The last time I saw Rancid, my favorite band of all time, I’m pretty sure Lars Fredricksen was wearing a Motörhead shirt. This was not a surprise. He wears Motörhead shirts all the time. He wore a Motörhead shirt on the back cover of Rancid’s 1994 classic Let’s Go, too, and that was his first album as a member of the band. Rancid bassist Matt Freeman has a side project, Charger, that’s pretty much entirely dedicated to sounding like Motörhead. If you’re putting together a Motörhead tribute record, you obviously need a contribution from Rancid. The producers of the new compilation Killed By Deaf obviously understand that, and they’ve got Rancid covering a relatively obscure Motörhead song.
