Instead of a classic rock standard, the first song Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite learned to play on the guitar as a kid was the Velvet Underground’s squawking opiate epic Heroin.
“That sounds painfully hipster, doesn’t it? But it really was the first song. I had a really great teacher. He just wanted to play a couple of chords and mess around with scales. He also showed me Raw Power [The Stooges] but the songs on that were probably a bit too hard for me to play, really.”
Braithwaite is talkingas well as their soundtracks to crime dramas and and Braithwaite’s 2022 memoir
