Last month, the southern US rock band Molly Hatchet played to more than 10,000 bikers at Berlin’s annual Motorcycle Jamboree, 45 years after their debut album was released. There’s nothing too unusual about that – plenty of veteran rock bands still play to huge audiences. What is unusual, though, is that no one who played on that first album – in fact, no one who was on any of their first six albums – was on stage in Berlin.
Not that Bobby Ingram – the band’s guitarist and owner of the trademark to the name Molly Hatchet – is bothered. “I’ve been in the band longer than any original member was,” he says (he joined in 1987). “I have tenure. I am the only one that can say I never quit, or turned my back on the fans. I did what it took to keep this thing out here.”
