I still have the letter M from one of Lemmy's cabs.Was lucky enough to know them when I was a 17yo (61 now).He used to muck around with the Marshall logos - one cab was rearranged into "ars all" but the best one said "No Morals"🤘
But he didnt sound like that in Hawkwind. He played bass in a more traditional way and still drove the band on. Your just using how he played in Motorhead and saying thats all hes capable of. That was the sound required for that particular band. Go back and listen to Hawkwind and you will see how good he was, and how underated he is as a bass player
You got to the part where it was 4 months before he passed. I didn't wanna hear it. It takes quite a bit to make me weep (I think I had to fake the last time), but..anyways. He's one of my idols. Got a bigazzed ♠️ on my arm right after 1916 came out. To top it off, he died on my birthday. No replacing Lemmy. RIP ♠️
I made a reply similar to yours. Hawkwind was never the same after they lost his vocals and bass playing when they fired him for not doing the "right" kind of drugs.
In the 70’s I saw him in Hawkwind several times, he was an excellent bass player and one main influences for wanting to bass, which I am still doing 53 years later..
And he didn't compromise which is cool too, I think. He could have conceivable cashed in with some pop crap at some point if he wanted to, but no way for Lemmy.
My favorite Lemmy story is that he somehow ended up in the hospital and the doctor told him he was suffering from dehydration. Lem's reply: "I'll just put more ice in me Jack n' Coke!"
I hadn't heard that but I do remember his doctor telling him that if he didn't stop drinking Jack he was on borrowed time so he said he would switch to vodka.
Think he got a lot of that from being in Hawkwind in the early 70's. For some reason that aspect of his career is always quickly scanned over. Got everything he ever did with Hawkwind.
I would say he's very technical. His mind is technical in how he thinks when he plays having to remember all the shifts and shuffling through all the strings again and again. Technical mind, technical playing
Lemmy looking like he's gonna rip your face off with his mind while he plays a super fast line of power chords and John looking altogether bored out of his skull while he blitzes a blindingly fast line using all the notes.
Matt Pike from High on Fire and Sleep made me promise to never wear ear plugs bc Lemmy made him promise hed never wear them. i already had tinnitus but im never going back. this video is awesome
I first heard Lemmy on Hawkwind's SPACE RITUAL: LIVE IN LONDOON AND BRIXTON SUNDOWN. He's all over thst record, but he doesn't sound anything like he did with Motothead.
Oh contrare mon Freire! During the video of their last concert he picked up an acoustic and played the blues. He played differently to fit Hawkwind. He just chose that sound and style!
Same with Geezer Butler. Originally a guitar player but decent bass players have always been hard to find, so he switched to bass. It's an easy transition for a electric guitar player and bass is much easier to play than 6 string guitar.
My oldest friend is a musician, he too started on rythym guitar but switched to bass fairly quickly when he realised that he was bloody good at it. That was 40 years ago and he's still gigging every week, often with different bands. He told me years ago that guitarists are 10 a penny but if you're a good bass player you'll never be out of work.
Does anyone know the name of the finish on the Ric in the thumbnail image? Not sure I've ever seen that dark of a burst finish on a Ric, and I really like it.
He played the bass like a rhythm guitar….I don’t think he could play the bass. I never heard him outline a chord or play anything like a bass player would. In that sense he wasn’t a bass player he was a rhythm guitarist using a bass.
@@kmoecub oh yes I have and even then he played as rhythm guitarist, often using double stops and chords rather than the single note lines preferred by most bassists. He didn’t know how to play bass when he got to Hawkwind. Even in Space Ritual you hear his distinctive style. But yes I’m sure he could find Root and Fifth he had to….
@Dave_177 yeh got it… but Lemmy was a rhythm guitarist not a bass player. He was pushed to the bass when the bass player didn’t turn up. He didn’t know how to play bass. He never played bass like a traditional bass player…
sorry, but sounds like distorted crap..... when you are a good Bass player, you don't need distortion or a guitar pick, but oh well, he's Lemmy and that makes it ok...I guess.
Bass and destorsion don't mix unless you suck on bass and need to cover it up just like Lemmy did who could barely play when he wasn't sick in general he sucked as a bassist
Lemmy was originally a guitar player, so he played the bass like a guitar. I love it.
Yeah he also liked using a lot of distortion played something like Cliff Burton..
HELL YES!!! His chords were monstrous! Never heard ANYONE play bass like this! One of my favorite bassists in all of rock and roll - forever!
Exactly. He played it like a thumping 4 string guitar and it's awesome
@@sigmundhightower1766 "chords" are called two stops or three stops when played with bass.
I still have the letter M from one of Lemmy's cabs.Was lucky enough to know them when I was a 17yo (61 now).He used to muck around with the Marshall logos - one cab was rearranged into "ars all" but the best one said "No Morals"🤘
Lemmy played the bass like a guitar always through the Marshall with the gain cranked to the max
But he didnt sound like that in Hawkwind. He played bass in a more traditional way and still drove the band on. Your just using how he played in Motorhead and saying thats all hes capable of. That was the sound required for that particular band. Go back and listen to Hawkwind and you will see how good he was, and how underated he is as a bass player
'Lost Johnny' being a classic example. The Hawkwind version
except for the silver machine where Lemmy played two note chords on bass.
I agree, Lemmy's Hawkwind sound is much cleaner. Check out Orgone Accumulator, Space Is Deep, and Born To Go on Space Ritual.
I don't think anybody has ever disparaged Lemmy's work with Hawkwind, not that I recall at least. Lemmy is god
everything louder than everything else
Originally said by Ian Gillan of Deep purple I believe
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@@trippntrev Made In Japan
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Lemmy is god
You got to the part where it was 4 months before he passed. I didn't wanna hear it. It takes quite a bit to make me weep (I think I had to fake the last time), but..anyways.
He's one of my idols. Got a bigazzed ♠️ on my arm right after 1916 came out.
To top it off, he died on my birthday. No replacing Lemmy. RIP ♠️
How come you pretend to cry?
@@NeilPundick For a woman. Lol. If I had a chopped onion at the time I would have pulled it off too.
Philthy said it...he is NOT a Bassplayer, he is a Rhythm Guitarist.
Went to see Motorhead in Manchester UK nearly 30 years ago. I was deaf for 3 days after. awesome 🤘😎
I owned an ex Lemmy Marshall Superbass back in the mid 90's. Stolen from my basement. It was a beast
The older stuff always rules- but I always feel- they were at their peak with the album Sacrifice! That album will shred you to pieces!
Check out hawkwind my friend
I made a reply similar to yours. Hawkwind was never the same after they lost his vocals and bass playing when they fired him for not doing the "right" kind of drugs.
He gave his music a bass & rhythm guitar at the same time. And the guitarist wasn't no slouch but it really enhanced his sound
Lemmy was like what Jerry Lee Lewis might have sounded like if he was a bass player
The Killer -- plays Killed by Death. 😎
In the 70’s I saw him in Hawkwind several times, he was an excellent bass player and one main influences for wanting to bass, which I am still doing 53 years later..
Not a gifted musician in any respect but he gave everything he had to his music and that's what makes him rare and loved.
And he didn't compromise which is cool too, I think. He could have conceivable cashed in with some pop crap at some point if he wanted to, but no way for Lemmy.
he started in the Blackpool-based band "The Rockin Vicars"
Dang, that's a hidden gem!
My sound was a Laney 15in speaker, with a bump to get some nasty clunk from pick attack.
Very much like Geddy Lee.
My favorite Lemmy story is that he somehow ended up in the hospital and the doctor told him he was suffering from dehydration. Lem's reply: "I'll just put more ice in me Jack n' Coke!"
I hadn't heard that but I do remember his doctor telling him that if he didn't stop drinking Jack he was on borrowed time so he said he would switch to vodka.
Lol that's awesome
Organised, tamed CHAOS. His intuitive sense of groove and swing is very underrated and it is a very main ingredient of the Motörhead sound.
Think he got a lot of that from being in Hawkwind in the early 70's. For some reason that aspect of his career is always quickly scanned over. Got everything he ever did with Hawkwind.
RIP Lemmy
I would say he's very technical. His mind is technical in how he thinks when he plays having to remember all the shifts and shuffling through all the strings again and again. Technical mind, technical playing
Meanwhile in some very hot undisclosed location Lemmy and John”Thunderfingers” Eintwhistle are forever banging out bass lines and doing lines…
Lemmy looking like he's gonna rip your face off with his mind while he plays a super fast line of power chords and John looking altogether bored out of his skull while he blitzes a blindingly fast line using all the notes.
Matt Pike from High on Fire and Sleep made me promise to never wear ear plugs bc Lemmy made him promise hed never wear them. i already had tinnitus but im never going back. this video is awesome
Thats not clever, losing your hearing isn't fun... I have tinnitus from music, and can't hear high frequencies.
Stupid advice from two awesome men
LOL ok smart man
@@mikethebloodthirsty doing what you love feels good. not listening to you fills my life with joy
Clever
"like being physicaly slamed by music" well said.
Thanks! 🤘
Lemmy is motorhead. Fantastic musician.
Distorted enough to play like a guitar but just clean enough to hear the notes. Well played Lemmy ❤👏👏👏🤘🤠
He even strums like a guitarist. 😎
I first heard Lemmy on Hawkwind's SPACE RITUAL: LIVE IN LONDOON AND BRIXTON SUNDOWN. He's all over thst record, but he doesn't sound anything like he did with Motothead.
Cool info!
Lemmy WAS motorhead... the band was his, the bznd formed around him not the other way around.
"Can you hear that horrible noise? (pointing at his monitor/wedge)...Well turn it up!"
Man that sounds like crap, he makes it work somehow. Legend
You’d be surprised at how little the average listener cares about sound quality, as long as it fits into the overall picture of the music.
@@powerdog242 yeah, mashes up with the guitar to make that dirty Motörhead sound .
he sounded the same in hawkwind.. he plays two string bass chrords in overdrive.
Lemmy forever!,
LEMMY IS GOD.
RIP LEGEND!
Miss You Lemmy
Oh contrare mon Freire! During the video of their last concert he picked up an acoustic and played the blues. He played differently to fit Hawkwind. He just chose that sound and style!
He so often used drone strings. Lemmy is God!! 🤘🏽♠️🤘🏽
Lemmy Played with the Damned a few times when they were minus a bass player. Also recorded this B-side. th-cam.com/video/IyUJqsqZusM/w-d-xo.html
I heard the lynard skynard bassist played the same way. Leon Wilkerson. I guess it works.
RIP LEMMY!!!!
Lived and died on his own terms. RIP.
Lemmy played Lemmy bass.
Tell me you're not talking to a Metal crowd without telling me...
"Most bass players play with a clean sound..."
Same with Geezer Butler. Originally a guitar player but decent bass players have always been hard to find, so he switched to bass. It's an easy transition for a electric guitar player and bass is much easier to play than 6 string guitar.
Leaving space for the drummer to fill out sections, is a skill most guitarist don't have have and an even rarer trait in most bass players!
My oldest friend is a musician, he too started on rythym guitar but switched to bass fairly quickly when he realised that he was bloody good at it. That was 40 years ago and he's still gigging every week, often with different bands. He told me years ago that guitarists are 10 a penny but if you're a good bass player you'll never be out of work.
Hey...do Ty Tabor of Kings X...such a humble and overlooked player...
Live it sounded more like a jet engine!
Ele era apenas o Lemmy, não era necessário mais nada.
LEMMY IS GOD
It seems you forgot about the Rockin' Vickers a cover band that had many Beatles covers.
The og 8 string/baritone type player lol
Does anyone know the name of the finish on the Ric in the thumbnail image? Not sure I've ever seen that dark of a burst finish on a Ric, and I really like it.
Look it up on something other than Google. Google never ever gives answers to questions like that
Could be Montezuma Brown.
It must have worked in conjunction with the rest of the band, because Motörhead was pretty good…..at what they did.
He played the bass like a rhythm guitar….I don’t think he could play the bass. I never heard him outline a chord or play anything like a bass player would. In that sense he wasn’t a bass player he was a rhythm guitarist using a bass.
Clearly you never listened to his work in Hawkwind.
@@kmoecub oh yes I have and even then he played as rhythm guitarist, often using double stops and chords rather than the single note lines preferred by most bassists. He didn’t know how to play bass when he got to Hawkwind. Even in Space Ritual you hear his distinctive style. But yes I’m sure he could find Root and Fifth he had to….
@Dave_177 yeh got it… but Lemmy was a rhythm guitarist not a bass player. He was pushed to the bass when the bass player didn’t turn up. He didn’t know how to play bass. He never played bass like a traditional bass player…
@@CountryFenderBass in his 60s band The Rocking Vickers, he was a rhythm guitarist.
@@bpabustan yup
LemmysGod
He played with a lot of distortion don't know if it was from turning the amp up loud or effect pedal...
I think it's mostly coming from the amp...
4 string guitar
Head Cat.
sorry, but sounds like distorted crap..... when you are a good Bass player, you don't need distortion or a guitar pick, but oh well, he's Lemmy and that makes it ok...I guess.
the motorhead sound absolutely needed that amount of noise tho
He wasnt good at bass. He was a showman.
I love rock, but it is all mouth and no trousers. Shit? Just put a hat on.
Are you throwing shade at Slash? lol
This is a terrible, uninformed description of his bass playing.
Always hated this slop... Sorry, Lemmy haters, but he AINT God...
Sounds totally meh
Bass and destorsion don't mix unless you suck on bass and need to cover it up just like Lemmy did who could barely play when he wasn't sick in general he sucked as a bassist
Yeah, that sounds like trash.
Like Godzilla chewing cars
Good simile.