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Motorhead (with Matt Sorum), Reverend Horton Heat, Nashville Pussy, & The Episodes @ Roseland Ballroom - pics

photos by Chris La Putt

“Ah Lemmy, I ain’t gonna be as sprightly as you are when I hit 63 (didja know he’s only 5 years younger than Dylan?)” – Jason Gross

Motorhead

For a couple of weeks during Motörhead‘s U.S. headlining tour, the band’s long-time basher of skins, drummer Mikkey Dee, will be filming season one of Kändisdjungeln, Sweden’s version of I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Of Here! where ten celebrities live together in the Malaysian jungle for 16 days. They are being watched by cameras 24/7 and the viewers will decide which celebrity will have to take on crazy and challenging contests. The contests will consist of everything from facing scary bugs to frightening heights. If the celebrities can overcome their phobias and fears, they can bring back food or other needed things to the jungle camp. Finally, the viewers will decide which celebrity will be the winner.

“I can’t wait to see that,” chuckles Lemmy to Canada’s Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles. “He’s in the Malaysian jungle, and he doesn’t like bugs. And I think they have to be parachuted into the f**king thing – and he doesn’t like heights either. So it’s definitely going to be worth watching.” Mikkey had agreed to do the TV show before the tour was booked. Says Lemmy, “I think he’s already had the f**king shots, the anti-tropical disease shots.”

But the tour will go on.

Velvet Revolver drummer, Matt Sorum, got the call from Lemmy and will fill in during Mikkey’s absence. Formerly of Guns N’ Roses and The Cult, Matt is a world-class musician. He and Lemmy have been friends since they toured together when Motörhead performed some dates with GN’R and Metallica years ago. Matt will come out to a few of the early tour dates to “watch Mikkey and get the idea,” says Lem. “He’ll be alright, he’s a professional.” [All Access Magazine]

Matt Sorum was the drummer at last night’s Motorhead show at Roseland Ballroom in NYC which had almost as many bands on the bill (4) as the number of dollars some people paid for tickets (5). Opening acts at the 9/9/9 show were Reverend Horton Heat, Nashville Pussy, and The Episodes who come from Ohio and have some members that aren’t old enough to drive yet. More pictures, and a few more words about the show, below…

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“After a few songs, once the pit was established, I noticed a clique of young girls (around 25-ish) who sort of formed their own little world in my shadow. They were going apeshit among themselves, reaching past me to sometimes push somebody back into the pit, then retreating behind me again. They kept banging up against my back and pushing each other into me. Next thing they’re climbing up my back holding onto my shoulders getting in my ear and telling me “DUDE, YOU FUCKING RULE !!!”. When I’d look back at them, they were all fist pumping and head banging and going apeshit… rocking out to Motorhead… all in the relative safety that is ME. Next I know they’re grinding and rubbing all up on me… and I’m fucking sweaty and full of beer… and the music was PUMPING, and their were strobe lights… and the whole thing was just out of hand… next I know I got one girl up on my shoulders. She’s playing my head like a drum, and stroking my hair and rocking out. Me? I was doing the bobble head… I hope she enjoyed it.” [The SciPunk Center]

Motorhead – 2009 Tour Dates
9/11 Charlotte, NC Fillmore
9/12 Cherokee, NC Cherokee Motorcycle Rally
9/15 Tampa, FL Ritz Ybor
9/16 Orlando, FL House of Blues
9/18 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
9/19 Dallas, TX Palladium
9/20 Austin, TX Stubb’s
9/23 St. Louis, MO Pageant
9/24 Kansas City, MO Midland Theatre
9/28 Calgary, Alberta, Canada Flames Central
9/29 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Events Center
10/1 Vancouver, BC, Canada Vogue
10/2 Seattle, WA Showbox Sodo
10/3 Portland, OR Roseland
10/5 San Francisco, CA Warfield
10/7 Anaheim, CA House Of Blues
10/9 Los Angeles, CA Nokia Live
10/10 Las Vegas, NV House Of Blues