Philthy Animal Taylor, Makes it Sound As Though Motörhead’s Music Was Merely a Barrage of Noise

Phil Taylor who has died aged 61, was not Motörhead’s first drummer, and he had not been part of the band’s lineup since 1992. Nonetheless his playing was crucial in establishing Motörhead as one of rock’s great institutions, and the lineup of Taylor, the singer and bass player Lemmy and the lead guitarist Fast Eddie Clarke is regarded as the definitive version of the band. Whether they should be described as heavy metal, thrash or merely heavy rock remains a perennially debated question. The band disliked being described as heavy metal, as Taylor himself explained in 1981. he said, It’s the way you look and the sort of audiences you attract that gets you labelled as heavy metal. But at every interview we always try to point out that we don’t like to be called HM music, It’s more like hard, fast, nasty and disgusting rock. That description makes it sound as though Motörhead’s music was merely a barrage of noise in 1984 they cracked the ceiling at the Variety Theater in Cleveland Ohio, by playing at 130 decibels but there was considerable method in their sonic madness. Taylor colloquially known as Philthy Animal, was renowned in the metal fraternity for his pioneering use of a double kick drum, which enabled him to lend frenzied impetus to songs such as Overkill or Ace of Spades and inspired a new generation of thrash metal bands such as Metallica and Anthrax. Taylor an enthusiastic subscriber to the rock N roll lifestyle was also accident prone, In 1980 he played drums in a neck brace after a friend had dropped him on his head, this left him with a calcium deposit on the back of his neck he nicknamed the knob, and on another occasion, after breaking his hand in a fight played with a drumstick taped to his hand. Yet Taylor also brought discipline and attention to detail to his playing with Motörhead, giving listeners a structure to cling to amidst the band’s eardrum battering roar. Their celebrated live album No Sleep til Hammersmith in 1981, the band’s only Number 1, showcases the way he was able to shape the songs with crisp accents and punctuations, like his speedy fills during Ace of Spades or his almost elegant accents in No Class or Jailbait. Taylor spent two separate stints with Motörhead, from 1975 until 1984, and then 1987 until 1992. The best albums from the first period, Ace of Spades, No Sleep ’til Hammersmith and Iron Fist, wwere pinnacles of Motörhead’s career. Taylor was born in Hasland, a suburb of Chesterfield Derbyshire. He first played with Motörhead in 1975, when he was called in to replace the original drummer Lucas Fox, while the group were making what would become the album On Parole, belatedly released in 1979, executives at United Artists records held it back because they were not convinced of its quality.
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