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[pjclarke]

Okay I've read through all 18 quotes and not a mention of the threat to mankind of Anthropogenic Global Warming. It's like it didn't matter to him.

Ah, but remember the lyrics to 'Suicide'

There is no way, no road at all,
We are destroyed, by our own plan,
The air we breathe will kill us all,
And no one left to give a damn,

No sun just clouds and poison rain,
Raped and feezing,
Victims of the dream again,

Stay clean, be true,
do whatever you can do,
Make it soon, or we all die,
Ten thousand years, and all we got is Suicide

This is obviously a commentary on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment which found that of 65 indicators of human impact on the environment, 64 are going in the wrong direction, and a plea to the COP21 Paris Climate Conference to come up with a meaningful plan to stabilise greenhouse gas emissions.

[anonymouse]

From the memorial, I like the last line.

6:01: Journalist Steffan Chirazi and another man is next: “i’ve been up all week thinking about this which is funny because if you hung out with Lemmy, you’d be up all night.” Chirazi adds: “He was so kind and supportive and he gave me the belief that I could live the life I wanted to live.” He reads a Spike Milligan poem, lobster.”The Swindon Advertiser said the gig was in jeopardy due to the passing of the frontman. Lemmy would have loved that.”

[quackhandle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF9Gr5waAJg

Sandman by Motörhead

qh

[xoggoth]

Words of wisdom: The Tao of Lemmy: 18 Great Quotes From the Motorhead Frontman | Rolling Stone

Wow! What a sensible chap!

[darmstadt]

Okay I've read through all 18 quotes and not a mention of the threat to mankind of Anthropogenic Global Warming. It's like it didn't matter to him.

Made money out of it back in 2009:

[DimPrawn]

Words of wisdom: The Tao of Lemmy: 18 Great Quotes From the Motorhead Frontman | Rolling Stone ♠︎

Okay I've read through all 18 quotes and not a mention of the threat to mankind of Anthropogenic Global Warming. It's like it didn't matter to him.

[greenlake]

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Finnish dairy company has released a commercial featuring Motorhead frontman Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister that was filmed just weeks before his death in December.

The 40-second spot published Friday on YouTube by Valio is a remake of a 1990s milk ad that is well known in Finland.

The new version shows Kilmister exiting a gas station, turning to the camera and saying, "I don't drink milk, and never will," followed by an expletive.

It was filmed in Helsinki in early December just hours ahead of a Motorhead concert in the Finnish capital. Kilmister died of cancer on Dec. 28 in Los Angeles.

Valio changed the spot to make it a tribute to Kilmister, calling the heavy metal singer and bassist "a lovely, exceptional man."

Valio said Kilmister's managers approved it.

[anonymouse]

[QUOTE=NickFitz;2189061]Here's his final performance in Berlin three weeks ago:


Takes me back nearly 30 years to the Manchester Apollo, they had the bomber there as well.

[NickFitz]

Here's his final performance in Berlin three weeks ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M123gRMtBBM

[NickFitz]

Words of wisdom: The Tao of Lemmy: 18 Great Quotes From the Motorhead Frontman | Rolling Stone ♠︎

[BlasterBates]

[pjclarke]

29 December 2015
11:16

I bought the original Motorhead album on collectable white vinyl at the age of fifteen, and I still have it, though not the sleeve,sadly, that got pinned to my bedroom wall. First saw the band around the same time, at Leeds University, and I knew then that here was a musical phenomenon unlike anything else. Been at many, many gigs since, including the iconic Reading and Port Vale performances, where Lemmy quipped 'This is the biggest PA in Europe, so when you go home you can say to your friends - 'What?'

The records are great however Lemmy's natural habitat was the stage, and while his loss is tragic, if not exactly unexpected, it was fab that he kept it going long enough that I got to go with my son to Manchester Apollo (sold out - by a pensioner!), Hyde Park and of course Download.

Nobody had or ever will live the rock and roll lifestyle like this man. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypAC2bxarmQ

[darmstadt]

I first saw Lemmy in the old Hawkwind days and when he left to form Motörhead I went along to see one of their very first gigs which was at the Hermit Club in Brentwood in October 1978. The next time I saw them was when they had released their first (some say second) album 'Motörhead' at the Chelmsford Odeon which was quite a memorable gig. I've never seen them since but have had occasion to run into Lemmy a couple of times. Once was at the Marquee where he was propping up the bar with Charlie Harper of the U.K.Subs (who is also 70 now and still doing countless concerts worldwide, I meet up with him when he's over here) and had a pleasant beer with them both. People only really know him for Motörhead and possibly Hawkwind but his roots are rock and roll, check out the Rocking Vicars (his father was an army chaplain) and then Sam Gopal. I enjoyed the curmudgeonly old bugger...

[vetran]

Sad he seemed a nice chap.

[gables]

Live fast, die young.

Though he was 70.

I'm amazed he made he that far, anyway RIP Lemmy