Motorhead w/Clutch and Valiant Thorr
"The World Is Yours" Tour
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Flames Central,
219 8th Avenue South West,
Calgary, AB, Canada

Taper: LeifH
Source: CSB's w/b. box (filter) > Sony WM D6C (Dolby B for recording) > TDK SA 90 + Fuji DR II 90
Transfer: Master cassettes > Sony TC WE475 (Dolby off) > H/K 3500 > Creative X-Fi Soundblaster > Wavepad Master's Edition @ 48000Hz > flac (8) via Frontend

Setlist: 1:30:08
00 Valiant Thorr/Clutch (sample and level check)
01 good evening
02 We Are Motörhead
03 Stay Clean
04 Get Back In Line
05 Metropolis
06 Over the Top
07 One Night Stand
08 Rock Out/guitar solo
09 The Thousand Names of God
10 I Got Mine w/Herbie of Valiant Thorr on vocals
11 I Know How To Die
12 The Chase is Better Than the Catch
13 In the Name of Tragedy > drum solo
14 Just 'Cos You Got the Power
15 Going to Brazil
16 Killed by Death
17 Ace of Spades/band intros
18 Overkill


I was on a road trip with the company I work for, for about a week starting on the 6th. I did a bit of research before leaving town and found 2 shows to go to, this being one of them. So I was paid to travel to Calgary, and had a complimentary hotel room at my disposal.... at the Coast Plaza no less. The transit in Calgary is pretty good, and I was able to get within 3 minutes walking distance to both venues via train from near the hotel.

While waiting to get into the venue, some woman from Sudan decided to try and make "friends" with me. In the end wanted anywhere from $1 to $20 from me. The nerve of some people. She stood in line with me and continued trying to carry a conversation while I just stood facing the other direction. While being frisked, the security employee, Andrew, took my small 1" blade pocket knife, which I didn't need during the show, but he said I could get it back after the show in the same spot. After the show he was nowhere to be found. The other employees that knew him didn't know where he was, and only had prop radios. So the bastard got my jack knife. Should have thrown it in my shoe. I got a ticket for the main floor, and during the openers I moved around a lot (except while recording the sample) to find a) the best sounding spot and b) the closest spot to the stage as possible while being centered and not in the mosh pit. Valiant Thorr had a great stage presence. At one point in their set, the singer jumped into the pit and lowered the entire pit into a crouch or a kneel. Pretty cool really, never seen that before, except on Baraka. One of their guitarists has the same Gibson Flying V Faded that I've got, only he's already upgraded the pick ups. Clutch was decent, but looked bored, exluding the singer.

Motorhead took the stage at about 22:30 Alberta time, and by that time, my awesome spot became a constant bottle neck. The place was quite obviously over capacity, and the floor was packed like a tin of sardines. The crowd settles down a couple songs in, but once in a while someone gets kicked out, or needs more beer, and everything else that goes on causing people to leave the crowd. The sound was good but not great. Came out pretty decent, but could be better. Lemmy played a nice Rickenbacker the whole show. Phil Cambell had a non-Gibson Les Paul and Explorer, and had 3 straps. One was blank, one said ROGER'S BITCH, and the other said WELSH WANKER. Mikkey Dee was the most energetic, and did a drum solo. Lemmy said that the Calgary crowd beat the Vancouver crowd from the previous stop on the tour. It was Herbie from Valiant Thorr's birthday, and he came out and sang on I Got Mine.

I had some fun, when I wasn't blocking opened beers and idiots moshing outside the pit. There were so many people in such a small space that everyone may as well have been hugging. I wouldn't pay to see Motörhead again, but it wasn't a bad show. I wouldn't have gone if travel costs were coming out of my pocket, but it certainly made the work trip worth while to catch 2 shows.