Excellent And Bittersweet News

Motorhead’s final Munich shows are about to released as a CD/DVD combo called Clean Your Clock.

The shows were recorded November 20 and 21. The combo will be out in May. Great news for Lemmy fans for sure.

A couple of Official Motörhead's final shows are being turned into an upcoming CD/DVD. Details here:

Posted by Loudwire on Thursday, March 31, 2016

Comments

[Him]

Tis' bittersweet indeed.

Quality footage (well, quality enough) has been floating around for awhile now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WkJFrCV7lc

As a document, one has to wonder what this really adds or subtracts from Lemmy's legacy. True, it is a great stage show, all lights and lasers and the bomber tilting and panning above the audience.

And, no, I don't begrudge UDR--"The Home of Legends"--for releasing this. It will likely make them a bit of scratch. They are a business after all. But their own press for this release suggests the measure by which this sort of thing is to be judged:

On November 20th and 21st 2015, at the Zenith in Munich, Germany, UDR Records made the decision to record - what happened to be the very last live shows ever recorded - and Motörhead proceeded to deliver two storming sold out shows. Where there had once been almost too-fast breakneck pace, there was measured yet still thunderous rock’n’roll served up only as they could, Phil Campbell playing better and better, and Mikkey Dee elevating the art of drumming to the superlative heights which made him one of metal’s most coveted skinsmen."

It is less what UDR says, and more what they leave out that gives me cause for pause. But that is just me.

Regardless, RIP Lemmy.

[Kixchix]

I hear ya HIM.

Like my dearly departed first dog, I prefer to remember this I love in their prime rather than decline. I love Lemmy for so so much and admire his tenacity to soldier on in the last months. Seeing him in September of '15 hurt to be honest. He was frail. But there was beauty in that too.

As a piece of history I understand the release. Not something I need though

[Bob]

I think UDR is being as honest with the public as it can be regarding what the public should expect from this release. They could have straight-up lied and said that everyone was in fine form, but they didn't. They said what needed to be said without saying it. Now, the public can make up its own mind to purchase the product, knowing that it may not be the best. Cudos to UDR for not deceiving the public.

[Him]

Totally respect your opinion, Bob. And I can certainly understand that take on the release.

I guess my issue is this: I can't fathom what fan would want this release, save a completist. Which, again, is fine.

It strikes me that a release of a still-recent live performance, back when Lemmy was still (relatively speaking) crushing it, would have been a more fitting tribute (if such a thing exists). But to market this as the last filmed performance is, for me, a bit cringe-inducing.