HW: Motorhead / Kings of Speed answers

[Doug Pearson]

This is interesting ...

All the versions of Motorhead are approximately 3.05.
The differences between the B-side and Flicknife/Anthology versions are
pretty obvious (The 1981 version subtracts the Lemmy vocals, sax & violin,
and adds Dave vocals, arpegio synth, noise synth @ 1.35, and an extra
guitar solo from 2.02 through the end).  The Flicknife version sounds a bit
rougher than the Anthology version, but I can't hear any significant
difference between those two.

There are 3 lengths/versions of Kings of Speed, one without overdubs:
basic track: 4.25 (including 10 second false start / feedback)
album version: 3.50 (missing false start, last 25 seconds faded)
single version: 3.30 (guitar & violin solos edited from the album version)

The version of "Kings of Speed" on the Griffin CD is the single version
(3.30), not the album version (3.50).  Can someone with the Dojo version
of 'Warrior' check the length of "Kings of Speed" on theirs (I don't have
the 'Sonic Boom Killers' CD either, but I assume that would have the 3.30
7" version)?  The basic track is the instrumental version (from the
Flicknife 12" with "Hurry On Sundown" & "Sweet Mistress of Pain"), which
includes quite a bit of sax not audible on the final versions (LP or 7"),
but has no violin (so that was obviously an overdub) or (obviously) vocals.

For the single version, the guitar solo is edited from about 28 seconds to
14 seconds, and the violin solo from about 33 seconds to 27 seconds (which
adds up to the 20 second discrepency).  Both the single and album versions
seem to have the same (faded) ending.  The basic track has a later cold
ending with slight sax fadeout.

Signing off from the age of the minutae man,

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com

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