In an interview, by Andrew Darlington<\/p>\n
Eight Miles Higher: Interview: ‘Ian Hunter: Ballads Of Mott The Hoople… & Beyond!’ <\/a><\/p>\n Hunter is asked whether he looks back on the Mott the Hoople albums with pleasure:<\/p>\n "No. I mean, that guy did that. And now I\u2019ve got to beat him. It\u2019s as simple as that. I look back on them with absolutely nothing. I don\u2019t feel a thing. I never look back. I can\u2019t look back. I can only look forward. I still feel I\u2019m a viable proposition and I\u2019m still happening. But whether I am or whether I\u2019m not, why should I want to look at that ****? I don\u2019t think I even have any of those albums. What interests me now is what I\u2019m writing now. I mean, to look back and do all that ******** is alright when you\u2019re seventy-five or something, then you can go \u2018ah, we weren\u2019t too bad after all\u2019 (in frail quavering voice). But right now I\u2019m not the slightest bit interested. No \u2013 neither was Mick (Ronson). We never sat around listening to old records and all that like people seem to think we do. Never."\u200b<\/p>\n Is it easier working solo?<\/p>\n "I\u2019m not a solo artist. I really am not. I never have been. It just seems to be that way. I\u2019m always part of a band. I\u2019m playing tonight as part of a band. I just never seem to get into a regular band situation, because \u2013 I don\u2019t know, perhaps nobody asks me or something? But I much prefer a band. I do write solo. I\u2019ve never been able to sit down with another person to write. To me it\u2019s a very personal thing. We\u2019d never write together with Mott, what we used to do was write separately. Mick (Ralphs) would write solo, I\u2019d write solo and we\u2019d just bung \u2018em in and if there were pieces missing we\u2019d help each other out. You can come in with a riff and go \u2018I\u2019ll give you this, put that there\u2019. You can do it that way. That is how we did it. But I can\u2019t even bear to have somebody around while I\u2019m actually writing. I don\u2019t mind later if it gets chopped around, but not at the time. I\u2019m so fixed on what it should be that it just pisses everybody off anyway."\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In an interview, by Andrew Darlington Eight Miles Higher: Interview: ‘Ian Hunter: Ballads Of Mott The Hoople… & Beyond!’ Hunter is asked whether he looks back on the Mott the Hoople albums with pleasure: "No. I mean, that guy did that. And now I\u2019ve got to beat him. It\u2019s as simple as that. I look … Continue reading Ian Hunter looks back<\/span>