The Foo Fighters took a break in 2001. Their new album, to come later as One By One, was not going well. The band were infighting, and the album was put on hold. Around that time, Josh Homme hooked up with his old buddy Dave Grohl and invited him to play on the new Queens of the Stone Age album. Dave was growing wearing of frontman duties in his own band and was happy to just be a drummer again for a little while.
The resultant QOTSA album, Songs for the Deaf, was a smash hit. Dave Grohl’s presence brought them a higher profile than before, but it was also just a flat-out kick ass record.
One of our store managers, Joe “Big Nose” was a Queens of the Stone Age fan going back to Kyuss. Though I was not there personally when this happened, Joe likely had an internal meltdown when a customer asked:
“Hey, do you have that new side project of Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters?”
I bet there was steam coming out of Joe’s ears!
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Hahaha wow. I mean, on the one hand, I get what was meant. But on the other hand, just, wow. I hope he didn’t punch the guy.
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No physical assault charges! Yay!
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Must’ve been a close one, though.
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I’ve never known Joe to be violent, so what he did was probably just passive aggressive. Joe would have let off a giant fart.
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And there’s me thinking it was a Mark Lanegan side project!
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No I think his side project is called Screaming Trees.
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He probably went into meltdown. Too bad you weren’t there, I would have loved to read your full blow by blow account of the event.
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It would be similar to if someone came up to me and asked if we had that new band David Lee Roth was in called Van Halen.
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Yeouch! That’s a killer blow right there… side project… oooft.
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Killer video of that Dave side project, though. When you have the Homme/Lanegan/Grohl/Oliveri lineup, then I have a huge musical boner.
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It’s hard to beat that line-up. That said, I saw them twice during this tour (minus Grohl) and they were incredible. The first time (November 2002, I think) they were without a doubt the best band I had seen…
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I think Joey Castillo was in the band immediately after Grohl. He is a monster too!
The live DVD that comes with their live album is fucking fantastic. I like when Homme calls out a dude in the crowd: “Hey cocksmoker. Eat a bag of dicks.”
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Yeah, it was Joey both times I saw them on that tour. He’s incredible… really lifted The Wildabouts when he joined, too. I’m gonna argue that he’s better than Grohl. There, I said it!
Is that the Over The Years And Through The Woods album? I own(ed?) the CD, but don’t think I ever seen the DVD, y’know!
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I didn’t wanna be the one to say it! I was going to, but I backtracked. He’s awesome.
Yes! That’s the one. The DVD is what you buy it for. It’s really awesome! It’s more like a DVD that comes with a CD.
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Joey is better. No doubt.
I’ll pick up that live set again!
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If I recall Natasha Schneider (RIP) was in the band at that time. And there is archival footage from the Oliveri period too.
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I think she joined the band for the Lullabies tour? Though she may have made some appearances prior to that…
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Almost as informed at those people commending Kanye West for giving that older guy in their duet, Paul McCartney (!), a chance to make it big
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Yes it was very kind of him to give Paul his big break. I hear he’s going to be huge one day. Phil Collins apparently wasn’t much impressed by Sir Paul in person.
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