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✠ ✠ ✠ LEMMY THE MOVIE ✠ ✠ TOMORROW ✠ ✠ 9.40 BBC4 ✠ ✠ ✠
Posted by Patrick Crowther on 21 July 2011 - 8:19pm.
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Good spot!
Sky plussed.
essential viewing
plans amended!
Thank you Patrick
Sky plussed too
I found it a bit tragic, really
But Damaged Case with Metallica was great.
Yes there is something profoundly tragic
...about Lemmy and his lifestyle. Remember catching a psychological show that was on a good many years ago. The questions turned to his background and his feelings about it. Lemmy became increasingly irritated and aggressive, almost to the point of walking out. It told you a lot. An intelligent and intuitive man, but with eyes like chasms. You got a deep sense of how fucked up, and how lonely he actually was and probably still is
Yeah, I recall the show –
Yeah, I recall the show – on SUnday morning's wasn't it?
My standout interview on that one was where Dave Lee Roth showed a distinctly darker side about his parenting. It was so unusual, at the time I thought it was a put on.
Hmm
Maybe you're right, I have a vague recollection of that one too. Maybe I'm getting the "nearly walked out" bit confused between the two. Roths eyes were darting around in a coke frenzy I seem to remember. Can't remember when it was on, Sunday mornings you say! strikes as unlikely that I would have even been conscious.
Almost sure it was a slot
on the much-derided Network Seven.
It said a lot about the man. Some good, some not so good.
Thanks Patrick....
just set it to record it as well!
I would
but it overlaps with a show hosted by Ben Shepherd with Phil Collins performing some cover versions of soul classics on ITV1.
Shame.
Hawkwind documentary afterwards!
And Heavy Metal Britannia!
Satan Bless BBC4!
Patrick, you are a Gentleman and a Scholar.
Oh my word, I truly hope this is good. I also hope there are plenty of clips of Philthy Animal Taylor playing drums as well. Legendary in every respect.
Lemmy
I was a teeny bit disappointed in this film. It was a bit one-note and didn't really go anywhere, and a little bit of Lemmy goes a long way, really. Some really good stuff with his son, and it is always joy to see Lemmy, just think the film could have been more ambitious.
It focuses on Lemmy now, rather than the classic Motorhead line-up, though so sighting of Philthy Animal are far and few, I'm afraid.
The Hawkwind doc is ace (if it is the same one that was one a couple of years back).
Yeah Filthy
doesn't feature much in the film and isn't interviewed. In fact on the DVD there is a great long interview with Fast Eddie Clarke of which more should have been included in the main feature.
I enjoyed the film a lot and the opening scene with Lemmy insisting on the Beatles Mono Box rather than stereo box suggests his hearing hasn't completely gone.
If it is
then it's the one Dave Brock flounced out of doing at the last minute. And, IIRC, only the cyclic manager (hired/fired/hired again/fired again/hired...) looks as if he'd managed to hang onto any money.
All hail BBC4.
I will be throwing up the horns at 9:40.