Any Lineup Of Mot�rhead Could Play Anything. You Can Witness It On The Covers We've Done: We Even Got A Grammy For One [Metallica's "Whiplash"]. Of Course, They Poisoned It For Us By Giving Us One For Somebody Else's Song.

Any lineup of Mot�rhead could play anything. You can witness it on the covers we've done: We even got a Grammy for one [Metallica's "Whiplash"]. Of course, they poisoned it for us by giving us one for somebody else's song.

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What people really liked was our attitude -- our fu..-you-ness -- and our breakneck speed.

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All people seem to know is "Ace of Spades." It's backfired at me ever since 'cause the ace of spades is a bad-luck sign -- so naturally I've always felt an affinity with it. Damn the dark card! For two years I've sung "eight of spades," and nobody noticed. Not even the rest of the band.

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If you hadn't seen what we looked like, you would have thought we were a punk band. I remember going down to the [London club] Roxy one night just to see what the punk thing was all about. I was standing at the bar, and this bush behind me said, "I used to sell acid at [Hawkwind's] all-night shows in King's Cross." And I turned around and it was Johnny Rotten. I remembered him: He used to have long hair, with pockets full of drugs. It's funny, though -- I never liked the Clash. They sounded like old music, dressed up as punk. The Ramones were geniuses, though. Joey especially had a nose for rock'n'roll, and we were friends, although we weren't close when he died. I hate to see people on the way out; I prefer to remember him as he was.

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Like the punks, we just swept all that tedious '70s Rick Wakeman, artsy-fartsy, yellow bell-bottoms, caftans-and-sandals sh.. aside.

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I've always been very wordy; I've got a great vocabulary. In England, they teach you words. Over here, they don't seem to do that -- or people don't want to learn them.

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In truth, if you lived next door to us in those days, you probably would've never stopped to see if your lawn was dead -- you would've just moved out because of the fu..ing racket. Basically, I wanted to be the MC5, playing fast, loud rock'n'roll. We were never a metal band. Judas Priest and Black Sabbath were metal, but we were never like them.

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I got busted for drugs in Canada in 1975, but it was more that I was messing with the wrong drugs. Everybody was doing acid; I was just doing speed with it, too. Even in the drug culture, there was this snobbery: Oh, you're taking that awful speed? Well, fu.. off, then. I can't be bothered with people's class awareness.

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I was living with these three girls. One of them picked up [Hawkwind keyboardist] Dik Mik one night and brought him back to the flat. We got talking and realized we had a mutual interest in seeing how long amphetamines could make the human body jump about without stopping. He brought me into the band as his pill-popping buddy. They said, "Who plays bass?" And Dik Mik went, "He does." I'd never picked one up in my life. Hawkwind was a complete blitz: We had projectors shooting images all over the place, fireworks going off, nude dancers -- we were fu..ing fierce. We'd dose the audience with acid, lock the doors so they couldn't leave, then send them into epileptic fits with subsonic frequencies and strobes. Those were the days. I would never have left if they hadn't fired me.

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I'd get ten tabs, and he'd take seven and give me three, which I thought was very reasonable. He was great, a perfect old-school gentleman: If a girl came in the room, he'd shoot to his feet. If you wanted to see some athletic fu..ing, Jimi was the boy for it. I'd never seen anything like it: There were always lines of chicks going nuts outside his dressing room. It was like, Take a number and wait. (On Jimi Hendrix)

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In 1967, I was 21, and the only guy I knew in London was Neville Chester, a roadie who worked with the Who. I rang him up and said, "Can I crash on your floor?" He was sharing a flat with [Hendrix bassist] Noel Redding. So when Hendrix needed an extra guy, I was right there. To see Hendrix play was magic -- the things he did with a guitar have not been equaled to this day: He played rhythm and lead at the same time, under his leg, behind his neck, behind his back, left and right, upside down -- fu..ing amazing. God bless Eddie Van Halen, he's nowhere near. Hendrix did it all, and when he died, it stopped.

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