Talk:Larry Wallis

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The Pink Fairies[edit]

Surely something wrong in this section, makes it sound like Laz only played one gig with the PF's, whereas they were constantly working from 73 til 75 or so. It was only when Boss, then Sandy then Russell, all got on the Dingwall's gravy train, that Larry had to start hitting up others such as Lemmy for a bit of entertainment.. right?

And what's with the multiple non-sentence mentions of the (aborted) 2007 gig, eh? Is it the drugs?

Wwwhatsup 07:30, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Three Bands, One Guitarist[edit]

I reckon Lazza is the only guitarist I have so far seen in three different bands. Motorhead supporting BOC at Hammersmith Odeon, The Stiffs Tour at Friars Aylesbury and The Pink Fairies at Northampton County Cricket Ground (in their practice hall one Saturday night). Amazing chap.

I did see a drummer in two bands on the same stage years apart. First in Curved Air and later in the Police, again at Friars Aylesbury - can you figure out who it was?

Royzee 20:25, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Editing / referencing[edit]

The present article is without any references / citations. As such it is purely POV and open to all kinds of whimsy, speculation, hear'say etc. Is there someone with an interest in the subject matter that could try to knock it into shape ?

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 19:52, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Death Commandos of Love[edit]

I remember seeing them a few times around 1983/4 and I'm pretty sure they sported a different name at each gig. The Love Pirates Of Doom rings a bell, as does The Doughnut Dunkers Of Death. Or did I imagine it? Mr Larrington (talk) 13:05, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wallis's tenure at Motörhead[edit]

This doesn't amount to a hill of beans, but I feel it's worth commenting on. Regarding Wallis's leaving Motörhead, I believe the statement

"In February 1976 Wallis was joined by "Fast" Eddie Clarke on guitar. Later in the same month Wallis left Motörhead"

is at the very least not supported by the web references cited (at least on a quick scan I couldn't see where it states this information); secondly, and probably more relevant, that available first hand accounts and published interviews with participants indicate Larry Wallis's tenure with Motorhead was roughly half as long as indicated and most likely ended October or November 1975, not long after Motörhead's reputedly disastrous support appearance at a Blue Oyster Cult concert at Hammersmith Odeon on October 19th, 1975.

Exactly 8:00 minutes into the documentary "Motörhead: the Guts and the Glöry"^[1] Eddie Clarke talks of Motörhead's April 1st 1977 gig at the Marquee club when there was some frustration within the band at the lack of commercial success and that the band would quit after that gig. Clarke says he suggested they record it commemorate the "last year and a half" of the three of them playing together. which would place Eddie Clarke as a band member of Motörhead around some time in October 1975. (NOTE: the full documentary with subtitles is up on YouTube - it's not entirely clear to me if I should directly link to it since the poster doesn't appear to be the copyright holder and the Supreme Court’s Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer decision essentially means there's no statute of limitations for online copyright infringement of a still accessible item).

The large format book, Motörhead 1975^[2], published in 2018 which covers the band's formative period in 1975 and includes interviews with (at that time) surviving members Wallis and drummer Lucas Fox, indicates that Wallis left "just weeks after Lucas was shown the door". Lucas left around the September/October time frame in 1975 shortly after Motörhead's Rockfield Studio session in which Phil Taylor essentially replaced him, according to multiple accounts including Mick Wall's biography on Lemmy^[3].

The cited documentary goes into detailed, first hand spoken descriptions by Kilmister and Clarke about Clarke's induction into the band and how Wallis essentially quit Motörhead during Clarke's audition in the rehearsal room at the rehearsal studios. At no time, even for a brief period, were Wallis and Clarke band members at the same time, as the above mentioned article passage suggests.

Indieshack (talk) 19:12, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Motörhead: the Guts and the Glöry (2005). Steamhammer
^ Dave Thompson, Motörhead 1975(2018). Cleopatra Press. ISBN 978-0-9972056-4-0.
^ Mick Wall, Lemmy: The Definitive Biography(2017). Trapeze. ISBN 1409160270.

[1] Motörhead: the Guts and the Glöry (2005). Steamhammer

[2] Dave Thompson, Motörhead 1975(2018). Cleopatra Press. ISBN 978-0-9972056-4-0.

[3] Mick Wall, Lemmy: The Definitive Biography(2017). Trapeze. ISBN 1409160270.

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