I never thought he was going to die, though.”Īfter Lemmy’s death, an online campaign to get Ace Of Spades back in the charts pushed it to No.13, two spots higher than its original peak more than 35 years before. I did think that he wouldn’t make the gigs because he was so frail. “He looked so frail at the Classic Rock Awards,” says Clarke. Motörhead were due to play UK dates the following January, including two dates at Hammersmith Apollo, and the two of them talked about the guitarist joining them on both nights. The last time Clarke saw Lemmy was at the Classic Rock Awards in October 2015, two months before the singer’s death.
It swiftly became a highlight of their live set. But if he said he wrote it in a Transit van, then you’ve got to believe him.”Īce Of Spades reached No.15 in the UK when it was released in November 1980. We’d say: ‘Man, we need some fucking lyrics for this.’ So he used to go for a shit and write the lyrics. “He might have written it in the fucking shitter for all I know,” Clarke says with a laugh. In typical myth-making fashion, he claimed to have written the lyrics in the back of a Transit van while speeding down the motorway at 90mph.
The final piece in the jigsaw was Lemmy’s lyrics – an attempt, he said, to cram as many gambling references in as possible: the high one, snake eyes, dead man’s hand (and don’t forget the joker…). With its turbo-charged new riff and memorable breakdown, the track was beginning to sound special. Of course, at first we’re all doing it at different fucking times: ‘Come on, Phil, for fuck’s sake!’ ‘No, man, it’s you!’ But when we heard it, we thought: ‘Oh, it’s not bad.’” ‘Well, we’ll do it cos it’s you, Vic, but we ain’t gonna fucking use it.’ He set up a nice Neumann mic, and the three of us stood there with the blocks. “We were pissed or speeding and we were totally against it. “He said: ‘This is what we’ll do’,” explains Clarke. Amid the maracas and rattlesnake tails was a set of woodblocks which would provide the clacking sound during the breakdown.
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Maile also had what Clarke called “his box of tricks” – a cardboard box full of items used to provide sound effects. It was one of the only times we’d written in the studio.” “He made us look at that riff, so Lemmy and I started fucking around with it a bit. “Vic kind of questioned what we were doing with the song,” says Clarke. Producer Vic Maile, who had previously worked with Lemmy’s former band Hawkwind and who Clarke affectionately describes as “a nice bloke, very soft, big hooter, short hair”, played a big part in fixing both.
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