OFF: Motorhead and other bits

[Keith Henderson]

Jon Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK> replied:
> And anyway, Motorhead is a great band, and Lemmy is truly God. :)
> Actually, Motorhead's musical legacy would be a lot better if Lemmy
> didn't crank out so many albums, and therefore refuse to throw out
> not-up-to-snuff tracks that effectively dilute his albums. If he only
> released half as many albums over the last 30 years, with only the
> best tracks from successive pairs on each, then he'd have made a load
> of great albums. But anyway, Motorhead has nothing to do with Space
> Rock, so there's no crime in not liking it. I didn't for quite some
> time, just because back then (when I was 16), I didn't like sloppy
> music, and Phil Taylor (for instance) was a sloppy drummer.

>But so was Bill Ward :-) And like _Ace of Spades_ the whole thing
>about that _Master of Reality_-era Sabbath sound that makes it so exciting
>is that while they're all running at about the same speed they're not
>actually quite together. They get away with it sounding as if everyone's
>slightly ahead of everyone else and racing to the finish. I've seen one or
>two bands capture this live, and it's a fabulous thing. I don't understand
>how it works but it's why Phil Taylor was so excellent; he had that kind
>of sloppy racing energy on tap.
>
>What I'm saying is, sloppy need not *necessarily* be bad :-)

Agreed 100%.  You´ll note that I said "back then, when I was 16".  That was the result of listening to too much Rush, Yes, and Jethro Tull (well, I mean, too high a percentage of same without balanced by some uglier, wartier music alongside, given that I still like these bands to some degree....funny, I´ve never bothered to see Rush live...I don´t know why).  By 1983 or so, I´d learned my lesson, and was much more open to ´less-technical´ music, shall I say. Luckily I still had my copy of No Sleep with me in college to annoy the hell out of my neighbors when they were playing Hall and Oates and the Hooters too often.

And because in CH (Switzerland) I never had a proper stereo of any kind, I almost always listened to music through headphones (nothing worse than listening to great music through a pair of crappy little 3" speakers), and was rather shocked upon listening to early Black Sabbath and how really poor both the performances and recordings were.  I mean they were really amateurish.  (Especially given that something like Paranoid must be about the easiest song to play in rock n roll history, and they couldn´t stay together on that one.)  But you know, something about them is just pure magic, and if you don´t concentrate so much (or play them through a real soundsystem), they come alive like very little other music ever has.  Deep Pruple´s Machine Head (and In Rock too) are like this, though a bit more professional.  But still amateurish compared to today´s standards.  I don´t know a lick about engineering, but those old guys in the 70s knew what the hell they were doing even though they were
 working with stone knives and the equivalent.

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F them then.

Grakkl (FAA), in Aalen, Württemburg

P.S.  The greatest thing about Phil(thy) is that he looked exactly like the music that he played.  Come to think of it, same applies to Lemmy.  That´s what bothered me a little about the two new guys in the Ozrics...they played just fine and fit in OK with the others, but they look like ordinary human beings and that disturbed me greatly.  :) I think one of them, if not both, is American.  At least John still looks and acts like he came from another planet.


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