"She Builds Quick Machines" is a rock song by
Velvet Revolver
Velvet Revolver was an American hard rock supergroup consisting of Guns N' Roses members Slash (lead guitar), Duff McKagan (bass, backing vocals) and Matt Sorum (drums, backing vocals), alongside Dave Kushner (rhythm guitar) formerly of pun ...
, and was released as the first single from the album ''
Libertad'' on May 21, 2007. The song was made available for digital download on May 16, 2007. Besides being featured on ''Libertad'', "She Builds Quick Machines" was also featured on the
EP ''
Melody and the Tyranny''.
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/ref> The music video premiered on Fuse TV
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's '' The Sauce'' on May 23. The song was also featured in the video game ''NASCAR 08
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''.
Music video
Directed by Dean Karr
Dean Karr (born February 22, 1965) is an American photographer and director. A prolific creative, Karr has photographed dozens of album covers and directed a substantial amount of music videos, commercials, and films.
Early life and education ...
, the band is a group of modern cowboys standing on what appears to be a desert in the Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
/Mexico
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Border region. Something is seen falling from the sky and Scott Weiland
Scott Richard Weiland (; né Kline, October 27, 1967 – December 3, 2015) was an American singer and songwriter. During a career spanning three decades, Weiland was best known as the lead singer of the rock band Stone Temple Pilots from ...
(suited as Clint Eastwood in the film ''A Fistful of Dollars
''A Fistful of Dollars'' ( it, Per un pugno di dollari, lit=For a Fistful of Dollars titled on-screen as ''Fistful of Dollars'') is a 1964 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first leading role, ...
'') holds up a telescope
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, in which they see a female angel called "Libertad" (Spanish for 'freedom') played by Fernanda Romero
Fernanda Romero (born as María Fernanda Romero Martínez on October 4, 1983) is a Mexican actress, model and singer. She is most noted for her starring role in the Mexican telenovela '' Eternamente tuya'' and her supporting role in the Ame ...
. After crashing to Earth, she is kidnapped by the people of a Mexican village, who seem hostile. Various members of the band lip sync
Lip sync or lip synch (pronounced , the same as the word ''sink'', short for lip synchronization) is a technical term for matching a speaking or singing person's lip movements with sung or spoken vocals.
Audio for lip syncing is generated th ...
the lyrics of the song as if they were the dialogue of the "film". The band tries to track her down on various vehicles equipped with radios, distributed in the following way: Weiland and Duff McKagan
Michael Andrew "Duff" McKagan (born February 5, 1964), sometimes credited as Duff "Rose" McKagan, is an American musician. He played bass for twelve years in the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late ...
in a car, Matt Sorum
Matthew William Sorum (born November 19, 1960) is an American drummer. He is best known as both a former member of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he recorded three studio albums, and as a member of the supergroup Velvet Revolver. ...
on a motorcycle and Slash with Dave Kushner
David Kushner (born November 16, 1966) is an American musician perhaps best known as the rhythm guitarist for the hard rock supergroup Velvet Revolver. Kushner has also been a member of Wasted Youth, Electric Love Hogs, Loaded, Danzig, Jan ...
in a van. They arrive at the village and have a big fight that involves explosions, molotov cocktail
A Molotov cocktail (among several other names – ''see other names'') is a hand thrown incendiary weapon constructed from a frangible container filled with flammable substances equipped with a fuse (typically a glass bottle filled with fla ...
s and gun shooting. After the fight is over, the band finds Libertad and releases her.
Track listing
# "She Builds Quick Machines" - 4:02
Chart positions
References
External links
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2007 singles
Velvet Revolver songs
Songs written by Slash (musician)
Songs written by Duff McKagan
Songs written by Matt Sorum
Songs written by Scott Weiland
Song recordings produced by Brendan O'Brien (record producer)
Songs written by Dave Kushner
RCA Records singles
2007 songs
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