RIP Former Motorhead guitarist Wurzel

[Scottcrud]

My band Force Fed opened for Motorhead at Sneakers in Austin back in 93 or 94, we were the direct support (also the only band playing the show with them).

I had a mutual friend, Paul Raven from Killing Joke and Prong, I told him we were opening for Motorhead, and told me to talk to Wurzel, to tell him Raven said "Hi".

So at soundcheck I did talk to him, told him Raven said hi, and he lit up, I asked him how he knew Raven, he said "we served in the army together!". Anyhow, I thought he was cool and it's sad that they're both dead now especially since they were relatively young. Here's the link to his story.

http://www.guitarworld.com/former-motorhea...burston-dead-61

[tommy p]

I was going to post this when I got home. (For some reason I can't post new topics or use the quote feature to reply while I'm at work, but Fast Reply works) I didn't think anyone else would care enough to post about Wurzel.

The only time I ever saw Motorhead was in the early days of the 2-guitar lineup and Wurzel played a tobacco-burst Les Paul Standard that looked identical to mine. He was very cool and he and Phil both seemed to be having the time of their lives on stage. I had always kind of hoped that he would rejoin at some point.

RIP Mr Burston

[Steve Haynie]

Wurzel was in Motorhead the first time I saw them. He was having a good time up on stage, and he was entertaining to watch.

[Willie G. Moseley]

The first interview I survived...er, conducted with Lemmy was for the Bastards album, when Wurzel was on board. Turns out that one is my favorite Motorhead studio album except for the inclusion of the gawdawful "Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me". Otherwise, has the best overall assortment of riffs in the band's history, FWMOW. Live, still gotta go w/ No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith with the classic Kilmister/Clarke/Taylor lineup.

I enjoyed the tour documentary VHS from '91 when Wurzel was in the band...the film points out that the entire Gulf War took place while that tour was going on...

[MCChris]

I also first saw Motorhead with Wurzel in the lineup. He was a real-life Nigel Tufnel, from the look and the mannerisms to the humor.

For my money 1916 is the best Motorhead album, if for no other reason than Philthy is on it.

[Scottcrud]

1916 was the tour we opened for them. The Austin Sneakers sound system was not loud enough for Lemmy. So Sneakers had to go to the San Antonio Sneakers to get reinforcements. So there was a lot of downtime from the time their backline was setup. Then ours was setup. MH's road crew plugged our amps in, and took our drums and amps off the stage when we were done. Everyone on the crew was super to us, a bunch of young early 20 year olds. The club was locked to everyone except us and Motorhead, Mickey was at a live modeling place a few doors down, Phil/Wizzo, Wurzel and Lemmy all hung out in the club. My Brother (singer for Force Fed) played pool with Lemmy and Lemmy seemed to like him cause he shared his bottle of Jim Beam with him, straight from the bottle, no glasses. Phil was wearing a baseball cap that had a long hair ponytail attached to it...Strange. All 3 were very hard to understand when I talked to them. Was the LOUDEST show I've ever been to. And because of that show my band gained a lot of new fans, people kept coming up and asking how it was touring with Motorhead, I kept saying We're from Austin, we've been around for 3 years!

[Stevieconlon]

I met Wurzel with Lemmy back in the early 90s and got to hang with them for a few hours.

Very cool dude.

RIP Wurzel

[DaveL]

don't get me wrong, I love classic motorhead... but the the wurzel/phil

campbell era (killed by death, orgasmatron, rock and roll R-A-M-O-N-E-S)

was really productive and some of their best stuff.

RIP.

[gi_zuk]

My first Motorhead album was 1916, which came out when I was in highschool. I thought it was pretty good album back then, and it has stood the test of time well. RIP Wurzel.