Motorhead's original 1975 lineup was Lemmy, drummer Philthy Animal, and guitarist and vocalist Larry Wallis. Wallis quit in '76, and was replaced by "Fast" Eddie Clark. As history would have it, Clark left in '82 and never rejoined the band. Animal left in '84, but rejoined again from '87 to '92.
So what happened to Clark? Well, according to a recent interview with Eon Music, he almost rejoined in the late 90s, and things would've gotten acoustic and sexy.
"I talked about it in the late nineties with Lemmy. 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."
Motorhead's career went just fine without any of this happening, but aren't you at least a little bit curious as to how this might've gone down?
