I'm a girl born in the wrong decade. I belong in the 1960s or the 1970s in my opinion. I bleed tie dye, my theme music is anything 1960s rock or 1970s rock or metal. I'm a hippie through and through. But also a hippie who loves old metal music. I believe that violence never solves anything, so why resort to it to solve problems? With all the wars the world has seen, there should be a clue somewhere in there!
Life is what happens when you are making other plans~ John Lennon
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind~Gandhi
The time is always right to do what is right~ Martin Luther King Jr.
You know how pictures always seem to tell a thousand word? Well let's see what these pics have to say. These pics must say 27,000 words, each for the 27 years these photos were taken, between a father and his son.
For you Motorhead fans out there, you probably think you know everything about Lemmy and Co. Let's see if you truly know everything about Motorhead.
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-"Motorhead" was not only not the first song he wrote for the soon to be legendary heavy metal band of the same name. It was also the last song he wrote with his previous band Hawkwind. It was the B-side to the band's 1975 single "King of Speed"
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-Lemmy worked backstage when he couldn't be out on the stage. He worked as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix, lugging their gear around and managing Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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-1979's Overkill album is where Motorhead really found their fame. The album art is as iconic as the album itself. Created by Joe Petagno, it remains one of the most popular album covers to this day
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-Despite his immense use of drugs or alcohol, Lemmy wrote the song "Dead Men Tell No Tales" about Jimmy Miller, who produced the album Bomber. He was battling heroin addiction during production
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-"Ace of Spades" was used for the Rock Band 2 game and some of the lyrics were changed slightly to reflect Lemmy's apparent immortality. "I don't want to live forever...But, apparently I am"
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-Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, drummer for Motorhead, was once so reckless he ignored a broken neck injury he sustained while touring under the influence of drugs and alcohol and because of that, he has an orange-sized lump on his neck
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-The band's song "Dancing on Your Grave" helped inspire the name for one of Brazil's most popular heavy metal bands Sepultura. After translating the song's title, the band liked the translation. Sepultura means grave in Portugese
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-No one was hurt during the making of the video for the 1984 song "Killed by Death". A stuntman was paid to drive the Harley Davidson through walls
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-Michael Burston, better known as simply Wurzel, who joined the band in 1984, got his nickname from a cartoon scarecrow character. He was also in the military, which appealed to Lemmy and fascinated him as much as playing the guitar
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-Phil Campbell, who helped turn Motorhead into a four piece band, is one of the best known guitarists to come out of Wales. He really got known in the music world for being part of New Wave of British Heavy Metal act Persian Risk
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-The demonic-looking train gracing the cover of the band's Orgasmatron album is based on the album's original title "Ridin' with the Driver"
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-Ed Stasium, who is noted for his work with The Ramones, was supposed to produce the band's 1916 album, but Lemmy caught him overdubbing some Latin percussion on the song "Going to Brazil" without the band's consent and was fired
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-"You Better Run", from the band's 1992 album March or Die, was later recorded as "You Better Swim" for use on an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants
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-Starting with 1993's Bastards and ending with 1998's Snake Bite Love, the producer was Howard Benson, who's noted work was with newer bands such as Papa Roach and Theory of a Deadman
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-Mikkey Dee is the longest running drummer for Motorhead. And not shockingly, a lot of fans know he is Swedish. But he's also Greek, because his real name is Micael Kiriakos Delaoglou
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-Lemmy appeared on an October 2001 episode of The Drew Carey Show, playing a song called "Sorry"
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-Guitar legend Steve Vai plays guitar on the songs "Terminal Show" and "Down on Me" from 2001's Inferno
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-The coat of arms gracing the front of the band's Motorizer album depicts England's Three Lions (for Lemmy), Sweden's Three Crowns (for Mikkey), the Welsh Dragon (for Phil Campbell) and the band's official mascot, the Snaggletooth
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-The band's famous mascot, the Snaggletooth, has appeared on almost every album except the band's On Parole album and 1996's Overnight Sensation
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-Ironically, Lemmy Kilmister was born Ian Fraser Kilmister. He earned his iconic nickname from his constant requests to borrow money. Such as "Lemmy a fiver"
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-One of the co-authors of the 2008 film Chemical Wedding is none other than Bruce Dickinson. This movie shares the name with one of Bruce's 1990s solo albums
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-The only song Iron Maiden ever recorded completely on acoustic guitars is "Journeyman", which closes out the band's 2003 album Dance of Death
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-When Blaze Bayley was dismissed in 1999, bassist Steve Harris was, not surprisingly, hesitant to let Bruce Dickinson, better known to all as "The Air Raid Siren" back into the band
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-Between 1994-1999, Blaze Bayley replaced singer Bruce Dickinson. Bayley had some success with his band Wolfsbane, who in 1989 was the first UK group on Rick Rubin's Def American label
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-The band's ninth album, Fear of the Dark, was their first cover not designed by Derek Riggs, who usually designs the band's artwork. This album cover was designed by Melvin Grant
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-Originally, "Bring Your Daughter...to the Slaughter" was written by Bruce Dickinson for his first solo album. But he was pestered by Steve Harris to use it on Maiden's 1990 album No Prayer for the Dying
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-Prior to joining Maiden, guitarist Janick Gers was part of Maiden's competition. He was the main force behind New Wave of British Heavy Metal band White Sprit, who are best known for their almost identical Deep Purple-like sound
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-The video for "Can I Play with Madness" marked the final appearance for Monty Python member Graham Chapman, who played the ornery professor. He died in 1989
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-During the early part of their career, Maiden refused the use of synthesizers. But the band surprised fans when they utilized them on their Somewhere in Time LP, on almost every song except "Wasted Years"
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-If you look VERY closely at the Powerslave album cover, you can see that some of the hieroglyphics are messages and doodles, such as "bollocks", "Indiana Jones was here" "Wot, no Guinness?"
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-Depending on where you bought the album, the last track on Piece of Mind could be listed as "Dune" and/or "To Tame a Land". The reasoning is Frank Herbert, author of the highly popular sci-fi series, wasn't a heavy metal fan and didn't give his blessing on this
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-Despite a lot of religious fervor over their track "The Number of the Beast", Maiden recorded a backwards message for the Piece of Mind track "Still Life". It was drummer Nicko McBrain doing a comedy accent, but nothing occult-related
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-Bassist Steve Harris, to this day, regrets putting "Total Eclipse", which appears on The Number of the Beast, on the B-side of their 1982 Run to the Hills instead of the less popular "Gangland", which made it on to the album
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-Martin Birch, who produced a lot of Maiden's albums, was involved in a car crash during the recording sessions for The Number of the Beast. When he received his repair bill, he was horrified to find that the cost was 666 British pounds. He insisted that an extra pound should be added to fix the number
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-The iconic art on the front of Maiden's The Number of the Beast album featured a blue sky instead of black and stormy-looking. This typo was due to poor quality at the factory where it was printed and was later corrected in 1998
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-Prior to being considered "unreliable", previous Maiden singer Paul DiAnno had replaced an even more unreliable singer named Dennis Wilcox, who told bassist Steve Harris that the band should model their image on Kiss, even down to the members of Maiden donning the Kiss makeup
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-On the song "Charlotte the Harlot" from Iron Maiden's debut album, the main character appeared in later songs, such as "22 Acacia Avenue" (1982), "Hooks in You" (1990), "From Here to Eternity" (1992)
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-Dave Murray and Adrian Smith, both guitarists in Maiden, were friends in childhood. Smith bought his first electric guitar from Murray for five British pounds
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-Iron Maiden's mascot, Eddie, but properly known as Eddie the Head, earned its nickname simply because when Maiden was first starting out, "Eddie" was nothing more than a head hanging above the stage, specifically above the logo and the drum kit where Nicko McBrain now resides
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-While most bands find success rather quickly, Iron Maiden formed on Christmas Day 1975. And for the next four years, they scraped by, fighting for fame until they signed with EMI Records
