How We Made: The Dandy Warhols on Bohemian Like You

‘It was our wildest recording session ever, this psychedelic setting with friends playing strip poker and people wrestling and diving on top of each other’

A car pulled up outside my flat in Portland, Oregon. Before the Dandy Warhols signed to EMI, I was a mechanic, so I knew the vehicle: a 1980-81 BMW 320i with a primer quarter panel, the ubiquitous affordable BMW. The driver was this super-cool-looking woman with bleached hair piled up with black roots and a shirt worn over a pink top. The lights changed and off she went, just as I’d started thinking that if the car stalled, I could go down and say: “Hey, I can fix that.” Instead, I cranked out Bohemian Like You in around five minutes.

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