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Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

11. AC DCBack In Black

I used to roller-skate to this record round and round at the boys club in grade school. Best rock record to roller-skate to. I could skate my ass off but at that young age I didn’t really care about the boys much… just how fast I could skate. The worst record to roller-skate would be something lame like Air Supply – they sucked.

AC/DC used big stage props, but I don’t need to do anything to get peoples’ attention. My natural state is seemingly enough to get people talking, negatively or positively. It doesn’t matter to me… talk is talk. Back In Black is good for getting pumped up to, but anything that’s played on WWE’s Monday night RAW works for me.

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