Motorhead August 1, 1981 Port Vale Football Stadium Stoke-on-Trent, England Tour of the Colonies Heavy Metal Holocuast
Disc 1: 01-Intro / Ace Of Spades 02-Stay Clean 03-Live To Win 04-Over The Top 05-No Class 06-The Hammer 07-Metropolis 08-Leaving Here 09-Jailbait 10-Iron Horse Born To Lose 11-Fire Fire 12-Too Late Too Late
Disc 2: 13-Fast and Loose 14-Dead Men Tell No Tales 15-We Are The Road Crew 16-Capricorn 17-Train kept A Rollin 18-Bite The Bullet 19-The Chase Is Better Than The Catch 20-Overkill 21-White Line Fever 22-Bomber 23-Motorhead
This was possibly Motorheads 'Ultimate gig' of their entire career. This era could very well be the 'peak' of the classic Lemmy,Phil and Eddie period. In an excerpt from the Book,"Motorhead" by Babylon Books (ISBN 0.86001.935.7)-(Text by Alan Burridge) we read the following: The live album No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith shot to number 1 in its first week of release and the single from it Motorhead charted at 15 for one week and 6 for the following fortnight. Their annual Summer Festival took place at Port Vale Football Club Grounds (capacity 40,000) on August 1st 1981 where Motorhead topped the bill over:Blizzard of Oz,[nabb],Triumph,Riot and Vardis. The Heavy Metal Holocaust blew 40,000 brains to oblivion,mainly with the help of the largest PA system ever used in Britain-all 110,000 watts of it. This was NOT entirely successful due to the sound 'bounce back'in the stadium but Motorhead handled this gargantuan double wall of speakers with their well known damaaging finesse:blowing through all their favorite numbers like Ace Of Spades,stay Clean,Live to Win,Over The Top,No Class,Fast and Loose and Dead Men tell No Tales(Or Dead Men Smell Toe Nails as Lemmy prefers to Introduce it!)were among them. Naturally the Philty torso was kept in momentum with Overkill and an oldie but goldie-White Line Fever was the first encore of the gig,followed by the ever faithful Bomber and its metallic namesake cavorting about over the bands collective head. Ever a band for the element of surprise,a real aircraft was in the evening sky bearing a dozen parachutists who endeavored (one missed the target altogether!) to come to land in the grounds using a flare as a guide. Their latest chart-ripping single and their namesake brought the proceedings to a close and the forty thosand returned home-happy,but a little deaf. Here you go Motorheadbangers,Port Vale Motorhead gig.
2 CDs Audience Cd-r from trades>EAC WAV>TLH verified non-lossy>TLH FLAC8 FLAC 44:23 & 51:15 min. B+
