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Music cassettes! Do you remember? Those things with the double coils and the wide brown plastic strap that would occasionally come loose and hang out of the case, requiring a pencil and a strong wrist to twist it back?
Yes, there was a time when sound systems contained cassette decks for the express purpose of recording shows, and these cassette things were standard equipment on every tour. Motörhead were certainly no exception and recorded show after show on them. They contain gold, pure aural gold, and for many years lay hundreds of meters underground in a small cave belonging to Lemmy, guarded by small, hairy centurions in Roman armor with tiny spears and bad tempers.
Only the magic password could be snatched from them – luckily Lem had written it down and left it for us in an old sketchbook. A lot of these dirty, dusty, greasy little things came together, with names like Malmö, Madrid, Heilbronn and Norwich scrawled in ballpoint pen on the tiny labels, along with a date… and so this unique collection began of live beads through carefully digitized transfers in a series of publications entitled “The Solves Tapes” .
To date, five concerts from these cassette documents of Motörhead’s ear-splitting cross-section of decades of live performances have been released digitally, with parts 1 through 4 also receiving limited vinyl editions. Due to overwhelming demand, the collection of volumes 1 to 5 is now available as a CD box set , with the latest volume 5 also being pressed on vinyl .
“The Löst Tapes” will be released on February 23, 2024 and can now be pre-ordered here: https://motorhead.lnk.to/losttapesvol5PR
You can find all the details about The Solve Tapes below, but be sure to check out www.iMotorhead.com for exciting news and updates!
Volume 1: Live at Sala Aqualung, Madrid, 1st June 1995
1. Ace of Spades
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Volume 2: Live at University of East Anglia, Norwich, 18th October 1998
1. Bombers
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Volume 3: Live at KB Hallen, Malmö, November 17th 2000
1. We Are Motörhead
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Volume 4: Live at Sporthalle, Heilbronn, December 29th 1984
1. Iron Fist
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Volume 5: Live at Download Festival, Donington, England, June 13, 2008
(also available as a double LP)
1. Doctor Rock
2. Stay clean
3. Be My Baby
4. Killers
5. Metropolis
6. Over the Top
7. One night stand
8. Rosalie
9. In the Name of Tragedy
10. Just ‘Cos You Got the Power
11. Going to Brazil
12. Killed by Death
13. Ace of Spades
14. Overkill
Pre-order here now
Source: BMG via CMM GmbH
Written by: Road Dog
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