The hardest working rocker in show business, the godfather of punk and heavy metal, wizened philosopher, shameless hedonist and virtually indestructible, presenting Lemmy Kilmister.

Lemmy talks about how the new, twentieth Motorhead album is shaped by the current political climate, and his his anger at the BP oil spill. “You can love the individual, but you can’t love the race… we’re arrogant bastards. We’re like a dose of crabs”, and adds that human cooperation could learn from our smaller fellows on this spinning planet: “talk to the ants, they’ve got communism working.”

 
The new Motorhead video ‘Get Back In Line’ and Lemmy’s thoughts on John Lennon after the jump….

 
Singer/composer Matt Mullholland really knows how to “sell” a song. I really believe him when he sings.

 
Seeing as how we’re all echoing each other’s classic rock memes here on the DM lately, here’s yet another Zep song that at least I had been previously ignorant of. This is evidently dating from the 1978 rehearsals for their final album, the deeply uneven In Through the Out Door and maybe called Fire. Like a few of the others posted by Richard, this is a rough rehearsal tape but I found it exhilarating to listen to. After a minute or so of random noodling you are suddenly a fly on the wall in a room with the mighty Led Zeppelin as they tease you with a song which while having many of their trademark idiosyncratic elements, is utterly new to you. Like a dream, really. Did that actually just happen?
 

 
Huge thanks to Carlos Nuñez!

 
“Church Song” by Portland’s The Miracles Club.

The Soul Train has left the station.

World Of Wonder’s Stephen Saban sums it up quite nicely:

Don’t ask questions, just watch. It’s a most extraordinary mix of people engaged, surprisingly, in can’t-look-away dancing that appears to have been auditioned, styled, and choreographed because in all our born years we’ve never seen anything quite like it happen by accident. And we’ve been to da club a few times.”

And then there’s the goat….
 

 
Via WOW

 
A intimate solo performance by Neil Young filmed during his ‘Journey Through The Past’ tour. It was broadcast on BBC television in February of 1971.

For some odd reason (of which I’m not aware), this is not available on video or DVD.

Set list:

1. Out On The Weekend
2. Old Man
3. Journey Through The Past
4. Heart Of Gold
5. Don’t Let It Bring You Down
6. A Man Needs A Maid
7. Love In Mind
8. Dance, Dance, Dance
 

 
May he rest in peace. And somebody get him a beer…
 

Nick Cave smashes into a speed camera with his Jaguar and walks away.

The grinderman’s latest hit.

British paper The Telegraph reports:

Cave, 53, was travelling along Hove seafront in Sussex with his two boys, Arthur and Earl,10, when he crashed through a metal barrier and collided with the camera. Nobody was injured in the accident, which happened on Tuesday evening.

Police were called to the crash, which left the camera bent at a 45 degree angle, but Cave was not arrested.

 
Via The Telegraph
 
More photos after the jump…

 
Unlike most of their classic rock contemporaries, Led Zeppelin seem to have had an easier time keeping their studio demos out of the hands of bootleggers. Live material? That’s easy. There are live Led Zeppelin concerts all over the Internet, but previously unreleased studio material is quite a bit harder to come by. Here are six Led Zeppelin recordings that you probably have never heard before. (Plenty of Led Zeppelin rarities here, too)

“Jennings Farm Blues” is basically an amped-up version of “Bron-Y-Aur Stomp,” from Led Zeppelin III. Bonzo’s amazing here, as always, but especially amazing, if you ask me.
 

 
Five more EPIC Led Zeppelin studio out-takes after the jump!

 
British Prime Minister David Cameron is a Smith’s fanboy, much to the chagrin of Morrissey and Johnny Marr who can’t stand the PM. Morrissey, a vocal animal rights activist, is particularly disturbed by the fact that Cameron wants to “repeal the Hunting Act, which would mean the brutal killing of foxes, hares, deer, badgers, otters – just about anything that moves.”

Today Labour MP challenged Cameron over Morrissey and Johnny Marr’s comments.

Ahead of tomorrow’s controversial vote on raising tuition fees, Cameron was challenged by Labour MP Kerry McCarthy, who mentioned The Smiths in her argument.

“As someone who claims to be an avid fan of The Smiths, the Prime Minister will no doubt be rather upset this week to hear that both Morrissey and Johnny Marr have banned him from liking them,” McCarthy said.

She added: “The Smiths are, of course, the archetypal student band. If he wins tomorrow night’s vote, what songs does he think students will be listening to? ‘Miserable Lie’, ‘I Don’t Owe You Anything’ or ‘Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’?”

Cameron’s response included several Smiths song titles, too.

He said: “I expect that if I turned up I probably wouldn’t get ‘This Charming Man’ and if I went with the Foreign Secretary [William Hague] it would probably be ‘William It Was Really Nothing’.”

 
Via EOMS

 
My favorite post-Beatles solo track by my hero. 30 years ago today I lost my innocence and became prematurely cynical about the world at age 14. John forever.