Since I dislike Queen Of The Stone Age so much, you are probably wondering why I am going to see them. Well, for reason I trust Alyson Camus, who loves them, to understand there is something I am not hearing here.
And for another, you can’t tell before you see a band live, especially a metal band, if they are any good as a band. Josh Homme has a sort of voice you either love of hate and I hate it; he is the sort of guy who produces Arctic Monkeys or plays in a band with Dave Grohl: I guess if you like that kinda thing fine, but if not? I don’t. I don’t like either Foo Fighters or Arctic Monkeys and it feels like everything he touches drags me.
I did a mix of QOTSA current tour and half sounds like prog rock and the other like metal drone: it irritates me just to write about it and yet still I wonder, what would the band be like on stage: are they big enough for an Arena, are they so up and into their arty pretense that they will enervate an entire building at a single bound. Or will it make sense live? Is that what is missing from this picture?
The thing about QOTSA is they seem to be unable to play a riff without countering it with another one, everything is so complex it feels like showing off… and this from a guy who used to play with Screaming Trees.
I wanna take a closer look. I wanna see how they do it on stage and I will, this December 14th (a Saturday!) at Barclay Center.
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