Motorhead just keeps on going, with only a few weeks left in the band's "The World Is Yours" 2011 tour.
Tuesday night the band was featured on the "Die Harald Schmidt Show" ("The Harald Schmidt Show"), the German late-night talk show hosted by comedian Harald Schmidt.
In the new year, Motorhead are back at it again, as they head out with Megadeth on the 2012 Gigantour. The festival, first founded by Megadeth in 2005, makes its return for the first time since 2008 with the two metal legends plus Volbeat and Lacuna Coil.
The month-long tour kicks off January 26 in Camden, NJ, and wraps February 28 in Denver, CO, playing shows across the US and Canada.
"We've done festivals in Europe with Lacuna Coil and they're workaholics as well!", says Lemmy. "Volbeat are great too; the whole bill is pretty diverse and I advise everyone who likes being deaf, and/or can lip-read already, to come out and see what the stuff that doesn't get any MTV Video Awards sounds like! Gigantour is just that!"
"Megadeth are one of the greatest bands to tread a stage anywhere and me and Dave have been promising each other we'd tour together ever since we met!", continues the Motorhead legend. "Volbeat and Lacuna Coil are interesting choices and I think it's gonna be incredible trying to understand each other backstage! Come and see what eclectic means! (look THAT up in your Funk & Wagnall's)! See you!"
Motorhead – I Know How To Die (Die Herald Schmidt Show, Cologne, Germany, November 22, 2011):
I just caught this by chance on TV. I don't usually watch the show and was flipping thru the channels when I saw Lemmy. Gotta love the Germans...they support a lot of metal bands that have faded away elsewhere.
I just caught this by chance on TV. I don't usually watch the show and was flipping thru the channels when I saw Lemmy. Gotta love the Germans...they support a lot of metal bands that have faded away elsewhere.
I'm not sure if that's implying Motorhead have died out elsewhere. I'm in Chicago and they're still a big deal here.
Germany's pretty good with that sort of thing, forgetting that dismal festival Wacken, it has a number of Metal festivals that support newer/underground bands. Hell, it probably has more NWOBHM festivals than Britian does. Lemmy's even said that the band would have been dead if it weren't for the German fans.
blackwingbat wrote:
Jesus_Dean wrote:
I just caught this by chance on TV. I don't usually watch the show and was flipping thru the channels when I saw Lemmy. Gotta love the Germans...they support a lot of metal bands that have faded away elsewhere.
I'm not sure if that's implying Motorhead have died out elsewhere. I'm in Chicago and they're still a big deal here.
In general, Motorhead is the least popular/under-rated of the big Metal bands (Big 4, Iron Maiden, Priest, etc.) I saw Iron Maiden in a stadium, I saw Judas Priest in a stadium, I saw Megadeth in a stadium. I saw Motorhead in a glorified bar.
Have they ever even had that sort of popularity for it to be considered "dying out", though?
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