How Motörhead & "Ace of Spades" United The Punks & Metalheads | New British Canon
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- In the 70s, there was metal - Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple. And then there was punk, Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned. Two separate entities that rarely if ever mixed. However a band both subcultures could agree on was Motörhead.
Led by the hoarse rumble of Lemmy, with their first three albums they cemented their place as one of the loudest bands Britain has ever produced. But the lead single from their fourth album proved they could be metal heavy, mangle it with a punk attitude and still be able to crossover to the pop charts. This is New British Canon and this is the story of "Ace of Spades."
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00:00 Prologue
00:51 Lemmy: An Introduction
04:00 Motörhead: "Remember Me Now..."
10:55 "The Only Card I Need is...": Ace of Spades
16:06 The Enduring Impact of Motörhead
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Capricorn!
In the Black!
"Killed by Death"
Metropolis, Killers, English Rose.. don’t ask me that question i only have so many characters
Thanks for sharing. Favorite MH track: A toss-up among "The Ace of Spaces" and "Eat the Rich," if we're talking no covers. If we're including covers, then I'd add Motorhead's cover of "God Save the Queen." Shawn R., Mo-Mutt Music/Sacred & Secular
"I sang 'the eight of spades' for two years and nobody noticed." - Lemmy
This is hilarious. What an absolute legend!
You leave in Alaska ? 😂😂😂
I mean to be fair, the music is really loud, so I kinda get no one notices.
It's his song he can sing it any f*****g way he wants to.
Yes understood, still to this day it’s “Dirty Deeds Dunder Chief.” And nobody can convince me otherwise.
Yes I'm sure it was on the reverse of the Motohead single that Lemmy gave me.
You don't have to be a punk or a metalhead to love "Ace of Spades" - you just have to have a soul.
There's just something primal about Ace of Spades that most people can connect with.
facts
But I'm a ginger and I still love it
@@themexicankitchen there’s hope for you yet.
@@TheKirbyT it’s life chainring. I feel if I heard them earlier my life would’ve been completely different had a completely different perspective would’ve had a great role model also had a chance to at least see him before he passed but he was such an amazing person and I am speaking about LEMMY
I'm an old punk rocker (61) from Houston TX and I first heard of Motorhead in '81 when our local punk radio show played Ace of Spades. Needles to say, I was stunned. So that very week, I bought No Sleep til Hammersmith. Thanks Lemmy, for all the years of great rock n roll. You showed us how it's done
Don't call yourself a punk rocker at 61. It's embarrassing. Just say you like good music. We are more than the music we listen to. You should know this by now, you're not 16 anymore.
Adrian, the distribution of likes should tell you what type of utter bitch you are
@@adriantrusca1245 why do you care Lol
Same here,62 years old punk!Still like all the 77 punkbands (The Damned first 3 albums)and also the new punkbands!
Punk was and is something great.If you didn't like the music at that time(in the charts and on the radio)you started a band and played yourself!
Our band was called God's Hangover ,we played supporting act for Crass in Voorschoten Lindehoeve Netherlands in 1980 .
THOSE WERe ThE DaYs.Still got the attitude.SO yeah proud to call us Punks at this age!F.T.W.
I was way more stunned by their older album Bomber... pure groove and rock'n roll
Will always remember Ace of Spades playing on The Young Ones when it was first shown as a kid. It fit perfectly to the anarchic punk like show!! RIP Lemmy and Rik Mayall.
"To the station!"
"Music!"
It’s the cut of Vivian flicking the V’s to the vendor after sticking a whole donut in his gob that did it for me, Motörhead was the perfect band for the Young Ones
*I think a common question when writing songs for Motorhead had been: "Could this be the soundtrack for a barfight?"*
ALWAYS.
It makes feel like not taking any shit even more than normal that`s for sure. 😁
@Tony Bryan TB-Drones If Motorhead played during that scene, they'd of killed all the zombies. The rest of the movie would just of been everyone enjoying a pint
It could, and in my case has been.
@Tony Bryan TB-Drones that wouldn't have been as funny though.
Lemmy is the only rockstar I personally cried about when I found out he passed away in dec 2015. He inspired me to play the bass, I picked up a 40$ Ibanez 240 from a flea market and practiced off of his albums. I had a huge missed Opportunity to meet Lemmy in person through a mutual friend while he was playing at the jones beach theater. One of my dads friends became the CEO of Windup records on Long Island, he was recording a band called crowbot at the time, an upcoming concert at jones beach had crowbot opening up for motorhead, and my dad had to make 1 phone call. But I only found out about the concert after it happened. I just thought to myself at the time we’ll catch him next time he’s in town. Then he passed away later that year and I cried like a little bitch, this guy was my idol, he seemed indestructible like nothing would stop him from touring and playing loud.
The world's gone to shit without Lemmy!
I cried too, he used to live near where I did and was known for "lemme' a five-ah?"
Crowbot is actually quite a good band, at least the stuff I've heard so far. I was lucky and met Lemmy once in 2009. A friend of mine has a disabillity and he was allowed backstage at a festival in Germany so we wandered around behind the stage. At some point we saw Lemmy just sittin in a large tent by himself, drinking and smoking. I hesitated but my friend just straight up walked right over to him. We talked for probably 20 or so minutes. The weirdest thing was, he probably asked more about us than we about him. He really cared for the stories we had to tell. After we left I just thought "Well, I've met Lemmy and had no chance to ask him the questions I wanted to."
@@RobBCactive word's just fucking fine.
@@adriantrusca1245 Word? Like hell the world is, you just have your head in the sand.
did not every man want a life like lemmy's...? hard and fast like hell and dying at the right time...? 70 years with that speed is 100 in a normal life, but with much more fun...^^
For me, "The Chase Is Better Than The Catch" is THE Motörhead song that showed me how fucking brilliant the songwriting was, by far, my favorite
Totally agree 👍 👏
Mine too! Absolute favorite!
and Stondead Forever and Bomber are also THE Motörhead song 😂 groovy as hell..
Damn, was about to write that. Also my personal favourite Motorhead song, along with 'Heartbreaker'.
Probably should have been mentioned among his influences, Lemmy was a massive Beatles fan, a collector.
Who wasn't a Beatles fan?
@@michaelsuder486 Lemmy says somewhere that he was at their first Cavern Club gig, so that would be sometime in 1961, before Beatles fame.
@@p-hawk1956 Also military history esp. WW2
Pablo Torrado, Lemmy was a massive Buddy Holly fan also hey 🤗
A lot of rock and metal fans like the beatles also,
RIP Lemmy Kilmister. He kept it real AF in interviews, nobody talks to the press like that anymore.
You'll never be interviewed by anyone.
Henry Rollins keeps it real
6:12 imagine you’re in a band, one of your members leaves, steals a bunch of your gear, then you ask them to support you on tour, genius move from hawkwind
I love the fact they were so loud they posed a structural danger to the building they were playing in. Makes me think of Disaster Area from Hitch Hiker's. Motorhead were awesome, not my favourite band by a long shot but just awesome. And they were great live, even late in their career when I saw them, probably my third most-seen live band, after The Orb and The Prodigy.
Let's be real - it's quite likely Motörhead were the main inspiration behind Disaster Area.
I can also attest to the loudness, saw them in Boston and my ears rang for a week. Awesome show though.
Huzzah, i once saw Motorhead perform at a Halloween event in Nashville, Tennessee. (1999) The crowd assembled kept shouting "Ace of Spades!" And the band never let down their fans played it for them. Going so far as to play it five times in a row,, you could feel the power,, like something was going to be summoned from the abyss. I'd never seen anything like that before OR since. Bless you Lemmy,, bless you!
In 2005 I went to see one of my then favourite bands, Motley Crue. They were being supported by Motörhead who I had only heard of, but didn't know. When I walked into the arena, Motörhead had just started playing and it was an experience like no other. I thought I was walking into hell itself.
Long story short, in only a 45 minute set, with a third of the amps, and none of the pyro, strippers, midgets or extravagant circus acts of Motley Crue, they absolutely blew Motley Crue out of the water and opened my mind up to a whole new side of rock music that I had never touched before. Lemmy was 60, playing songs I'd never heard before and it was insane. I saw them 2 more times. So glad I did.
... and from that day, you've only ever given umlauts to Motörhead ;)
@@IngieKerr well read, Sir.
@@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns Motley Crue haven't EARNED their umlauts!
I like Motley as a recording artist, and the shows are fun, but as a band they're terrible. Every time I see them the support act is better (Poison and Alice Cooper in my case), they just wow the simpletons with the flames, strippers and explosions. But actual music fans know they suck. Hearing Vince Meal try to sing is cringe worthy, while men 20 years older (see: Jagger, Mick) still blow him away and can keep their weight in check
I did exactly the same thing in Brisbane. Got there and stood at the front. It was so loud that my jeans were rippling. But the sound was absolutely crystal clear. Equal best mix I've ever heard from a hard rock or metal band. The Crue sounded like shite after them. Weedy, scratchy and tinny. I alway liked Motorhead and would have loved it if they'd been the headliners.
Other later bands of the 80s and early 90s made punk and metal collide, but Motörhead and AC/DC did it first, yet they both described their music simply as "rock n' roll". Both absolute legends on vinyl and on stage.
Funny you mention AC/DC. I agree.
In the late 1970s I was a metal head and I had a punk friend at school who knew I was into Ramones, the Sex Pistols, Teenage Head, etc.
I kept trying to get him into AC/DC because they were a rock'n'roll band and they were not really metal (except maybe Angus' guitar solos). But he wouldn't budge.
AC DC is NOT metal
ac/dc should be put on trial at the hauge international Court for CRIMES AGAINST MUSIC AND EXECUTED PROMPTLY ASSVOMIT from the first riff to the last
@@jtighe7090 your friend was ABSOLUTELY RIGHT NOT TO MOVE ON THAT OPINION BECAUSE ac/dc are ASSVOMIT boring monotonous
ASSVOMIT
@@heathcornbeef Old AC/DC was great rock'n'roll. You realize that people who don't like punk (or metal) call it monotonous, right? Actually that is probably the same for any music people don't like. I think pop, rap and all that other club type music is monotonous assvomit.
The best thing about Motorhead is that they never became a "has been" band. Some of their best albums were the later ones, INFERNO being easily my favourite work from them.
1916 is awesome as well!!!
Another Perfect Day is in my top 10 !
Sacrifice is probably my favorite
No Sleep mo/foz
Ace of Spades, to me is the best rock song of all time. No matter how many times I hear it played, it always sets off an adrenaline rush.
As a teen in 80s America into both hardcore and thrash metal, I noticed that any given punk rocker was more likely to be a Motorhead fan than a metalhead was. At one record store customers moved Motorhead's LPs from the metal section to the hardcore section.
I can't imagine extreme metal or crust punk without Motorhead. At the very least, these genres would be very different.
My favorite songs are Steal Your Face and Dancing On Your Grave.
Metallica (earliest work), Venom and Slayer were mentioned in Thrasher Magazine in the early 80s (I recall a couple other thrash bands as well). I was a nerdy metal fan, who also liked the emerging speed/thrash/black metal sound but also liked skating, and read Thrasher regularly which was into punk and skate punk mainly from the Bay Area perspective. Thrasher occasionally made fun of mainstream metal bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, but had good things to say about Metallica, Slayer, Venom and a couple other bands who I wasn't into and don't recall. In fact, when Metallica opened for Ozzy on tour in 1986, I was surprised to see ads for the tour (mainly because of Metallica) in Thrasher.
Mine is stay clean and we are the road crew. But to be fair I've only heard two albums and a quarter
I was a punk with hessian friends in the 80s and I am certain none of them liked Motörhead. And Motörhead *did* play at the Olympic Auditorium!
Not surprisingly, Lemmy once said he was happy in Hawkwind and Motorhead might not have came into existence if they didn't kick him out of the band. Even though his drug was speed, the influence of Jimi and the psychedelics were right in his heart, in his music and in his blood.
He often said of Hendrix that Jimi taught him that if you tripped on one day, take double the amount the next to keep it going. A pretty intense “hair of the dog,” but yeah - it definitely suggests that while speed may have been Lemmy’s favorite, he wasn’t against psychedelics like is often described in his rift with Hawkwind and where he took Motörhead. For all the reported animosity and stealing of equipment and girlfriends, as this dude mentions, the bands toured together!
@@b.w.22 Hawkwind must have been on some good shit to find forgiveness for Lemmy stealing their stuff so quickly lol
Lemmy took tons of acid, it was his favorite drug. He said it made him a better person. Regarding speed, he said, "that's just to get you there."
Lemmy was a Jimi Hendrix roadie at one point.
you can hear the psyche rock influences strongly in early motorhead stuff but even the later albums like sacrifice, another perfect day ect, will have songs that have a hendrix vibe,
I was in a covers band a few years back, doing rock n roll basically. Loads of different stuff. We tried to do ‘Ace of Spades’, but just couldn’t get it right. Mainly the drums, and the bass line completely defeated me it was so fast, and I couldn’t get used to thrashing chords with a pick; I was/am a finger-style single note player. Couldn’t get the sound right either, nowhere near, not surprisingly.
Around then, Lemmy was doing TV ads for various products (He was still doing ads for milk, yes, milk, shortly before he died), and he did an ad for Jack Daniels whiskey. It featured a card game, with Lemmy as one of the players. But it was the background track that got all of us - it was Ace of Spades, but slowed down into a heavy bluesy style.
So we tried to do that; not that easy! Although it sounded the same just slower, it wasn’t! It was completely different, the chords, intervals, sequences, and is pretty damned intricate. We got it though, and ‘twas loved by all.
Lemmy is Rock n Roll is Lemmy! RIP geezer!
Motorhead and Johnny cash are probably the only two band/artists that i know of that were able to transcend their respective genres in the ways that they did and have the impact on so many different artists as they did.
Before I started watching Trash Theory videos, I used to dismiss a lot of bands as "not to my taste". But now I find myself appreciaiting everything from Motörhead to Spice Girls. The result is I listen to a much wider and more diverse range of music, although my friends think my musical taste has become a bit strange.
Don't let what close-minded people say deter you from staying curious. I began expanding dramatically in college in the 90s due to a music critic friend's influence and haven't looked back since.
Music is like food, there's a gajillion different dishes to sample... and so little time to do so!
Check out some World music sometime, especially the Middle Eastern stuff.
Magic!
Ska/Rocksteady are my true loves, but I've grown out of that musical silo after years of being immersed in different cultures.
Life is just better with more variety
True eh? Never cared for Sade, now I have new found respect. Great music is great music if the soul is in it.
having a wide rage is great il go from metallic to 3 steps a head and over til some toby keith and more or less anything in between, anybody that listen to only one style is narrowminded
Spice Girls? lol Ok.
I played in bar bands for a lot of years. One of two things will happen when you play a Motorhead cover in a bar or at a party - either everyone in the place will go batshit crazy and love it, or everyone will leave and you'll never get asked back there again.
I just love Motörhead the sound and the lyrics make you feel ten feet tall and can just take on the world. Just no other band has that sound.
Was at the show in the variety theater super loud and the plaster was coming down from the ceiling in Cleveland Ohio...they were shut off because of a complaint about the noise in the neighborhood!!
Motörhead a pillar of metal. Inspiration to countless bands.
Same as venom
the song "love me like a reptile" is the perfect melding of punk and metal. what an amazing song from beginning to end.
I love this song (Those lyrics! What!?). It's a great example of their "lightning in a bottle" sound. You can hear punk and metal in there, you definitely get a bit of UFO or early Maiden in that opening riff and Pistols in the drums, but there's stuff in there that's like summer-of-love era Who. I can see why Lemmy got frustrated about being labelled "metal" when so many of his songs are, structurally at least, hearking back to that era when rock-n-roll was being reimagined.
Yes, it's also so groovy, great for the dancefloor !
Every new upload notification is an immediate watch. Your videos are a highlight of the week, easy. Please never stop what you’re doing - you are the best music documentarian on UA-cam.
I will second that... they are unfuckwitable
Any day I see this thumbnail layout in my feed I get a little charge. Even if it’s something I know nothing about.
@@vannjunkin8041 they are?
@@kostajovanovic3711 their videos yessir.. superb
I saw Motörhead live 3 times. Each time, I was deaf for several days afterwards after being laminated by the force of the sound. May Lemmy, Eddie and Phil rest in rock and roll. Motörhead for life. ♠️
The thing I remember most about him, almost above the music, was that he was an absolute gentleman.
Motörhead & Lemmy is without a doubt the blue print for the ultimate Rock God, he had the Voice & Style and will always be remembered and loved
For his SS uniforms?, he was scum!
@@miketomlin6040 what does his collection of German regalia to do with his rock god-ness? Why is he scum for owning stuff like that? He always distanced himself from the ideas behind the uniforms, he was an anarchist/libertarian after all
@@bartelvandervelden9894 If you prance around in SS uniforms, what is that image conveying? Imagine you were a victim of the Nazis? He was ''scum'' obviously, listen to his muzak, lobotomised cock rock!
@@bartelvandervelden9894 he’s just never met Lemmy I’m guessing
As he said, his voice was from speed abuse, camels, and yelling at the top his lunges drunk at 6 am lol, agree it fit the song and his style , but personally i wont acknowledge the ultimate voice in rock songs , Maybe Freddie, or Beatles,?, but nobody could have made it that slurred and raw as Lemmie
I totalled my car listening to Overkill on full blast. one of my favourite songs of all time
It tends to make one`s right foot heavier lol
Space Rituals bass playing writes the book on metal, indie rock and punk bass playing right there. The guitar solo on Born to Go is breathtaking because of the bass playing behind it.
Motorhead's rawness rings true with so many. Truly an icon if there ever was one.
Early Iron Maiden with Paul Di'Anno also had lots of punk in their sound. Some songs like Charlotte the Harlot were almost completely punk except for their guitar solos.
I agree , loved Paul
Probably the main reason I love those first two albums way above anything from the Dickinson years.
Early Maiden is so good
Not a huge Iron Maiden fan, but those albums are banger
@@Murkrust For sure. Same here.
So glad you brought up The Young Ones. They were a gateway drug to so many great British things for me as a teen when they were played late night on MTV.
That’s my story also, watching the young ones before 120 minutes on Sunday nights on mtv when I was a middle schooler.
Always wanted to enter a room like the punk from the young ones
Too the Station!
I like how the Larry Sanders Show seemed to borrow from The Young Ones' technique of seamlessly, and savvily interrupting the music numbers with comedy.
@@nicto13 "Okay, Vyv, okay, hold back, go previous. Now, the scotch eggs are another story. That's a nice angle on the wall, straight through it, I like your style. Certainly had me fooled. That's only part of the puzzle. Most days you come through the door. Sometimes you even open it. Today you didn't, today you suddenly change your routine, why? Eh? You in trouble, Vyv? You the final sausage in the fridge? Is someone comin' after you with a piece of cling film?"
I grew up on Motörhead’s music, my dad being a huge fan all his life, and I vividly remember seeing the killed by death music video when I was really young and LOVED it. Lemmy driving through the wall on a motorcycle- seriously one of my most prominent childhood memories next to the pet sematary music video.
I can honestly say without a doubt, the loudest band i have ever seen live
Lemmy and Motorhead were definitely a band that I heard of very early on from my brother. He was the epitome of a Metalhead back in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Like every true Metalhead he had a Motorhead patch on his denim jacket just above his cover of "Kill em All" patch that covered his entire back. Those were the days.
The Clash “White Riot” Single was released 45 years ago today in 1977
"it's 1977 I hope go to heaven!"
O well
am i the only one who teared up at the end when it was said that Ace of Spades reached the highest on the UK charts a week after he died? I've got a replica of Lemmy's "BORN TO LOSE" tattoo on my arm in the same spot as him, with his birth and death years. I got it a month after he died, after my depression following his death lifted. RIP Lemmy. thanks for being the soundtrack to my teens and 20s
As great as Ace Of Spades is, Overkill will always be my favorite Motorhead song
I remember seeing one of Motörhead’s last shows the September before he died instead of studying for an exam. It’s hard to put into words just how killer he was
Wow did you make the right choice!
I'm so happy I got to see DIO with Sabbath ("Heaven & Hell") before he died!
I wish I had seen Motörhead more times. Saw them 4 times.
Did you pass the exam? Lol
@@alanbbrady8196 probably? That was when I was still In high school and I just graduated college so if I did fail it couldn’t have been too consequential
Fun facts: Motörhead’s umlaut was only there to make them look more menacing
The Big Bang was quieter than a Motörhead concert
What's funny is that Florida anarchist grindcore band Assück did the same thing back in the 90s. Probably directly influenced by motorhead
@@rwgoble maybe yeah
Yeah...The umlaut actually changed the pronounciation to Merterhead. I'm 61 years old..and very happy to have seen Lemmy arrive in Hawkwind...and front Motorhead 'til his last breath. Very proud of that die-hard old Brit.. Always hilarious...always unpredictable...but always serious about the music and, especially, the fans. In a way, Motorhead were another Big Bang....A new universe of sound was created. Thanks for putting that thought in my head....Made me a little happier today. God bless you Lemmy...( Another fun fact...The nick-name came from Hawkwind days...Apparently he was always asking to borrow money... " Lend me a tenner.." I think it was Nik Turner that morphed "Lend me" into Lemmy ). Rest well now you beautiful animal..
@@rwgoble obviously all use of umlaut in band names have their genesis in Motörhead.
@@Arexack999 Has anyone asked Nigel Tufnel or David St. Hubbins?
Speaking of how Motorhead united punks and metalheads, Joey Ramone and Lemmy were huge fans of each other, culminating with Motorhead writing a song about the Ramones and playing at their final show in 1996.
I have an acoustic duo with my partner singing. We do Ace of Spades regularly at the end of our set. She sings and I bash away at my acoustic. No one complains and most people turn round and say "I never saw that coming" But the point is, no one has ever complained!! I like to think Lemmy would approve. My partner cried when we watched his funeral on You Tube at whatever time of night it was. She is still upset by his death. Timeless and classic.Thanks Lemmy. You really are missed mate.........
I watched the funeral on YT, too, it was the first time I'd ever watched one online + I'm glad I did because it was f great!!!!
It might sound weird to say that about a funeral, but it was, hearing all those Lemmy anecdotes, the love for the guy was clear+ it was really emotional at times.
He certainly is sadly missed..................
@@sihammer7942 He most certainly is
Four days. That’s how long it took me to get my hearing back after seeing Motörhead live! An incredible gig. For me, Road Crew is one of there best songs. Great video though.
Saw them in Belfast in the 1980s. Glorious trauma.
I've seen them at the Brick in Chico and house of blues Anaheim, both small venues and they used their entire sound system. My ears are still ringing 20+ years later
So jealous, I never got to see them live as I could not get to their only ever NZ show and was never in the right country to catch them otherwise.
I've been a fan since I first heard of them in 1980 and Road Crew is very much one of the best. That track never gets any air time here. 🤨
I saw Motorhead on the Ace of Spades tour in a half-filled venue in San Francisco. I was kind of a metalhead with punk leanings, and the audience was definitely a mix of punkers and metal dudes, and we all got along. My friend the Zeppelin sperg was with me and just stood in back with his arms crossed. My ears are still ringing.
The song Dance on AoS is a favorite and an under-appreciated gem.
I saw Motorhead twice in one night in Toronto on the Ace of Spades tour, with Anvil opening both gigs.
The second show we were right in front of the speakers at the front of the stage.
My ears were ringing for a long time.
@@jtighe7090 us few in North America who attended that tour are extremely lucky!
@@cryptsub So are the hearing aid manufacturers!
Just curious, are you talking about the show at The Old Waldorf with Ranger (later Night Ranger) as the opener? If so, I was there..
"1916" is the most profound "Anti-War" song EVER written imo!
God Bless You Lemmy!
Lemmy hated God. Now he knows it wasn't worth it, but it's too late to repent. Don't follow him or any false idol!
Man. You have some talent. These docushorts are really well done and are captivating.
It’s amazing that the lyrics didn’t really mean much to him, as they didn’t to so many great artists, because the way he delivers them you would think that they had deep meaning and a deep story to him. RIP, Legend.
Probably the loudest band that ever existed, my dad saw them in germany during the 90s and right when the band started playing the first 4 rows were empty, he went right to the front and the second lemmy hit the first note he knew why the front rows were empty, it was the loudest thing he ever experienced and to this day he swears that he still has a bad hearing because of it.
brilliant!!
I saw Motorhead on the Orgasmatron tour in 1986 at a club called Fender's Ballroom which had a low ceiling of about 10 feet. Motorhead's amplifiers were stacked to the ceiling and completely lined the wall of the venue on both sides of the stage. It was the loudest thing I have ever heard. My ears weren't still ringing 3 days later. If I got within 10 feet of the wall of amplifiers all I could hear was a thigh pitch squeal. I could feel every note from Lemmy's bass like a punch in the chest. There was one dude sitting with his back against one of the bass cabinets banging his head the whole time. His friends were watching and laughing, so between songs I asked how he was able to stand it and they told me he had been born deaf and was just rocking out to the vibration. Amazing show. The opening bands were Raw Power and Cro-Mags both also great. But there's nothing like Motorhead.
They were still being loud at the very end. I've been to a LOT of concerts and Motörhead is still the loudest I have seen. This wasn't in the 80s or 90s though, it was in 2011!
@@felixmarvin1199 I saw them on that tour too, and I could not hear a thing the next morning! Zodiac Mindwarp was the support band and it was an awesome show and I will always remember Lemmy just stepping up to the microphone and shouting "This is it!" and the show thunderously kicked off.
It was 4-days before I could hear again after the Another Perfect Day tour. Way louder than the Bomber tour. Still have the tinnitus 40-years later. Totally worth it. Thanks Lemmy et al.
"The pleasure is to play. It makes no difference what you say." Facts.
“Only way to feel the noise is when it’s good and loud” - Thank you Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister - you were true. Saw your first ever gig (out of over a hundred) in Sweden ‘81. Ace Of Spades Tour♠️💯♠️
I grew up in the 80s hardcore scene and you are 100% correct. Motorhead was the only acceptable metal band patch to have on your jacket. Later Slayer was accepted as well.
Overkill has always been my favorite Motorhead song, followed closely by Ace of Spades and (We Are) the Roadcrew.
*We Are the Roadcrew* is my absolute favourite. It's one of the best driving songs ever made (along with Deep Purple's Highway Star)
@@ekmad Agreed. It's criminally overlooked, too. I seldom see fans or "experts" even mention it when talking about Motorhead.
To me it's the perfect song about how raw and frankly awful it really is to be a working musician (or part of the crew). The music, well, DRIVES it, and the lyrics are just a blur of images that would make any sane, normal person go "what the fuck" - which is exactly what playing in a bar band feels like after a while. One big blur of what the fuck lol.
I wouldn't be surprised if Lemmy wrote the words much like he says he did with AoS - just basically a list of things related to the topic - but it fits perfectly.
"Another hotel we can't find.... "
Philthy Animal Taylor's drumming on those albums was incredible.
That fella was a little ball of dynamite..a pocket rocket...for me the most exciting drummer since Keith Moon died.
I’m SO glad I got to see them! I had never heard of them. I went to Bumbershoot music festival in Seattle WA. Motörhead was next up. My friend from Wisconsin asked me if I wanted some “ pat” before he show? “ yeah!” Then Lemmie came up to the mic, “ We’re Motörhead and we play rock and roll!” The nuclear madness that ensued on the first down beat, I will NEVER forget!! I had a freakin panic attack for a solid hour and a half!! It was AMAZING!!! My senses were assailed by madness, collective joy and badassery!! Very fortunate to have seen them!!🤘😀🤘
I'm a British 80's kid who loved comedy so of course this is my favourite Motorhead song.
To the station!
Music!
RIP Lemmy and Rik
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then why you are not funny ?
@@radiyahya363 my comment isn't meant to be funny you strange person
As a 51 year old who was a baby punk in the 80s "Ace Of Spades" was in our infant formula fed to us by the older proto punks. We knew it was "metal" but it was as essential as: the Clash, Pistols, DK, Killing Joke, Exploited, 4Skins and the Ramones.
Amen to that, I was the same age in the UK as punk was let loose a couple of years earlier, my parents did care so much for the threat of punk to a 7 year old on the radio. Motorhead and the Ace of Spades... completely different, I was 9... it was my anthem and I had no idea why.
Lemmy also played some show with The Damned ua-cam.com/video/3HVNV3CUb0c/v-deo.html
@@loveliness1219 i remember Lemmy saying ( in a rather amused tone) that he learned some damned songs but Captain & Co couldnt remember 1 of the theres & fucked it up.
Both bands are awesome 👍
Being from the same era, I can safely say it was the same for true Metal heads of the day.
What did early 80s punks think about NWOBHM? I've always been curious about it
Overkill is my go to song no matter the situation, a funeral, a wedding or a killer workout. This band will always be the concrete standard for rock metal. Long live Motörhead!
My favorites have got to be Stay Clean and Capricorn. I needed some toughness and wisdom in my life right around the time I heard them and learned that I did have it in me after all. I think Ace of Spades's lyrics are the most relatable way for the average person to understand what Lemmy is trying to say: "be tough, take risks, know your worth, have fun".
Thank you for this nice picture of Lemmy and Motörhead, there is a little tear running down my face. Great guy, great band, massive impact for everybody who loves good handmade music.
Lenny’s death started a mass music death that seemed to go until at least 2019.
My first exposure to Mötörhëad was, in fact, Ace Of Spades. It was like The Who and Ramones in one band….and couldn’t find either the album, cassette or 45 when new.
He just got out like a boss before everything started going to shit in 2016. Trendsetter as always.
@@bfc3057 listen to more music
The energy and grittyness of ACE OF SPADES is incredible. One of the best songs of all time. Thank you, Motörhead, for this classic.
Iron Fist has that energy too.
I saw Lemmy, Eddie and Animal step off their Ace of Spades tour bus in Scotland one cold Sunday morning in 1980. I was out playing on my bike (I was a kid) when their bus pulled up in front of the concert venue and they each stumbled off the bus and nodded in my direction. I'll never forget that. Long Live Lemmy!
1980, the best year in existence for music. I'm still rockin' my AC/DC tshirts, lovin' Motorhead (RIP Lemmy you legend), and Iron Maiden. Nuff said. And I just turned sixty this week. Take me back forty years please!
Motörhead & The Damned two of the hardest working bands ever ! Motörhead are a punk band Lemmy is was as Punk as it gets a front runner and rebel who played his life his way. RIP Lemmy Motörhead 4 Life.
I only found out two years ago that Dave Vanian from The Damned could sing in all 5 octaves. That's incredible!
People rave about Dio ( Rainbow, Sabbath and his own band) and go on and on about Freddie Mercury who could NOT sing in all 5 octaves but Vanian could outsing the pair if them. Wow !
@@FrostedSeagull Dave Vanian The Goth Father & Punk Pioneer, the man's a class act on and off stage a total gentleman we've meet him on loads of occasions and he's always a gentleman a Vampire Victorian Gentleman no less.
Two most stylish bands too. Best symbolism and mystique.
The Damned was my first live band experience. Had to borrow a stranger's I'D to get in. Still surprised how nonchalantly he handed it over.
Overkill was the first cassette I bought with my own cash as a kid. I had never heard of Motörhead at that time, I just liked the cover. Once I played it…I knew I discovered something amazing. My jaw hit the floor. I became a lifelong fan before the song was even over.
Great video and very accurate.
Favorite song, there’s so many…..”Iron Fist” early & “We are Motörhead” later days
In 1993 I attended the 2nd of my 3 Motörhead concerts, this one in "K. B. Hallen" concert hall in Copenhagen. We were used to very loud music. But when the band started playing we had to stay in the vestibule for 10 minutes before our ears were sufficiently accustomed to the sound level for us to enter the concert hall proper. They were *playing so loud!* The only thing I've heard that seemed louder than this was when D.A.D (former Disneyland After Dark) played in Club Paradiso in Amsterdam in october 1989.
Don’t know about metal but Lemmy loved punk he played bass on and off with The Damned for many years and covered a number of punk songs from a number of bands including Pistols and Black Flag and wrote a tribute to the Ramones which they loved and he even played with them at their last gig.
Lemmy was the godfather of Thrash Metal. He embodied everything good Thrash is and he will always live on! RIP Lemmy! 🤘🤘🤘
Motörhead and Venom are the absolute godfathers of extreme metal
Without both we wouldn’t have thrash, black and death metal
Timeless song!!!
Thanks for bring it to the channel!!!
First ever gig was Motorhead, when I was 15 in the 80s.
Seems ages ago & yesterday.
Love you Lemmy!
Awesome vid. Younger heavy music fans may not get how separate these worlds were. It felt such a cool point in time when these scenes began to crossover
This is a great way to describe ace of spades as being a bridge between punk and metal. And its ironic because Motorhead never claimed to be either genre. They just said they were a loud rock band that played fast. And they popularized the double bass drum so well used in thrash metal too. Absolute legends
Oh man, great video, and that closing was spoke tingling.
Very enjoyable and enlightening! Great video, many thanks!
Motorhead is immortal. I cant pick a favorite song because as soon as I start singing it I think of another. Then another. And so on and forth. Rock in piece lemmy and phil and wurtzel. Nice work TT.
Not forgetting Eddie
"Motorhead is immortal". despite all the original band members being dead. thus mortal.
The first Motorhead song I heard was Killed by Death, and the accompanying music video. I really like their version of Hellraiser as well.
The first video I ever saw by them was Iron Fist. I couldn't believe how fast they were. Then I heard Ace Of Spades and thought... OH!
I like Hellraiser too.
the Ace of Spades was everything rebellion for us working class kids growing up in the North East, during the desperate times of Thatcher's Britain. Having broken my concert going virginity with Motorhead when I was 14, this song epitomized the fuck off authority of the times.
Lemmy was God end of story, he was everything that being a rebel stood for, and living life to the full was all about, RIP Lemmy.
Great video.
Informative along an excellent time line.
They had united metalheads, rockers and punks by the time Bomber came out. In the liner notes the talk about how at this particular festival, they had the bright idea to have Status Quo and Sham 69 on the same bill. The audience started breaking up Into little factions, and eventually a beer can was thrown, and then literal bloodshed started; until Motörhead hit the stage.
RIP Lemmy! Rock'n'Roll is probably my favorite track by the great Motorhead.
Thanks for an interesting and informative video.
It’s curious to look back at the concerts we went to, and see where all that noise ended up.
Good stuff! I started liking Motorhead today, wow what a rush of pure rock-n-roll.
First off...I love Trash Theory and this was a great video to watch!
Secondly....I am the drummer for the "Dämes of Spades" an all female tribute to Motörhead located in Berlin, Germany. As a drummer I have to say my favorite Motörhead song to play is "Ace of Spades". Why? The basic beat is fat and consistent, the fills are great and I don't have to do a "double-bass kick" (that's really fucking hard).
Keep the videos coming!
As a teenager in the mid 90s away from home the first time, working on a bridge, I bonded with my flatmate over 1st wave UK punk. Then I tried to play him Sepultura as an example of the current stuff I was listening to and he held his ears and ran out the room screaming "it's Motörhead gone wrong!". I thought that was an excellent description, and since then I've described every band I've been in as "Motörhead gone wrong". This video sums up the mentality I was aiming for, thank you
I feel like Sepultura are in now danger of being forgotten by the metal world which seems crazy given how big they were in the 90s and how much they affected metal. I'd love to see a Trash Theory on them.
@John Behan I know what you mean dude it sucks but they're not the same band anymore. At least after Max left there was still Igor but eventually he left and he was a big part of the Sepultura sound and even though the current lineup has been together longer than the original line-up, its the original lineup that Sepultura are remembered for. After Roots a lot of people lost interest I think and they've never really recovered but I do respect the fact they have just carried on. Some might dismiss that but what was they supposed to do? After Max left there had to start from scratch and I respect them for that. They will be playing in my hometown in the next few months lol I think I should go to see them?!
@@thefog7067 for sure they're both different bands but both are still great
I just love Motorhead in general. It's got a lot to do with their sound and how aggressive it was for sure, but the attitude was just the tops for me. The look, the speed, the aggressively-fast songs and the "you don't like it, then go eff yourself" attitude made Motorhead a complete thing. And let's not forget the old adage, "who would win in a fight between Lemmy and God? Trick question, Lemmy IS God!" Because it's just so true.
What a excellent video
.Production second to none.I loved every second of it,just holds your attention, like a good skin flick
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Misfits were influential on Metallica. Would be great to see more punk-metal explorations like this - the genres have a lot in common
Nah, Burton liked em '.
After he died Metallicash went weird.
Metal and punk are like two sides of the same coin - their musical philosophies always were far apart though
It might seem like that in retrospect, but back then the social divide was more substantial than the sound. Metal was on the radio and the concerts were huge. There were tons of them! Punks by comparison, were relatively few, with no radio airplay and concerts held in basements. The two groups just didn't really mix. Motörhead was honestly the only thing we agreed on. By the mid-late 80s, there was more crossover, but before that...
Misfits never allowed the RIAA to use them like a puppet in front of Congress, thereby leading to the long term and extreme degradation of the internet. I'm cool with punk-metal exploration, just as long as it doesn't involve those shills [Metallica].
would love to see you do a video about The Fall.
Signed.
There will be a season worth of content on just Brix era and then some
The MC5 should be celebrated a lot more than they have been for their influence on all forms of loud rebellious rock and roll since 1968---and that goes for metal, punk and thrash. It all begins with the MC5, and Lemmy said so himself!
I can't believe I totally missed this video, Lemmy is definitely one of the primordial Gods of all things Metal. I also want to point out how much i appreciate your channel and the thoroughness in which it covers a song, band, an era, a performer, or whatever the topic may be, you absolutely have my undying support. I've been fortunate enough to have seen Lemmy and the various verions of Motorhead live...my ears still bleed to this very day. Back when cassettes were big I'd always have Bomber (especially the Girls School version), Iron Fist, Built for Speed, Speed Freak and Killed by Death playing on an endless loop through my walkman, my car stereo or whatwver.
Thank you again for the hours of great content. Im going to scroll through your channels history now, Im hoping you might have covered bands like The Fleshtones or The Gang of Four...I'm you get tons of suggestions but have you considered covering the Urgh A Music War and how they put that eclectic lineup together. I remember seeing it at a midnight movie back in 80 or 81, that periods kinda vague but I definitelly remember how it impacted me and how it opened my eyes to the many types of music I didn't know existed back then. Sorry for the mile long tangent, nusic still excites me to this day. Have a good one.
My first Motörhead album wiped out my previous interests. From then on, my world revolved around this great music! It felt like a big bang.
I saw Motorhead several times in the late 70's/early 80's and they always delivered a high octane speed fuelled rock and roll show, never disappointed. I had the good fortune to meet Lemmy at one gig and what a great guy he was, he took the time to spend 20 minutes or so chatting to me, a complete nobody talking to an absolute legend.
RIP Lemmy, you left a rock and roll legacy that will live for a long time.
Thanks for the upload. I love that song and Lemmy.
A of S is my favorite but I also love Overkill, Rock Out, Orgasmatron, Brotherhood of Man!
This was a top shelf video, brother. Nice work
The marriage of punk and metal is tricky, but Ace of Spades nails it. I love this album so much.
I, like many many others here... just absolutely LOVE your channel and the way you arrange and execute your documentaries, the narration, the content... they ALWAYS keep me engaged and entertained.
My friends and I, on a whim, went to a small venue, where MOTORHEAD was playing. I've never, before or since, had METAL shoved in my face like that. What an experience! Nothing can compare. Clash of the Titans, with SLAYER,, MEGADETH,and ANTHRAX, standing in front of the "stack", which was 15 feet high, was almost as METAL.