Kyuss members, Josh Homme, John Garcia, Brant Bjork and Scott Reeder interviewed backstage before their gig at the Rivoli on December 13, 1992 in Toronto, Canada.
i had the luck to discover and understand their music in 1994. i loved them that time goin to school with walkman. i still think they could have done 3-4 more great albums without getting boring at all. i f they did 3-4 more albums and then quit in 2000, everything would be perfect. and i guess the split was only because difficulties between homme + garcia. and i also guess i know why: the last 2 years garcia was damn often drunk or drugged on stage, performing + behaving not really cool. josh was pissed about that, because it was not nice for the audience/fans...
Flipper1974nz There with ya. Kyuss was it. Around that time Blues for the red sun came out(Green Machine) after I saw that on, what was formally Music Television. I became everything Kyuss(& Ministry) the only bands i wouldn't pawn. When Kyuss split up,(I thought that blue cd was another Kyuss release called Queens of the stone age) I thought that's a fucked up name for a record. Then history happened. Whoda thunk it?
Javdoc I was knowned as "the guy that was always trying to push Kyuss onto everyone". They just were too ahead of the public. In a way I'm glad they didn't get big. But history happened.
Who is this chick? Damn it !!! overthink the shit. When it came out All I could say is it's Kyuss, Spark it up & hit play. By the time Green Machine started(anyone who listened to uninterupted Blues for the red sun, knows what i'm saying. Nothing else like it(at the time that reached Rual Missouri) 25yrs later QOTSA are what they are. Homme's a riff god, but there are others that were there with him.
Funny how Josh is bemoaning the thought of Kyuss being lumped in with bands like Judas Priest and roughly seven years later Rob Halford recorded vocals on Feel Good Hit of the Summer.
watching this interview i just had a really weird feeling of nostalgia/sadness, thinking of what life must have been like back then, and how different things are now. i feel like i missed out on something
This is incredible! It used to be rare to find Kyuss live footage, never mind interviews. Great quality too! Josh and Brant sooo do not seem like teenagers here. Josh was just about as articulate then as he is now and his philosophies about music are the same. So much love and respect for this guy.
You can totally tell that Brant and Josh are the brains of Kyuss, Its those 2 and John and Scott doing what they tell them, The Lennon and Mccartney of Desert Rock
Bullshit, Garcia had an major influess, i mean listen to slo burn and unida and compare them to queens of the stone age and the solo stuff from brant and tell me whats more like kyuss. But its right that every bandmember was important for kyuss. I wouldn't want to have kyuss over way than josh,brant, scott reeder(one of my favourite bassists) and garcia.
@@DerNerver Josh Homme and Brant Bjork wrote all songs. The others have nearly no writing credits. Slo Burn and Unida sound more like Kyuss because they simply copied the sound. Homme and Bjork wanted to make different music with their newer projects. Especially QOTSA sound different with every record.
@Filippo Buono Brant Bjork came into an already made band. Fu Manchu's sound was established. Scott Hill is the primarily writer and band leader in Fu Manchu. It changed a bit with Bjork and the new guitarist Bob Balch though. It was less fuzzy and more groovy in the period with Bjork.
I know! Brant has always been this beautiful humble soul, even now to this day, he speaks so fondly of Joshua and I've never heard or seen him talk bad about the whole Kyuss war. He is very honest about it all but he remains to be very respectful and loyal and I totally agree, Brant is the number 1, I've always been in loouuve with him! I finally got to see him play earlier in the year and my god he was fantastic.....
Wow, thanks for posting this rare footage! My old roommate Steve convinced me to spend 7 of my last $20 on this show, the remaining $13 was enough for subway fare and 2 beers. My memory of that night was a LOT of hair on stage, way more hair than you actually see in this interview. Clearly Scott Reeder is responsible for burning this memory into my brain. What a cool night
This is great!! A glimpse into these stellar musicians as they were coming up! While the grunge craze was in full effect... I think it's funny how John Garcia avoids the camera... I also think its funny how much they try to downplay the Sabbath influence...they covered Into The Void for christ's sake... Still...it was really cool to see this... Thank You JohnnyClash!!!
I was 18 in 1992. Kyuss was and still is my favourite band. Total OG. NOBODY PLAYED LIKE THEM BEFORE. Everybody today is talking about Nirvana. Nirvana was mainstream back then, kinda like Ed Sheeran today. To all the young people here. This was the shit back then. And like Hommie says : if you weren't there , well, you weren't. Nirvana was far from original, if you have doubts about it, go listen to the wipers or melvins or sonic youth. Todays confirmation of mediocrity made nirvana a legend.
Unbelievable! I'm from Italy...went to the States in 2008 to see Lake Michigan and drove thru The Rivoli and stopped right there to piss..anyway, it's beautiful watching at these guys and seeing them unaware of what they just recorded that year!
+Alan Donnet Watch his other interviews... He looks insecure, and he is so fucking humble. That never ceases to amaze me. A vocals god, yet a normal person off-stage, a real cool father and person
(About lyrics) "We have no control .... Anytime you stray from what your first reaction to something is...you end up second -guessing yourself, and we don't wanna do that sort of thing" In regular life, you have to second-guess, I guess, but damn it, I know from hundreds of failed attempts to write songs, that what Josh says here rings true. Problem is, if you end up writing ten different songs that seem like they come from ten different musical universes you have no clue about your identity musically and so it doesn't feel like you got 'something' in singular. But being honest is a must - some fTYUTUYYTkn how!
What if they aspired to be the best, i think they would still be here and considered one of the best. For me what they sound they are one of the greatest.
I'm always so right! "1. What artist inspired you to create art? People like Hendrix or greg ginn or Django Reinhardt. People like them don’t try, they are. Can’t try to be cool…"
someone replied to another comment i posted about one of the kyuss guys saying "ginger baker" on drums to tell me they were referring to a different ginger baker, and i said yeah i know it's a different guy but hearing the phrase "ginger baker on drums" was amusing because he is a legendary drummer.
@@jeroenverbeeck7925 Yeah, but the sound of Kyuss isn't Punk. It's heavily blues, doom metal and psychedelic rock sounding. They maybe listened to Punk a lot but they made totally different music. At least since "Blues for the Red Sun". They did have some punkish songs on their first record "Wretch" but the majority doesn't care too much for that record. The second album "Blues for the Red Sun" was the start of the "Kyuss Sound" and that had more in common with Black Sabbath than with Black Flag.
