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"Why would he send out a press release about a new band if he thought there was a chance I'd go back to Hawkwind? That's obviously garbage," Lemmy insists. Maybe he thought you needed a kick up the arse? "Yeah, right. A kick up the arse from Doug Smith? Don't make me laugh. He dropped us six months later anyway, we were with [former Moody Blues manager] Tony Secunda for two years."  After Motörhead had cut their debut 'On Parole' album for United Artists, the company rejected it (the album remained in the vaults until the band finally hit the charts with 'Bomber'). The following March, Taylor found himself among of a group of blokes trying to earn a few extra quid by painting a houseboat in Battersea. One of them was part-time TV repair man and former Curtis Knight/Blue Goose guitarist 'Fast' Eddie Clarke, who was interested to learn that Taylor's group were considering adding a rhythm player. "So we organised an audition and jammed all afternoon, and Lemmy and I found we had a lot of things like the Yardbirds in common," recalls Clarke now. "But Larry didn't show up till the end, and when he did he wasn't in very good humour. "I didn't hear anything for ages and assumed Larry didn't want me in the band, then one Saturday afternoon there was a knock on the door and Lemmy was standing there. He gave me this fucking bullet belt and leather jacket and said, 'You're in'. Larry had gone and I had my uniform!"  During the legal melée that followed the 'On Parole' album, they cut a single, 'White Line Fever' b/w 'Leavin' Here', for Stiff Records, and once again suffered the indignity of being shelved. "The Stiff thing was the real pisser, because our single was sidelined while they put out things like 'Planet Airlines', a real obvious hit," says Lemmy sarcastically, trying none too hard to conceal his bitterness. "But I'm used to not being appreciated by the business. The business has demonstrated year in, year out that it knows nothing about rock'n'roll. It's not even interested in finding out. I didn't join the business, I joined the band, and although it won't admit it, I've beaten it hand over fist every time. They always do whatever I tell them not to and they always fuck up." Nevertheless, these were shaky beginnings for the band. "Was I always convinced of the band's value?" Lemmy muses. "Well, maybe not during that little era with Lucas, but after we got Eddie and Phil in I knew we had something special. That was an excellent band from day one. I'd only written three songs for Hawkwind and I wasn't too good at it yet. But this band has always been the eternal underdog, and we're good at it." |
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