Motorhead @ First Avenue Review

I went and saw Motorhead with my younger brother last Tuesday. It was a sold out show at Minneapolis's famous First Avenue, the venue was teeming with beards, leather, jeans, and happy metalheads eager to crack a beer and rock out to the legendary Motorhead. As you can probably tell by the date of this post, I put off writing this review for a couple of days trying to think how I wanted to put into words how awesome that show was. Well I'm writing now and I've decided 'fuck it' I will not put into words the amazement and wonder that is Motorhead live because one can not experience it through words, one must live it. Instead here are the Top 20 best moments of Motorhead at First Avenue. Enjoy.

1. If you're of age, Lemmy's favorite drink, Jack and Coke, is a good pregame indulgence.
2. Motorhead fans come in all shapes, sizes, ages, and genders, but when Lemmy commented "This song is from 1983, before most of you were born," he wasn't far off. I even saw a dude who looked like a professor with Khaki pants and a Tweed sweater on.
3. Valiant Thorr, the first opening band, are bearded, fun, and fucking awesome live.
4. The lead singer of Valiant Thorr never stopped moving, and even if you hated his band's music (not sure how that's possible) his onstage antics were worth watching.
5. At some point Valiant Thorr's lead singer jumped into the crowd and was either doing situps or push ups with the audience. I couldn't quite make it out.
6. The crowd was alive and moving through the entire show, for all three bands.
7. Clutch is fucking awesome.
8. Mosh pits were readily available during Clutch for all interested parties, and many non-interested parties.
9. I wanted to buy a Motorhead T-shirt but it coast $40. My ticket cost $37.
10. Sound system played at least the first half of Mastodon's Crack The Skye between bands.
11. Before launching the crowd into joyful madness, Lemmy took the stage and proclaimed "We are Motorhead, and we play Rock and Roll."
12. Mikey Dee is an incredible fucking drumming machine. His large drum set is raised so all you see is his blond hair flying as he pounds and pounds away. No idea how he has that much energy, especially during his solo; simply amazing.
13. Thank god Phil Campbell went into a guitar solo after "Rock Out" got played, because after rocking out to Valiant Thorr, Clutch, and half a Motorhead set my tank was running a bit low.
14. One idiot threw a beer onstage and Lemmy gave the crowd a strong warning not to do it again.
15. Don't mess with First Avenue security, they're big, tattooed, bearded, and bad ass. A second beer thrower was thrown out, and they very physically prevented any crowd surfing what-so-ever.
16. The band congratulated the crowd as being the loudest audience so far on the American tour.
17. Valiant Thorr's lead singer came out to rock with Motorhead for one song.
18. The crowd erupted into mosh madness during "Ace of Spades".
19. The final song, "Overkill", was a strobe light sensation. I was rocking, and moshing and feeling like I was having a seizure.
20. I left the concert exhausted, covered in sweat and beer, and my ears rang for two days.