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Ai Weiwei smash it up

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I wanted to do this when I saw the Ai Weiwei show as well.

JUNE!

U.S. Girls FULL BAND shows coming up in June... JUNE 5 @ the House of Targ / Ottawa, ON JUNE 6 @ Olympia De Montréal w/ THE KILLS http://www.olympiamontreal.com/en/event/the-kills/ JUNE 7 @ Silver Dollar w/ MOON DUO + PETRA GLYNT https://www.facebook.com/events/859421447406468/ Also... U.S. Girls (solo) will be playing Sled Island this year! Stay tuned for more info.

CLEAR CHANNEL

Creepy.

FUZZ

"I actually played the lead guitar parts on Spirit, using a 61-62 SG Les Paul, a 68 Marshall Plexi 100w half stack and a home-made overdrive box in front of the Marshall. Regarding the 'beep beeps' as I call them, when the producer asked me to play some fills in between the verses, as a joke I said how about something spacey like this and I did the pickup switch/string bending thing. I saw him stand up in the control booth and he said "that's it! let's record that!" so we did. (There was no slide involved, just my fingers, and I used the bridge humbucker and the pickup switch). The fuzz part is Norman with a built-in overdrive circuit built into his Tele pickguard." "I've been asked a lot over the years how I did the 'beep beep' guitar parts on Spirit, so for any guitar players out there who would like to learn how, try the following: Using a 2-pickup Gibson, set the neck pickup volume to zero, bridge pickup volume to max, with the p...
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Seriously...all you fashion folks who keep using my tunes (without permission), when you gonna hook a sister up? I am in desperate need of some new pants. What I really want is a nice white suit! P.S. Dear Simone Rocha , yr models got good rhythm but let me walk the catwalk and you will see some real moves.