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norman with swans at the all tomorrow 's parties festival in westberg london , on july 24 , 2011 playing his fender telecaster while performing live swans sheiks , wiseblood , jarboe , foetus , heroine 1982 -- present fender telecaster norman westburg norman westberg
 non_vocal_instrumentalist guitar noise rock new york city , new york , united states norman westberg musician
norman westberg

norman westberg is a guitarist from detroit best known for his work with swans .
present through almost the entirety of the band 's existence , westberg was brought on for swans ' debut album `` filth '' -lrb- 1983 -rrb- and appeared on every album through 1991s `` white light from the mouth of infinity '' -lrb- he also played in 1995 for `` the great annihilator '' -rrb- .
westberg became a full-time swans member once again when michael gira reactivated the group in 2010 .
westberg 's playing can also be heard on many swans side projects , including the body haters and solo albums by jarboe .
westberg was for a short time a member of the heroine sheiks with shannon selberg -lrb- ex-the cows -rrb- as well as john fell -lrb- ex-china shop -rrb- .
aside from the present incarnation of swans , he currently plays in the nyc bands nevah -lrb- with vinnie signorelli & algis kizys -rrb- and five dollar priest -lrb- formerly size queens -rrb- -lrb- with ron ward of speedball baby & bob bert among others -rrb- .
he also appeared -lrb- credited as norman westburg -rrb- in a short film the right side of my brain directed by richard kern and starring lydia lunch .
on february 25 , 2012 , westberg made two limited edition solo releases available at his webstore .
`` plough '' is a four-track ep recorded from 2006 to 2009 and features westberg coupling guitar with banjo and dx drum machine .
`` limited edition of 75 '' features one fifteen-minute-long ambient piece and is packaged in one-of-a-kind imagery , each disk being decorated with a unique mri from a cd westberg was given in hospital .
both cd-rs are packaged in handmade sleeves , `` plough '' with a signed inner and `` limited edition of 75 '' signed and numbered on the disk itself .
westberg 's most recent recorded appearances are on swans double live album `` we rose from your bed with the sun in our head '' , which was released initially as a handmade cd in a limited edition of 1000 copies issued to raise money for the recording of a new swans album proper .
in february 2014 westberg released a third limited edition solo cd entitled thirteen .
