Josh Homme displays on Taylor Hawkins tribute present and “romance” with Dave Grohl
Queens of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has mirrored on the tribute present held for Taylor Hawkins in 2022 and his friendship with Dave Grohl.
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In a brand new interview with NME, Homme spoke about performing David Bowie‘s ‘Let’s Dance’ with Nile Rodgers in honour of Hawkins, who away handed in March final yr, at Wembley Stadium final September.
“That felt actually good, as a result of I’ve at all times positioned a extremely excessive worth on escapism as a extremely high commodity,” he mentioned.
“With the ability to sing ‘Let’s Dance’ with Nile Rodgers at Wembley for my good friend… Taylor would have beloved that gig a lot. It’s such an exquisite factor that maybe solely Dave [Grohl] might do as a send-off like that. [He was asking] ‘Is that this a great way to say ‘I really like you’?’ Within the years previous, I haven’t at all times recognized how you can say ‘I really like you’ to the folks that I care about, you realize?”
Homme additionally spoke about his shut friendship with Grohl who has carried out along with his band over time and beforehand teamed up with the Foo Fighters frontman of their facet undertaking Them Crooked Vultures with Led Zeppelin‘s John Paul Jones.
He added: “Dave has been one of many longest romances I’ve had that’s labored. He’s such a very good man, however I additionally love his darkish facet. I really like mixing our watercolours collectively like that, simply in dialog. We go to this place, that I gained’t identify, simply to eat breakfast and waffles and speak about occasions.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Homme additionally spoke about going up in opposition to Elton John at Glastonbury, how he wrote “his means out of my troubles” on latest album ‘In Instances New Roman‘ and the band’s latest present at The O2 in London.
In the meantime, Homme lately paid tribute to Shane MacGowan throughout one of many band’s latest reveals in Dublin when The Pogues frontman was nonetheless in hospital.
“He’s an absolute fucking poet. Everybody assume great ideas about Shane MacGowan,” he advised the gang halfway by means of the set. “Once we the poets are gone, you’re left with a bunch of c***s. I feel some poet mentioned that one time.”
MacGowan has since handed away, having died from pneumonia aged 65.
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