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Founding member Pete Way (ex-bass guitar player with UFO) did not play on the album, because by the time the recording sessions began Way left the band.[3] He soon formed another band, Waysted. The bass guitar parts on the album were actually played by Mickey Feats.
The album has been reissued as a two-fer with the second Fastway album, All Fired Up; however, that edition omits the song "Far Far from Home", bonus track featured on the standalone CD release of the first album.
Fastway were an English hard rock band formed in 1982 by former Motrhead guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke and former UFO bassist Pete Way.[1][2] The band went through various membership changes and Way left the band after receiving an opportunity to perform with Ozzy Osbourne.
In 1982, both guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke and bassist Pete Way had become disgruntled with their own bands, Motrhead and UFO, respectively and decided to work together in a new outfit. They recruited Humble Pie drummer Jerry Shirley, and the then-unknown vocalist Dave King.[1] The band was named from a combination of their names. However, Way discovered that he could not break his recording contract with Chrysalis Records and then received an offer to play for Ozzy Osbourne; he left the band and did not record any songs. The band then brought in session bassist Mickey Feat and recorded its debut album Fastway (1983)[1] (Feat was uncredited on the album).
After critical and commercial success, the band toured to promote the album (with one-time Fixx bassist Alfie Agius[3] as their session bass player). The band then recruited Richard McCracken, formerly of Taste, as "permanent" bassist, and released another success in the form of All Fired Up the following year.[1] After the hardships of touring, Shirley and McCracken subsequently left.[1]
In 1985, Clarke and King reformed Fastway with a new line-up. Recruiting Shane Carroll (second guitar), Paul Reid (bass), and Alan Connor (drums) from Dave King's first band, Stillwood, this line-up released Waiting for the Roar.[1] The record took an album-oriented rock approach instead of the driving bluesy-metal of the previous albums. The success of the record was limited, and it disappointed many fans. The same year, Fastway was approached to make the soundtrack for the heavy metal horror film Trick or Treat.[1] The film flopped, but the soundtrack re-established Fastway as a hard-hitting metal band. The soundtrack was a moderate success and stayed on the Billboard Top 200 chart for eleven months.[1] The success of the soundtrack, combined with the little money the band received, caused in-fighting, and the group disbanded. King took most of the band with him and started Q.E.D., a more AOR-styled outfit. They released a two-track single.
In 1990, this duo of Clarke and Hart released Bad Bad Girls, employing various session musicians including members of Girlschool.[1] It was widely ignored and sold poorly. After calling it a day in 1991, they released a perfunctory live album Say What You Will LIVE (an older recording, curiously with King on vocals). In 1998, Clarke and Hart reunited and released a reworked version of On Target, but there was no commercial success.
On 25 May 2007, Toby Jepson, former lead singer with Little Angels, announced he had accepted an approach from Fastway to perform lead vocal duties during the year's festival appearances. An updated line-up played the Sweden Rock Festival, Japanese Hard Rock Hell, and the Download Festival at Castle Donington. Besides guitarist Clarke and Jepson, the new band featured drummer Steve Strange (not to be confused with Visage singer Steve Strange) and bass player John McManus (Mama's Boys).
In an interview with Komodo Rock at the Hard Rock Hell Festival in November 2007, Eddie Clark confirmed that he and Toby Jepson would be working on new material. He said "Toby and I are going to sit down and maybe do a few tunes over the winter. See if we can write some tunes."[4] In 2008, Toby Jepson announced he would go on to front Scottish hard rockers Gun full-time.
In late 2010, "Fast" Eddie Clarke returned to the recording studio to record a new, and what turned out to be the final Fastway album with Toby Jepson, titled Eat Dog Eat. The album was released on 14 November 2011 by SPV/Steamhammer, the first album of entirely new material from Fastway in over twenty years.
Clarke died on 10 January 2018 after a battle with pneumonia at the age of 67.[5] No official statement about the disbandment or the future of Fastway was made following his death, but the band was mostly inactive by then. Two years and seven months later, Way died on 14 August 2020.
As with the first album the main problem is that vocalist Dave King is far too busy trying to sound like other people, mostly Plant, that he never really develops any style of his own and it is easy to tire of him. Why listen to an impersonator when the original is to hand. Also the limitations of Clarke as a rock guitarist are cruelly exposed by the material.
In this seemingly temporary incarnation, Fastway is now a three-piece ensemble with former Little Angels front man Toby Jepson, producing the album and providing lead vocals, bass guitar and acoustic guitar. Fast Eddie plays lead guitar and Matt E.(?) is on drums. Though this line-up is just a recording line-up and will probably never play many live dates, it is refreshing to hear new music from Fast Eddie Clark and Fastway. The band brings a 21st century approach to writing and performing some very good songs.
If you are expecting classic Fastway with Dave King style-vocals you will hear some similarities. If you are expecting anything sounding like Motrhead, a genre that Fast Eddie has permanently left behind since his parting with that band, you will hear nothing remotely like that. But taken on its own, Eat Dog Eat is a very good hard rock album.
Pete Way: "UFO toured so much and nobody was really getting on, it was... I wouldn't really say going downhill, but it was just one of those things, another hotel, another tour and there was a lot people talking about one another behind their back, so I decided I wasn't gonna do it. Actually it was the photographer Ross Halfin, he knew Twisted Sister and that they were playing clubs in New York and they liked UFO very much and he asked if I would produce their album ["Under the Blade" (1982)]. To say that I produced the album would be the wrong thing to say, because I was more like having a drink while watching them play. I had known [Fast] Eddie for a long time, obviously through Lemmy, and he got in touch and said if I'm not doing anything we should get a band together. So we searched for a singer and a drummer, we got Jerry Shirley because we liked early HUMBLE PIE and we got Dave King, he'd sent in a tape. It was just Eddie and I for about three or four months working to put the band together. At the same time I was working with TWISTED SISTER."
Pete Way: "I don't think Dave would want to work with Eddie again plus he has his own band (FLOGGING MOLLY) that does well. I see him on and off, I like Dave. We were in fact planning to do a new Fastway album, myself and Dave and possibly Jerry. I did call Dave and ask him and he said he's doing a tour with Flogging Molly, so that makes it difficult. Then one thing leaded to another and I ended up doing more UFO. The funny thing with UFO is that for many years we'd work and then suddenly you've got a lot of time and you're not working."
Pete Way: "Oh wow, let me tell this... I've known Lemmy since Motrhead were playing for ten people and he told me 'I fucking hate you Pete.' and I said 'Why's that?' 'Because you made that cunt a star with Fastway!' he said. Seriously, Eddie walked out in New York [back in 1982] and that's why Lemmy won't have anything to do with him. Of course I'd left UFO, so we did that band [FASTWAY]. I get along fine with Eddie."
Pete Way: "I just did the English shows. But what happened when I started doing Fastway was that Chrysalis Records wanted to sign us, but CBS Records came out with a bigger offer and I said yes straight away. Chrysalis wanted it, but they didn't come out with a deal. I didn't know that on my contract with Chrysalis I was a key member to the band, so they were gonna sue CBS and me, so I couldn't play with Fastway unless Fastway had signed with Chrysalis. So Chrysalis said they'd give me my own record deal if I stayed with them and I said to Eddie and the management that I'm not going to hold everything up because of the legal things. I worked on all the songs, I was actually a co-writer of all those songs, I did all the rehearsals, but it was easier for them to bring a bass player in so that they can tour. Of course the album was successful. Then Ozzy called me, I'm friends with Ozzy but haven't seen him for a while, he called up and said "Look, we need a bass player, you're not doing anything, what about coming on tour with me, I'll pay you very well?". It was Sharon of course who organized the deal and I did about ten shows with them. I can't say they were my best performances, because I find his music... I wouldn't say difficult to play, but I didn't have much rehearsal time and I have a way of playing and it wasn't really suited to my style. But that's why WAYSTED played with Ozzy in America and I think in a few other places too. Sharon said 'You helped us out, so Waysted can do the Ozzy tour in America.' And of course he was really big there and I was a friend of his, so I was actually traveling with Ozzy on my own, you know, me and Ozzy just having a drink together."
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