Queens of the Stone Age Artistfacts

Queens of the Stone Age song list

Queens of the Stone Age Artistfacts

1997-
Josh HommeGuitar, vocals1997-
David CatchingGuitar1997-2000
Nick OliveriBass, vocals1997-2004
Alfredo HernandezDrums1997 - 1999
Mario LalliGuitar1999
Gene TrautmannDrums1999 - 2002
Brendon McNicholGuitar2000 - 2002
Mark LaneganVocals2001 - 2006
Dave GrohlDrums2002
Troy Van LeeuwenGuitar, keyboard, vocals2002-
Joey CastilloDrums2002-2013
Dan DruffBass2005
Alain JohannesBass, guitar2005-2007
Michael ShumanBass, vocals2007-
Dean FertitaKeyboard, vocals2007-
After the breakup of Kyuss in 1995, Josh Homme played for various bands (Screaming Trees, Earthlings? and Soundgarden), before founding a new band in 1997 together with his ex-Kyuss bandmates Olivieri and Hernandez as well as Earthlings?'s Catching. The Band was originally called "Gamma Ray," but after a lawsuit by a German Metal band of the same name, the changed it to "Queens of the Stone Age."
They are probably the most famous band from what critics call "stoner rock," even though they reject that term.
The only consistent member of the band is founder Josh Homme, other members change frequently. When questioned in an interview with Ultimate Guitar in March 2007 about the band settling down with one lineup, Homme replied with the following: "Does it seem like there will be? I don't know. Long ago I lost the opportunity to be in U2 - where it's the same four guys. I respect that, but at the same time this is the search to try to take advantage of playing with certain people, even if they can't stay, and then there's other times that you need to humble yourself at the altar of music, and if you don't (makes a throat cutting motion). >>
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Josh Homme married the Australian punk rocker Brody Dalle in 2005. She is perhaps best known as the lead singer and guitarist of punk rock band The Distillers and later, Spinnerette.

Brody Dalle filed the documents for a legal separation on November 15, 2019.
They recorded their 2000 album Rated R at Sound City studios in Los Angeles using analog equipment. On this album Nick Oliveri was Homme's main collaborator, writing most of the songs with him. As Oliveri explained in a Songfacts interview, the sessions would go into the early morning hours and wouldn't start until the next afternoon. Homme and his co-producer Chris Goss started calling themselves the "Fififf Teeners" because they usually didn't show up until 5:15 p.m.
Josh Homme formed his first band Autocracy when he was 11 or 12. He recalled to Mojo: "We just played in garages and made flyers and stuff. That seemed great."
The band Ween is a huge influence on Queens Of The Stone Age, inspiring Homme to let his musical freak flag fly. "That's how Queens started," he said on the Joe Rogan Experience. "What if you just played anything you thought was good, no matter what it was."
Dave Grohl played drums on the QOTSA album Songs For The Deaf and toured with the band on their subsequent tour that summer.

In 2013, Grohl released a documentary called Sound City about the studio, which is where his band Nirvana recorded their Nevermind album. Josh Homme and Chris Goss make appearances in the film.
Homme nearly died while on an operating table receiving knee surgery from undisclosed complications in 2010. "I woke up and there was a doctor going, 'S--t, we lost you,'" he recalled to the Irish Independent. Homme has expressed that this experience greatly contributed to the making of ...Like Clockwork.

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Michael from Morris County, NjQOTSA's muic is like a steady torrent of water, constantly flowing but knocking you of your feet. its awesome!!!

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