The thing about musical influences are that they are just that – influences. When I was at school in the 1980s and I was busy buying records by Japan and Soft Cell and other nice pretty boy artistes a significant number of my friends were serious ‘Heavy Metal’ fans and as a result I came to listen to Cream and Deep Purple and Led Zepplin and Motorhead and whilst I wasn’t about to hand over my burgundy trousers, shirt, socks, shoes and super thin bowtie and get a leather jacket and go native I did develop a bit of a thing for certain heavy metal bands and ‘The Ace of Spades’ in particular.
I remember one time I was visiting a friend called Simon who lived about six miles away from Donnington and whilst we were there Motorhead were playing a gig and they were so loud we could hear them!! These guys had so many Marshall Amplifers and so much wattage that the sound was carrying at night to his house!
The Ace of Spades has got to be one of the greatest Heavy Metal classics ever and even now I love to play this (when driving with my son Oliver through Epping Forest – Mrs G isn’t keen so we don’t play it when she’s around) extremely loudly with the windows down!!
Hope you enjoy it too…
Now listen to the song…
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