In a new interview with Andrew McKaysmith of the Scars And Guitars podcast, former MOTÖRHEAD guitarist Phil Campbell was asked what he thinks the biggest misconception was about his guitar playing as it relates to his role in MOTÖRHEAD. He responded: “Well, most of the (MOTÖRHEAD) riffs (during my time with the band) are mine all the way through. They’d change ’em a bit and whatever, but basically, ’cause when we were the three-piece, everyone was waiting for me to come up with something to start the songs. (MOTÖRHEAD leader) Lemmy would have one or two of his own rock songs, rock and roll songs ready usually. But the majority of the stuff… I mean, it’s all credited to the three of us anyway, apart from Lemmy‘s individual songs. But, yeah, people think — I don’t know what they think. They don’t read the credits, obviously, a lot of people, the writing credits. And I’m definitely not a heavy metal player. People think I might be a heavy metal player. I think they’re wrong there.”

Campbell was also asked about the “morphing of the MOTÖRHEAD iconography from being all about the music to being a brand”, with brand licensing from the band’s more than 80 licensing partners across various categories, channels and territories, marking MOTÖRHEAD‘s 50th anniversary. He said: “Well, MOTÖRHEAD should be remembered, I think. It was such a unique band. Lem was such a unique person and the music was so unique as well, why shouldn’t it be remembered, along with the music? People don’t have to buy anything if they don’t wanna buy anything, but if they walk around with MOTÖRHEAD written on this or that or whatever and they think it’s cool, that’s fine. I’m proud to have MOTÖRHEAD written on anything that I would wear. Not all at once, though — not five items with MOTÖRHEAD written on it all at once.”