Claim: Guitarist, Norman Westburg plays experimental rock, noise rock, and post-punk, and has been associated with a number of other bands and musicians, including Swans which he joined iin 1983 for their first album, Fifth.
Evidence: Norman Westberg is a guitarist from Detroit best known for his work with Swans. Experimental rock, noise rock, experimental, post-punk Present through almost the entirety of the band's existence, Westberg was brought on for Swans' debut album Filth (1983) and appeared on every album through 1991's White Light from the Mouth of Infinity (he also played on the 1995 album The Great Annihilator). Before Swans, he was a member of Carnival Crash. Westberg was for a short time a member of The Heroine Sheiks with Shannon Selberg (ex-The Cows) as well as John Fell (ex-China Shop). Aside from the present incarnation of Swans, he currently plays in the NYC bands NeVAh (with Vinnie Signorelli & Algis Kizys) and Five Dollar Priest (formerly Size Queens) (with Ron Ward of Speedball Baby & Bob Bert among others).