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Motorhead at Stubb’s
Beside Lemmy’s gargle-with-broken-glass voice, the key to Motorhead’s music is, was and always will be Lemmy’s bass sound, which really isn’t quite like anything else in rock. Furiously strummed and all mid-range, it is all bite: distorted and scarred without sounding blurry and dispersed. It is a root integer of all sorts of metal, punk and noise rock that came after.
Following opening sets from Clutch (who played some new, bluesy material) and Valientt Thor, Lemmy and co. certainly delivered the goods Tuesday night at a sold out Stubb’s. But then again, he always delivers the goods. Opening with “We Are Motorhead,” the band pounded through songs both old (“Killed By Death,” “Stay Clean”) and new (“I Know How To Diee,” from their 20th studio album, 2010’s “The World Is Yours.”) The even broke out “In the Name of Tragedy,” a song from 2004’s “Inferno,” probably the best of Motorhead’s 21st century albums.
Consistent, as always.
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