Motörhead

I love Motorhead, what a classic band they really are. Also I did enjoy their new CD I've played it a few times already & still loving it, got to see them again last month.

Here's something a little bit different from the band, you might have seen this tv ad , enjoy!
Kronenbourg 1664 & Motörhead Official Advert ft. Ace of Spades (slow version) - 90'.mp4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coBORyLNlj0
MOTORHEAD, Glasgow Academy, Nov 2009, 'ACE OF SPADES'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y2o8yW4d3Y

Motörhead - Ace of Spades (Acoustic Slower Full Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjAEvSKdZzo

Motörhead - I Ain't No Nice Guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_VEdra0wUE
Lemmy Kilmister - Stand By Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZrntE3vNe8
A Tribute to Ian Fraser "Lemmy" Kilmister *24.12.1945
It's the Soundtrack "Extremely Sorry" from the the Movie Flip Skateboards
He's accompanied by Dave Lombardo of Slayer on drums.
Lemmy Kilmister (Comercial)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fyxoo-A07A

Ex-Motörhead Guitarist Dies

Former Motörhead guitarist Michael ‘Würzel’ Burston has died at age 61.
Würzel passed away yesterday after suffering from heart disease.

A former army corporal, the guitarist joined Motörhead in 1984 and played on a string of albums including 1986′s Orgasmatron and 1991′s 1916, before leaving in 1995.

Würzel had recently formed a new band Leader Of Down.

Classic Rock’s Neil Jeffries pays tribute to Würzel below:

I first met Würzel at Nomis Studios, in London’s Earls Court, in March 1984 when he was newly seconded to the ranks of Motörhead. At this, only their fifth rehearsal day, he and fellow guitarist Phil Campbell were still getting to know each other as Lemmy led the band into the post-Brian Robertson era with a more-bang-for-your-buck four-piece line-up.

Phil’s was a name I remembered from Persian Risk, but Würzel’s was a mystery in more ways than one. In the wake of Robbo’s departure, the once-bitten twice-shy bass player defiantly declared to me: “I want somebody who hasn’t got a track record, whose track record is Motörhead. Motörhead’s all right, but it’s just a job… I used to be in so-and-so…” For Würzel, being in Motörhead was never just a job. It was an honour and a privilege – and he loved it.

It was quite a step up as he’d only ever played in semi-pro bands in his native Cheltenham area (some as a drummer and one, he admitted, called The Nancy Boys who put out a Gary Glitter cover as a single) but he was savvy enough to hear Lemmy was looking for a guitarist (the job was never actually advertised) and stepped up.

Lemmy explained that Würzel and Phil had eventually made it on to a shortlist of seven, then three, then two he couldn’t choose between – so he hired them both. I don’t think Würzel was joking when he said he was delighted to be rehearsing so many songs from Ace Of Spades as that was the album he’d bought.

They had, Lemmy grinned, “the necessary GU-GANNGG! The killer instinct/rabbit punch thinking…”

Würzel’s guitar style was rarely better described but his character was the complete opposite. Okay, he was never the kind of guy who wouldn’t put down his pint and throw a punch if he saw someone in trouble, but whenever I met him subsequently he was, well… just a lovely bloke. Quietly spoken in a rich West Country burr, he was great at small talk and never aloof.

Close proximity to an overdriven amp meant he’d lost a lot of the top end of his hearing and he’d always stand close to hear what you were saying. Then he’d peel away and laugh in an infectious rattle that suggested he should be in line for a knighthood for services to the tobacco industry. You could tell he loved being in Motörhead and although his later departure saddened him he remained immensely proud of his time in the band.

I’ve been handed a lot of business cards in my life but the best was given to me by him and I treasure it to this day. In its four corners were the phrases, ‘No Phone, No Money, No Class, No Remorse’ and across the middle, ‘WÜRZEL THE BASTARD… so fuck off’. It got a laugh every time. To me, the biggest giggle was the irony, for Würzel really was a gentle man (two words) and extraordinary company.

Sadly, the mould is long broken…

– Neil Jeffries