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<p>That song really is totemic, arguably _the_defining metal song of the era. I have a lovely memory from the mid-80s of me and my mates on a cold winter Friday night impulsively making a decision to get our asses down to Maple Leaf Gardens (a legendary hockey arena in Toronto) to see Motorhead support Alice Cooper. We made a two-hour drive and were impatiently standing in line at the ticket-window when the show started. We were doing a frenzied St. Vitus dance panicking for the slacker ticket lady to hurrythefuckupalready, then heard them start playing "Ace of Spades" on the other side of the wall. We were crestfallen, looked at each other, put our money back in our pockets, went to a reggae bar instead and got hammered. If we couldn't see Motorhead play that song, then what was the point? Made a decision to drive three hours the other direction to a different hockey arena in a different city to see the same show the following night. I was shocked there was hardly any love. 95% of the crowd was there for Cooper and sat on their hands, but the old bikers and grizzled bastards stood on their feet banging their heads and hollering for all of it. I've seen them at least a half-dozen times, and I just stand in amazement watching Lemmy gargle razor-blades into that erect microphone and strum his bass like he's playing a ukulele.</p>
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<p>Many years ago in London Lemmy and I were locals in the same pub. Lovely bloke. A bit smelly. Always bought his round though.</p> -
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<p>Many years ago in London Lemmy and I were locals in the same pub. Lovely bloke. A bit smelly. Always bought his round though.</p>
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<p>Oh man, I probably would have been catatonic, like the time Robert Plant met Elvis. Did you see the documentary about Lemmy from a couple years ago where he now spends his days at a Los Angeles tavern playing interactive trivia games with strangers in other taverns across America? (I loved how they'd show the day's leaderboard, and the user-name "Lemmy" would appear in about 7 or 8 of the Top 10 scores. Reminds me of the story when Marlon Brando used to be a ham radio operator.) He also spends a LOT of time plugging quarters into slot machines.</p> -
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<p>Oh man, I probably would have been catatonic, like the time Robert Plant met Elvis. Did you see the documentary about Lemmy from a couple years ago where he now spends his days at a Los Angeles tavern playing interactive trivia games with strangers in other taverns across America? (I loved how they'd show the day's leaderboard, and the user-name "Lemmy" would appear in about 7 or 8 of the Top 10 scores. Reminds me of the story when Marlon Brando used to be a ham radio operator.) He also spends a LOT of time plugging quarters into slot machines.</p>
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<p>Yeah he was much cleverer than he looked. I lived in Ladbroke Grove at the time, next to the tube station and of course Hawkwind were based there, so Lemmy had long-standing connections to the place. He had an eclectic group of friends including Brian James from Lords of the New Church who I believe he knew from The Damned, and Wendy James (no relation) and Nina Hagen, who was as insane as it gets.</p>
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<p>Funnily enough I remember him telling a Canadian mate of mine that he hated Canada cause they were always trying to lock him up. I gathered he'd had a few run-ins with the law there.</p>
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<p>Funnily enough I remember him telling a Canadian mate of mine that he hated Canada cause they were always trying to lock him up. I gathered he'd had a few run-ins with the law there.</p>
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<p>I know he was caught with drugs at the Canadian border and that's why he was given the boot from Hawkwind. Just imagine . . . without the drug bust there probably would be no Motorhead, no Ace of Spades.</p>
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<p>Story I remember from Motorhead's first-or-second tour to Canada, Lemmy only brought one pair of pants for the trip, black leather motorcycle pants obviously, and he bent over and ripped 'em, and this became a panic situation -- how to repair Lem's leather pants when it's the only pair of trousers he has on him.</p> -
<p>I think he has admitted as much, hard to say now, probably is, dunno.</p>
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<p>Back when this record came out me and a buddy bushwacked for 45 minutes to get to a bush party that we were tipped was going to feature some lovely females. That would have been nice. Instead the party turned out to be nine greasy longhairs we didn't recognize, sitting on logs around a case of beer air-guitaring & banging their heads to this cassette tape playing on a boombox. </p>
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We're movin' like a parallelogram<br>
Don't move, the mornin's not a pretty sight<br>
I guess I'll see you all on the ice</p>
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All I am is wired<br>
Ain't felt this good for an hour</p>
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<p>Back when this record came out me and a buddy bushwacked for 45 minutes to get to a bush party that we were tipped was going to feature some lovely females. That would have been nice. Instead the party turned out to be nine greasy longhairs we didn't recognize, sitting on logs around a case of beer air-guitaring & banging their heads to this cassette tape playing on a boombox. </p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12px;">Great song, but we got out of there before it finished.</span></p>
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<p>Sam has been in the computer business for 25 years and is finally sick of the stress. He quits his job and buys 50 acres of land in Alabama to be as far away from humanity as possible.</p>
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<p>Sam sees the mailman once a week and gets groceries once a month. Otherwise, it’s total peace and quiet.</p>
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<p>After 6 months or so of almost total isolation, he’s finishing dinner one day when someone knocks on his door. He opens it and there is a big, bearded man standing there. “Name’s Enoch… Your neighbor from four miles over the ridge… Having a party Saturday… Thought you’d like to come.â€</p>
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<p>“Great,†says Sam, “after 6 months of this I’m ready to meet some local folks. Thank you.â€</p>
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<p>As Enoch is leaving he stops, “Gotta warn you there’s gonna be some drinking.†“Not a problem… After 25 years in the computer business, I can drink with the best of ‘em.â€</p>
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<p>Again, as he starts to leave, Enoch stops. “More ‘n’ likely gonna be some fightin’ too.†Damn, Sam thinks… Tough crowd. “Well, I get along with people. I’ll be there. Thanks again.â€</p>
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<p>Once again Enoch turns from the door. “I’ve seen some wild sex at these parties, too.†“Now that’s not a problem,†says Sam, “Remember I’ve been alone for 6 months! I’ll definitely be there… By the way, what should I wear?â€</p>
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<p>Parallelogram - now that's a single use songword right there. Can't ever have appeared in any other song, surely.</p>
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<p>Hawkwind famously had a follower called Stacia, an earth-mother type who would appear at many of their shows and without fail get naked and dance on stage. Like Bez from Happy Mondays and, according to legend, of a similar rating as him on both the physical pulchritude and ingested substances scales.</p>
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<p>Edit: On a whim I googled her. Impressive doesn't begin to describe her. Don't google it from work.</p> -
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<p>The album's not bad, but you can see they rushed it through (given the project, 8 songs in 8 weeks or whatever) the song-writing is not quite at the usual level. It's a definite step down from Wasting Light. I would put it at about the same level as "There is Nothing Left to Lose" which is my least favourite FF album. </p>
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<p>I really like "Something from Nothing" and yeah "I Am a River" is pretty good. But "Congregation" is the one that, when i first heard the album, I wasn't really taken with, and then i heard it live, and now i love it. </p>
