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Russell Brown

Sun, 03 Jan 2016 21:41:52 +1300

I'm going to have to compose a theme to get the rest of that story out of you Chrys :-)

Chrys Berryman

Sun, 03 Jan 2016 16:10:06 +1300

Saw a Hawkwind and Motorhead gig at the Music Machine in London in 1976…..me and handful of punters were subjected to the loudest show I have ever attended,……what a way to end my 12 mth hippy trail trip…a beard,hep A,a head full of Morrocan hash,bleeding ears,... and Lemmy…….RIP Lemmy….thanks for…

Russell Brown

Sat, 02 Jan 2016 16:43:29 +1300

Here’s an old fave featuring a very snappy Lemmy:

Ha! What a cameo.

Joe Wylie

Sat, 02 Jan 2016 13:50:44 +1300

Great piece Russell, great thread.
Here's an old fave featuring a very snappy Lemmy:
https://youtu.be/8vHDigOYSk4

Russell Brown

Sat, 02 Jan 2016 13:49:38 +1300

The headline could have been better, but Rolling Stone describes Lemmy’s last days.

In recent years:

There were some modest lifestyle changes: Lemmy cut back from his more than two packs of cigarettes a day to one pack a week. And after at least four decades of a half-gallon of…

B Jones

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 22:19:09 +1300

I’m sure they know what they’re doing, I’m just curious about the effect I perceived. You know how when the car stereo is on too quietly and you can hear the high frequencies and enough of the vocals to tell what song is playing, but you can’t quite tell what…

Pete McDowell

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 18:26:04 +1300

Sound Engineers like Rick with FFD use software like Smaart or Systemtune to give themselves an absolute reference and then mix their show relative to that. They are generally pretty aware of aural physiology. Different venue acoustics and council jurisdictions can impose different constraints. Petone is home base for FFDs…

B Jones

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 18:09:49 +1300

I asked the acoustic engineer in the family and she says some speakers don't do so well at low frequencies, human hearing isn't as sensitive, and that it's a sign I'm getting old, complaining about the noise at concerts.

Russell Brown

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 17:28:58 +1300

This grubby little skinned-up herbert popped up in front of him & dived out into the crowd with perfect timing to catch a Lemmy snake skin boot up my arse.

Great story!

Russell Brown

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 17:27:02 +1300

Obviously you want some foot stomping energy for a track like Razor, which is one of my favourites from the new album, but there seemed to be a tradeoff between getting the rhythm pounding through everything and making it possible to interpret the pitch of all the heavy bass and…

nzlemming

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:57:27 +1300

Anyone here with technical know how to explain how all that works?

They turn it up to 11 and see if anybody's ears bleed.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 11:34:23 +1300

...how to explain how all that works
Hairs looking at you, kid....
I'm no expert (in anything) but I put a lot of it down to that 'snail space' known as the Cochlear, potassium balance, pressure and not to mention follicular deterioration in the 'organ of Corti' – we only…

B Jones

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 09:15:06 +1300

I was at Fat Freddy's Drop last night in Wellington and had heaps of fun. At one point, though, I found myself wondering at how the sound people decide how loud to play it all. Obviously you want some foot stomping energy for a track like Razor, which is one…

Peter Darlington

Thu, 31 Dec 2015 21:03:50 +1300

I met Lemmy, well my arse did (ahem), right at the end of the Christchurch Town Hall gig where several of us (male & female) had been stage diving into the crowd all night. It was a fairly brutal atmosphere filled with bikers, punks, skins, students & assorted reprobates as well as…

andin

Thu, 31 Dec 2015 18:51:30 +1300

the only sane response was to make heroin and other drugs legal and regulate them.
That has always been the only sane response, yet not one of NZ's esteemed political leaders has got the balls to be sane. Pander to the whatever way the winds blowing has been a very…

Russell Brown

Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:56:44 +1300

If you haven't seen it already, watch Aretha Franklin's majestic performance of '(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman' at the Kennedy Centre Honours.

Carole King, co-writer of of the song, goes nuts in the audience and Barack Obama sheds a tear.

Dave Patrick

Thu, 31 Dec 2015 14:46:23 +1300

I was at the 1984 Mainstreet gig, and it was bloody LOUD. It was also bloody good. We were among the last to leave, and Lemmy and the rest of the band just wandered out and started chatting to the bouncers and staff and punters who were still there. As…

Russell Brown

Thu, 31 Dec 2015 10:14:18 +1300

The late Helena McAlpine's ashes will be blown into the sky at midnight tonight at Rhythm & Vines.

Fantastic.

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 31 Dec 2015 08:41:03 +1300

All those concerts featuring Blerta , Mammal , Dragon , and Powerhouse.
There is a book in there...
Didn't John Dix's Stranded in Paradise cover some of this, though not in close detail perhaps, and bits and pieces have surfaced in Phantom Billstickers' fine Cafe Reader recently...

see:
http://www.audioculture.co.nz/scenes/john-dix-from-pembrokeshire-to-paradise

Farmer Green

Thu, 31 Dec 2015 06:31:39 +1300

O/T.
A bit of perspective . . . much needed?

"There’s also the must-have fashion-accessory factor where this latest Adele release is concerned. Just as the nation’s bookshelves once bulged with unread Harry Potter or Bridget Jones books, having a copy of ‘25’ sitting casually on the coffee table when…

Farmer Green

Thu, 31 Dec 2015 06:26:58 +1300

“impeccably cool Graeme Nesbitt running things on the road.”

On and “off ” the road Russell. :-)
Always a delight to work for ; he gave me my first gig in the Memorial Theatre at Victoria University.
All those concerts featuring Blerta , Mammal , Dragon , and Powerhouse.

There…

David Cohen

Thu, 31 Dec 2015 01:00:38 +1300

Really nice piece, Russell. The band always seemed ineffably boring to me, but I did enjoy your take on Why They Mattered.

Russell Brown

Wed, 30 Dec 2015 21:43:28 +1300

Danny Noonan in a Facebook group I belong to:

No one has mentioned Motorhead at Mainstreet in 1984. Wasn't a Motorhead fan before that night as they 'weren't punk'. Was working behind the bar doing the glasses and jugs that night. Unusually we were provided with safety issue cotton wool…

Tony P

Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:51:11 +1300

Who knew eh? I vaguely remember this happening but having a new born son and not really being a Motorhead fan I didn't go. Wonder what they thought of Napier and other provincial centres. Wouldn't happen today.

David Hood

Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:09:16 +1300

To be fair, everyone is in Brütal Legend (my daughter has a copy).

He has also been in French and Saunders, it seems to have been blocked by the BBC on YouTube but...

http://www.cyberfret.com/blog/100-easy-tunes-for-guitar-comedy/

Public Address

Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:09:16 +1300

Discussion from blog post.