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By Antonia Simigis

"When it's time to party we will always party hard." Andrew W.K. lives and breathes his musical mantra: Onstage he's a brain-rattling, scissor-kicking madman, wielding the mike stand like a lethal weapon on the rock and roll battlefield. It's hard to imagine W.K. ever sitting still long enough to focus a camera. But when rock's most earnest headbanger accepted our invitation to carouse with a Playboy Cyber Girl, the artiste in the party animal came out for a set of photos so good, he should think about quitting his day job.

"My mom is a photographer," W.K. explained. "She had a darkroom in our house, and I got a camera that was just like hers. When I moved to New York, I shot some models for their portfolios. I was 19, and I totally felt like I was getting away with something." How does snapping for Playboy compare? "It's a bit like a surreal dream," he admitted. "In three days I'm going to [smacks his head] and say 'Whoa! Did I really do that?'"

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