KYPP very own style guru’s Motorhead started life with ex Pink Fairie Larry Wallis and ex Hawkwind member Lemmy Kilmister at the helm in 1975. By 1977, the time of this session, that spawned the second and most infamous single release, Larry Wallis had left, and had been replaced by ‘Fast’ Eddie Clarke, ‘Filthy’ Phil Taylor was the skin basher. This three piece was the CLASSIC Motorhead line up which lasted five years or so onwards to 1982. This single posted has one track that Hawkwind used to perform, and one track that The Pink Fairies played out towards the end of that bands life span.
All in all not a bad record for a couple of cover versions!
sean
February 17, 2008 at 11:31 amAh.happy memories,the man kilminster,always good for a buckshee bottle of whisky at a ‘head gig.Never acted the rock star down the portobello,would chat to anyone…
Pavlik
February 17, 2008 at 1:18 pmThis has always been a big favourite of mine.
Play as loud as possible to annoy the neighbours.
sean
February 17, 2008 at 1:21 pmmotorhead and why by discharge made me v unpopular at 234 camden rd,played extra loud in my room adjoining the living room.Certainly annoyed those neighbours……
Pavlik
February 17, 2008 at 8:16 pmneighbours generally deserve it ๐
Nic
February 19, 2008 at 12:48 pmThis ws indeed the ‘classic’ Motorhead line-up: they’ve never been the same since Eddie departed…
I saw this line-up play at Birmingham Odeon in November 1979 (on the ‘Bomber’ tour) and it was very fucking loud…in fact, the loudest concert I had been to until I went to see Swans…
I haven’t been to see Motorhead since 1986 (the ‘Orgasmatron’ tour) – I thought they lost the spark that they had with the 3-piece line-up and never sounded as exciting again…
I do – however – have a soft spot for the Larry Wallis incarnation of Motorhead: the louche and lazy version of ‘Iron Horse’ is killer, as is the …
Larry Wallis also produced the first Adverts single…
‘Kings of Oblivion’ (the album which features ‘City Kids’) is not my favourite Pink fairies album but it does have a quite amphetamine fuelled buzz about it, coming in that hazy period just before Punk kicked in…
sean
February 19, 2008 at 1:57 pmon their 10th anniversary tour,we,the nascent HHC,went to many of the shows,notably including margate winter gardens.Monty had a mate,”young goom”,who was the drum roadie,so free entry all round and free bottles of whisky from lemmy.they were in fact very loud.However,Martin “weird beard” Ryan fell asleep IN the bottom bass bin,front of house ,stage right,for most of their set.What happened later that night is a whole other chapter in itself.
In a later life as a sound engineer I recognised the bins as having been Martin Bass Horns,the most powerful of the day,and I owned a few,So I tested the feasability of sleeping in one…..it is possible,just,to get in,but exceedingly noisy.This may explain why martins later bands,Sons of Bad Breath,Blower,Screamer etc were so so unconscionably noisy……they had to be else the poor fellow couldnt hear HIMSELF play
Nic
February 19, 2008 at 2:57 pm“the nascent HHC”…ahh, it makes it all sound so…nice…
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