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Singer Great and next up is Lemmy. We should just call
him Lemmy Adam let me at him, let me at him
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and what do I think of when I think of Lemmy.
Well I think of super intense, high energy, blues rock band. That's what
I think of Lemmy. I think of bass and I think of pretty distorted,
blood-curdling, razor blade cutting throat, vocals right.
Probably what you think of too. I think of you know
"Eat The Rich" or "Ace Of Spades" right of course you know he's got those kinds of songs,
we're going to cover some of that in a second.
We'll play something and we'll talk about it as we go. I think it's
funny that Dave Grohl I forget and another guy,
someone else, put out a movie or endorsed a movie or
helped with a movie with a title of 50,
49 % mofo and 51% sob is the name of the movie but they
actually say it and you know a guy, just a super bad a
right. A guy that takes no crap off of anybody
I mean you know all the way to the end right.
I think of like I said heaving vocals but it was kind of interesting
because when you listen to him it doesn't sound like he's like
straining that much but it just has that kind of (sounds) you
know, just I mean like, just like I said, like
razor blades taken to his vocal folds or something.
Pretty decent bass player man, just a thriving, driving you know, grooving
bass player and I think of like a, like a
locomotive train, just (sounds)
like that sort of the band is like this locomotive train
just coming at you, like hitting you in the head non-stop.
So anyway that said, let's just kind of dive into a live concert here
and you guys tell me what you think as we go. Here we go.
And loud, I think of his being really loud where your bowels were moving from the
bass right.
Makes you want to do that right.
Imagine being the drummer in this band.
Workout.
Now think about this. Lemmy had been doing this for
a really long time and he didn't follow any trends.
I mean at the time he was doing this, becoming pretty popular
at that time was when you know 80s metal was just starting to get off the ground
and get really big right and he didn't, he just beat to his own
drum man, he had nothing to do with that. He was just a
hard blues, rock band and he just, you know some people call him
like early rock punk sort of. I wouldn't say punk
I'd say just a hard rock and blues rocking band, really high, intense. Blues is
kind of weird because blues is a lot more mellow and and you
know you don't really think of blues being this intense
but on the bluesy side I should say and yeah he just didn't take any guff
off of anybody, just did what he wanted, just
held the line and he did it like into his 70s like I know he died
you know here recently God rest his soul but think about how many years that
guy was able to have the stamina to do this for
all that time with that kind of intensity that's pretty gnarly.
Crazy.
Okay now think about the stamina for you singers out there how hard (sings)
right he's just, is just constant grinding,
constant energy, constant playing the bass
when he's not singing his brains out, he's like, like this you know and he's
back singing his brains out you know, back and forth.
Just a really, really intense high energy guy. I can play the whole song, you guys
know "Ace Of Spades" if you know Motorhead but anyway and then also too that
much sound just coming out of a couple of instruments is pretty amazing too,
that intensity and all the different you know grooves and stuff and some of this
stuff was similar as far as the energy and the driving force of it
but yeah just incredible stuff so. What do you think of when you think of
Lemmy as being a great singer. So remember,
this isn't about that he was this high ranged guy or could sing a ballad or
whatever, what personality went into him, what
kinds of things made him great that people remember him
for, that eulogize him to this day okay, that venerate you know his work
and the band and so forth and still play his stuff and and would still go to
see him right now these, this many years later. Put in the
comments sections what you think made Lemmy great,
that'd be awesome. I'm doing most of this by request so put in the comments
sections who you'd like to hear and definitely check out my next video.