Motorhead May 14, 1982 Palladium New York, NY, United States Iron Fist Tour
01 [Introduction] 02 Iron Fist 03 Heart Of Stone 04 Shoot You In The Back 05 The Hammer 06 Jailbait 07 America 08 Leaving Here 09 (Don't Need) Religion 10 Capricorn 11 (Don't Let 'Em) Grind Ya Down 12 (We Are) The Road Crew 13 Ace Of Spades 14 No Class 15 Bite The Bullet 16 The Chase Is Better Than The Catch 17 Overkill 18 [Encore intro] 19 Bomber 20 [2nd Encore intro] 21 Motorhead
This is an alternate recording--never before circulated--of the last show the classic Motorhead line up ever played. Fast Eddie walked out from the band after this show and several dates were canceled in the wake of his departure. If you want to hear what this band sounded like two days earlier, the expanded edition of ÒIron FistÓ features a soundboard recording of the Toronto show from May 12. However it only features the songs not on the studio release and a short version of Overkill. With the scarcity of torrents from this tour, this is one of the few shows with five songs from ÒIron FistÓ played live. Yes, even Lemmy has stated that Iron Fist was subpar compared to the four classics that preceded it. But classic MotorheadÕs B-stock sounds better to my ears than most of the stuff out there. This historic final concert, which featured a rare Stateside appearance of the ÒBomberÓ lighting rig (seen on the cover of ÒNo Sleep ÔTil HammersmithÓ) marked my first time seeing the band live. What a shock to learn some time laterÑno Internet, yet, boys and girlsÑthat Eddie left that night never to return. The only recording I could find of this concert for nearly three decades was a rough mono cassette I had bought from a street vendor on St. Marks Place in Greenwich Village. It was complete but so compromised that even after I did all my post-production razzle-dazzle, it remained the roughest sounding boot in my entire collection. I posted it to DIME for completists, in the hopes that someone might offer up an improvement. Lo and beholdÉ
2 CDs MedusaNYC Audience MedusaNYC Stereo condenser > Sony D5 > dub from master cassette > WAV > EQÕed and remastered in Apple Logic > AIFF > FLAC FLAC 76:23 min. B+
