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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 29, 2015 9:02:20 GMT
RIP Lemmy. One heck of a bass player and a true original
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 29, 2015 18:11:08 GMT
We are now getting to the point where even indestructable, immortal guys are dying ! If his lifestyle got him 70 years ( as did lou reed's) the rest of us should be good for 100. ( Including keef). RIP Lemmy...a badass that Ian seemed to respect.
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 30, 2015 8:55:23 GMT
We are now getting to the point where even indestructable, immortal guys are dying ! If his lifestyle got him 70 years ( as did lou reed's) the rest of us should be good for 100. ( Including keef). RIP Lemmy...a badass that Ian seemed to respect. Worth repeating IA's story about Lemmy and the Fender Strat - www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/10149709/Jethro-Tull-Bricks-mortar-and-fresh-flute"Well, I had just turned 20. Having been a guitar player in my teenage years I was aware that I was going to be a third-rate guitar player in the shadow of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page or Jimi Hendrix. I decided to try another instrument and try to be a bigger fish in a much smaller pond.
"Flute was not uncommon in pop but it didn't play a lead role - it was more of a pretty, secondary instrument. In my case I thought maybe a flute could have a more strident purpose, so that's what I tried to do."
An impoverished Lemmy Kilmister - then of Reverend Black And The Rocking Vicars, later of Motorhead - had "charmed him to death" and, in exchange for cash, left him with a Fender Stratocaster guitar which had seen better days.
"It was a hire purchase arrangement of sorts. Finally I decided to trade the guitar back in for a Shure Unidyne III microphone from the United States - and, to make up the value of the store credit, I scanned the walls and my eyes fell on a shiny sparkling thing which was a student model flute.
"For no good reason whatsoever, just on impulse, I made the decision to acquire that.
"That was exchanged for a 1970s Strat which in today's money would be worth around $30,000 so financially speaking it was clearly a disaster, but, taking a longer view, I think I made a pretty good deal."
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