Eddie Clarke and Motorhead (From the Lemmy Movie)

how long have I been on the road yeah 19 years 19 years yeah you give or take a year I mean it's only boring after a while and why is there so much violence on the road where do you break things I mean when you start when you start doing things if you want to see some violence baby look look what they're doing why are you doing this why are you doing this let me why not oh sorry don't break into me don't break it up on the UK rum during interview [Music] [Applause] I've been away I mean when I first met let me in 1968 I think it was um he was playing with him guitar then and he turned up at his party where we're all jamming and him and this american guy Jim came and played Without drum with the drummer that was playing with us and uh they did about I don't know if they played for about an hour and it was really good and I was really impressed but I never actually got to talk to him but he struck me then as someone who because I was young then I was only 18 I was still you know struggling and Lemmy was already established as a musician on the scene as it were you know now I sort of saw him around as I sort of became more into the scene in Notting Hill and all that you know you'd see let me because then he was ever present you know he was the sort of face you know even back then you know and then of course he joined Auckland if I was fighting uh what was it I think it was May 75 I was five I had another bad looking running by August so he's gonna let the grass grow in I couldn't forget you I mean the crud's fickle you know tool I just said so you have to make sure you stay in the public eye you know drummer [Music] sorry Lucas and um the guitar players playing with two bands at the same time so he was not available for every show and his heart wasn't really in it so when we got rid of those two and uh we got Phil Taylor and Eddie Clark and the band that was when I first felt that I had something you know everything it was just to keep the name of the papers you know but I didn't tell joint I knew it right back right away you know Phil and I were doing a project together just to make some bucks you know we were doing like a bit of [Music] and um and uh Phil after we'd finished doing it Phil went off and then he called me about because he knew I was a guitarist and I played him some stuff I was doing and um he disappeared for a while and then he called me out the blue and said oh oh man he said something with this bamboat right now he says and uh we need another guitarist because we've made this album which was the on parole album with the very first mode which was Larry Wallace and Lucas Fox was on drums but let me decided to replace Lucas's drums and Phil was the drama and then after they'd finished the album they've done a lot of guitar over dub so Larry said we really need a rhythm guitarist you know to be able to perform the album live so that's um when Phil said well I know someone you know they gave me a call you know you know we jammed for a bit but it wasn't really good anyway so and it all seemed a bit strange so I thought I better go so I said well I've you know that'll do and let me know what you think and I'll uh you know I went home and I never heard anything so I didn't think any more of it I thought oh no nothing's come with that you know and then it was I'm sure it was about eight o'clock on a Saturday morning I'm I'm in my flat in West can and there's a [ __ ] knock on the door and nobody knocks on the door eight o'clock in the morning so I go to the door and it's let me stand in there and he's got the bullet belt in one end and a leather jacket and he hands them to me through the door because I'm gonna be [ __ ] Underpants you know and he says yeah you got the job you know handed me these two things and then walked off because you know he'd obviously been up all night one of my Fondest Memories that was because I'm all back in the room and I was like in the morning Bullet Bill in one hand and then you know there's a real moment for me [Music] I had a flat um well I had a room in a flat I had a room in a flat um it was a console struggle just to pay for that which was [ __ ] all money five for the week or something I don't know what if I fell already now they were in squats well there was no way of really getting any income you know it was um any money we got for the band we either owed it or we had to pay the Petrol in the van you know what I mean and maybe eat that day or whatever you know what I mean money was 10 on the ground I mean it was thin on the ground everywhere in those days you know I mean it was the 70s you know I mean 76 I mean the punk era had grown out of out of the state of the [ __ ] country in a way you know I mean it was you know it was we were struggling there wasn't any money about but you know you still as long as you had a bit of dope and a bit of speed you know and you're playing your music [ __ ] me what else did you need because she'd always go you know there'd always be a few girls about you know you had a roof over your evening it wasn't your own you know so [ __ ] water you didn't care in those days you know you certainly didn't think you were going to live forever you know I mean I mean what your doctor says hope I die before I get old it wasn't a question yeah it wasn't that thinking the thinking was well you know I'm gonna die so [ __ ] it I might as well enjoy myself while I'm [ __ ] here in my eyes they were a gang they were like these three dudes that that pretty much did everything together you know my early I guess concoctions in my own mind you know I made up what's it like to be in a band well you hang out together all the time you go out drinking together you know if you're driving around in a car you're all in there you know you're yelling at people you're doing whatever you're doing everything together you know Lars and I were pretty they are absolutely inspired by the fact that these guys like what they do they hang out together they live the life the three of us we just became a unit you know it was like one all for one and one for all you know the old um Three Musketeers thing you know and it felt like that because the business didn't like us you know this guy picks on me in the Boozer where we used to go and put them on the road and that didn't filled jumps on him and nearly killed him like the children outside and beat the [ __ ] out of him and then I was going out of the place later on and this friend is hitting me with a pool cue over there and it broke on my head and the heavy heavy end fell down in front of me and I turned around and I said would you do that for and he went ah I like that and remember from the street and I was very touched that they came to my defense there you watch my back I watch your back you know what I mean it's in our interests to look after each other so you do it to your best of your ability do you know what I mean it's just not something you talk about it's just the way it is you know it's written in stone you know and that's the way we were but we weren't nasty people but we looked mean you know and we didn't take any [ __ ] you know we weren't gonna [ __ ] you know counts out to the [ __ ] people in the business you know you know we were you know they were scared of us basically I saw filthy Phil Taylor at the 7-Eleven one day over on Curson and sunset that made my month did you say hi to him no I just kind of what you know I just rather just kind of just watch and walk by his watch the little Hatchet swing from his ear I was like that's so because he still has the hair leather jacket and he knows the guy behind the counter like hey mate you bought some cigarettes and something else I was like I didn't want to bother I just wanted I just wanted to just kind of watch you walk by and said go hey dude I [ __ ] music if we run out of gas on the motorway one time and there's some of the day and he was in a very denim cutoffs shorts and like in England we were very much shorter than you guys right yes and they had this done in pull-on hat right with the big a on the front it's an amphetamine you know and yeah you got the cameras on and run up the road to the next garage with about a mile away you know and I still see this figure this crazed person this Vision that Captain America you know with the gas company and the hard shoulder people are going off the road looking at him you know moved down to Rockville to during the first album and uh I was up and I was outside there's this table and bench thing eating some breakfast and he came out and he's naked and all these cartridges all around the curtains going back he said it's all right I'm on drugs we always thought he should be a comedian you know let me always said he should be a comedian but you listen to that early stuff and you know that's where most drummers wanted to be able to play double bass everyone wanted to be filthy oh [ __ ] me I'll tell you about Overkill well Phil had just got his double bass drum kit but of course we haven't got any tunes with bass drums in because based on double bass drums well you know what I mean it was a new thing we've been back in 79 or 78 or 78 it was it was a you know to actually use them in tandem like that so he said why can't we do a tune like this anyway and he really [ __ ] got it going you know and I said all right well you [ __ ] you do that and we'll see what we can do over the top so you know we agreed [ __ ] e let me start playing something and I started playing any and then [ __ ] me before we knew we had Overkill and then we added a few bits like the the outro solo which is [ __ ] awesome I mean I always wanted to do that all up until that time I'd always wanted to do a solo over those particular chords you know and then it was like hey man this song is called Overkill anyway why don't we [ __ ] finish and start again because it yeah [ __ ] great man in fact let's do it again I did it three times I mean that was the thing you know it's [ __ ] awesome man I mean [ __ ] awesome I will be getting up and doing it with them again I love him yeah and I'll tell you what I got up in Sweden recently and it [ __ ] blew my mind I'd forgotten the power the power on stage I mean man it's [ __ ] you know you can lean into the sound I've got you know I could lean at [ __ ] that angle and the sound would keep me up I'm [ __ ] sure it was so loud it was awesome I was like I'd take a couple of deep breaths you know get my chest so I can [ __ ] take it you know and the bomber coming down you know burning the top of me [ __ ] head because I got no [ __ ] air there now I keep thinking about my [ __ ] toast there it was [ __ ] great man I'll tell you the [ __ ] great they took elements of what existed as heavy metal mixed it with Punk and created this frantic intense powerful music form that you know went on to Define heavy metal as we know it [Music] [Music] you got film [ __ ] drums it was really quite an intricate drama he was busy he was busy and then you've got Lemmy playing rhythm guitar on bass you know with his [ __ ] awesome [ __ ] noise coming out you know I know I'm trying to [ __ ] play I've got a smaller ramp and I'm trying to play you know and I'm kind of a bit Blues based you know but I got a bit of an edge you know but I'm a bit sort of you know uh and so I think it was the struggle of the three of us actually coming together they actually created what it was you know like you know let me be in the way he was film fitting in between and me going in on top of that you know and um I think that's what made the music different was because it was you know it was three it wasn't like a punk seemed to be something you know with always singing and the emphasis on that where my River's more about the groove but in one of the headlines we had the worst band in the world you know but it was in big letters well I mean it was [ __ ] great yeah you kind of care to a point but you know but the kids were turning up you know I want to see the worst band in the world you know they must be great I saw them open for Ozzy and uh blizzard of Oz on Ozzy's first tour they opened for Ozzy at the Palladium in New York City this is like 81. I want to say because it was the first blizzard of Oz record and uh motor had opened this was [ __ ] great for us because we were having a lot of trouble getting to America you know uh because we want that big a band you know Ace of space was out there and doing well and no sleep Salama Smith came out during that tour and went straight to number one suddenly we'd made it but we were in America at the time so we missed all the free drinks the speed limit usually got the [ __ ] hell we would be here when we got a number one in England you know because it would be like drinks on the ounce you know I already knew who they were then I was already into it but you like I had no idea like no idea what to expect most people at the Palladium that night it was like a 3000 seater they had no idea I they were just it was like that what's that commercial with the guy sitting in the chair with it getting blown back the most people kind of had this stunned look on their faces after Motorhead was finished and just like where's Ozzy they weren't ready for Motorhead even though we were supporting Aussie you know I mean it freaks a lot of people out you know and it was difficult in some places like you know Omaha Nebraska and places like you know all that there were some difficult places at that time it was completely there was nothing else like it you know I mean it was this Speedy [ __ ] noisy thing that just sort of and so did it to you and then it stopped and that was it you know in the days of uh being able to blast well nowadays you can blast it even better but blasted music in your car there was something about showing who you were not only by your car what you wore but what you listened to obviously and driving around you know blasting Motorhead in your car was always good always uh always causing some sort of uh head turning what is that when I had uh started up my rock band body count actually Motorhead videos was something I made everybody watch you know we watched some of the shows and stuff I was like you know disadvantage Motorhead was speed music Speedy speed music on speed I think and three people on speed it's speed why speed is such a good drug if you're gonna take a drug and play music speed's a good one as long as you don't get too [ __ ] you know because it keeps your energy levels up but it keeps them constant and this isn't an advert for Speed but we we found it keeps you constant see if you take avatars they have a join well you gotta have a joint you feel a bit naked you know the crowd are looking at you think oh [ __ ] me they're all looking at me you know what's no good you know I mean you don't need that because you have a line of coke right well you know 20 minutes saying you're thinking [ __ ] I need another tooth man you know what I mean so you've ever gone over and over two and everybody knows you're going to have another two or you play the gig at sort of half mast well that's no good either if you drink and you have maybe a tad too much or you know whatever then that ain't great either but if you take speed and have a drink you're perfect because you've got the energy levels the drink ain't gonna affect you and you spawn and you ain't going to go up and down that's how I used to look at it you know consistency of energy could be contributed to that and our slim figures my doctor put me in a drawing out Clinic they came to see me in my room [ __ ] great man and we were just doing our thing and it just turned out the way it turned out yeah it's born out of fire really it's born out of all the [ __ ] and all this and the arguments and the fights me and Phil used to fight a lot you know if you punch-ups here and there yeah we recorded uh with them in 1978 was it uh we went to the studio and we did a thing called motor damned that's right that was quite interesting I think the whole thing degenerated into a massive punch-up not between Motorhead and the damned but between members of Motorhead and uh yeah there was like fisticuffs and all sorts it was like awful um he was kind of I suppose he weighed a quiet silent type if anything Lemmy as I said a man of few words you know Phil on the other end was very um very Brash you know if he wanted to say something he'd [ __ ] say it man nothing would stop him you know even if he'd fought it through or not you know and um and that was Phil's way [Music] you know we did all we could for our fans we were very grateful to our fans because we knew that they were the only [ __ ] reason we were [ __ ] there and the fact that they stayed true to us men that we we were there and you know we never forgot that and I know lemie hasn't forgot it since you know after every show we wanted to sign autographs you know I mean it was policy I was in Japan recently I never got there so I hadn't been there and of course there's guys there were [ __ ] uh Ace of Spades album a couple of guys with the No Sleep album there's a few of these people they've got Finn and Lemmy's [ __ ] autograph and there's a gap for mine and they've been waiting 25 years for me to get there I mean I'm thinking [ __ ] now I like to think that you know let me enjoy those times and I like to think I'd like to think that Phil enjoyed those times because I [ __ ] certainly did they were the best times of my [ __ ] career you know you know they were the real you know you get the real [ __ ] eyes you know but you also get the real lows you know but for me they were the best time of the year and I can only assume that they're for them it must have been pretty much the same and you only get that sort of thing once you know on the way up once you're up there it's it's a [ __ ] you know it's a number of ships you know it's another thing entirely you know the best bit is I'm in the [ __ ] ladder man [Music] I mean we didn't have a ball I mean [ __ ]

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Keywords: eddie, clarke, lemmy, movie, documentary, ace, of, spades, guitar, Lemmy, rock, metal, road, crew, lemmy movie, phil, campbell, guiar, bass, wes, directors, motorhead, motor, head, heavy, henry, rollins, mikkey, dee, trending, kilmister, slash, snider

Id: B5uFt79LZ8Y

Length: 19min 46sec (1186 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 17 2023