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THERE’S ALWAYS BEEN an air of mystery surrounding Randy Fitzsimmons, the elusive songwriter reportedly behind the Hives’ sizeable catalog of garage rock sizzlers. According to the Swedish quintet, the enigmatic figure gave them their sound, not to mention their famously sartorial finesse. Trouble is, no one’s ever seen the guy, outside of the Hives.
Over the years, sleuths sniffed out that Fitzsimmons may actually be a registered for founding guitarist Nicholaus Arson (a.k.a. Niklas Almqvist); the six-stringer has long maintained, however, that Fitzsimmons isn’t a character, but rather a ringleader who prefers to stand outside of the limelight. Nevertheless, if the group had been under the tutelage of the incognito impresario for the past 30 years,.