WE ARE MOTÖRHEAD! AND WE PLAY ROCK AND ROLL! As Lemmy approaches his 70th birthday and emerges from a recent period of illness, he and his band can still kick ass and take names. The set linked to below, filmed earlier this month as the sun went down on the 25th annual Wacken Open Air festival, demonstrates this in Spades. The band starts off slow (by their standards), warming up with a stately version of the 35-year-old DAMAGE CASE. Then Phil Campbell does his familiar routine urging the audience to make more noise than theyve ever made before in their entire lives. Lemmy, as per his classic stage patter, is none too impressed by the audiences efforts - I WANT TO HEAR THE PAIN! YOU KNOW, LIKE MY VOICE, RIGHT! Several more old warhorses follow. Prior to a barnstorming ROCK IT, Lemmy says of the album it hails from: About a thousand years ago, we made an album called Another Perfect Day, which went nowhere. But I thought it was a good one. It certainly was a good one, boasting Thin Lizzys Brian Robertson on guitar. Robertson was then succeeded by Campbell, who never left and has been in Motörhead for the past 30 years (during the first 10 years of which he was accompanied by the bands second guitarist Würzel, who sadly died in 2011). Drummer and man mountain Mikkey Dee is the new boy by comparison, having spent a mere 20 or so years in the band. Motörhead dont just play rock and roll - they ARE rock and roll. They do a mean line in scuzzy blues as well, exemplified here by LOST WOMAN BLUES. The set culminates in the inevitable ACE OF SPADES. Sadly theres no OVERKILL to round things off, but its a superb end to a superb half-hour all the same. The following ACE OF SPADES lyric, mischievously amended by Lemmy in recent years, makes me happier than ever when he sings it here. You know Im born to lose, And gamblings for fools. But thats the way I like it, baby. I dont want to live forever. Thats right, babe. But apparently I am! Thats the spirit. Still, be sure to see Motörhead live if you get the chance. A video is no substitute for being there (I can assure you), and we shall miss them when theyre gone.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 20:09:28 +0000
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