"Music? Horrible.": David Yow's Favourite Records | Page 11 of 14

Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

10. MotörheadMotörhead

Motörhead are absolutely undeniably one of the best, hardest hitting, no frills, rock bands ever. For many years I have sort of thought that the best three band bill possible would be (in any order) AC/DC, Ramones and Motörhead. Zero fucking around! On 25 October, 1986 I was in Scratch Acid and we got to open for Motörhead at the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas, Texas. Let me recount for you the conversation that Lemmy and I had. I was walking around a corner to get to our van, and Lemmy was walking the other way around the same corner. We bumped into each other, and I said, “excuse me” and he said, “excuse me”.

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