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Stand by Your Man (EP)

Field	Value
name	Stand by Your Man
type	EP
artist	Lemmy/Wendy O. Williams
cover	Motörhead_-_Stand_By_Your_Man_(1982).jpg
released	1982
recorded	May 1982
studio	Eastern Sound Studios, Toronto, Canada
genre	Punk rock
length	8:37
label	Bronze
producer
prev_title	Iron Fist
prev_year	1982
next_title	What's Words Worth?
next_year	1983

Stand by Your Man is an EP released in 1982. It is a collaboration of the bands Motörhead and the Plasmatics. It is notorious as the reason "Fast" Eddie left Motörhead, more so than the bad reception the EP received. Lemmy and Wendy O. Williams had organised to do a duet of the famous Tammy Wynette country song, though most critics, and fans, to this day are baffled by the choice, Wendy coming from the punk scene in the mid-late 1970s and Lemmy from a mixture of Rock genres.

Recording

Following the success of the Motörhead/Girlschool collaboration, St. Valentine's Day Massacre EP, Lemmy kept getting asked to do another collaboration. Having seen pictures of O. Williams and knowing of her reputation, alongside Lemmy's penchant for "making records with birds," the band flew to Toronto for a recording session with her group, the Plasmatics. Lemmy explained about the session:

"..[Eddie Clarke (musician)

Lemmy believes that if Dick had not been there, they could have worked through the problems, but ended up exchanging a few words and Clarke left the studio. Back at the hotel, drummer [Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor told Lemmy "Eddie's left the band". Clarke was replaced a week later by Thin Lizzy man, Brian Robertson. In the book Overkill: The Untold Story of Motorhead, biographer Joel McIver quotes Taylor saying:

"..we all knew it wasn't going to be a Stevie Wonder-meets-Paul McCartney production job. It was basically an over-the-top single...I said to him, well, that's no problem. Easy. If you want, you can put on the back of the single, 'Eddie Clarke is on no way involved with this. He hates it. He thinks it's a bunch of shit'...I still don't think that was his reason for leaving.."

It is more likely that Clarke left because of mounting tension with Kilmister, who had been unhappy with Clarke's production on the Iron Fist album and fed up with Clarke's continued threats to leave. In an interview with Scott Adams that appears on Clarke's official website, the guitarist insists:

"..I suppose at that time Motorhead had in fact gone as far as it could. I had not decided to quit. I was forced out by the other guys who for different reasons felt the need for a change. This kind of happened around the *Iron Fist* album. We had stopped working well together so the demise was inevitable..”

Release

It was released to little fanfare and sold poorly according to Lemmy. It was reissued in various countries in the eighties; but since then it is only available on the Bronze Records compilation album No Remorse, of 1984, remastered reissue by Sanctuary Records in 2005, as part of the deluxe edition remastered series they did.

Reception

One reviewer commented that although "Lemmy has always said that the late Wendy O’Williams was a wonderful person, this doesn’t alter the fact that "Stand By Your Man" is a truly horrible track".

Track listing

Personnel

Lemmy Kilmister – lead vocals on "Stand by Your Man" & "Masterplan", bass guitar
Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor – drums
Wendy O. Williams – lead vocals on "Stand by Your Man" & "No Class"
Richie Stotts – lead guitar
Wes Beech – rhythm guitar

Production

Producer, Engineer & Mixer - "Fast" Eddie Clarke & Will "Evil Red Neck" Reid
Engineer - Michael Frondelli

References

citation will be added when ''No Remorse'' album is finished editing
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''White Line Fever'' Lemmy and Janiss Garza pub. Simon & Schuster 2002 pp. 160-162. {{ISBN. 0-684-85868-1
"review of Born to Lose - Live to Win". Music from the Hawkwind family tree - Part 2.

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