I was there… went to see Greenslade aged 16 at The Roundhouse got to see Motorhead supporting and then roadied for them at The Winning Post, their first headline show.

Amazing this is on youtube after all these years,I had this cheap cassette recorder with me , I remember Lemmy had a human skull in his hand when he came on stage and placed it on his amplifier while a lot of hippies fled out of the roundhouse.

1.40 Motorhead 5.43 Leaving here 11.00 Good morning little school girl 22.50 Lost Johnny 27.40 City kids 31.42 Silver Machine 35.42 Waiting for the man Larry sings City kids.

The best band ever is born. Motörhead forever R.I.P. Lemmy and all guys of Motörhead. ✊🏻🎸♠️🤘🏻💥💯

Awesome. Like hearing the Beatles live at the Cavern. History on tape, the birth of a rock 'n' roll monster. RIP Lem

Wow...this very first live version of “Motörhead“ blowed my ears so fucking free....what a blast to start the show ! Lemmy did the best sounding version of Motörhead right at the beginning on the very first gig,..now over 40 years later I hear it for the first time after Lemmy is gone for a while..and thats the proof Motörhead's still alive !! Thank you Lem

I saw them supporting Hawkwind in 1977 at Bridlington spa hall. We'd never heard of them and when I asked my mate what they were called he said I think they said their name was Butterhead. It wasn't until we were leaving that we saw the stacks with Motorhead on them that we realised their name was actually motorhead not Butterhead. Lemmy came back on and did the full set with Hawkwind. Absolute hero.

Never saw the original line, but I saw the greatest line up of all times, many times, Lemmy, Eddie, n Phil... I can clearly remember one day happy sweet kid 14/15 years old, I suppose it was 1977, the Motorhead album had just been released. Now at this time, this album never got any airplay, and by chance it got a play once when I was listening, possibly radio Caroline... Anyway I thought OMG, WTF was that!!! immediately I take all my savings head straight to my local record store in east London, and many others, no one had it or had even heard of it!!!! I eventually found a store (Downtown records in Ilford), where the guy had heard of it, and told me he'd order it, which he didnt do, I had to go back every week, for about 3 or 4 times hassling the guy until he eventually ordered it, probably just to get rid of me!!! although, I have a slight memory of him telling me there was a problem with the record label or something. Saw them live soon after, even bumped into Lemmy at a Wayne Krammer gig, could have been Dingwalls, London, saw Lemmy at the bar, chatted with him and he bought me a pint!!! Those were the days!!!

I've had this show on tape for years.Got it from a tape trader in pennsylvania.Classic gem i must say.

RIP, Larry Wallis... :(

What an amazing find! Never heard this before. Good stuff, thx for uploading.

I saw Motorhead at the Pomona Valley Auditorium , called The Green Room back in 1977.....Loudest concert I'd ever been to.....My ears rang for an entire week. ........

Saw them in January 1988 in Charlotte. Rock n Roll tour. Phil Taylor was back

I am so happy to have found this! Even though the sound quality is rough you can still feel the power and volume they are playing at.... Lost Johnny sounds monsterous! For their first ever gig this is F ing fantastic.

This has Larry Wallis's fingerprints all over it... The extended jam sections are very Pink Fairies. Excellent!

Absolute gold. Suddenly occurred to me to search for this and here it is. Wow!

I was at this show....Lemmy RIP.

Lost Johnny was such a memorable song

They sounded like Hawkwind on steriods in those early days. I don't think Dave Brock fully realized Lemmy's potential to write great songs. It's a shame what happened. It worked out for Lemmy in the end though...but then again Dave is still alive haha!

Gem of a Jam!!!! Lucas kickin' it down! Larry, is also amazing on guitar.

I will be bold and say I love nostalgia and this is a place to start. Thank you to the poster! Lemmy needed to rid himself of these guys and the whole Hawkwind thing though. Once he did, I think Motörhead was born. He needed Phil and Eddie’s help. They were all like minded. This is amazing to hear though.

The fucking big bang of Motörhead's universe.

Thank you indeed. What a delicious find.

And he never played that song better than that 😍

Astonishing Many thanks for posting

I was at the Winning Post in Twickenham. Just remember people shouting “turn it up” throughout the show and people standing with their heads in the bass bins. Memorable show, hardly captured on this recording.

Larry Wallis should have stayed in Motorhead. What a phenomenal guitarist

unbelievable... someone do a vinyl bootleg of this please!!!

Ya were in the right place in right time fine and nicely you are real rocker's 😜🤪♿

Legend. Idol.

Dazzlingly fuckin' "dirty". Beautiful; thanks!

band never would have made it like this , luckily philthy and eddie came along and helped make it right

Thats...ROCK-N-ROLL! They came at ya like a cannonball! You want rock!?

41 years ago today!

LEMMY. FAST EDDIE .PHILTHY. RIP.... BROS FTW..

Its more HAWKWIND than Motörhead, but I love it

Seems to be some confusion over the intro tape of this show? From iMotorhead.com; From Stefano Loi (regarding urban legend of speech intro to this show): “They never used the Adolf Hitler speech you hear on the beginning of many copies of this recording. It’s a fake prerecording added many, many years ago by some guy who had a copy of the tape. Lemmy told me, he was horrified by that”. “Lemmy was an anarchist, he collected memorabilia of the wars of every country. It is true that he also had Israeli stuff from Jewish soldiers too in his collection. I wanted to play the first show with him once but he said no because he told me they played badly that night and the set list wasn’t good either. Then I asked him about the intro and he confirmed to me that they didn’t use any intro at all.” “Also, I was in contact with a guy that attended the show, he sent me the scan of the ticket stub as proof, he also told me himself the band didn’t use any intro. This is one urban legend that is FALSE! however, from Lemmy's own Autobiography 'White Line Fever' - page 99-100; "All the bands in those days had Intro tapes, and since I've always been a World War II fanatic, we used a recording from Germany of marching feet and people yelling 'Sieg Heil!' It just sounded really powerful and incredibly cold, all those feet smashing on the German cobblestones, that bromp, bromp! tromping sound. That was our outro too.."

On the dole pissing down with rain triumph bonnies rockers MOTORHEAD THIS IS ENGLAND. The Americans just don't get it.

Fucking awesome!!!!!!!!!!

This is better than their later efforts. Love the Guitar style

Память на века всем ушедшим рокерам рок 🎸 рольщикам рокершам рок 🎸 навсегда

They did a number at roundhouse in 1969, "we are the road crew" there was a cartoon in the music papers, "who is this band" reply "don't know but they do a good edition of we are the road crew

R.I.P.🙏☮

My mates call me Lost Johnny 🤪😜very great

Remmy　キルミスターのMOTORHEADはNice Great👋

The ORIGINAL original Motorhead (kind of like Doug and Dinsdale Piranha's OTHER other operation) 😁which was comprised of Lemmy, Larry Wallis and Lucas Fox. I've read that some of their earliest shows were opening for Blue Oyster Cult.

I had then recently turned 12, it would take me another two years to actually hear ''White line fever'' for the first time on nighttime national fm. I had found the band with the Sound.... This is no ''henhouse recordings'', this is Motorhead at the Roundhouse, freaking 48 years ago ! Technically, Lemmy was still in his 20s (29). How's that for RnR History?

Larry Wallis (Pink Fairies) on lead?

Guitar solo on Leaving Here is great.

👍👍

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Support to jazz-proggers Greenslade here. I wonder if they knew they were witnessing the birth of a legend.

I always wondered who chose Waiting for the Man to be on the set? I’m guessing Larry Wallis 🤔

Lemmy was voted out of the band, he didn't quit - Dave voted to keep him...

They supported the Groundhogs in 1969, everyone was asking me why I was there when Eric Clapton was playing up the road, and I forgot to ask them in return why they were there, and then this band came on and did one number, "We are the road crew" fxxxxxx great

Original the supergroup Motorhead, 2/3 still alive today.

08: 41:29 - I'm So Glad, I'm So Proud (Link Wray Cover)

The real motörhead ❤

Is this real first show ?......Thank you for good pictures

Rip Motörhead

Sure it’s an abysmal recording. It’s also absolutely incredible. The BIG BANG from whence a million ships sailed AMEN AMEN

Fucking bad ass.

100% rock'n'roll

"Silver Machine" fand leider nie so das Interesse daß es verdient hätte.

The stockholders and shareholders know so much they should have no problem running a factory,,, well go to work gentleman nothing like opportunity

I dont reckon that intro is fake. Different times.

I guess 4 people need to be sucker punched 🥊🤣

Were they called "Bastards" when they first got together ?

The first Motorhead is the best , On Parole is also good. After they lost the Hawkwind style their music lacked the Same atmosphere. Songs like Metropolis, Deadman Tell No Tales, and Iron Fist still contained the Hawkwind influence though

High fidelity digital recording, uh! No but it's motorhead and play rock'n'roll

Like them or not ?This Is Real Rock "n" Roll. An Don't You Forget It. Tosser!!!

anyone know if there is a cleaner sounding version of this? It sounds like it was recorded from the bathroom.

Lotta folks talkin' out their arse here.

Someone added the Hitler's speech at start... not on the original tape ;)

Lemmy only left Hawkwind because the guys in the band all remained faithful to Stacia. Lemmy knew the only way to break that spell without horned winged daemons tearing him to shreds was to leave the band . He wanted 1000s of women not just Stacia. Even though Hawkwind was the greatest and Heaviest band on Earth the sacred bond had to be broken. Sadly he formed Motorhead, and Hawkwind quit playing Metal style songs.

Does anyone know the actual date?

where was this?

hello

Guys...!! This is gonna sound insane but.... Earth is demonstrably level contained and motionless AND space doesn't even exist !!!!we

Was that Hitler introducing the show ?😳

a few months later will come The Sex Pistols

It seems that these companies don't need the stockholders the shareholders the CEOs or any of these other assholes they can run fine with the Employees.

They opened with a soundclip of Adolf Hitler, wut?

Is nobody noticing the Nazi speech recording in the beginning?

holy shit took me a sec to realize they were playing Hitlers famous speech before they started playing haha

Sounds like shit,but it's MOTÖRHEAD! That means it's GREAT!

✠Adolf Hitler✠ opens the show for the first Motörhead concert ever! hilarious. ♠️🤘🏻