There are many reasons I bought this double live cd: my vinyl is
20 years old and its dead (man, I tell no tales;-), I didn't buy
the first cd version, Motörhead is the band I've seen the
most live and and I survived to one of the concerts of THE Ace
Of Spades Tour in '81.
It is a must: this edition is digitally remastered with a 16 page
booklet for the 20th anniversary of this amazing tour in 1981 featuring
17 previously unreleased live tracks taken essentially from the
performances in Newcastle and Leeds. It is probably with Sir Ian"
Lemmy" Kilmister, "Fast" Eddie Clarke and Philty "Animal" Taylor
the best line up (with the actual I think) of Motörhead.
This tour followed the Ace Of Spades album which is THE reference
album for every Motörheadbanger living on this planet or
even another one.
When you know that Motörhead used to play at 120 decibels, it is
about what an airplane makes by a takeoff, you maybe understand
better why the band used to have a bomber over the stage since their
album Bomber in 1979!!!!!!!!! I remember my dad waiting for me in
front of the Palladium(I was very young by the time...) telling
me that he didn't have to be inside to hear the noise (don't sweat
it, getting' back to you) anyway I couldn't get a word because my
ears were ringing... The worst was the air-raid siren at the end
of the show: you just couldn't stay in the hall. It wasn't certainly
very easy to be a roadie after the show, this is maybe the reason
the band wrote (We Are) The Roadcrew...
Ok you certainly know the 11 first tracks on the first cd. At least
there aren't any overdubs on the 2nd because there are some mistakes
and they left them but who gives a shit. By the way you can easily
imagine by listening to these two masterpieces what kind of a hell
of a mess a Motörhead concert was in these days...
What else to say a cult live album from the tour of a cult album
from a cult band. And just because it is an album from from Metal-is:
March or die, buy or die, March and-is (merchandise for the ones
who didn't get it ;- ).