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Originally Posted by Crowbob
I never heard of the dude until he died. I hated metal my whole life so I did some cursory research on him and the various iterations of metal, including the history and folklore.
Committed music. The power chords, the percussion, the sub verbal guttural voices, the volume. The whole shot.
Conclusion: 'Whatever.'
What I do find fascinating is the connection between metal and classical. Yep classical, like my beloved Beethoven. Go figure.
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Lemmy was more than just the music.
He was a fascinating individual, an icon.
The last dinosaur of an era he had a significant hand in creating.
There is a documentary Lemmy: The Movie
You see a lot of his apartment in LA.
It's a 2 bedroom dump that he's lived in for decades but the guy is worth 10's of millions of dollars.
He likes the place because it's down the street from The Rainbow which has a video poker machine he likes to play for hours on end.