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#47233 - 04/10/12 10:24 PM Re: Toronto 1982 uncut recording [Re: Terentek]
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Here's a couple of others from that concert:




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#47264 - 04/12/12 10:23 PM Re: Toronto 1982 uncut recording [Re: vortexx]
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Originally Posted By: vortexx
I'll post details in a day or two if nobody has a recording. Meanwhile here is a photo I took at the show with a very cheap camera that I had. With this camera, I had to guess how far away in feet that the subject was and it would make things look farther away which is why it's a bit blurry.











I just remembered that there was a smoke machine that was on the bottom left of this photo. The smoke had a bit of a strange smell to it. It didn't smell like something burning but is smelled a bit like a chemical). It's hidden behind a monitor or something. There was also a fan (not an audience member, the other kind that spins) around that area that was always on and pointed at Lemmy.

It's strange that I remembered that after all those years.

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#47792 - 05/11/12 05:04 AM Re: Toronto 1982 uncut recording [Re: vortexx]
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wow that brings back memories. I was 12 years old when I went to that show, I remember being in row O (about 15th row). It was my 3rd concert ever (after Black Sabbath and AC/DC). I didn't know any better at the time about sound etc, but this show blew me away, I remember being in total awe. It was amazing that the show was recorded and later played on a Saturday simulcast (radio and public TV). Imagine that!
I remember still a lot about that show, the lighting was amazing, the pyro, dry ice, Bomber - the crappy quality videos we see now do not represent it well. It was awesome.
The double CD Jailbait has at least one more song and the proper order of the concert (though the CD does not say it is the Toronto show, it is...). The show opened with Iron Fist and Heart of Stone. Overkill was somewhere in the middle. Ace of Spades wasn't played, I guess because the encore was cancelled.

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#47810 - 05/11/12 11:01 PM Re: Toronto 1982 uncut recording [Re: flachhongkong]
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I couldn't really hear what the songs were usually because I was right in front of the stage and only a few feet from the PA. A few I could recognize due to their structure or introductions. I didn't think they did Ace of Spades but I wasn't sure. I'm bad at remembering the song order of most concerts I've been to anyway.
I don't recall too much about the pyro. Did they have explosions? I do remember they used a fair amount of smoke as the smoke machine was very close to me. Does the Jailbait CD contain any of the talking between songs? That concert is on one of the official double disk re-issues. I don't recall if everything from the TV show was on there or not, but they used the TV show to master it to CD. The sound fades out every time that they would cut to a commercial. Compared to setlists from that tour there were quite a few songs that they skipped. I think that they didn't play 'Motorhead' as well which was often the encore. This was the first concert that one of my friends had ever been to so he assumed that all concerts were that loud.

I almost bought the Japanese Laserdisc for the Toronto show, but like you said, It doesn't represent that show very well. It actually makes the band look like they're bored for some reason, which wasn't how it felt at the show. The running time of the Laserdisc was short so it probably didn't have anything extra.

It's interesting to see on the video that many of the fans of Moterhead at the time were quite young. I was 14 at the time. I took some pictures of Krokus from that show as well. I unfortunately ran out of film and don't have any pictures of the bomber. For those who have never seen the bomber live, it's much more spectacular in real live than what you see on videos.

I was at the AC/DC concert that you went to. I ran up to the stage as I usually did at the time but the security guys kept making me go back to my seat (which was pretty close anyway). I took pictures at that show with an even crappier camera but I don't know where they are at the moment. I was supposed to go to the Black Sabbath show but the guy who was going to sell me a ticket decided to take a girl instead. frown I don't know if you recall that there was a mini riot after the show.

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#47827 - 05/12/12 11:48 PM Re: Toronto 1982 uncut recording [Re: vortexx]
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I remember the explosions well, at Iron Fist and Overkill. On the Live Toronto DVD, it shows some explosion at heart of Stone, but I think that might be sliced from Iron Fist. Not sure, I could easily be wrong after 30 years.. Leaving here was the only song I didn't recognize, and didn't know what it was until I saw it on the simulcast. I have to find my Jailbait CD, but I don't think has too much talking, and only song that is different is Iron Fist and maybe doesn't include some others. Iron Fist sounds particularly bad, so I always figured they didn't include on the live video because the sound could not be edited well enough.
I remember the riot after the Sabbath show....the Gardens was a great place for a big show (and a hockey game).
Did you go the MH gig at the Concert Hall the next year with Robbo? I was shocked at how small the hall was compared to the CNE Forum, but I loved that show. Lemmy was filthy at that show, greasy, unwashed, and at his ugliest! It looked he didn't shower for some weeks before the show

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#47831 - 05/13/12 04:27 AM Re: Toronto 1982 uncut recording [Re: flachhongkong]
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I didn't see them with Robbo. I think I was afraid that it would be as loud as the 1982 show and I wouldn't be able to hear the music. I would have run up to the stage again, as I usually did in the 80's and It probably would have meant that I wouldn't have been able to hear the songs again, if I ran up. I did not realize that it wouldn't have been as loud if I had a seat further back.

When I saw Black Sabbath during the Dehumanizer tour I purchased front row seats and because I was near the PA, it was very loud. Still it wasn't even close to the Motorhead 1982 volume. Tony Iommi was using a volume pedal at the time and I would cringe any time he went to use the pedal because it was even louder when he used it.

I don't run up to the stage any more so I don't have to worry about being close to the PA speakers any more.

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#48782 - 06/28/12 11:23 PM Re: Toronto 1982 uncut recording [Re: vortexx]
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Something that I remembered from this concert:
Along with the shirt that said "Don't Let Them Grind You Down" they had another shirt which I don't recall seeing since the show. It said something like "Tour of Americarrrgh" or something like that.

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