Legendary ex-MOTÖRHEAD/FASTWAY guitarist Fast Eddie Clarke spoke with Scott Adams recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

The ongoing popularity of Motörhead:

"I suppose we had a unique take on things with the hair, the leather, the bullet belts! I think originally it was about attitude - ie, If you don't like it - fuck off! This did cause us a lot of problems with the business as we scared them to death but the fans really appreciated our honesty and could relate to our attitude. We were just like them and without them we would have got nowhere. I think the material was born out of our determination to keep going. We had so many false starts and disappointments that by the time Overkill came round in 1978 we had stored up a lot of energy and ideas and we were just waiting for the opportunity to show what we could do. Also we had a great following and we always felt we owed it to the fans who had been with us from the beginning. If there is one thing the three of us agree on it was how great our fans were. Then came Bomber in the same year. We were so pumped up we knocked it out in no time at all. These two albums were probably the truest albums as they came purely from the heart and we were smoking! Ace Of Spades was different. By then we were on our way and things have a way of changing but fortunately we just got the album done before things started to fuck up. No Sleep Til Hammersmith was the next album and this was relatively easy as it was just a case of recording some gigs but we managed to make it quite difficult as we were becoming quite difficult! This album was a great success but the rot had already started to set in so by the time we did Iron Fist the chemistry of the early years was all but gone.”

The success of Fastway: "With Fastway I did everything just the same as I always had. We would go into the rehearsal room, I would come up with a riff, we would start working on it and a new song was born. I have to say the first Fastway album was like Overkill or Bomber, straight from the heart and full of genuine good stuff."

The future: “The next twelve months? I will keep writing tunes and maybe do some shows with the Fastway line up from 2007. It would be nice to do some Fast Eddie Clarke shows so I could do Motorhead and Fastway material and some of my Anthology stuff as well but we will have to wait and see about that. It gets harder to put things together these days.”

Read the entire interview here.