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White Line Fever

The Autobiography

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White Line Fever

By: Janiss Garza, Lemmy
Narrated by: Anayssa Garcia
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Ian Fraser Kilmister was born on Christmas Eve, 1945. Learning from an early age that chicks really do appreciate a guy with a guitar, and inspired by the music of Elvis and Buddy Holly, Lemmy quickly outgrew his local bands in Wales, choosing instead to head to Manchester to experience everything he could get his hands on. And he never looked back.

Lemmy tripped through his early career with the Rocking Vicars, backstage touring with Jimi Hendrix, and as a member of Opal Butterflies and Hawkwind. In 1975, he went on to create speed metal and form the legendary band Motörhead. During their long history, they released over 20 albums, were nominated for a Grammy, and conquered the rock world with such songs as “Ace of Spades”, “Bomber", and “Overkill”. Throughout the creation of this impressive discography, the Motörhead lineup has seen many changes, but Lemmy was always firmly at the helm.

White Line Fever, a headbanging tour of the excesses of a man being true to his music and his pleasures, offers a sometimes hilarious, often outrageous, but always highly entertaining ride with the frontman of the loudest rock band in the world.

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Critic Reviews

"The heaviest drinking, most oversexed speed freak in the music business tells his story: 'An emblem of rock ’n’ roll endurance.'" (The New York Times)
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it would have been great but the narrator mispronounced things in a way that made me wonder if English was her first language.

It was good

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Not sure why this woman was chosen to narrate this book, maybe she has some connection to Lemmy, so I'd better not go too hard, but my goodness.... the mispronunciations in this book were atrocious. I started writing them down after an hour or so as I couldn't believe it. Talked about Serbs and Crotes (Croats), someone named Sigh-ril (Cyril), played at the Reeding Festival (Reading), Adeline (Adelaide), Dunnerdin (Dunedin), Apperience (Appearance), the old guitarist Doo Anne Eddy (Duane Eddy), Sebastian Batch (Bach) from Skid Row, Eric Clampton (Clapton), Don Dekken (Dokken, and the list goes on and on and on.

But perhaps the most unforgivable one was talking about one of my favourite drummers of all time. Mike-E Dee. It's Mickey Dee. And if you don't know that, what the hell are you doing reading this audiobook! For hours she was talking about the new drummer Mike-E Dee. F*?k me. Even the word Volume a few times was pronounced Valume. Now I'm all for diversity and inclusion and all the other buzz words of today, but if you're narrating a book where your voice is the only asset you have and essential to the entire integrity of the task at hand.... choose your narrator carefully! Made me start thinking I should get into this job. Narrating books.

Also, sentences were read at an ok speed but a lot of the time the editing put the end of one sentence too close to the start of another. There were also quite a few repeated sentences, and when trying to quote Lemmy or Phil or someone from the UK she had this peculiar freaking accent which sounded like nothing I've ever heard before, but certainly nothing close to British. Just stick to your own accent if you can't perform others properly.

OK. So I didn't end up going too easy. I'm sorry but I was a bit peeved after it all and only got through it because it was about Motorhead. This book should be deleted and re-read by someone who is British, male, and knows how to pronounce words particular to the industry and others which most of us have know since primary school.



Great guy, great band, great story, shit narrator

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Great story, Lemmy and Motörhead are the greatest band ever, and the narrator was fine :)

Great story, the narrator was fine :)

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Lemmy’s story is a pretty good read, but hard to get into it when a mono tone lady is speaking as Lemmy and telling his story. Would have been really good having an rough sounding British guy narrating

Decent read, terrible narrator

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Equally baffled as others by the choice of narrator; the choices of the narrator and; the mismatched production. Very hard to listen to. This could have been so much better.

Baffled

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