MOTLEY CRUE – Castle Donnington MOR 1984 (1CD)

Audience 8.7 – Believe it or not, few excellent recordings exist of Motley Crue from these early days. This one is actually very decent, with a lot of festival atmosphere, and even though the recording is “distant” it is clear and you get a good round bass, clear and loud guitar, and vocals very clear. Virtually no muck in this tape, you can turn it up loud too because there’s good headroom.

Motley Crue – 1984-08-18 Castle Donington Park, England

01 Intro – Bastard
02 Knock `Em dead
03 Shout At The devil
04 Ten Seconds To love
05 Piece Of Your Action
06 Red Hot
07 Looks That Kill
08 Live Wire
09 Helster Skelter

Running Time: 44 mn. 4 s.

note: The Crüe makes their first trip to the U.K. and plays the huge Monsters of Rock Festival in Donington at noon in front of about sixty thousand metalheads. After kicking off the show, Mötley is followed on stage by Y&T, Accept, Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen and AC/DC. At the end of their set, Nikki throws his bass into the crowd and it lands on a fan named Stu Taylor, smashing his glasses and cutting his head open. A number of people take the guitar to the side of the stage to smash it up and share out the pieces.