Escalator

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ESCALATOR
 
 
Escalator  is the only album by the Sam Gopal band, released in 1969 on the small Stable Records label.  The band also released a single “Horse” with the B-side a Willie Dixon cover “Back Door Man”, just before the release of the album, which the re-released album includes as bonus tracks.  Ian Fraser Kilmister, later known as Lemmy, joined the band after playing in The Rockin’ Vickers, but appears as Ian Willis, as he was considering changing his surname to that of his stepfather George Willis.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

Sam Gopal formed a new line-up known simply as Sam Gopal that included as vocalist and guitarist Ian Willis, better known as Lemmy; this reorganized band released one album, Escalator in 1968.  Lemmy later played bass guitar for Hawkwind and, in 1975, founded the pounding British heavy metal band called Motörhead

 

(March 2014/2)

 

Last edited: March 22, 2021