Cöverhead - Overkill - Motörhead Bass Cover

Bass Cover of the song Overkill from the album Overkill. All Rights go to the band, Motörhead.

[@wootelef]

Lemmy's part in overkill is the most demented and ridiculous bass part in any song recorded. And I mean that as an absolute praise, you can't create anything heavier and more badass.

[@RandallHeath1121]

^^ Spot on.

[@uselessindividual]

No question. What’s that quote? “Just cos he’s playing power chords doesn’t mean he ain’t as fast as anyone else.” I also love how he’s like 58/59-60 and he gave one of _the best_ performances in his life on this one. I love his 80’s vocals on stuff like the Birthday Party but this set was killer. Top 5 versions of Overkill, for sure! A lotta stuff I didn’t like post Würzel. This one is really refined.

[@Bartman954]

"Don't forget us" We'll never forget Motörhead or you Lemmy

[@HerobrineGbriel]

its impossible to forget about motörhead after the first time listening to them

[@carlosdeno]

Absolutely class. There are bass players and bass guitarists. Lemmy was a bass guitarist. Great video man!

[@M1tjakaramazov]

Finally a good Lemmy cover!!!!! For some reason doing a bass cover of a Motörhead song is a hell of a lot more difficult than a guitar cover. Most of them suck! This one has the right spirit.

[@SLAYER.APO.VOLO.]

Lemmy is God and you're the most religious person I've seen. You're amazing ❤️🤘🏻

[@ladyjulia4038]

Haha who would win in a fight Lemmy or God? Trick question Lemmy is God!!!

[@mike285]

@@ladyjulia4038 i was editor for the school magazine I think that's how it goes, I haven't watched the movie in years

[@SLAYER.APO.VOLO.]

@@mike285 I think that's the exact quote 😂

[@клаустрофилдбормоглотов]

yeah!our rel is rock n roll!

[@клаустрофилдбормоглотов]

rickenbacker is ho😁😆ly devise anyway!

[@geronimosynthmusic]

Rickies are the best looking basses ever...

[@seflw9666]

agree

[@electromaniac03]

agree

[@SugarSpyce]

Too bad the man who makes them is a fucking tool. For as long as I live John Hall will never get my money, I'd sooner buy a chinese copy. edit: somebody liked the comment and i got a notification just to tell y'all i did end up getting a japanese aria pro 2 rickenbacker copy bass from 1976. thing plays better than the rickenbacker i've tried at guitar center.

[@tinniesofficial5439]

@@SugarSpyce really? How is it? I'd love a rickenbacker but I don't have the coin at the moment so a copy might be the answer

[@villiannewyork]

@@SugarSpyce Lucky bastard. I don't even know where you come across those

[@SpringOffensiveCat]

The God is missed in this world, since he's gone, feels like the world is rotting out. Nice cover man.

[@metehansert647]

Glad you're back

[@coverheadbasscovers471]

Thanks dude, like everybody else I guess, I'll have some free time in the next couple weeks, so let's use that time to play some fuckin' Motörhead !

[@user-yy7tw9hv9n]

@@coverheadbasscovers471 Where'd you get that strap?

[@laurentsergeant8017]

quelle rage additionnée de quel génie pour créer un morceau pareil, ç fait 40 ans que je l'ecoute et je suis toujours scotché

[@tonymcnamara9368]

If I didn't know better, I'd swear that's Lemmy playing! Couple of tattoos missing, and the J.D. and coke of course. 😉 Brilliant cover!!

[@Odhil95]

You actually play like Lemmy, which is great. Damn YT covers are way too soft and nice with those bass strings.

[@raymccormick5659]

Hey, LEMMY here...I have been watching you from Vahalla.....You are doing a great job ! My name was MOTORHEAD, I played ROCK'N'FUCKING'ROLL !!!

[@krakenturdz]

Killer playing dude

[@graemeparrington2841]

Absolutely bonkers number with the 2 false endings. Rock on.

[@amigablesujeto]

Serious, I can't stop seeing this.

[@herrgunsche5232]

Keep going man you're awesome... You keeping it real for sure.

[@merciless2032]

My man knows how to play that bass like real kings.

[@Oiak1086]

Finally back! And a GREAT COVER as always! Thanks!

[@destructor3261]

Great cover with great Motörhead Rock'N Roll style🤘🤘🤘👹

[@Rickenbasturd]

Keep them coming please , the hammer and no class would be sick

[@coverheadbasscovers471]

Thanks dude, I'll record them both, these songs are great !

[@user-yy7tw9hv9n]

@@coverheadbasscovers471 Is this from the stagefright dvd?

[@saidameri666]

Fantastic, rest In peace Lemmy 🙏 🤘😎🤘

[@Cakes239]

Nice!! Great tone!

[@morbidbreath]

Amazing cover,congratulations

[@benhammer87]

Das geht runter wie Öl, verdammt geiles Ding🤘🏻

[@arcticjeep]

onenof the best cover ive seen. great tone

[@leandrolenzi1315]

This is great! Good job!

[@riverbanks5390]

Love this cover!

[@-NoNameNone-]

Rest in peace, great leader! You have proved that freedom belongs to everyone!

[@tzmadv368]

to cover the badass bass line from the badass song, you had to be badass first, you had it...you nail it.. great job

[@robertmiddleton3006]

This is the way it should be done. Excellent.

[@silviocattaneo9256]

Semplicemente favoloso!!!!!!! Top❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@noahfreeman3191]

My dream bass

[@jamesbarrington3344]

Well done!

[@Justin-g6w4i]

Lemmy bass, awesome

[@o_justin4301]

Yeaaah baby 🔥🔥🔥🤘Lemmy Lemmy

[@tsc7018]

Best bassist in history

[@Andyjefford]

Great cover👍👍

[@riverbanks5390]

Superb trebley goodness

[@vdmateus1]

O corpo se vai, mas o legado permanece !

[@amigablesujeto]

WOW, NICE JOB BRO!

[@Nachtghul]

He's back!

[@coverheadbasscovers471]

BACK FROM THE DEAD as Lemmy said ^^

[@viktortheman]

Oh damn, I didn't know that Lemmy stayed on the E during the verses. Good to know, I'm doing a Motörhead tribute gig with Mikkey Dee in two weeks so I'm checking in here to see that I'm doing it right😂

[@coverheadbasscovers471]

Nice ! Enjoy playing with Mikkey, dude, that's a fuckin' dream for me !! Make him have a look at my chanel, if you can, we never know...^^

[@viktortheman]

@@coverheadbasscovers471 thanks man! Yeah I'll tell him, think he'll enjoy it! We did Iron Fist with him last December at a thing where he got a drumming award (we're from the same city so my band was playing that night and they asked if he'd play a song). It's hard going back to your own drummer once you've jammed with that machine😂

[@johnvanhorn2553]

Lemmy is jamming up there, God sits in.

[@betonav4621]

El mismo bajo. Que bueno!

[@gibby6560]

really awesome \m/

[@Erik1970Viking]

Hi Buddy, what a kind of Amp is that? A Marshall JCM800, but the control panel upside..? Just curious, looks interesting-

[@ojaidennis512]

Love your strap.

[@Legotian]

Awesome cover man!!! What tuning is the overkill album in? Trying to play along and E and E flat don't sound quite right to me.

[@koberamone1989]

are you using a pedal? or is it just the amp? what are you settings for that lemmy sound?

[@matiacu3047]

Lemmy is such a big influence to me and i play guitar lmao

[@dspsblyuth]

Lemmy is a guitar player that accidentally bought a bass

[@Hipporider]

Lovely. How about "Keep us on the road"? 🙏🇦🇺

[@Lolo-uz5py]

Bon s’était pas un grand bassiste… mais tellement un bon gars 👍👍👍

[@MrHakase3]

ストラップの位置変えたんですね。弾きやすそう。レミーもその位置でしたよね。

[@kickedphilip93]

Nice sounds !!! Do you play with a pedals ? Or distortion ?

[@werewolf8296]

Heeeyyy pls play fire fire!!🔥🔥🔥

[@garykreitz2428]

I got a bass like that it's pink in the middle and turns red going to the outside a Ebonez and a ampeg amp a little bigger then the one you got there

[@MikeM22]

Please do a cover of 'Fire, Fire'.

[@nunoharris]

Hi Whats the year of your amp? Thanks

[@zombieplayer935]

did lemmy use JCM 800s? cuz i thought you could only use guitar heads specifically for guitars unless someone can educate me. another question is how much is the JCM 800?

[@emmarossignol4445]

You can use basses with guitar heads, it's maybe a bad idea to use a bass with guitar speakers because the low frequencies could blow up the speaker. But a guitar amp is fine, and guitars with bass amps and speakers are fine. Not sure if he used JCM800's, I'm pretty sure Motorhead was started before the JCM800's were released. So maybe something like a super lead plexi or a super bass. And also these amps are expensive, you can get clones for cheaper but a real deal is $1000-2500 or more.

[@krzysiu4003]

Marshall super bass with some modifications.

[@horszhed6447]

@@emmarossignol4445 Absolutely right It doesn’t matter it is a bass amp or guitar amp, because there is no component in the amp that makes it not compatable with the other guitar. It is the speakers frequency range that makes the gap between the two of them

[@el96044]

WOW!

[@nunoharris]

Hi. What strings are you using ? Thanks

[@orderofperplexity7805]

why is the switch not lit up ?

[@babiloniawildrock]

Brutal

[@jeanrunkle1059]

Are you using that amp or are you using something else? You nailed the tone!!

[@aniquinstark4347]

That's the same amp lemmy used so he's almost certainly using it to record this. It's actually a guitar amplifier which is why it has such a mid/treble tone.

[@jeanrunkle1059]

@@aniquinstark4347 just didnt look like the light was on on the amp

[@theosanjaya611]

How to tuning the string?

[@flyspith7686]

I always thought the bass was just playing one string blah blah blah then someone plays the bass like a geetar with the power chords and shit.. ohh boy

[@southernpride2003]

Honestly I've always thought regular bass playing sounded really boring then I heard Lemmy and Cliff Burton

[@mhotham94]

Are you coming back to cover eat the rich?

[@albertomaldonado4737]

Is the speed of this Video Edited? If not FastFoward Head and you should pawn your Ricken, Score Speed and Play it Again…. ;) P.s. Damn you Good!

[@arewethereyet6413]

So fucking gooooood💪🏻

[@marlonmenezes2515]

Fucking amazing

[@arissp4950]

weird amp. what is it?

[@coverheadbasscovers471]

It was a JCM 800 combo. Took the amp part out of it and turned that into a separate head. The cab is also homemade. All credits go to my dad though, he is the builder ;)

[@arissp4950]

@@coverheadbasscovers471 sweet !

[@elgranthony9663]

Te ganó un poco el tempo pero muy buen cover😎🤙🤙🤙🤙

[@unclefugnutz3356]

👍

[@conradmcdougall3629]

Why did you speed up the video?

[@why-rf4gv]

Guess he couldnt play fast enough

[@coverheadbasscovers471]

What do you mean speed up the video ?

[@why-rf4gv]

@@coverheadbasscovers471 its kinda obvious. You clearly sped up the video

[@coverheadbasscovers471]

@@why-rf4gv Well sorry to disapoint mate but I didn't speed up anything. To be honest it was my first video in a while and I think I kinda fucked up the ajustement of the audio track with the video so that might look a bit off sometimes but nope clearly not sped up ;) Cheers and keep listening to Motorhead mate !

[@pilummurialis6490]

You do rather well at covering this, but you missed out a lot of the bends Lemmy does in this song and going all the way up the neck for the ending

[@coverheadbasscovers471]

You're right, to be honest I'm not 100% happy with this cover, I think I should have covered the studio version instead of the live version,. I didn't want to play the exact same notes than Lemmy did on this show and rather stick to the studio bass line but I ain't sure it sounds great like that. Anyway thanks for your comment and support mate ! Check my other videos ;)

[@pilummurialis6490]

@@coverheadbasscovers471 there is an isolated version of the bass, and I learn't going to brasil from your video, I really can't wait to see more covers, you should do Eat the Rich or Keep us on the Road next :) Keep at it!

[@milesrudge465]

Cöverhead Bass Covers You still did an awesome job 👍

[@topperharley7142]

@@coverheadbasscovers471 To be fair, it's stated as a cover, not an exact copy/replica of the song. If i want to hear a 100% accurate version of a song, i just listen to the original... Well played.

[@RandallHeath1121]

I thought covering this particular live version was bloody brilliant! Thank you!

[@bernardbobson7338]

🤟🤟🤟🤟🥰

[@godofwar9440]

When you doing hell raiser

[@jacksonsjackedupbass2741]

My pickups pop really loud if I play that hard

[@therealeikichionizuka]

I wish I had a Rickenbacker. Too bad they cost a literal fortune. $2k is way to much for a bass.

[@coverheadbasscovers471]

They're not cheap indeed. Mine is actually a Japanese copy from the 80'. Bought it to a guy who customized it a bit in order to get closer to an original rick. Got it for around 800$, good deal for the fucking great sound I get out of it !!

[@therealeikichionizuka]

@@coverheadbasscovers471 one good thing though is that my local music store has 2-3 for sale, and they might be up for rent-to-own.

[@rationalmuscle]

Fucking on.

[@damiengogo22]

[@cool-camadkison1676]

Oh man, the money I would pay to learn how to play this song this way😂😂 I fucking suck smh

[@mike285]

Stop saying rip lemmy Hes right here

[@rdg1065]

Fucking thank you.

[@ИльяЧалабов]

Rip

[@alanboomerdavey9356]

Almost, but not quiet……….

[@sosaniii]

cover original music not this

[@King89Alex]

Too fast! no good sorry

[@DrLoverLover]

Calm down poser boy

[@clarenceconstantino5237]

Lemmy is that you?