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Artist: Motorhead| Label:Chiswick | Format: LP | Genre: Rock| VinylCondition: Mint | Cover Condition:Sealed
Motorhead
What’s Words Worth?
Big Beat 209- re-issue LP on limited RED vinyl
A welcome reissue of Lemmy and cos barnstorming live album now on lobster red vinyl with notes by Ted Carroll and photos on inner bag.
Recorded at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London on 18 February 1978, Whats Words Worth? captures Ian Lemmy Kilmister, Fast Eddie Clarke and Phil Philthy Animal Taylor as their career was beginning its giddying ascent. For reasons long forgotten, Motrhead were billed as Iron Fist & the Hordes From Hell that night. Top of the bill was Wilko Johnson, with Chiswick Records Count Bishops providing support. Chiswick were using the Rolling Stones mobile studio to record the gig for a planned Count Bishops album, so were able to accommodate manager Tony Secundas request that Motrhead also be taped.
Shortly after the show, Secunda and the band parted company, and the tapes remained in limbo until 1983 when new manager Doug Smith remembered their existence. Seeing them as an untapped source of revenue to help fund the bands constant touring, Smith and the band negotiated for their release on Big Beat.
In addition to rollicking performances of five numbers from the bands eponymous debut (reissued on white vinyl on Chiswick), the album features blistering attacks on On Parole, Im Your Witchdoctor, Eddie Hollands Leaving Here (a part of the Motrhead repertoire due to Lemmys love of a cover by Honest Ronnie Woods 60s band the Birds) and City Kids, the B-side of their career-igniting first single, co-written by original Bastard/Motrhead guitarist Larry Wallis of the Pink Fairies.
At the close of this now historic set, Lemmy, for some inexplicable reason, is heard to encourage the audience to read plenty of Wordsworth hence the title of the album, which Ted Carroll describes in his notes as a testament to a band with the balls to keep on keeping on in the face of almost insurmountable odds. –IAN JOHNSTON
contains;
The Watcher
Iron Horse / Born to Lose
On Parole (in A)
White Line Fever
Keep Us on the Road
Leaving Here
I’m Your witch Doctor
The Train Kept a Rollin’
City Kids
NEW SEALED re-issueimport LP on limitedRED vinyl
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