[kj] (NKJ) Motorhead Last Night

[Brendan]

It was kinda funny watching a shirtless, bearded, pot bellied frontman who
makes Zack Wyld look positively urban scream anti-Bush tunes

LOL :)


> You gotta love a band who's frontman states before a single note is played

> "We are Motorhead and we play rock n' fuckin' roll!" and ends the show

> with

> the same proclamation.

>

> I passed on this weekends' local Motorhead/Heaven and Hell/Judas Priest

> festival tour stop for two big reasons, one being it was at that hellhole

> outdoor pavilion in Devore (California) and the other being that I knew

> Heaven and Hell was playing basically an abbreviated version of the same

> set

> they've been playing for the last year or so leaving Judas Priest (who I

> can

> take or leave at this point) likely playing a full show here in a local

> arena in '09 and Motorhead playing a full set in the small Anaheim House

> of

> Blues tonight. The last time I saw Motorhead in a place that was smaller

> than an arena or outdoor shed was way back in '84 at the Santa Monica

> Civic

> during their 10th Anniversary tour (with Wendy O' Williams supporting!).

>

> Anyway, I went as late as I figured I could get away with to miss as many

> of

> the opening bands as possible. I still got there early enough to catch

> "Valient Thorr" which was a kind of an old school speed metal band who all

> looked like good ol' Southern boy refugees from a white trash trailer

> park.

> It was kinda funny watching a shirtless, bearded, pot bellied frontman who

> makes Zack Wyld look positively urban scream anti-Bush tunes. At least

> they

> had a bit of a sense of humor even if their set grew old after about 2

> songs.

>

> Motorhead came out just after 10pm and opened with "Dr Rock." Yeah it was

> pretty fuckin' loud and almost amusingly, it seemed like the soundman kept

> cranking up the volume to the point by the 3rd song the PA was feeding

> back

> at which he eased it back a bit was was good enough for my now deaf

> hearing.

> They played only two songs (I think) off the just released new album and

> the

> tunes sound like typical Motorhead, meaning they rock hard as fuck and

> sound

> like slight variations on their early 80's classics. Although a good

> number

> of old school classics like "Killed By Death," "Iron Fist" and show ending

> "Overkill" would make any even cursory Motorhead fan happy, they also

> filled

> the set with somewhat deep cuts (and odd choices depending on one's

> tastes)

> like "Metropolis," "Going To Brazil" and the epic old b-side "Cause You

> Got

> The Power." yet not playing anything off (my personal favorite album) of

> "Orgasmatron." One the other hand, one surprise highlight was an excellent

> mid-set cover of Thin Lizzy's "Rosalie" dedicated to Phil Lynott. Another

> highlight was acoustic encore song "Whorehouse Blues" with Lemmy on

> harmonica.

>

> The band itself sounded great. Drummer Micky Dee is one of the best hard

> rock double bass drummers I've ever seen even if he looks like an even

> fatter version of Vince Neil. Guitarist Phil Campbell looks like a guy

> you'd

> find working on your car in a shitty car shop but he can play like

> nobody's

> bidness. Lemmy........ well, he's just Lemmy. It doesn't really matter

> that

> he's getting older 'cause he's always looked pretty rough and as long as

> he

> still has his long hair and those muttonchops, age ain't gonna do shit to

> him or his gravely voice. On the facial boil report, he's got one on his

> left cheek that's about the size of a normal man's fist now.

>

> The audience was pretty much what you'd expect at a Motorhead show -

> mostly

> gross metalheads and old school mohawked punks of all ages with a

> surprising

> amount of women, and quite a few that weren't disgusting pigs. On the

> downside, typical for the Anaheim House of Blues, people violently moshed

> on

> the floor the entire show no matter what kind of song was played and the

> place was a total sweatbox the entire night. I pretty much stuck to the

> back

> of the pit about 30 feet from the stage.

>

> Funniest line I heard all night came from a pissed off, slutty looking

> blond

> bimbo yelling in her boyfriend's ear as they exited the pit; "I don't mind

> someone touching me but I can't stand ugly people grabbing my tits!"

>

> Downside was I was woken up this morning by my pissed off wife who

> discovered a pretty big dent in the rear passenger side of the rental car

> I

> drove to the show that probably happened in the parking lot when some

> dumbass drunk parked next to me hit the car leaving before I got to the

> car.

>

> T.B.

>

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