1. Matt Sweeney was born on July 2,1969 and is an American musician and record producer best known as a guitarist of Skunk, Chavez, and supergroup Zwan.
19 Facts About Matt Sweeney
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Matt Sweeney's father was John D Sweeney, a professor of Medieval English at Seton Hall University who was an avid musician.
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Matt Sweeney's mother, Katharine Sweeney Hayden, is a federal judge.
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Matt Sweeney has an older brother, Gregory Sweeney, who is a musician who works on the TV show Kitchen Nightmares.
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Matt Sweeney grew up in Maplewood and South Orange, New Jersey.
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When Chavez slowed down Matt Sweeney filled in on bass guitar for Guided By Voices on the "Under the Bushes, Under the Stars" tour.
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Matt Sweeney provided vocals on the song "Quicksilver" on Guided By Voices leader Robert Pollard's first solo album Not in My Airforce LP.
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Matt Sweeney's work has taken him across a variety of musical genres.
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Matt Sweeney collaborated with Billy Corgan on the soundtrack to the movie Spun, singing the movie's opening song, a cover of Iron Maiden's "Number of the Beast".
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Matt Sweeney was featured as a guitarist and backing vocalist on Bonnie "Prince" Billy's Ease Down The Road album.
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Matt Sweeney lent a helping hand to Dave Grohl in assembling the all-star heavy metal album Probot, tracking down the legendary singers and providing some guitar work.
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Matt Sweeney is credited as providing guitar, vocal, and some songwriting on Zwan's album Mary Star of the Sea.
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Matt Sweeney played guitar on the Dixie Chicks' Taking the Long Way album.
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In 2007 Matt Sweeney again collaborated with El-P, this time alongside Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala of Mars Volta, on El-P's 2007 album, I'll Sleep When You're Dead.
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Matt Sweeney produced Dax Riggs' album We Sing of Only Blood or Love in 2007 for Fat Possum records.
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Matt Sweeney turned up on the Six Organs of Admittance's LP Shelter from the Ash.
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Matt Sweeney plays guitar on Kid Rock's 2010 album Born Free.
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Matt Sweeney is the host of the web series Guitar Moves created in 2013 in which he interviews many popular guitarists with a focus on showing and teaching their guitar techniques.
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Matt Sweeney has interviewed prominent guitarists such as Keith Richards, Billy Gibbons, Dan Auerbach, Josh Homme and many others.