Motörhead

Thu. Aug 27, 2015 at 6:30pm MDT
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Motörhead

United Concerts & The Complex Present


Motörhead


with


Saxon
Crobot


www.imortorhead.com



‘We are Motörhead and we play rock’n’roll .......’ This is the usual opening line for a live Motörhead show and everyone can be sure that this band will kick some ass.... Motörhead’s approach has remained the same over the band’s career, preferring to play what they enjoy and do best; their appreciation of early rock and roll, enriched with a dash of punk, a pinch of heavy metal and their well known sound intensity with lots of decibel where you can feel the bass in your stomach and maybe better protect your ear canals. Simply: Rock’n’Roll – that’s what the band is referring to. Lemmy: ‘I come from way before Metal. I’m playing Rock’ n’ Roll and I think Rock’ n’ Roll should be sacred – it is to me. I don’t see why it should not be for everybody else." Motörhead was and isunquestionable influential to many, many other bands. The trademark and famous Snaggletooth, one of the best known logos around the world, is the fanged face that serves as the symbol of Motörhead. 

Artist Joe Petagno drew it in 1977 for the cover of the band's debut album. Petagno stated: The inspiration came from just being a naturally pissed off bastard! And Lemmy is the same way! So it was bound to be an alchemal wedding of a more "primordial nature". I did a lot of research on skull types and found an x-breed gorilla-wolf-dog combination would work nicely with some oversized boars horns. Lemmy added helmet, chains, spit, spikes and grit. The British rockband was formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Ian Frazer Kilmister, better known as Lemmy. The current line up with Phil Campbell (1984) on guitar and Mikkey Dee (1992) on drums is a well matching team that has a blind understanding for each other as the success over the years has proven it enough. 

Lemmy was fired from Hawkwind in May 1975 for, as he says, "doing the wrong drugs". He was arrested on suspicion of possessing cocaine at the Canadian border and spent five days in prison, causing the band to cancel some of their North America tour dates. Now on his own, Lemmy decided to form his own band and call them Motörhead, inspired by the final song he had written for Hawkwind. Lemmy always concentrated on very basic music: loud, fast, raucous, rock n roll... By April 1977, living in squats and with little recognition, and after some debate, the band agreed to do a farewell show at the Marquee Club in London. Lemmy had become acquainted with Ted Carroll from Chiswick Records and asked him to bring a mobile studio to the show to record it for posterity. Carroll was unable to get the mobile unit to the Marquee Club but showed up backstage after the gig and offered two days at Escape Studios with producer Speedy Keen to record a single. 

Lemmy always concentrated on very basic music: loud, fast, raucous, rock n roll... By April 1977, living in squats and with little recognition, and after some debate, the band agreed to do a farewell show at the Marquee Club in London. Lemmy had become acquainted with Ted Carroll from Chiswick Records and asked him to bring a mobile studio to the show to record it for posterity. Carroll was unable to get the mobile unit to the Marquee Club but showed up backstage after the gig and offered two days at Escape Studios with producer Speedy Keen to record a single. The band took the chance, and instead of recording a single they laid down 11 unfinished tracks. Carroll gave them a few more days at Olympic Studios to finish the vocals and the band completed 13 tracks for release as an album. Chiswick issued the single "Motörhead" in June, followed by the album Motörhead in August, which spent one week in the UK Albums Chart at number 43. The band toured the UK supporting Hawkwind in June, then 

The band toured the UK supporting Hawkwind in June, then from late July they commenced the 'Beyond the Threshold of Pain' tour with The Count Bishops. The 1976–1982 Motörhead line up: Lemmy Kilmister, Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor and "Fast" Eddie Clarke In September 1978, the single "Louie Louie" was issued peaking at number 68 on the UK Singles Chart, and the band toured the UK to promote it and appeared for the first time on BBC Television's Top of the Pops on 25 October. Chiswick capitalized on this new level of success by re-issuing the debut album Motörhead on white vinyl through EMI Records. By this time, the standard of their performances had improved considerably, and the uncompromising nature of their music was beginning to garner a following from enthusiasts of both metal and punk.



The single's success led to the studio to record an album On 9 March 1979 when the bandplayed "Overkill" on Top of the Pops to support the release of the single ahead of the Overkill album, which was released on 24 March. It became Motörhead's first album to break into the top 40 of the UK Albums chart, reaching number 24, with the single reaching number 39 on the UK Singles Chart. A year later the band were working on their next album, Bomber. It reached number 12 on the UK Albums Chart. On 1 December, it was followed by the "Bomber" single, which reached number 34 on the UK Singles Chart. The 'Bomber' Europe and UK tour followed, with support from Saxon. The stage show featured a spectacular aircraft bomber-shaped lighting rig. The title-track of the Bomber album was inspired by the Len Deighton novel Bomber, which was a real-time chronicle of an RAF bombing raid from the points of view of all concerned: from the RAF crews, the Luftwaffe, and the civilians on the ground. 

During the 'Bomber' tour, United Artists put together tapes recorded during the Rockfield Studios sessions in 1975/6 and released them as the album On Parole, which peaked at number 65. The "Ace of Spades" single was released on 27 October 1980 as a preview of the Ace of Spades album, which followed on 8 November. The single reached #15 and the album reached #4 on the UK charts and reached gold. The album has been described as "one of the best metal albums by any band, ever". 

The band had more chart hits in 1981 with the releases St. Valentine's Day Massacre EP, their collaboration with Girlschool which reached #5 on the UK Singles Chart in February; the live version of "Motörhead", which reached #6 on the UK Singles Chart in July; and the album it was taken from, No Sleep 'til Hammersmith, which reached #1 on the UK Albums Chart in June. Between 26 and 28 January 1982, the band started recording their self-produced new album. On 3 April the single "Iron Fist" was released, reaching #29 on the UK Singles Chart, followed by the parent album Iron Fist, released on 17 April and peaking at #6 on the UK Albums Chart. 

Clarke left as a consequence of the band recording Stand By Your Man, a cover version of the Tammy Wynette classic, in collaboration with Wendy O. Williams and the Plasmatics. Clarke felt that this compromised the band's principles, refused to play on the recording and resigned, later forming his own band, Fastway. Lemmy and Taylor made numerous telephone calls to find a guitarist, including one to Brian Robertson, formerly with Thin Lizzy, who was recording a solo album in Canada. He agreed to help out and complete the tour with them. Robertson signed a one-album deal resulting in 1983's Another Perfect Day and the two singles from it, "Shine" and "I Got Mine". After Robertson's departure in 1983, the band received tapes from all over the world from potential guitarists. The group returned to the concept of dual lead guitars by hiring unknowns Würzel and Phil Campbell (ex-Persian Risk). In February 1984, the Lemmy, Campbell, Würzel and Taylor line-up recorded "Ace of Sp

In February 1984, the Lemmy, Campbell, Würzel and Taylor line-up recorded "Ace of Spades" for the "Bambi" episode in the British television series, The Young Ones. Taylor quit the band after that recording, causing Lemmy to quip: "Did I leave them or did they leave me?" Before joining Motörhead, Phil Campbell had met ex-Saxon drummer Pete Gill, and the trio decided to call him to see if he would like to visit London. The try-outs went well and Gill was hired. During the sessions between 19 May and 25 May 1984 at Britannia Row Studios, London, the band recorded six tracks for the single's B-side and a new album. The single "Killed by Death" was released on 1 September and reached #51 in the UK Singles Chart, the double album No Remorse was released on 15 September and reached silver disc status, attaining the position of #14 in the UK Album charts.

 



As the band was celebrating their 35th Anniversary on the road this adventure has been captured in audio and visual. The Wörld Is Ours Vol 1 – Everywhere Further Than Everyplace Else is the brand new DVD / CD. The very first time you’ll see concerts from different countries and continents. Shot by Banger Films and Sam Dunn (Iron Maiden Flight 666, Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage). The Wörld Is Ours Vol 1 gives you every click from every pick and kick from the band's supreme performance in Chile, plus some tasty morsels from New York’s Best Buy Theater and the Manchester Apollo. Released November 2011. The Wörld Is Ours Vol 2 is the follow up with fulminant shows in Rio, at Wacken and Sonisphere. Released in September 2012 

Meanwhile Motörhead and Lemmy were showered with more awards. Lemmy received the Mojo Icon Award in May 2013 in LA for best player and the band was handed another prestigious Metal Hammer Award in June 2013. First time ever they played at an Award Show – a small but raucous set. Ever busy Motörhead finished their studio work for the Aftershock album, which was released in October 2013. Produced by Cameron Webb, it featured 14 new gun-slingers such as “Heartbreak”, the bombastic “Queen Of The Damned” and the smokey, bourbon-drenched lament of “Lost Woman Blues”.

Touring activities saw the band roll across the world in their usual ‘move-aside-bastards’ fashion, but in late ’13/early ’14, Lemmy found his own frame catching up to him, and a combination of fatigue and some heart issues rendered the invincible as proving himself to be mortal. This basically means that Lemmy took a long rest, changed his lifestyle and slowly built up his strength again. With a steady diet of support from friends and the fans, plus some cracking gigs as 2014 drew to a close, Motörhead geared up to hit the studio hard in early 2015






Drawing on their own vast catalogue of road-warrior freewheeling rock’n’roll spirit, Bad Magic strides confidently into some of the earlier attitudes of Motörmusic. Produced at NRG Studios with long-time producer Cameron Webb, the album was written and recorded in the studio together for the first time in the Kilmister/Campbell/Dee era. 

This more ‘live’ approach to writing and recording has obviously paid dividends, and that live-in-the-studio equation producing some explosive, dynamic results. There is the driving malevolence of “Choking On Your Screams”, with Lemmy in magnificently omnipotent vocal mood, “Electricity” carries a hefty chunk of punk attitude married with some of Phil Campbell’s best lead work in years, while “Shoot Out All of Your Lights” is all devilish, greasy biker-borne-screw-you-and yours, Mikkey Dee’s tribal drums pounding out a great path for more Kilmister proclamations. The boys even enjoyed a guest appearance from Queen’s Brian May on “The Devil”, adding a scintillating solo on this thunderous Motörstomper.

Lemmy’s personal performances on Bad Magic rank as some of the most wide-ranging and unique he has delivered in years, and on the ballad “Until The End”, Lemmy opens up with equal levels explanation and intent on the simple but important matters which life conjures for us all. Add to all of this a wonderfully executed, gritty delivery of The Rolling Stones classic “Sympathy For The Devil”, and it will be clear to anyone with a pair of ears that Bad Magic is Motörhead’s finest work in over two decades. This year also signals the 40th year of Motörhead’s triumphant existence, something which will be celebrated throughout the rest of 2015 and into 2016, with the band gearing up to tour the world once more and show that if it’s too loud, you’re too old!



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