my oh that's when they through the
chains Oh actually I threw them some snap shrapnel on stage you know and I'm like
what and he goes yeah I cut me arm into bits to ribbons is what he said, he says
but I still finished the fin' show and so I guess he bled all over the
place and still finished the show and then they rushed him to the hospital in
true Lemmy fashion and so we're at the at MTV and I said you know I have an
odd question for you I said I've seen other things written on you about this
but why is it that you sing up into the microphone because that cuts off the
trachea in your air supply it's really hard to do that. He goes oh it's a
bloody hell funny story mate, when we first started out we used to play a lot of
these biker bars and you know blah blah you know whatever kind of gnarly clubs
and he says it almost every single time a fight will break out but we couldn't
stop the band we had to keep going so in order to keep from getting a hit or
something thrown at you I just learned how to you know put.. sing up like this so
his fists are flying and things are throwing and tables are getting knocked
over and people getting hit over the head with chairs and stuff, the band
played on. Lemmy was a bad mofo I'm telling you straight up so anyway um the
Robert Plant story so we where, I was at the Rainbow Bar and Grill
and Lemmy was there and one of my other clients a Kat Von D was there and so he
comes out and he goes hey mate how you doing, what's going on you know what are you
doing. I said well I just came back over from the from the Roxy it's a well-known
club right next door, we had played and we did a, it was like BAM magazine. I
forget what it was but it was a fundraiser for a local rock magazine and
so um he goes well man did you did you guys get the money that you wanted and I
said yeah I think we did pretty well you know there was a lot of bands on the
bill we were up you know kind of high so it was nice you know just got out so
he goes walking back in and I'm waiting for my car and Robert Plant comes
walking out and all of a sudden there's this group of girl.. girls nah I'd say five
girls and three guys from one of the opening acts that had just played at this
Rock benefit concert and one of the girls comes chomping over, she looks
straight at Robert. She goes so you in a band and he looks at me and he looks
back at her and he goes, well I used to be and she goes oh and chews her gum and she
goes walking off and I'm like you gotta be kidding me and we both started laughing
and I didn't have to say a word. Then his Bentley pulls up, he gets in it and I
think the whole band realized that was Robert Plant after she walks off so talk
about money grabbers or were they called gold diggers but anyway I had to share
some of those fun stories because growing up in LA, we got to see a lot of
this and Motorhead isn't the least of which is one of those bands but let's go
ahead and do a reaction to Motorhead "Ace Of Spades"
By the way one of the loudest bands I've.. if not the loudest band I have ever heard
straight up. Probably the most energetic band I've ever seen. Back in the 80s we
didn't quite know how to categorize them because it was almost like Punk but not
quite punk because it was more bar band blues like blues rock so it was
weird to have this like blues rock band with all of the angst and energy of a
punk band. That's kind of you know how we all looked at it back then so and then
of course they just later just became a great rock band but and notice that Ace of Spades .
The neck going up there.
I get tired for the drummer just looking at him (drum sounds) you know
it's just like non-stop energy.
Now imagine Lemmy just past here as we know, God rest his soul
but he was doing this into his 70s I mean think about that guys I mean that
is a long time career and it's a lot of energy for somebody in their 70s you put
put out this kind of energy let me tell you that.
Okay so one more funny story so anyway I was at.. the band that I was in,
we got to warm up for them for one show it was at the Marquee Club in London and
and then but they'd had this wire, wire-mesh all around the stage and I had
played there before in another band I was in and they didn't have that wire
mesh before and so I asked Lemmy, I go hey dude what's the wire mesh for
he goes oh it's when they throw the change, the change hurts he says oh they
might piss in a bottle and throw the ball at yeah and at least it doesn't splat
all over you and I'm like oh. Sure enough man they were just throwing all kinds of stuff
man it was just insane you know. It's almost like just being in a brawl or
something or the rugby of metal or something.
Man it takes the wind outta you just listening to it right, so imagine doing
like 90 minutes of that all night long just crazy crazy energy. So anyway guys
thank you for joining me Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy.
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course and I think if you're a singer you'd love it okay.
Alright guys until next time peace out.
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