Queens origin story begins with another band. Homme first emerged from Palm Desert in a band called Kyuss, a relentless hard-rock act that languished in obscurity in the waning days of synthetic hair metal. Dave Grohl first saw Kyuss when he was living in Seattle as a member of Nirvana, after getting a tip to check them out at the Off Ramp Café. What Grohl found there was a band of shaggy desert misfits, and guitarist-songwriter Homme, just 19. Josh looked like this baby-faced giant with a baseball hat on backwards, Grohl remembers. At the time, the newest Kyuss album was 1992s Blues for the Red Sun, and their live set of weird metal and wild instrumental tangents instantly converted Grohl to the cause. Soon he was buying multiple copies of the album and sharing the discovery. He gave a copy to Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett and even told Kurt Cobain that this was what the next Nirvana album should sound like. And he said, Really? You think so? Grohl says with a laugh. https://youtube/watch?v=Fc-7FXzbeA0
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:27:37 +0000
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