Does Motorhead play rock 'n roll or heavy metal?

[alexpnz]

"We are Motorhead, and we play rock 'n' roll."

:yesyes:

 

[Rhyno17]

They are heavy metal, but the term heavy metal is thrown around way too much when referring to rock bands.

 

[DrMotorcity]

They do both and are also capable of using Pornography in a Sentence.



:hammer:

 

[Jack Davenport]

I think Mayhem was making a great reference to the brouhaha that erupted when Motley Crue or Judas Priest lost an American Music Award for best Metal album to Jethro Tull a few years ago.

 

[Elwood70]

I think Mayhem was making a great reference to the brouhaha that erupted when Motley Crue or Judas Priest lost an American Music Award for best Metal album to Jethro Tull a few years ago.

It was a Grammy.......it was Metallica.....and it was in '88 or '89.

 

[Jack Davenport]

It was a Grammy.......it was Metallica.....and it was in '88 or '89.

It has been a while but I believe you are correct. I remember it vaguely.

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

metal

 

[BigSwede]

But songs like No Class is rather rocking.

 

[Patrick_S]

I just knew someone would start this thread. Goddammit. :crash:

 

[rivasky]

The guys are way past fifty so they're mostly playing boules nowadays.

 

[Petra]

Well, they've played Wacken Open Air which is a huge ass metal fest over here....

 

[Elwood70]

It has been a while but I believe you are correct. I remember it vaguely.

I am.

 

[Mayhem]

It has been a while but I believe you are correct. I remember it vaguely.

The band won the 1988 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental, beating the favourite Metallica and their ...And Justice for All album. The award was particularly controversial as many did not consider Jethro Tull hard rock, much less heavy metal. On the advice of their manager, who told them they had no chance of winning, no one from the band attended the award ceremony. In response to the criticism they received over the award, their label, Chrysalis, took out an advertisement in a British music periodical with a picture of a flute lying amid a pile of iron re-bars and the line, "The flute is a heavy metal instrument." In response to an interview question about the controversy, Ian Anderson quipped, "Well, we do sometimes play our mandolins very loudly." In 2007, the win was named one of the ten biggest upsets in Grammy history by Entertainment Weekly In 1992, when Metallica finally won the Grammy in the category, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich joked, "First thing we're going to do is thank Jethro Tull for not putting out an album this year," a play on a Grammy comment by Paul Simon some years before thanking Stevie Wonder for the same thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jethro_Tull_(band)#1987.E2.80.931994:_hard_rock

 

[passenger57]

Motorhead rules and so does Lemmy !

 

[passenger57]

I don't believe you.

Nobody that likes Nickelback will admit to it.

Laughing my ass off !

 

[John_8581]

Me? I think....



.... easy listening baby.


:rofl2:

Now isn't that a great job Lemmy did with James Hetfield's and Metalica's song, huh? Great guitar and drum work by Eddie Clark and Phil Taylor, respectively, on the "Ace of Spades" too.


:bowdown: :thumbsup: :bowdown: :thumbsup: :bowdown:

 

[Masuimi Max]

Since Lemmy usually starts shows by saying "we are Motorhead and we play rock n roll" I think it's probably that one.

 

[Jobwell Dunn]

Didn't Lemmy say they played RnR??