Posts by Russell Brown
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The sale in the old Real Groovy store is nuts. Some of the $2 singles (much dross, a few gems) and a rare NZ compilation I got for $3.
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Access: Treatment for itching and shyness, in reply to Sacha,
A fresh example of some local attitudes about disability, whipped up by a sewerblogger (donotlink). This is why we can’t have nice things, like respect.
What a hideous excuse for a human being Farrar is. He knows exactly what he's doing when he sets up a "how disabled is this guy really?" question in his post. And then he moved on to suggesting the man (who seems to have multiple problems) is a benefit cheat. Unbelievable.
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Hard News: Music: Lemmy, in reply to Chrys Berryman,
I'm going to have to compose a theme to get the rest of that story out of you Chrys :-)
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Hard News: Music: Lemmy, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Here’s an old fave featuring a very snappy Lemmy:
Ha! What a cameo.
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The headline could have been better, but Rolling Stone describes Lemmy’s last days.
In recent years:
There were some modest lifestyle changes: Lemmy cut back from his more than two packs of cigarettes a day to one pack a week. And after at least four decades of a half-gallon of Jack Daniels every day, he switched to vodka and orange juice and just four or five drinks a day. He still enjoyed his daily speed.
Diagnosis:
Two days later, Lemmy complained of chest pains and went to the emergency room, but was released the next day. Doctors found no heart trouble. Singerman and others decided he needed a brain scan “because his speech was getting bad,” he says. There were concerns that he’d had a stroke.
“Why is he not talking much? He was slurring really bad,” says Singerman. “We took him for the X-rays and they said, ‘Oh, my God, there’s stuff all over his brain and his neck.’ On Saturday, two days ago, the doctor came by the house, brought the results and told us all that he has two to six months to live.”
It was cancer, and Lemmy reacted calmly. “He took it better than all of us. His only comment was, ‘Oh, only two months, huh?’ The doctor goes, ‘Yeah, Lem, I don’t want to bullshit you. It’s bad, and there’s nothing anyone can do. I would be lying to you if I told you there was a chance.’"
The end:
Plans were to put out a press release after informing close friends and family. Nurses were hired to be at his condo in shifts. A morphine kit arrived in preparation of coming pain. A favorite video-game console at the Rainbow Bar & Grill on the Strip that Lemmy loved to play at the corner of the bar was brought over.
Singerman and others began calling friends and family. Lemmy told his partners in Motörhead on Sunday night, and travel plans were being made for them to visit immediately.
Singerman and others began calling friends and family. Lemmy told his partners in Motörhead on Sunday night, and travel plans were being made for them to visit immediately …
A doctor visited early Monday. Ozzy Osbourne would be coming by that day or the next. Lemmy spent hours on the video-game console, as Rainbow owner Mikael Maglieri paid a visit. Then Lemmy nodded off and never woke up again.
“Mikael called to say, ‘My God, he just died right in front of me,’” Singerman says.
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Hard News: Music: Lemmy, in reply to Peter Darlington,
This grubby little skinned-up herbert popped up in front of him & dived out into the crowd with perfect timing to catch a Lemmy snake skin boot up my arse.
Great story!
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Hard News: Music: Lemmy, in reply to B Jones,
Obviously you want some foot stomping energy for a track like Razor, which is one of my favourites from the new album, but there seemed to be a tradeoff between getting the rhythm pounding through everything and making it possible to interpret the pitch of all the heavy bass and enjoy the tune as well as the rhythm. Anyone here with technical know how to explain how all that works?
I've been wondering along those lines. The PA installed for FFD's Auckland Town Hall album launch gig was amazing – modern PA systems can deliver bass so focused that it can be very powerful without overwhelming everything else. 'Razor' (that bassline!) was incredible at that show. But you can't necessarily reproduce that with a traveling band doing outdoor gigs at wineries and parks.
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If you haven't seen it already, watch Aretha Franklin's majestic performance of '(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman' at the Kennedy Centre Honours.
Carole King, co-writer of of the song, goes nuts in the audience and Barack Obama sheds a tear.
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The late Helena McAlpine's ashes will be blown into the sky at midnight tonight at Rhythm & Vines.
Fantastic.
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Danny Noonan in a Facebook group I belong to:
No one has mentioned Motorhead at Mainstreet in 1984. Wasn't a Motorhead fan before that night as they 'weren't punk'. Was working behind the bar doing the glasses and jugs that night. Unusually we were provided with safety issue cotton wool to protect our eardrums from damage as it was going to be 'dam loud' we were told. So couldn't hear the punters and my ears rang for 3 days afterwards, comparable to Magazines Sydney gig a few years earlier. Remarkably some young metler half sat inside one of the speakers for practically the whole gig - pretty sure he'll only be able to hear in one ear nowadays. For those that remember the venue, that was the night the upstairs mezzanine (on your right looking at the stage) was damaged where someone(s) jumped a hole all the way through the floor so you could look down at the main level ~ obviously inspired by the Young Ones Scumbag College episode perhaps? All through the night 2-3 coppers would just wander through, keeping an eye open for trouble that never eventuated. Pretty sure that the punters weren't aware that there were the best part of 20 coppers playing cards in the 'ice room' downstairs ready to pounce if it all went off. After the gig finished and the punters had gone Lemmy and the boys, along with some very beautiful but professional ladies, came and sat and talked with us over a few drinks (had just been cleaning up some sick in the mens toilet). Bloody nice geezers. For the first time that night I sort of appreciated that its not a huge gulf between metal and punk ~ started to listen to a bit of metal again for the first time in years.
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