Lemmy in GW

[Doug Pearson]

In 'White Line Fever', Lemmy goes way out of his way to explain why he
likes the Beatles so much more than the Stones.  Mostly due to the fact
that the Beatles were the "real thing" (genuine lower-middle-class guys who
paid their dues with years of work in rough port towns like Liverpool and
Hamburg - also the reason why they were a far-superior live band at the
time), while the Stones were a bunch of suburban business school students
who's "dangerous" image was just that - merely an image (admittedly much
more true for Jagger than for Jones).  (Personally, I think that "I Wanna
Be Your Man" is just about the weakest song that Lennon/McCartney wrote
together, but yes, the Brian Jones slide on the Stones' version is great.)

He also describes the Damned as being the best "real" punk band ... he says
that he considers the Sex Pistols to be a great "rock&roll" (but not punk)
band, and he doesn't like the Clash at all (although he says that he liked
Joe Strummer's previous band, the 101-ers).

Yes, the man's opinions are most interesting and often controversial (god
bless 'im!).  I'll have to check out that issue of 'Guitar World' ...

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com

On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 12:55:06 -0500, Scruton, Jason
<Jason.Scruton at DFA.STATE.NY.US> wrote:
>I remember reading a Mojo magainze (maybe the now defunct record collector
>offshoot)when lemmy was going through fave 45s of his.
>He really liked the super raunchy Stones version of "I Wanna be Your Man",
>but thought that they were shite live at that time.
>
>Jones' slide guitar solo is downright evil on that track.
>ah well.