Former MOTÖRHEAD Guitarist “FAST” EDDIE CLARKE Says Classic Lineup Reunion Almost Happened - “LEMMY Couldn’t Face Down His Band, He Felt Too Guilty”
November 14, 2016, 8 years ago
eonmusic recently spoke with former Motörhead guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke. In the in depth chat he revealed that a reunion of the classic lineup of Motörhead almost happened:
"I talked about it in the late nineties with Lemmy,” says Clarke. “I had a serious conversation with him, and it was looking pretty good. It was kind of like; not to upset the present band - we were going to come up with maybe an acoustic thing, or one of them unplugged things, but do it in a really sort of different way; get [a female orchestra] in all the suspenders and stockings, and cellos and all that - try something like that. And obviously I’d have loved to have gotten back together, but Lemmy, he couldn’t face down his band, really - he felt too guilty."
He also expanded on his exit from the group: "After the show - which I though was terrible, the agent, Nick Harris came to me and said; “why don’t we go and talk to Phil and Lemmy”, and I said; “okay”, because I didn’t want to leave - it was the last thing I wanted. So he takes me into their dressing room, and it’s full, the Plasmatics, everybody’s in there. And they peel away from the crowd down the end of the dressing room, and I’m standing with Nick Harris and they say; “yeah, what do you want?”, and I said; “well guys, this is a bit over the top, isn’t it? Can’t we just carry on - what’s the problem here?!” They said; “no, man, f*** off”. And that was it, what could I do? So I walked out, and that was the end of it."
Read the full interview at this location.
