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Motorhead - No Sleep Til Hammersmith

I find most live albums to be a bit of a novelty, but this is probably the best way to listen to a lot of these songs. It's essentially the best of Motorhead but better. Bomber, Motorhead and Overkill in particular could cut the face off you in their live form.

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Two Headed Boy said:
Motorhead - No Sleep Til Hammersmith

I find most live albums to be a bit of a novelty, but this probably the best way to listen to a lot of these songs. It's essentially the best of Motorhead but better. Bomber, Motorhead and Overkill in particular could cut the face off you in their live form.

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Saw them November 1980 at the Odeon. To this day one of the best gigs I've ever been to. Met them afterwards. Lemmy was an absolute gent. Philthy Phil was speeding off his tits. No Sleep is essentially the live record of the Ace Up Your Sleeve Tour. Straight in at No.1 on the album chart iirc.
 
Sancho Panza said:
Saw them November 1980 at the Odeon. To this day one of the best gigs I've ever been to. Met them afterwards. Lemmy was an absolute gent. Philthy Phil was speeding off his tits. No Sleep is essentially the live record of the Ace Up Your Sleeve Tour. Straight in at No.1 on the album chart iirc.
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I saw them in the 90s at the Barrowlands and they were great.

We also met Lemmy afterwards as it happens. Being the teenage tits we were, we were giving him the whole "we're not worthy" Wayne's World patter and he told us to fuck off because he was busy playing the fruit machine.

I couldn't have wished for a better interaction to be honest.
 
Forzahibs said:
Cos theyre the real deal , none of this studio for 6 months shite
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This is a bit debatable. Live and Dangerous by Thin Lizzy is brilliant but was apparently massively overdubbed after the fact so not really as live and spontaneous as you may have been led to believe.
 
Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps is an interesting one. It's a live album with the crowd noise cut out to try and capture the live sound as a 'studio' album. Love it for what it's worth.
 
Sancho Panza said:
This is a bit debatable. Live and Dangerous by Thin Lizzy is brilliant but was apparently massively overdubbed after the fact so not really as live and spontaneous as you may have been led to believe.
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Could well be but its a brilliant album , not too much is as it seems nowadays i dont think
 
Sancho Panza said:
The Odeon was such a great venue. Perfect size. Can't believe it's still lying empty after all these years.
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Agreed, it was brilliant.
Saw quite a few gigs there from about 1980 to 1982.
I always get quite nostalgic when I go past it now....I remember waiting to get in in the big queues snaking round St Patricks Square Gardens.
Also remember just going in and buying a ticket for a gig from the Box office there...no problem. None of this trying to get through online through Ticketmaster and being ripped off in the process.
 
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Greenmachine said:
Agreed, it was brilliant.
Saw quite a few gigs there from about 1980 to 1982.
I always get quite nostalgic when I go past it now....I remember waiting to get in in the big queues snaking round St Patricks Square Gardens.
Also remember just going in and buying a ticket for a gig from the Box office there...no problem. None of this trying to get through online through Ticketmaster ad being ripped off in the process.
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Too right. I remember getting tickets to see Rainbow at Ingliston from the Playhouse box office and being charged a booking fee and I'm like what the fuck is this? Par for the course these days.
 
Greenmachine said:
My first ever gig was UFO at the Odeon as well, but it was January 1980.
I was 15 at the time.
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I might have been there.
I definitely saw them there twice including June '78
As soon as Schenker left them in '79 they made very poor albums and kept making them forever more. Hunners of them!
 
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Forzahibs said:
recorded live in front of people
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If you edit parts out, overdub new parts on top and patch in sections from different performances you have a studio product masquerading as a single live performance.
i.e. it is a performance that no one heard.
 
Jack K said:
I might have been there.
I definitely saw them there twice including June '78
As soon as Schenker left them in '79 they made very poor albums and kept making them forever more!
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I like The Wild, the Willing and the Innocent.
Strangers in the Night definitely their apogee though.
 
Jack K said:
I might have been there.
I definitely saw them there twice including June '78
As soon as Schenker left them in '79 they made very poor albums and kept making them forever more!
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Yep. Agree with that.
They were a fantastic live band, but they should have been far more successful than they were and much of that was
down to Schenker leaving. They lost his songwriting input which was so much a part of their appeal, as well as his charisma and fantastic guitar playing.
Too much internal fighting and hard living. They basically self-destructed over the years. They could and should have been as big as AC/DC in my opinion.
 
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Jack K said:
If you edit parts out, overdub new parts on top and patch in sections from different performances you have a studio product masquerading as a single live performance.
i.e. it is a performance that no one heard.
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Fuck I give up with you , a more complete and utter know it all i have never met . Nobody knows anything but you on any given subject . I never thought i'd see the day that i would use the ignore function but hey today is the day . Now away and play with Google
 
Sancho Panza said:
Saw them November 1980 at the Odeon. To this day one of the best gigs I've ever been to. Met them afterwards. Lemmy was an absolute gent. Philthy Phil was speeding off his tits. No Sleep is essentially the live record of the Ace Up Your Sleeve Tour. Straight in at No.1 on the album chart iirc.
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Think I was at that gig.
It was the Ace Of Spades tour and they still had their Bomber prop which was lowered a few times. Great gig.
 
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