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<\/a>For music fans, the past year has been a particularly brutal stretch of time as it pertains to legends leaving this mortal coil. One of the largest voids was left by the passing of Lemmy Kilmister, the Mot\u00f6rhead singer and bassist known the world over by just his first name. He died on December 28 from prostate cancer, cardiac arrhythmia, and\u00a0congestive heart failure. Even with a series of preceding health issues that resulted in cancelled shows and the paring back of Lemmy\u2019s legendary booze intake, the death still came as a bit of a shock. Simply put, the man seemed unstoppable, even as proof of his mortality surfaced in his later years. In the face of illness, the band released another album and went back on the road. The documentation of that final tour has come to light on Mot\u00f6rhead\u2019s 13th live album, and presumably final release, Clean Your Clock<\/i>.<\/p>\nClean Your Clock<\/i> was recorded over two nights in Munich during the band\u2019s 40th anniversary tour, one month before Lemmy died. It would be tempting to frame it as Lemmy\u2019s final farewell, but the band had a slate of tour dates planned for 2016. Fittingly for an anniversary tour, the band pulls out some seldom aired gems and even switches things up with an acoustic version of \u201cWhorehouse Blues\u201d from 2004\u2019s Inferno<\/i> album. On \u201cRock It,\u201d from 1983\u2019s Another Perfect Day<\/i>, an album that was disparaged when it was released but whose reputation has improved over the years, Lemmy jokingly dismisses the crowd\u2019s cheers\u00a0by responding, \u201cAh, didn\u2019t buy it then, did ya?\u201d Whatever the case, the set list doesn\u2019t disappoint.<\/p>\n
Musically, Mot\u00f6rhead sounds as tight as they ever were, even if they had slowed with age. As a band who put the \u201cpower\u201d in power trio, Lemmy, guitarist Phil Campbell, and drummer Mikkey Dee are pretty unrelenting. One evident accommodation to Lemmy\u2019s health condition is that Dee and Campbell take up more sonic real estate to give the singer some literal and metaphorical breathing room. And even though this line-up had been together for almost 20 years, they play with every bit of the intensity of their younger days.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, you can tell that Lemmy wasn\u2019t at his best vocally. To be fair, considering all of his health problems and what he was unknowingly fighting (he wasn\u2019t diagnosed with cancer until after the tour ended), it is a miracle that he was even standing let alone powering through a show. But where his bass playing doesn\u2019t fail him, his voice does. You never expected full elocution from the man, but even on a sliding scale, you can tell singing was a struggle. On some songs, like \u201cOrgasmatron,\u201d it seems like it\u2019s just sheer force of will that\u2019s keeping him going. And on the band\u2019s calling card \u201cAce of Spades,\u201d it is gut-wrenching how mortal Lemmy sounds. When he hits the punchline of \u201cI don\u2019t want to live forever,\u201d in this context it sounds more resigned than defiant.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no denying the album\u2019s historical importance as a document of the last days of Lemmy and Mot\u00f6rhead, but for a band with 12 other live records, Clean Your Clock<\/i> has some stiff completion for time on the turntable. If nothing else, though, it reveals the indomitable rock & roll spirit that fueled Lemmy\u2019s life\u2014even in his dying days. This record proves that the show goes on because, well, what else are you going to do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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