wow- Record Mirror, October g 1977 25 Lemmy tell you a story it .t.. 4; r $ . -, \ t. - new album ' \ , -a' . " 4 11 CHECKPOINT -'"- - , k kOTORHI..4D fast. loud and heavy A DIG. Two years full pelt ( A voiced!: "Letehn sacked 'inf '). down the highway to nowhere "It was better to be hated than to lace Indifference," he remembers. horn to lose . no one, but "We used to sit down and no have earnest one, caring where the hell discussions about what we were going you're going just as long as to do. you get the "Everyone was giving us crap, yet hell we'd travel around and find people out brother . winding up who liked us. We Just decided to do It and biding time . and without the business; they'd want to finally getting to do it. Later know sooner or later." rather than sooner, but with a Much later. Motorhead were strong out on the UA deal, baked beans and reverberating vengeance no baubles, and In Lemmy's harsh grinding all before and behind recollections were being conveniently into the hard gritty dirt. forgotten. "I don't think anyone realised how a Dig! Eat it - Motorhead says so. bad it was: no money, bad Or rather the survival and success management and not even the of Motorhead says so. Straight from equipment to get across what we could the heart of the plugged In rock'o'roil play. scarce. "We ain't gonna die, right? "I remember a lot of rehearsal, a n ain't gonna dolt for yet Feint.. few pillars to lean on like WIlko from It's happened. Motorbead are a the Feelgoods and a growing rock'n'itone - wall band: "Bash yer determination not to get ground down head against hand get through or kill by the business . " yourself . ." It was only the end of the UA Lenin* said that too. And they've contract - with their album still not doer It. sees they have. Been a long released - that offered any light at titre coming and It takes all that time the end of the tunnel. on the mattresses and In the squats "We did two tracks for Stiff which r. and on the bare stages with the duff held us up for a while, then It got equipment and In the clubs with the maudlin again," says Lemmy. empty faces who won't buy you a "We were talking about doing a live drink before you find out who your recording down at the Marquee should friends are. the band fall apart but It never Ask Motorbead. Ask Lemmy. Ask happened. Ted Carroll from Chiswick Eddie Clarke. Ask Phil (thy) Taylor. was going to do It as a single but when - 'best Just r The 'three man army', the we got Into the studio It all rout band In the country'. the 'heavy happened. We re recorded all the UA 40001.1.1.111 metal warlords of the new wave' to stuff with Speedy Keen In about two give some of the more hopeless days and there it was all back again. descriptions. They prefer to call "And paradoxically we got another themselves the 'miming link'. leg . up from Hawkwind, of all people, Now they got a reason. An album, by doing the support on their tour. places to play. grudging respect from . the music business turncoats and a Phil 'Dangerous' Taylor smiles fulsome following from the fans maliciously. "They did It to help the. always been ready and raring themselves, to sell more tickets." he I,, connect with. opines. g I From the ashes and the charred Still, by this summer Moorhead i natal and the splintered rocknroll were back cranked up on full throttle. wreckage have arisen - Never too late. Motorbead ° dark and sadistically gleaming, "It might be 'cos of the new wave ..,._--m-_ - determined to damage and destroy we've suddenly got noticed but I'm ty kith an onslaught of furious, searing quite happy to be caught up In it." and lethal modern heavy metal. says Lemmy, adding "even though I Ready or not here they come. think we've got more In commie with Lenmay was legendary even before the lifestyle than the music. " h. left Hawk wind, the speed freak Taylor agrees. "The whole leather, I bassist of the bullet belt, the studs and studs and Germanic writing thing was the Hell. Angel reecho. us years ago but our attitude didn't '19 He was Motorhead first, along with get any publicity. Larry Wallis, the Pink Fairy who "We're fast, loud and heavy but sent back. and Incas Fox. Fox was more Into the mule than the lyrics - I drummed out by Phil 'glass fiat' think that's why a lot of them stood A ILO Taylor shortly afterwards as the band they the same because write the lyrics 1117I signet to l A, recorded an album with first. With us you get the wing cookie Gave . and Edmunds at Backfield and the words are the afterbirth . o ground to a halt. "And we're not plodding, self "he were bold bark all the time," Indulgent heavy ninth]," Eddie Clarke ears -..7. - Mates femme emphatically. "You / could to see if Intervene.. meow they were waiting Just three and I 111 we would around. We "It's so tight with or mold stick we've proved you ran go onto had no getting any think 82256 money and weren't better things than the old Sabbath trip and It was all stop and start, -..s.... - ' even the original Hawks/1nd." - - db surrounded by Idiots " or . - ID or die - --- -:-. - hard Hr admits the early ethacks, like a Survivors, Innovators CM disastrous debut supporting the Blue devotees of brain damage Moorhead Ort Oyster Cull. 'he simply weren't have stuck firmly to their guns. Both Record ready for that," he says "The press Chiswick and 3 bars have benefited & Tape built It up to he some sort of High Noon from the album, a deal which, along r - we got shot down and we with their management contract with Produced by gide t mein gel a sound cheek. Nest Tony Seconds, Lemmy and Sailor new album Bruce Johnston relents we're the worst bead In the %Warhead see as a small bit of good In mob.,, a bad business. One Indeed that CH LCK POI NI and Burt Boetche Present guitarist Eddie Clarke nearly buried them forever. 4;- -.4. dilfiri and Oda operas,. He drifted There's three of them and In the r, :AP", las the band %la Phil and had no nicest possible way they're 'ere to do C, V . sooner sealed le whom %anis tort, yer 'end In. Dig It or sat It. JOHN 1164 Maw miming most of the raises SIBBABLAW. ss" .