FASTWAY Easy Livin 12″. 3 tracks (+ bouns). Check video. ex Motorhead guitarist Fast Eddie Clarke, Pete Way (UFO / Waysted).

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Label: CBS -A 13 3196
Format: Vinyl, 12″”
Country: UK
Released: 1983
Genre: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Tracklist
A1 Easy Livin’
A2 Say What You Will
B Far Far From Home (bonus track)

Producer -Eddie Kramer

ex Motorhead guitarist  Fast Eddie Clarke, Pete Way (UFO) & a batch of other guys on bass, Fastway also featured ex-Humble Pie drummer, Jerry Shirley and a young singer, David King. King went on to form Katmandu. King continues to make music today in the band Flogging Molly.

The year is 1983 and made by CBS records… Songs are: Easy Livin, Say what you will, Side B: Far from home.

Excellent by the Motorhead guitarist Fast Eddie Clarke. Add to the mix the soulful singing of David King and you’ve got a monster. King at times sounds very close to Robert Plant, but I would not label him a clone. His voice fits perfectly the bluesy heavy metal and boogie that Fastway pumps out.
The actual album spawned two singles, “”Easy Living”” and the song with the simplest bass riff ever written “”Say What You Will.”” The fact is though, that the whole disc is quite contagious.

When Motorhead Eddie Clarke started Fastway (in the early days the band also included UFO Pete Way) the result was brilliant at times, mediocre at others. As time went by the band turned into a Hair Metal combo and the material suffered. But if you want a sample of Fastway at their strongest, look no further than this three track EP. It contained the two best tracks of their debut album and an extra song that simply amazing.

The element that the most remarkable about Fastway sound is not Clarke guitar, although of course he not a dwarf at playing the instrument, but the distinctive high pitched voice of Irish newcomer Dave King who often sounds like Led Zeppelin Robert Plant.

‘Easy Livin’ is essentially nothing more than a fast Boogie rocker, but the chorus is so catchy that the style doesn’t even matter, really. Brilliant. If Led Zeppelin were to play a Status Quo song, it might have sounded a bit like this.

Say what you will’ is again a Boogie rocker, but at a mid paced tempo this time. The song is carried by an inventive guitar riff and (again) King amazing voice.

‘Far Far from home’ is emotional sounding slow Hard Rock, bordering at the same time on a ballad and a slow Blues Rocker. It an expressive song, rich in contrast, brought with so much conviction by the musicians and the singer alike, that it nothing less than breathtaking. I wonder why they only released it on this EP.

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Weight 0.25 kg

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