"Born to Lose - Live to Win"
Just wanted to post a wee tribute to one of my heroes who provided a whole heap of soundtrack to my (never-ending) youth, not to mention a healthy dose of attitude and a sense of remaining true to yourself and your beliefs in the face of all sorts of bullsh*t!
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister of Motörhead, Hawkwind and lest we forget, The Rockin' Vicars, passed away yesterday, one of the last true rockers and without whom 'Heavy Metal' as we know it simply wouldn't exist. Lemmy seemed indestructible, he WAS the living embodiment of Rock & Roll. There was that old joke that after a nuclear war, the only living things left on earth would be cockroaches... and Lemmy! Well I guess it'll just be the 'roaches now.
He united many musical genres - Rock & Roll (he loved Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis), Rock, Psych and Punk etc - you'd see all sorts at a Motörhead gig - he was the General Sectretary of the United Nations of guitar-based music! He even roadied in the 60's for my main man Jimi Hendrix! A true icon, and in these days of ten minute 'celebrities', he's like Stonehenge. To quote from Motörhead's "Ace of Spades":
You know I'm born to lose,
and gambling's for fools,
But that's the way I like it baby,
I don't want to live forever..."
Well some of us thought he might just manage it!
Rest in Peace and Noise Lemmy!