In his autobiography White Line Fever, Lemmy recalls of drummer Taylor tried singing "City Kids" but "he sounded like two cats being stapled together."
Lemmy never lied:
Philthy Animal Taylor wrote:...and a useless cunt, that's me!
These names didn't catch on, it was like Vic Rattlehead (Megadeth) or Doris (Metallica), they didn't enter Metal "pop culture" in the same manner as the iconic onstage Iron Maiden-dummy "Eddie" did. But it was the same sort of thing. An "extra" band member, a mascot. A trade mark, in a sense.
But, unlike the others, the Joe Petagno-designed "Snaggletooth" actually made it into a song.
This is from No Remorse, which wasn't technically a standard studio album release. They did a fat compilation including new stuff, and Snaggletooth ended up on that. A fast-paced song, like an outtake from Iron Fist, just a damn good one. One of four, but I don't think they did an E.P. with just those on it.
The idea mentioned by Eddie about restarting the track 2 times, was used before by Danish-Swedish '70s rockers Gasolin', on their sort of trade mark track Rabalderstræde:
Jesper Hvid wrote: ↑6 years ago
The idea mentioned by Eddie about restarting the track 2 times, was used before by Danish-Swedish '70s rockers Gasolin', on their sort of trade mark track Rabalderstræde:
That's got a good groove. A bit Robert Palmer. Also Danish is such a weird language.
He is also remembered as a genuine character, part of the heart and soul of the classic Hawkwind chaos and the man who brought his mate Lemmy into the band because he needed a speed buddy
It's not even a yarn. Lemmy said the same thing in this interview (16:59):
Well, he used to do Kinks covers for a living, and then designer drugs for a larf, so what can you say... Couldn't hang on to enough money to even get a scooter or a hair cut. Do you know why he was called Lemmy?
Philthy Animal Taylor wrote:...and a useless cunt, that's me!
Tho, when you look at it, he generated the whole thing. Sat down all by himself and drummed like not seen since 'Purple's "Fireball", or Keith Moon, and made their breakthru track. All the Spinal Tappish shenanigans are also his legacy. Little punk-ass bastard made them. Excellent fellow. Uproarishly funny. All the good M'head albums had him on drums, and he was in fact The Overphil.
Ironically, Eddie was the only member of the band to actually have class.
Even though they never reached old age, whatever that is considered to be, nowadays, they in their later years succeeded in retelling all the crazy stories, and all the best ones are from the history of that legendary line-up.