JUST ONE VERSE

There’s just something about this opening line to this absolutely epic track from the classic Motorhead line up that just seems to sum up the band that famously said in an interview with Sounds “...the dirtiest rock’n’roll band in the world. If you moved in next door, your lawn would die.”

I went to see the band a few times and was at Leeds Queen’s Hall where some of the No Sleep Til Hammersmith album was recorded.

Overkill is relentless and Phil Taylor’s drumming is unremitting. Just as it seems to reach the end of the track he starts up again and we’re in the thick of it.

If ever there was a rock and roll band, then surely Lemmy, Fast Eddie Clarke, and Phil “Philthy Phil” Taylor was it. And this lyric epitomises the joy and sheer energy that must have been felt by the band as they palyed in front of adoring fans night after night.

Sadly none of this lineup are with us now, but their legacy lives on in their balls-out thundering music that they left behind.

I for one will never forget the times I saw them...particulalry the time I waited (tripping balls) outside the Sunderland Empire to cadge some speed off Lemmy after watching a blistering set of theirs.

Happy Daze!!! .