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“I think the beauty of electric guitars is you can defeat their original purpose to a huge extent. They’re very mechanical so you can get all these kind of sounds by doing things that were never intended to be done. With digital equipment you can’t do that because they’re all computerized–you can’t punch a pedal on the side and make a weird noise. Particularly with Fender Jaguars, they’ve got bits of metal everywhere, so they’re incredibly live and you can get a lot of sounds out of hitting them on the strings, above the neck, below the bridge, all that sort of stuff.”

— Rowland S. Howard

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Rowland S Howard of The Birthday Party

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Happy birthday, Rowland

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Rowland S.Howard

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Peter Milne 1977

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Genevieve McGuckin and Rowland S Howard, c. early 80s. Photo by Peter Milne.

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Lydia Lunch and Rowland S Howard

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Genevieve McGuckin and Rowland S Howard, c. early 80s. Photo by Peter Milne.

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Old lovers reduced to fine print. A kaleidoscope of broken-mirror conversation. All the rejections, the hurt, the desires and the grand occasions when love really does turn into something far greater than you had ever dreamed of, something autoluminescent. It’s all here, all there among the cocktail glasses, kind or cruel hearts, crucifixes and crowns. The state of grace.

1,000 Words Rowland S. Howard (via total-derangement-of-the-senses)

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my heeero

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Lydia Lunch and Rowland S. Howard photographed by Manfred Rahs, circa 1991.

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Rowland Saint Howard’s Fender Jaguar, a thing of sheer beauty.

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Nick Cave and Rowland S. Howard of The Birthday Party (1983) by Bleddyn Butcher