Queens of The Stone Age, Foo Fighters and Led Zeppelin SuperGroup's Live Debut!!

Tue, 11 Aug 2009

New Supergroup Them Crooked Vultures played their Debut show Sunday Night, at Club Metro, Chicago. The night saw Foo Fighters' frontman Dave Grohl make another return to the Drums, Queens of The Stone Age's Josh Homme on Vocals and Guitar, Led Zeppelin legend John Paul Jones on Basses and Keys, and Alain Johannes of Eleven fame playing Rythm guitar throughout. The intimate show was a huge success, and it is thought to have been an introduction to what we can expect from their hotly anticipated forthcoming Debut album.

The 11 song tracklist, consisting of: "Elephants," "New Fang," "Scumbag Blues," "Dead End Friends," "Bandoliers," "Mind Eraser (No Chaser)," "Gunman," "Daffodils," "Interlude w/ Ludes," "Caligulove," "Warsaw," and "Nobody Loves Me," was one of gritty power. Grohl's hard-hitting beats (thrashing the Snare with both sticks for much of the set) complimentied Jones' melodic verstility, Homme's powerful vocals, and an overall Beat-Driven, Heavy-Blues-orientated sound.

Fan-Videos (although obviously difficult to hear) have already been doing their rounds across the internet, as depicted below.

The only apparent lapse in this varied, riff-laden set was during the performance of "Interlude w/ Ludes" when Homme ditched the Guitar in order to croon over Jones' Keytar playing, apparently leaving the audence slighly bemused...

The group (if Alain Johannes is to remain supporting their live line-up) are inter-linked predominantly through Queens of The Stone Age. With Homme having worked with both Johannes, on the Desert Sessions albums, and Grohl with the Queens' themselves after the Songs For The Deaf Album. It is now said though that Them Crooked Vultures have taken this kind of sound to another level, and that we are to believe the hype!

As upcoming UK tour dates are said to be in the pipeline, their is still no release date for the Album, which is rumoured to have been titled "Never Deserved the Future," although a spokesman for the group has said that there was no title as of yet. The album has however already been given a glancing critique by Brody Dalle of Spinnerettes, who, being Homme's wife, has had the honour of being one of the first to hear what they have laid down. Describing it as "...beats and sounds that you've never heard before..." LickLibrary are as anxious as the fans themselves to hear the finished article. 1100 lucky people have already had the pleasure!

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