Queens Of The Stone Age reunite with former member Nick Oliveri. Halloween 2014 Millionaire Quick and to The Pointless Autopilot Another Love Song Im Gonna Leave You
I think they initially wanted him to sing all of it but Oliveri kind of blew the surprise by announcing he'd be doing this months before the show. So I think they still sort of wanted an element of surprise worked in there by starting off without him and then have him come in by the end of the song.
I think they were remembering being higher than a jet plane with each other during that moment. Hell, I was flashing back to my old friends doing the same
If Josh ,Nick and Mark could all get together again QOTSA would be my favourite band again. Seeing Nick and Josh back together again makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
yeah and you could really hear them too,i think i could just about hear Nick on a backing vocal and i don't even remember Mark being on it at all but then it's my least favourite QOTSA album by miles and i never listen to it.
***** Mark wrote some of Fairweather Friends. With that being said, I don't think you actually gave Like Clockwork a fair shake. I've been a fan for about 10 years now (which, I know. Is nothing compared to others) but you know. My first exposure to the band was Songs for the Deaf and all that before Lullabies and what came after. And I absolutely love Like Clockwork.
Paul inglesfield "lost their identity" or created a new one? There's more than one way to look at things. My two favorite QotSA albums are Lullabies and Like Clockwork. Then there's Songs for the Deaf, Rated R, Self Titled, with Era Vulgaris at the bottom. They're all fucking great albums when you listen without any expectations of them sounding like "classic Queens" (Which, there is no Classic Queens sound. All of their first three albums are different from another, as is the three that followed.)
To everyone who is saying that "josh doesnt look happy that nicks performing with them" you are so completely wrong. Josh and Nick have been best friends since they were kids. Even after Nick got fired there was some bad blood but they still remained good friends. Also if Josh didnt want Nick there he wouldve never let him play because its joshs band and josh never wouldve let nick contribute to Like Clockwork. Its just a bunch of classic people who are totally mislead and make very uninformed comments
As someone who has experienced DT’s I wouldn’t call that a good thing but yeah seeing death in a top hat with a crow on his shoulder is pretty cool in retrospect.
This needed to happen at some point and, as it turns out, it had a very decent and respectful outcome but I wouldn't say that Oliveri and Lanegan should go back with Queens and it would all be like the old times cause it wouldn't be the same; you can't turn time backwards. Awesome performance, nonetheless.
Watching what Queens have built the last 20 years is humbling. Kinda like Mastodon. Bands that were not around for my childhood/teenage years. But they feel like they were. They have built such an amazing body of work.
I would really love to hear Oliveri and Lannegan on the next QOTSA album, but like writing and doing lead vocals, writing their own stuff, Songs For The Deaf style. It would be really interesting to hear them in a "Like Clockwork" sound.
Well to be fair... if you remember that Nick Oliveri beat up his girlfriend and that was the main reason for him being chucked out.. you might dislike this video because you're against that kind of abuse maybe? Musically there's no reason to dislike it though.
Warren Nelsom as much as I will agree with you Joey NEVER played the beat to quick and to the pointless as it was meant to be played he kinda powered through it which is a shame because the beat behind that song is one of the reasons the music sounds so dirty :) other than that I do quite agree with you!
the problem with joey is he would play things too fast. i saw them twice with joey and both times he was playing like a speed fucking demon. which is cool, but kind of kills the songs with a groove.
Just a memo for me Autopilot 4:48. Thank you si much for this captation of the most beautiful version of this song in my opinion. I listen to it regularly since it was posted.
Well I mean... he already did Millionaire in Portland. My guess is it was done to fake out the crowd because Nick let the cat out of the bag about the performance a good 2 months ago
Adan Hernandez Nick talked about it before the show was even announced. And him performing with the band was never talked about besides the few times he talked about it.
i dont think nick fits into the current vision of qotsa, maybe the past 2 albums would have been better with him but qotsa has kind of reinvented themselves into a more smooth kind of rock band which i dont think nicks playing style would fit. im not dissing nick or anything though, id love to see josh do a side project with him.
Clockwork was a huge step in the right direction in my opinion, but Nick's energy and the raw and volatile quality it adds to the band is exactly what they're missing. Queens is too "safe" now. They're only a couple years from turning into a straight up Dad Rock band on this trajectory. Josh needs to avoid being the next Dave Grohl. Dave's an awesome drummer and undoubtedly has done some amazing things over the years, but the Foo Fighters have become a homogenized, boring, color by numbers rock band. He's above that shit. I find it depressing that the guy who played drums on In Utero and Songs for the Deaf, and wrote and recorded the FF self titled album by himself is the same guy I saw on that Sonic Highways documentary. I want to like what he's doing SOOOOOO bad, but over the last 8 years or so I keep getting more and more embarrassed for him.
+Justin Vavala I think Josh will never follow the generic-rock path, he just kinda have a very different approach to everything he does musically, hopefully he'll keep reinventing qotsa's sound on their next records.
Just look at they way Josh looks at Nick during the last guitar part for Autopilot. There's your proof that they still have mad love for each other. I got chills.
I love all of QOTSA's stuff.are fn brilliant to see live, but man I miss Nick. Don;t get me wrong the newer stuff is absolutely great but you gotta love some Nick too. Oh well it was great to see him up with them again.
Give this to me 10 times a day, and 20 on weekends. Queens touring Rated R was one of the best shows I've ever seen, touring Lullabies the other. Goosebumps when Nick walks out, at the time I thought he might be coming back. I hope it happens one day, I'll go wherever I have to to see that again.
Whilst it is awesome to see a reunion like this, I have to disagree with people saying that he should be in the band full time or Lanegan should be back writing with them.. Whilst that was an awesome era of QOTSA they have moved on from that genre of music to something equally, possibly even more awesome.. To bring them back would be to repeat themselves and to tamper with what was.....
Nick always felt like a dose of danger-concentrate in the albums he was on. I love the stuff QOTSA are doing now, but it does feel a little comfortable at times. Still awesome stuff, but I kinda miss the volatile feeling of the old days. (Cut to montage of slow motion footage of Nick while "Good Riddance" plays even though nobody needs to ever hear it again. Scene ends with Nick silently mouthing the word "jump" straight into the camera, and then we freeze frame/fade out)
Nick was an actual fixture of the band. Not some young bass player in the background with bad hair. He was an integral part of their sound and helped them reach mainstream status. In part, Josh owes much of his success to Nick. I know that, for me, I wouldn't have become such a fan if it wasn't for his influence and presence on those first records. Now they are "Josh Homme and the Queens of the Stone Age".
Vibe got so electric when he pulled up, the camera couldn’t even handle it. Just not the same without him. I feel for the guys that fill those shoes. Miss Gene and Alfredo too. Ghost of what it used to be.
