Fact #82000
When:
Short story:
Motorhead, Ozzy Osbourne, Mahogany Rush, Triumph, Riot and Vardis play in The Heavy Metal Holocaust, at Port Vale Football Stadium, Stoke on Trent, England, UK, Europe. The sound system is so huge that it causes the local electricty substation to crash.
Full article:
Ian 'Eagle' Dobbie (Motorhead road crew) : We were on tour in America with Ozzy Osbourne and we came back and did a show at Port Vale football ground. They could hear it twelve miles away as the crow files. Audio Lease put in the biggest audio system that had ever been assembled in the UK. It was, like, 135,000 watts. When they fired it up they took out the local substation - it blew up, we were drawing so much electricity.
Lemmy (bass and vocals, Motorhead|) : Eddie was soundchecking and a guy rang up from four miles away saying he couldn't hear his TV.
'Fast' Eddie Clarke (guitarist, Motorhead) : Yeah, it was a massive PA. I remember Angus Young saying, 'There's only one band louder than us and that's Motorhead.'
(Source of above quotes – Motorhead Ace Of Spades, Classic Albums DVD, 2004)
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Lemmy (bass and vocals, Motorhead|) : Eddie was soundchecking and a guy rang up from four miles away saying he couldn't hear his TV.
'Fast' Eddie Clarke (guitarist, Motorhead) : Yeah, it was a massive PA. I remember Angus Young saying, 'There's only one band louder than us and that's Motorhead.'
(Source of above quotes – Motorhead Ace Of Spades, Classic Albums DVD, 2004)