Vic Maile

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Born in 1943, Vic Maile was a British record producer who after starting his career as sound engineer with Pye Mobile studios for The Animals on their classic "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" worked with some of the biggest names in the business, from Jimi Hendrix to Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton to The Pirates, Motörhead to The Godfathers, The Kinks, The Small Faces, Dr. Feelgood, Girlschool and more.

He was responsible for the legendary Live At Leeds album byThe Who and the classic Ace of Spades by Motörhead followed by the chart-topping live LP No Sleep 'til Hammersmith. He also produced respected albums such as Birth, School, Work, Death and More Songs About Love And Hate by The Godfathers, 2-4-6-8 Motorway by Tom Robinson and Bikini Red by The Screaming Blue Messiahs as well as other seminal albums by The Vibrators, 999 and several more by Hawkwind. He also helped produce Guns N' Roses Japan-only album entitled "EP (Live from the Jungle)" having recorded the american rockers at The Marquee in London.

In Chris Coyne's (bass player of The Godfathers) words: "When we were looking for a producer we remembered "Dirty Love", the b-side of the "Ace of Spades" single. The sound was just incredible, so we rang up Vic expecting this Lemmy-like biker figure but he turned out to be a quiet, unassuming sort of bloke - a real diamond geezer."

Motörhead's Lemmy also said "Vic's strength was that he understood Rock 'n' Roll. He wasn't like a lot of producers who simply rely on the readings from the meters on the desk - he was instinctive and he had the same sense of humour as me. Basically he was a c**t!!."

Vic Maile died at 46 of cancer on July 11th 1988.