Two Contrasting Motorhead Reviews from Kansas City

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, mike coleman wrote:
> On 2/18/11, gary shindler <bewlay68 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> http://backtorockville.typepad.com/back_to_rockville/2011/02/review-motorhead.html#tp
>>
>> http://blogs.pitch.com/wayward/2011/02/concert_review_motorhead_at_th.php#
>
> On a quick read, not sure what the contrast is, but I am certainly one
> part idiot, nevermind that-

 	I guess it's that one thinks it was too loud and the other thinks 
that's the point. I'm not sure I recognise a category of `too loud for 
me'--I've repeatedly taken earplugs to shows, figuring I could probably 
live with postponing deafness, and found it just too annoying not to be 
able to hear the band properly--but I've certainly met `too loud for the 
sound system' and it sounds from that first review as if that's what was 
afoot. But what a bill! Clutch and Valient Thorr supporting, I'd have gone 
home happy even if Lemmy had absconded to Brazil to escape arrest for 
drugs charges immediately before setting foot on stage.

> ......However, one of my old friends, who saw Motorhead a little
> before I ever did, possibly a No Remorse tour, knows what I meant and
> said they were indeed louder then. Maybe the fact Lemmy names his
> amp(s) things like "Murder 1", further "psyches me out" and increases
> expectations.....but I'm old now, so next show should be fine, not
> that all ever were not!!!

 	I'm not sure if he's still using those amps now, I certainly saw 
them a while back when they weren't but maybe one just broke because they 
seemed to be back the most recent time. Of course, this isn't all down to 
the band; some places have limiters in the PA. Andy Gilham used to claim 
that they put the ones in Cambridge Corn Exchange after he saw Motörhead 
there in 1980 and kept shouting to Lemmy to turn it up... That said, 
Kirsten my ex recognised one Motörhead song  when I first played it at her 
simply because she'd been across the street from the place one evening 
when they were playing. So it's not that quiet even now! (`Metropolis', I 
think.) Yours,
 		Jon

ObCD: Stinkin' Lizavetta - _III_ (another in the list of excellent bands I 
have seen with Clutch)
-- 
       Jonathan Jarrett, Oxford       jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
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