Description
White vinyl with gatefold cover. Limited 200 copies
After welcoming bands from the punk movement, including The Clash and the Ramones in the late 1970s, the metal movement took possession of Le Bataclan in Paris. For Motörhead in 1980 and Iron Maiden in 1981, it all started on Boulevard Voltaire… It is especially the band led by Lemmy Kilmister who will choose Le Bataclan as one of its favorite venues. Warm, sweating, thundering, trembling and sweating memoried. Motorhead first arrived at Le Bataclan on the 21st of February of 1980. This was during The Bomber tour and the band had been shaping their music for four years with influences from everything from biker metal to elements of punk rock, heavy metal, rock’n’roll and blues. When the band released their Iron Fist album it was no question that they would return to Le Bataclan and so they did on the 27th of October, 1982 (caught on this album). The legend says that on this evening Motörhead played so loud that the frescoes of Le Bataclan cracked and that the venue prohibited metal concerts some time afterwards. And voices from people that were there can confirm that the band played loud:
A feverish and omnipresent guitar, full of distortion, a bitter voice, a heavy and hammering rhythm, which propels everything. Motörhead plays loud, very loud and hard. Nothing more is needed to make an invincible war machine that takes its true dimension on stage thanks to the release of its audience. -Alan Wais
I was there, and I lost a large part of my left eardrum. The crowd was totally crazy, behaving like a band of Huns among the Vikings. For months, the Bataclan refused any concert of this new metal genre. But the movement was irresistible. UFO reopened the series in 1983. Since then, a number of legendary bands have made their debut at Le Bataclan. – Philippe Manœuvre
It is so hot at Bataclan that the walls are dripping. The sound is very loud. With a monstrous Overkill to conclude the show. My neighbor holds his head in his hands, trying to cover his ears, and ends up wincing in pain. Earplugs were advised this evening. – Pat
The band would continue to return to Le Bataclan and both their shows in 1997 and 1998 showed that they had lost none of their thunderous energy. And anyone that saw Motorhead for the first time at Le Bataclan had been regretting having forgotten hearing protection and they have been many during the years. So loud was Motörhead. So loud was Lemmy. So loud was Le Bataclan
Track list:
1. Turn You Around Again
2. Iron Horse
3. Nadine
4. America
5. I Got Mine
6. (Don’t Need) Religion
7. We Are The Road Crew
8. Capricorn
9. Bite The Bullet
10. The Chase Is Better Than The Catch
11. Overkill
12. Motörhead