Everybody Lies

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Motorhead...& Making your mind up

Motorhead was the first concert I ever went to. It was 2 hours of ear-splitting noise. Recently someone in London had the brilliant idea of getting Lemmy to slow down "Ace of Spades" for a beer commercial. See link in the headline.

Years ago we used to amuse ourselves by imagining Frank Sinatra singing swing versions of Motorhead songs ...or even better "Whole Lotta Rosie" by AC/DC. Other greats would be Tom Waits doing the Wombles theme or Morrissey doing "I wanna be like you" from the Jungle book.

But the greatest would be Bob Dylan singing Bucks Fizz. With Dylan's sandpaper & glue voice the words would sound significant & deeply philosophical. "You've gotta speed it up, you've gotta slow it down...cos if you believe that a love can hit the top, you've gotta play around. And then you will find. There comes a time. For making your mind up."