MOTÖRHEAD was forced to end its performance at the
Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany earlier today (Friday, August 2) after only six songs due to frontman
Lemmy Kilmister's health.
According to people attending the concert,
MOTÖRHEAD
spent less than half an hour on stage — 45 minutes less than scheduled —
including drawn-out pauses between tracks and an unusually early solo
spot, presumably to allow
Lemmy enough time to gather his strength to perform.
After
MOTÖRHEAD left the stage,
Wacken Open Air co-founder
Thomas Jensen announced to the shocked audience that the concert was over.
Bill Peters, host of the long-running
"Metal On Metal" radio show and head of
Auburn Records, was in the crowd during
MOTÖRHEAD's set. He said: "[
Lemmy] did not look or sound good at all and could not continue the set.
"
Phil Campbell did a guitar solo before
'The Chase Is Better Than The Catch' while
Lemmy left the stage. The solo ended but
Lemmy did not return. There was eerie silence on the stage for several minutes.
Lemmy came back to play one more song (my favorite
MOTÖRHEAD song) but left the stage immediately after it ended.
Wacken festival organizer
Thomas Jensen
came onstage and announced to the crowd he did not know what to do or
say about a situation like this. It seemed very serious to me. Hopefully
I am wrong."
MOTÖRHEAD played the following songs:
01.
I Know How To Die
02.
Damage Case
03.
Stay Clean
04.
Metropolis
05.
Over The Top
06.
The Chase Is Better Than The Catch
A number of photos of
MOTÖRHEAD's abbreviated performance at
Wacken Open Air 2013 can be found at
Rocknroll-Reporter.de.
MOTÖRHEAD canceled a handful of shows on its European festival tour last month after
Lemmy, suffered a haematoma (where blood collects outside of a blood vessel). The news of
Lemmy's latest medical issue followed reports that he was also recently fitted with a defibrillator because of heart problems.
MOTÖRHEAD's new album,
"Aftershock", will be released in the fall. The follow-up to 2010's
"The Wörld Is Yours" was recorded at
Maple Sound Studios in Santa Ana, California with longtime producer
Cameron Webb.
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