Tuesday, October 29, 2019

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Motorhead : Dead Men Tell No Tales



On October 27, 1979 Motorhead released Bomber, their third studio album.  After reaching UK#24 with Overkill, the band teamed up for a second time with the legendary producer Jimmy Miller (Exile On Main Street, Sticky Fingers). 

The consensus is that Bomber is the unheralded Motorhead classic, and yet not as good as Overkill nor Ace of Spades, the album that followed. Lemmy admitted as much to Joel McQuiver in his book Overkill: The Untold Story of Motörhead: 

 ..I wish we'd played the songs onstage first, like we did with the Overkill album, if we could've played them for three weeks on the road it would have been less slick.....Listen to the way we play them live and compare that to the album.. 


The sessions were also impacted by Miller's heroin use, which inspired the opening track "Dead Men Tell No Tales." Drummer Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor has said: 

...We used to think that we were bad at being late, but he would be, like, half a day late, or even more late, you know, and his excuses were marvelous...


Bomber reached UK#12 and suggested greater success was still to come.


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