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(We Are) The Road Crew

A tribute to the roadies, written in ten minutes by a former roadie.
Motörhead, from Ace of Spades (1980)

Released
1980
Album
Ace of Spades

(We Are) The Road Crew was written as a tribute to the band's roadies. Lemmy had worked as a roadie himself, for Jimi Hendrix and the Nice, and said in the Classic Albums documentary that he wrote it in ten minutes. When the roadie Ian Eagle Dobbie heard it, Lemmy said, he had a tear in his eye. Clarke said the crew were good and proud of how good they were, and that he would put them up against any crew in the world.

A live version, 3:31 long, is on No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith, and the band re-recorded the song in 2008 for Guitar Hero III.

More songs by Motörhead

Ace of Spades, Overkill, Bomber, Motorhead

Sources

  1. Ace of Spades (Motörhead album), Wikipedia
  2. No Sleep 'til Hammersmith, Wikipedia
  3. Motörhead (song), Wikipedia