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Lemmy<\/a> wasn\u2019t exactly the kind of vocalist that was going to be nominated for any awards for outstanding performance or anything. <\/p>\n He was the epitome of the growling rock and roll troubadour, and while that did mean having a bit of a gruff bite, he could normally get his point across with only a few words whenever he bellowed through songs like \u2018Ace of Spades\u2019 and \u2018Overkill\u2019. But the core strength of Lemmy came from the fact that he was never going to reach the kind of singers of yesteryear. <\/p>\n After all, Motorhead were everything that rock and rollers would have loved, and the concerned parents hated them back in the day. Their odes to the rock and roll lifestyle was practically a rulebook for most hard rock bands to live by, and without their thunder, there\u2019s a good chance we wouldn\u2019t have had Metallica or even Guns N\u2019 Roses later down the line. But for all of the lineups, it\u2019s always back to Lemmy\u2019s voice that sealed the deal every single time he made a new record.<\/p>\n For all the times that he sounded like he had a razor blade in his throat, his delivery actually became one of their biggest calling cards. Mikkey Dee was able to play the best drums that anyone had ever heard, and yet when listening to Lemmy\u2019s bass guitar going throughout every single tune, there was no doubt that everyone was zeroed in on him. Then again, Motorhead was never meant to be a one-trick pony by any stretch, and outside of their frontman, they would take more chances on every record.<\/p>\n There were the classics, sure, but there were also conceptual pieces like\u00a01916\u00a0that were a lot more adventurous, and when listening to their later stuff, they managed to get even bluesier with age, when on tunes like \u2018Whorehouse Blues\u2019, they stripped everything down. Lemmy could still hang with the best of them, even through their years of booze and partying, but there was never any point where someone was asking them for a ballad.<\/p>\n I mean, what would the Lemmy-fronted ballad even sound like? He was influenced by The Beatles, but he wasn\u2019t exactly going to be singing \u2018Eleanor Rigby<\/a>\u2019 or \u2018Yesterday\u2019, nor was anyone asking him to. Easy listening wasn\u2019t his forte and when listening to some of the greatest crooners of the pre-rock and roll age, Lemmy took a certain degree of pride knowing that Frank Sinatra was a completely different breed than him.<\/p>\n