OFF: Re: Sympathy For The Devil (Motorhead new album taster)

[Abra Cadabra]

I always thought it was cool crossover that MH did "R.A.M.O.N.E.S" and
that Ramones covered that. I saw / heard Ramones in Oslo in 97 or so
play that as an encore. I had a stoner pal back in Art school, Ray,
who had a little case with Motorhead, AC/DC and Ramones tapes. Thats
the three "basic" r'n'r/blues/metal/punk bands Archetypes if there
ever were any.

Grateful Dead never "covered" themselves except on Live stuff like
"Steal Your Face" and "Without A Net" etc no?

Christian

2015-09-10 16:03 GMT+02:00 Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com>:
> Actually, Motörhead _have_ covered themselves in the studio — there was “Orgasmatron 2000” (an Internet promo piece of some sort that eventually wound up on a compilation) and the acoustic “Ace of Spades” (which Lemmy pretty much derided from the outset as a bit of money-making for Kronenberg). Possibly there are some others I don’t know about. But, true, they haven’t done it very often.
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> I don’t have a problem with Motörhead sounding the pretty much the same over long stretches of time. I mean: what else would they sound like? Some bands evolve their sound successfully (consciously or no), some bands evolve their sound unsuccessfully; some bands’s sounds stay pretty much the same for long periods (alongside Motörhead, the charge is probably most commonly leveled at AC/DC), but it’s fine; while others stay the same and it’s not.  So I think that changing one's sound or not really doesn’t matter in and of itself. But I also not sure that simply covering oneself over and over is necessarily a good thing.
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> I mean, the Grateful Dead pretty much failed to come up much new material during the ‘80s (despite coughing up their only hit single late in the decade). There were about 3 records over the decade; they just toured and toured on the strength of the scene and their old material. Fair enough; probably it wouldn’t have helped their cause to re-record fan favorites from the ‘70s to pad out a few extra records in the ‘80s. Who would have been impressed by that, for all that the fans were digging hearing those same songs at gigs?
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> So it may all be a bit psychological. I suppose all of 3 (?) of the studio “Death Trap”s are decent enough; I would be happy to hear live renditions of any of them. Though when I see a new studio version, I can’t help thinking “What? Again?” Whereas I like some of the new songs (and, yes, from the “junior members”) actually better ….
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> Oh well! As long as I’m grouching like a granddad about one of my favorite bands ;) I may as well complain about the production of the recent records! :D I used to complain about the production in the ‘90s, but that now starts to sound like an improvement on the current production. Of course, my favored approach is always to focus on the guitars/bass/drums “power trio” vibe and let everything else float around the edges (though I’d be prepared to let Tim Blake bust out some ripping square-/sawtooth-wave synth leads, if he wanted :) ) … but that seems rather different from the currently ascendent philosophy in Camp Hawkwind. Oh well!
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> Cheers,
> Carl
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> On 10 Sep 2015, at 07:18 , Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> Motorhead do not cover their own songs, but they do sound the same as
>> previous ones. But apparently they sell more with every album.
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