Ramones, AC/DC, Motorhead

[Steven Skane]

I think Motorheads "Bastards" is pretty good. I have not heard the new
album.

AC/DC have alway's suffered from embarrassingly juvenile bad lyrics. I saw
Angus on our local guitar TV show and  he was so dumb he could hardly speak.
He plugged his SG in and maybe he didn't warm his old arthritic fingers up
beforehand but he was terrible.
He can play far better than that.

I do like  the Ramones live double from the seventies and a few other things
but I prefer people that can play a little better. I read in an interview
ages ago that they could only play the one barre chord shape and could not
play other peoples songs so they made up their own. Of the three bands
Motorhead, AC/DC and the Ramones I would rate the Ramones last. AC/DC are a
good band but they are a very commercial product and a long way from "If You
Want Blood" now. Motorhead are one of my favourite bands and to me are
better than the other two combined. They aren't in the same class.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephan Forstner" <stemfors at PIPELINE.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 8:21 AM
Subject: OFF: Ramones, AC/DC, Motorhead


> These 3 bands were geniuses in that they perfected variations of a great
> concept - loud fast dirty grooving guitars - and then proceeded to release
> thousands of albums using the same formula with small modificationns
> (detractors will say no modifications). Unfortunatley I think it may be
true
> that after a while even the most die-hard fan could get tired of the
> same-old same-old. As others have pointed out, you have the essential
> Ramones with their 1st 4 or 5 releases, and AC/DC with most (not all) of
> their albums up to 1981, but we all know Motorhead was more interesting
and
> successful at the formula than the others - everything up to Orgasmatron
is
> pretty much essential. I'd have to say that since 1986 they haven't
released
> any truly great albums, though 1916 and Sacrifice may yet join that list -
> the latest doesn't buck the pattern. Lemmy is really looking kinda old now
> (is that his lucky hat that he left in San Francisco in the photo?) They
are
> NOT just going through the motions, but maybe they need to shake things
up -
> perhaps they should bring in another guitarist. Regardless, if Lemmy is
> putting out records in another 20 years, I'll still be buying them. And I
> know most of the above is open to debate.
>
> Stephan
>