{"id":2460,"date":"2010-05-28T18:32:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T22:32:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-15T14:49:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T18:49:52","slug":"please-explain-motorhead-aka-rock-s-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-motorhead-aka-rock-s-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Explain: Motorhead (aka Rock&#8217;s Longest-Running Free Ride)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/flashback425x150.swf\" width=\"425\" height=\"150\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/flashback425x150.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s rare that a thread earns Friday Flashback status so soon after its initial posting, but a new Townsperson among us, <strong>beenreepin<\/strong>, had some Main Stage-worthy comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/please-explain-motorhead-aka-rock-s-long#c41320\">how to best appreciate Motorhead<\/a>. Click the link to pick up where you may have left off in December, right to his belated comments, or revisit this entire thread and original discussion.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><code>This post initially appeared 12\/3\/09.<\/code><\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gV6noHEd6XE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nIf you point a gun to my head I can hum out the 3 words that make up both the title and (most of?) the chorus of <strong>Motorhead<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Ace of Spaces.&#8221; Other than that I know I&#8217;ve heard a song called &#8220;Eat the Rich,&#8221; or something like that. If memory serves it sounds like the sound a motorcycle makes when a biker revs it up, right? In fact, I think every song I&#8217;ve ever heard by Motorhead sounds like a revved up motocycle engine. I know bikers and other motorheads dig the sound of revved up engines, but a lot of rock fans I know who say they dig Motorhead yet drive around in whole-grain, alternative-energy vehicles don&#8217;t seem to get a thrill out of listening to a real motorcylce engine. In fact, these well-educated, concerned citizens of rock scoff at real-life motorheads and the pin-dick compensatory measures they &#8211; no, we &#8211; like to believe those big engines represent. Yet they tell me they dig the band Motorhead. What gives?<\/p>\n<p>These same, value-based proponents of &#8220;old-school&#8221; practices like leaf raking and loose-leaf tea steeping wouldn&#8217;t be caught within 50 yards of a real-life person who looked anything like that human, filthy boil <strong>Lemmy<\/strong> &#8211; unless they were dedicating a Saturday morning to volunteering in a soup line &#8211; yet they tell me how &#8220;fucking cool&#8221; Lemmy&#8217;s wart-encrusted Look is. What gives?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MoZ_Lg21b14?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI know Lemmy was once part of <strong>Hawkwind<\/strong>, a band that almost everyone thinks is kinda cool until asked to listen to. I know he&#8217;s jammed and snorted Draino with actual founding fathers of punk rock, which is to be envied, but what the hell am I missing in the musical output of Motorhead? More importantly, what is missing in my life &#8211; or perhaps what is <em>present<\/em> in my life &#8211; that prevents me from making any exceptions for the motorcycle-revving nonsense that I hear whenever presented with the music of Motorhead?<\/p>\n<p>With as open a mind as you&#8217;ll find in these Hallowed Halls, I ask that you please explain rock&#8217;s longest-running free ride.<\/p>\n<p>I thank you in advance.<br \/>\n<script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822\/US\/rotoha00-20\/8002\/13207f88-07c4-4d4b-b138-b5eef5f3e386\"> <\/script> <noscript><a HREF=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Frotoha00-20%2F8002%2F13207f88-07c4-4d4b-b138-b5eef5f3e386&amp;Operation=NoScript\">Amazon.com Widgets<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s rare that a thread earns Friday Flashback status so soon after its initial posting, but a new Townsperson among us, beenreepin, had some Main Stage-worthy comments on how to best appreciate Motorhead. Click the link to pick up where you may have left off in December, right to his belated comments, or revisit this <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-motorhead-aka-rock-s-long\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}