Vic Maile

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."^{[citation needed]}

Motörhead's Lemmy also said "Vic's strength was that he understood rock and 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!!".^{[citation needed]}

Peter Gunn of the Inmates recalls that just before he died, Maile phoned him to say that he had been listening to his productions and concluded that "Shot in the Dark" by the Inmates was his best work. "Vic kept his illness a secret so the true significance of this remark was only realised after his sad and untimely death - he is very much missed as a friend and a great producer".^{[citation needed]}

Maile's song, "6.10 Phoenix", appeared on Don Fardon's 2000 album Indian Reservation & I've Paid My Dues on Edsel Records.^[2]

Maile died, at the age of 45, from cancer on 11 July 1989.^[3]

Discography

Singles

• 1981 - "Not Fade Away"/"It's the Same Old Thing" (Bronze BRO 129 UK)

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