Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers by Martin Popoff

Author:Martin Popoff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ECW Press Ltd
Published: 2017-05-09T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

Ace of Spades: “It wasn’t that it was the best we did; it was that it was the best they heard.”

Motörhead greeted 1980 enjoying, apparently, their golden years, if the name of their fetching new rip-roarin’ four-track EP, which was released in May, was to be believed (the title was suggested by Lemmy as a joke). Live renditions of “Stone Dead Forever” and “Dead Men Tell No Tales” were set against a crushing non-LP metal number called “Too Late, Too Late” and A-side oldies cover “Leaving Here.”

Notes Eddie, “Trevor Hallesy was the engineer at the time. We didn’t use Jimmy on that. Trevor did that one, although we kind of did that ourselves, which was fine. It came out okay. ‘Leaving Here’ had come from Lemmy and was on the original album, On Parole. It’s a great song by Holland and Dozier, and it worked well.”

The effect of this spot of product was to continue to place the band in the minds of fans as aiming to please, in the traditional sense, namely knocking out an old song everybody knows, or could learn between pints. From a management point of view, this sort of thing keeps the band in the papers between albums, and even on TV, in this case, Britain’s best show for widespread exposure, Top of the Pops.

Phil and Lem catch wind of the Bingley Hall gig.

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