Phil Taylor (musician)

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Phil Taylor (1982)

Philip John Taylor (born September 21, 1954 in Chesterfield , England - † November 11, 2015 ), nicknamed Philthy Animal , was a British musician. He was the drummer of the rock band Motörhead from 1975 with interruptions until 1992 .

Life

Phil Taylor and Eddie Clarke were friends, and at Clarke's suggestion, Taylor joined Motorhead in 1976 while recording On Parole .

After the band's official debut, Motörhead , they made their breakthrough with Overkill in 1979. The song Overkill was a novelty in drum technology for the time, and even later drummers like Lars Ulrich admit that they were fascinated and significantly influenced by Taylor's style. The song Overkill is considered one of the pioneering achievements of speed and thrash metal , especially thanks to Taylor's revolutionary double bass playing .

The line-up of Kilmister / Clarke / Taylor is considered the classic line-up of Motörhead and was extremely successful commercially.

After the 1983 album Another Perfect Day , Taylor left the band for the first time to become a "serious musician," as he put it.

Then Taylor planned together with Phil Lynott and Brian Robertson to form a band. The project failed due to a lack of commitment from Lynott. Operator was founded together with singer Robin McAuley and bassist Chris Glenn . After Robertson had left the band due to unsuccessfulness, guitarist Marcus Schleicher came along and the band renamed itself GMT . In 1986 the EP One By One was released by Mausoleum Records . The second EP War Games could only be released after the restart in 1991 due to the bankruptcy of Mausoleum Records.

While still at GMT, Taylor returned to Motörhead's drummer in 1987, but no longer had the dynamism of his playing as he did when he first joined the band. After one live and two studio albums, of which 1916 was very successful, he was dismissed by Lemmy Kilmister with a heavy heart during the recording of March ör Die , because despite repeated admonitions he showed too little commitment and played his parts on the drums at a declining level.

At first he played in various projects and as a session musician , until Mick Farren hired him as a drummer for the newly formed rock band The Deviants around 1998 . He took the band to the studio parts of his 1999 album The Deviants Have Left the Planet , but could in the planned 2000 Japan - tour not participate because he received a visa. On the 2002 album Dr. Crow played Taylor on the drums for A Long Dry Season . He then made various guest appearances as a drummer in Motörhead cover versions , including with WASP

Taylor's health deteriorated as a result of an operation that had become necessary for a cerebral aneurysm . He died of liver failure on November 11, 2015.

Discography

With Motörhead

With GMT

  • One By One (EP, 1986)
  • War Games (EP, 1991)

With The Deviants

  • The Deviants Have Left the Planet (1999)

Further

  • Philthy Phil and Fast Eddie - Naughty Old Santa's Christmas Classics (1989)
  • Chris Holmes - Nothing to Lose (2012)

Individual evidence

  1. Mark putter Ford: Phil Lynott: The Rocker . Omnibus Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7119-9104-0 , pp. 233 .
  2. Ken Shimamoto: Mick Farren Interview . In: Black To Comm, Vol. 2, # 10 . 2000 ( Mick Farren: “I'm primarily a writer, but writing is so fucking boring.” ). Mick Farren: "I'm primarily a writer, but writing is so fucking boring." ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.funtopia.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
  3. Phil 'Philthy Animal' Taylor: A Tribute , accessed November 15, 2015
  4. The Official Motörhead Website. In: The Official Motörhead Website. Retrieved October 28, 2016 (American English).

literature

  • Lemmy Kilmister with Janiss Garza: White Line Fever - The Autobiography . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-931624-25-0 .

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