Motörhead - The Hammer - ZDF Rockpop 1981 - HD Video & Audio

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Ace of Spades was one of our longer albums, in terms of the recording process. It went easier than our previous albums, because we were on a roll, and we couldn’t be stopped then.

We were at Jackson’s Studios in Rickmansworth for about six weeks, from the beginning of August 1980, until mid-September. Our producer was Vic Maile. I knew him from the Hawkwind days, when Vic was with Pye Records.

He used to own a mobile studio – Hawkwind hired it out to do Space Ritual and he came along with it. Vic was a great man and a great producer, really brilliant. He had diabetes, of which he later died. It’s just an on-going thing – the nice guys always go. That’s why I’m still around.

The songs on Ace of Spades are considered classics by Motörhead fans, and I must say, they are an excellent bunch. We really enjoyed doing ’em. Those were good times; we were winning, and we were younger, and we believed it.

The older you get, the less you can believe. It’s not your fault, you know. It just comes to you that everything isn’t corn flakes and skittles and beer. It’s a jungle out there.

I never cared about it when I was young. I wasn’t starving, you see, and I was having a good time. It certainly beats high-paid plumbing!