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Happy Motorhead Day Austin, Tx! March 8, 2011
A week or so ago Dave S. told me that he had asked an Austin City Council member to see if they’d be open to doing a proclamation of some sort 
for Motorhead, who is playing Stubb’s BBQ March 8, 2011 (tonight!). What a great idea! I didn’t know if the Mayor of “The Live Music Capital of the World” would go for it, but apparently he did. A gave a proclamation that March 8, 2011 is Motorhead Day in Austin. How cool is that?
This city is probably the only one I could think of in the States that would do something like this. It does show that they do care a little bit about keeping the music going here, even though they seem to try and find ways to keep it down.
Once Dave had let me know that everything was a go, he sent a copy of the proclamation and I sent it in to Blabbermouth who posted it pretty quickly after getting some confirmation that it was real. I worked for a while yesterday evening to figure out just how Dave (and I!) were going to be able to present this to the band and after last night’s encounter with Mikkey Dee downtown, it looks like we can make it happen.
It was great spending a few minutes with him again. I spoke to him for 5 seconds last year at the premier of the Lemmy movie but have hung out with him in years past (twice with Motorhead 92 & 2000) and once with Dokken in 1991. He’s always a super cool and we talked about some of his past adventures with Dokken where he said, “We were so awful.” I disagreed. I had always assumed that he was on the Geisha album “Phantasmagoria” but he said he’d left to join King Diamond prior to the recording. I had mentioned that his joining Motorhead was the reason I ever decided to give their music a chance. he smiled and said, “Me too!” It gave us a good chuckle. We snapped a quick photo and he was off to another place to see some music and I needed to get home and go to bed.
Lemmy loves Austin and anytime he goes on the road in the US, he always seems to make a stop here. That’s great for us! Tonight is the show with Clutch and Valient Thorr. It’ll be great to see Motorhead live again, they never disappoint. I’ll get a review of the show up ASAP and hopefully will also have a story about delivering the proclamation to the band.
Me and Mikkey Dee
2011.
This year is already shaping up to be a great one for seeing music. As I queefed about a few days ago, SxSW has some cool stuff to see this year, but there’s so much more.
On my plate between now and May:
- Colin Hay (Men At Work)
- Al Dimeola
- Destruction/Heathen
- Motorhead
- Heart (maybe)
Not to mention the local acts that I enjoy seeing on a regular basis as well. Mixed in all that will be my main band with Doug Morrison and hopefully we can get the Capricorn USA (the Motorhead tribute) going again. I’m sure there will be some stuff this summer in San Antonio that I’ll want to attend and am always game for going back to Virginia to see something cool at Jaxx that may not be playing around here.
SxSW 2011 Music and Film Festival
I’m pretty fortunate to live in a town that holds a festival like this one every year. Austin is dubbed The Live Music Capital of the World and while it’s a great place to see bands, it’s not the greatest place to be in a band. But that’s neither here nor there for this article.
This will be the 4th SxSW festival in a row that I am attending and I always see some good bands. For the music that I’m into, it’s only a small percentage of the 1,000 or so bands that come here from all over the world to play. I wasn’t here for the early days of this fest where bands were really playing for their shot at a record deal, but I do find it enjoyable.
It is unfortunate, however, that many who visit Austin for SxSW treat the town like their own toilet and/or trash dump. Sure, those who bought their passes/badges paid a lot of money for them, but that’s no excuse for poor manners and behavior. Just my 2 cents on that.
In SxSWs past, I’ve seen Motorhead, the Lemmy movie, VoiVod (3 times last year!), and dozens of other bands of all genres just by walking the streets of downtown. It’s pretty cool overall.
This year’s music lineup is pretty tasty for “official” shows. It includes The Rods, Pentagram, X Japan, Saint Vitus, Christian Mistress, Agollach, Alex Skolnick Trio, Zoroaster, Naam and a slew of others. I also always end up seeing some other good bands that I have never heard of before. Not to mention it’s a big fun party.
I’m not the biggest moviegoer in the world, but I will make time to see Last Days Here which is a documentary about the life of legendary Pentagram singer Bobby Liebling. I met and had dinner with Bobby and Pentagram last year and he is a really nice guy.
I’ll be posting reviews of the shows and the movie for sure. I’m pretty excited already.
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