Ultimate-Guitar.com recently caught up with MOTÖRHEAD guitarist Phil Campbell. An excerpt from the interview is avaiable below:

UG: What originally attracted you to a band like Motorhead?

Campbell: "Well for a fact I could give up my day job, and I’m being completely honest here. I did like the 'Ace Of Spades' and 'Bomber' and things like that and it was cool music I thought. My wife convinced me to send the demo in and stuff like that. I thought, 'Oh, well, what’s the point? They’re not gonna call me back.' And one day I came home from work and she said, 'Oh, the Motörhead people have phoned up.' This was like on a Tuesday and she said, 'You need to learn 18 songs by Friday.' I didn’t own any Motörhead albums at the time I remember so I borrowed No Sleep ‘til Hammersmith off of one of PERSIAN RISK’s roadies. We had a couple of local guys roadying for us for free so I borrowed that and I’m forever indebted to Jonah, his name was Jonah."

UG: What did you think when Lemmy also auditioned Wurzel, the second guitarist?

Campbell: "I think out of about 200 tapes, they got it down and auditioned about half-a-dozen actually but not on my day. I went up for one but I don’t think Wurzel, God rest his soul (was there). You know Wurzel passed away last year."

UG: I did know about that. It was terrible.

Campbell: "Yeah. I think Wurzel was a different day who had to travel up from London. And ol’ Lem said, 'Can you stay overnight?' I stayed on his houseboat; he had a houseboat on the Thames at the time. I think either Lemmy was goin’ for me, he wanted me, or Lemmy wanted Wurzel or Phil Taylor wanted me. So between Lemmy and Phil Taylor, they each favored one of us. I think the second night and I don’t think we played but Lemmy took me and Wurzel out to a club, to a bar, and he left us alone, which was just an excuse really for him to play the pinball machine. But umm, so me and Wurz got it on like and he was listening actually and we were saying, 'Oh, if he had us both you could do this part and I could play that over that.'"

UG: Motörhead have been through a lot of changes.

Campbell: "We done just about everything really with this band. We done all the SPINAL TAP stuff and all the awards and everything. There’s not much we ain’t done."

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Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival recently announced the addition of Motörhead to the 2012 lineup. This marks the first summer tour that Motörhead has taken part in for several years. The legendary metal veterans join the already stellar 2012 main stage lineup, featuring multi-platinum Iowa cult metal groundbreakers SLIPKNOT in the headlining position, as well as legendary thrash metal kings SLAYER — both returning to the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival for a second turn at pummeling fans.

Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister commented, "Well, we're used to mayhem in this band, so it's kind of a family tradition! Bring it!"