Josh Homme

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Joshua Michael Homme (HOM-ee), an American singer, guitarist, producer, and actor, born May 17, 1973.

He is the founder, primary songwriter, and the only surviving member of the rock band Queens of the Stone Age, which he formed in 1996 and in which he plays lead vocals and plays guitar, as well as occasionally playing bass, piano, and drums.

He co-founded Eagles of Death Metal in 1998, playing drums for their studio albums and occasionally appearing live with them. Homme served as both co-founder and guitarist of the stoner rock band Kyuss from 1987 to 1995.

Since 1997, he has produced The Desert Sessions, a musical improv series starring other musicians (mostly from the Palm Desert Scene).

Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones co-founded Them Crooked Vultures in 2009, a self-titled debut album later this year.

He wrote, co-wrote, and appeared on the Iggy Pop album Post Pop Depression in 2016.

He has also been involved in games such as Foo Fighters and Arctic Monkeys.

Early life

Joshua Michael Homme was born in Joshua Tree, California, on May 17, 1973. He grew up in a well-known family in and around Palm Desert, California. Clancy "Cap" Homme, his paternal grandfather, immigrated to North Dakota and was an early settler of the Valley. Cap has a private street named after him in Rancho Mirage, marking the initiation of the Homme ranch and the construction of a special enclave of the Valley. Due to his father's work, he and his family were able to move to several towns around the Valley on a daily basis.

Homme talked about learning [his] own fun" as a youth in the desert, saying he did not start playing music to "get girls or make money" and that he expected him to be a contractor like his father. He has links to Idaho and has written about his formative experiences there, including seeing Carl Perkins perform at the Sandpoint Music Festival and the first time buying his own electric guitar (an Ovation Ultra GP) in a Sandpoint music store. Since his parents denied his request for a drum kit, Homme began playing guitar at the age of nine. He took guitar lessons for a few years, but his tutor mainly concentrated on polka, so he didn't know of a barre chord or a pick until his third year of lessons, contributing to his unique playing style. At the age of 12, he formed Autocracy, his first band, in 1985. Despite his musical success, he continued to work on his grandfather's farm until he finally released the first Queens of the Stone Age album at the age of 25, because he "didn't want to lose [his] grip on reality."

Personal life

Brody Dalle, a popular Australian singer and guitarist, performed with Screaming Trees in 1996 when she was 17 years old, while her then-boyfriend Tim Armstrong's band Rancid was on display at Lollapalooza. The two couples reunited seven years later in 2003, after she separated from Armstrong and began dating. Homme appeared to have been repeatedly attacked by Armstrong and Rancid supporters. On December 3, 2005, the two were married. Camille Harley Homme (born January 17, 2006) and two sons Orrin Ryder Homme (born August 12, 2011) and Wolf Dillon Reece Homme (born February 13, 2016) have a daughter. Dalle filed for divorce in November 2019 and divorce a month later, blaming Homme's alcoholism and heroin use; however, he and Dalle remain guilty of domestic assault and have mutual restraining orders filed over the next months. Dalle requested that restraining orders be filed against him on behalf of their sons in September 2021, citing physical and emotional violence, but two judges denied it.

Homme used to be fiscally conservative but politically liberal, with his view of him as a "fallen libertarian." He said he dislikes the prospect of using his influence to tell people how to vote, and that his music is often compared to a "ice cream parlour or arcade" where people can simply have fun. Despite this, he referred to then-president Donald Trump as a "retarded human being" in June 2017 and began collaborating more with late 2010s liberal artists like Run the Jewels. He owns several rifles, including a classic Winchester rifle, a sawed-off shotgun, and a Beretta 9 mm target pistol. He owns a few motorcycles, including a custom Falcon and a Harley-Davidson Ultra Classic. He drives a silver 1967 Chevrolet Camaro, which was the first vehicle he ever owned (at age 14). On Steve Jones' radio show, he had recently tried to quit his decades-long smoking habit by hypnotherapy, but said the program failed because he was unable to relax enough to be fully influenced by the hypnotherapist.

Homme has abused many pseudonyms over the years. To promote his bass, keyboard, piano, and drums playing on albums like "The Desert Sessions Volumes 3 & 4, Queens of the Stone Age," Peace, Love, Death Metal, he used the term "Carlo Von Sexron." To Dalle and the members of Eagles of Death Metal, Homme is known as "King" Baby Duck." He is also known as "J.Ho" in the media. "The Ginger Elvis" is a film by the time. "Mr. Lucky" was Nick Oliveri's nickname for him.

Homme suffered with an MRSA infection during surgery after years of heavy touring and heroin use severely damaged his immune system. Surgeons used a breathing tube that became stuck in his throat, coughing him and triggering cardiac arrest. They eventually revived him with a defibrillator. He was physically and mentally exhausted as a result of his illness, and doctors refused to see him without human contact for three months. He became depressed and considered quitting music, but after being unable to create any new music at all for almost two years, he became depressed and considered quitting it. This participation, he has said, contributed greatly to the creation of the 2013 album...Like Clockwork. Transcendental Meditation has been instrumental in his recovery.

Homme has more than 20 tattoos. On his knuckles, he has his grandparents' names ("Cam" for "Camille" on the left and "Cap" on the right) with hearts and his two sons' names ("ORH" for "Orrin Ryder Homme" and "Wolf"). Camille has his daughter's name tattooed over his chest. His left arm has a switchblade with "Stay Sharp" embedded underneath, while his inner right arm has a single razor with the phrase "Born to Win" inscribed; underneath, his Eagles of Death Metal bandmate Jesse Hughes, who has his nickname "Boots Electric" on the same location, has his tattoo "Boots Electric." Former Stone Age bandmates Nick Oliveri and Mark Lanegan and their sound engineer Hutch are among those honored at the Rock Am Ring Festival in Germany on Friday, June 1, 2001, at 4:15 p.m. Homme also has a tattoo that says "Fighten the King" and their "worst show ever" at the Rock Am Ring Festival in Germany. All were tattooed on their ribs, ensuring that they would miss the most and serve as a reminder.

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Career

Homme formed Katzenjammer, a punk rock-influenced heavy metal band at Palm Desert High School in 1987, alongside schoolmates John Garcia, Brant Bjork, Nick Oliveri, and Chris Cockrell. Homme, the band's guitarist, was the band's guitarist. They shortened the name to Kyuss after changing their name a few times, first to Sons of Kyuss (they released an EP of the same name). By the early 1990s, the band had a cult following, often heading for hours to obscure locations in the desert and plugging into generators to perform. These "generator parties" became a pop culture fixture in Rock subculture. The band became known for their heavy, down tuned, groove-oriented rocking, and they became well-known for their backstage brawls with local LA bands when they travelled into town to perform live shows. Chris Goss, the band's mentor, soon became aware of the band's name and then producing them solely in an attempt to protect their sound. Homme's parents' signed the deal on behalf of the band when he was 18 years old at the time of the band's involvement. In the 1990s, Kyuss released four albums (Wretch, Blues for the Red Sun, Welcome to Sky Valley, and...And the Circus Leaves Town), of which the final three Goss-produced efforts were often cited as pillars to the stoner rock movement's growth in the stoner rock style. In 2010, Kyuss was part reformed under the name Vista Chino, but Homme did not attend the reunion.

When Kyuss split up in 1995, Homme moved to Seattle, Washington, briefly abandoning his passion for a music career and attending the University of Washington to study business. During this period, he fell back in with old bandmates, such as Ben Shepherd and Mike Johnson, and decided to join the Screaming Trees as a rhythm guitarist on the summer Lollapalooza tour in 1996, a replacement for Johnson, who continued on the tour this year. During this period, Homme and singer Mark Lanegan became close friends, but despite the band's continuing misdeed, the band's continued misdeed, he began to consider founding his own band. In 1996, he founded Gamma Ray, a brand more focused on his own style and tastes. This band became Queens of the Stone Age after a break and desist from a band of the same name. The first installment under the new name of the Stone Age compilation EP, featuring tracks from both Kyuss and Queens of both Kyuss and songs from the Gamma Ray EP sessions, which were released in late 1997. In 1998, Queens of the Stone Age debuted their eponymous debut album. The band began as a group of Homme's from the Seattle area. Homme had invited a number of musicians, including Lanegan, to appear as lead vocalist for Queens of the Stone Age, but by the time of recording the band's debut album, he had returned to Palm Desert, and the group was reduced to just Homme and ex-Kyuss drummer Alfredo Hernandez. Homme was left to cover every other instrument and ended up performing for the first time in his career. Homme and Hernandez were joined by bassist and vocalist Nick Oliveri, keyboardist, and lapsteel player Dave Catching shortly after recording, and the band was now made up entirely of ex-Kyuss members and roadies.

Following their debut album, Queens of the Stone Age, which came out soon, Queens of the Stone Age, an album of a more accessible, spacious, and psychedelic sound, was released by the band's next album, Rated R, which featured a wider variety of instruments. Rated R became the first mainstream hit in the Stone Age, although it differed from the band's debut. The new release, 2002's Songs for the Deaf, will however receive even more buzz from the music community and avid fans alike. Homme's filtering of stoner rock and hard rock continued in Songs for the Deaf. The album centers on Homme's memories of traumatic rides through the California desert, where he had performed in his days with Kyuss and where there was nothing to do but listen to Spanish radio stations.

Homme suffered with Oliveri during this period. Following the debut of Songs for the Deaf, the couple's friendship deteriorated until Homme fired Oliveri from the band in 2004. At this point, Homme is said to have voted against breaking up the band.

Lullabies to Paralyze, the band's new album, was written by Homme, after a lyric from the Songs' "Mosquito Song" was released. Lullabies to Paralyze, created with Songs for the Deaf touring recruits Troy Van Leeuwen and Joey Castillo, collaborators and prospective recruits Alain Johannes and Natasha Shneider of Eleven, QOTSA's best charting album on the Billboard 200 to date, was a critical and commercial success, debuting at number five on the Billboard 200.

Era Vulgaris, Queens of the Stone Age's fifth album, was released in early June 2007 and received generally positive reviews from critics. Following the album's touring dates, the band took a break to concentrate on individual projects, during which Homme continued to produce and produce more music outside of the band. This break will unintentionally turn into a six-year gap between albums.

Homme began performing more live shows with QOTSA in 2010, after his work with rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures. Following a limited reissue of Rated R, a 2011 re-release of their debut album and a companion tour that followed, the album appeared front to back in the style in which it was filmed. This was the first time any of the songs had been performed live since the album's first appearance.

Queens of the Stone Age's sixth album,...Like Clockwork, received acclaim from reviewers as well as top the Billboard 200 charts on June 4, 2013. ...Like Clockwork highlights Homme's collaborative recording process and stars such as Elton John, Dave Grohl, Alex Turner, Jake Shears, Trent Reznor, Nick Oliveri, and Brody Dalle, as well as Homme's wife Brody Dalle.

Villains, the band's seventh album, was released on August 25, 2017. Villains, on the other hand, are without collaborations, but they were created by Mark Ronson.

The band appeared on Revamp, a compilation album containing various interpretations of Elton John songs, on which they performed "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" in 2018.

In 1997, Homme founded The Desert Sessions in Joshua Tree, California, describing it as a musical collective collection "that cannot be described." "You play for the sake of music at Desert Sessions," he said. It's why musicians are so popular. If that's not enough anymore, or that there is no reason for it, then a quick reminder like Desert Sessions will do so much for you. It's easy to forget that this all started from playing in your garage and adoring it."

The recordings are made "on the spot" in a matter of hours, and the line-up continues to expand, with new contributors being added to each new recording. PJ Harvey, Twiggy Ramirez, Dave Catching, Nick Oliveri, Mark Lanegan, Mark Lanegan, Mark Shepherd, John McBain, Josh Freese, Alain Johannes, Dean Ween, and many others from the Palm Desert Scene have contributed to The Desert Sessions videos.

In October 2014, Homme revealed that after 11 years of inactivity, he would begin working on more Desert Sessions stuff the following year. However, things remained quiet until May 2019, when Homme posted the hashtags "#Desert, #Sessions, #11, #12" on Instagram. Desert Sessions Volumes 11 & 12 will be released on October 25, 2019. It was revealed in September that they would be available in September.

In 1998, Homme formed Eagles of Death Metal with Jesse Hughes as a joke band in the context of the Desert Sessions. The band's first recordings appeared on Volumes 3 & 4, which were released that year. Hughes settled into family life over the next two years, while Homme stayed on Queens of the Stone Age. However, Homme persuaded Hughes to pursue a full-time music career after Hughes' separation from his wife in 2003 and a surge in creativity that resulted in hundreds of songs. Hughes writes, sings, and plays rhythm guitar, while Homme produces, arranges, and performs drums, bass, and other instruments. The band has four albums: Peace, Love, Death Metal, and most recently Zipper Down in 2015. Homme does not regularly tour with Eagles of Death Metal due to his involvement with Queens of the Stone Age and other causes, but he does occasionally appear during live performances. In a October 2008 interview, he reiterated his commitment to the band, saying, "This isn't a side project for me." I'm in two bands. I have musical schizophrenia, and here is one of those people.

It was revealed that Homme, Dave Grohl, and John Paul Jones were teaming up in July 2009 for a musical project called Them Crooked Vultures. Despite being conceptually conceived as solely a studio project, the trio performed their first concert together in Chicago on August 9, 2009, attracting a crowd of over 1,100 ticketholders, as well as additional live rhythm guitarist/auxiliary man Alain Johannes. Interscope Records in the United States and Sony Music International released their album, Them Crooked Vultures, on November 17, 2009, and Sony Music worldwide. On February 6, 2010, the band performed as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live, and on October 2, 2009, as well as many festivals since 2010. On February 13, 2011, Them Crooked Vultures received the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 53rd Grammy Awards. Despite the fact that the band has been inactive for a long time due to members' other commitments, Homme, Grohl, and Jones have all expressed an interest in returning to the project. Them Crooked Vultures reunited at Wembley Stadium on September 3, 2022, in honor of Foo Fighters' late drummer Taylor Hawkins and later on September 27, 2022 at the KIA Forum for the second tribute exhibition. The band performed their songs "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and "Long Lives" (September 27) as well as "Mega Donner" and "Dead End Friends."

Homme has collaborated with artists such as Mondo Generator, Foo Fighters, Fatso Jetson, Mark Lanegan Band, Trent Reznor, Masters of Reality, Millionaire, Unkle, Primal Scream, and Arctic Monkeys, as well as Mondo Generator, Mortime Ruff, King of Reality, Mondo Sanz, The Strod, Mondodon, Peaches, and the Arctic Monkeys.

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, a 2002 film starring Homme, Nick Oliveri, and Brad Wilk contributed to the soundtrack. Homme and Alain Johannes were originally supposed to produce a score for Spec Ops, but the campaign was cancelled before it became Spec Ops: The Line in 2012. Any game work will go unnoticed. For the 2005 video game version of the film The Warriors, Homme was also supposed to perform music, including a recap of Joe Walsh's "In the City." This went untapped.

Homme has appeared on compilation albums. As part of QOTSA's coverage of "Back to Dungaree High" in the song "Stone Cold Crazy" alongside Eleven, as well as Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three and the Turbonegro tribute Alpha Motherfuckers. On the compilation album Burn One Up! "18 A.D" is a one-off lineup of Homme and Dave Catching with Beaver members Milo Beenhakker and Eva Nahon, who co-produced the album "18 A.D."

On January 26, 2006, Homme and a regular collaborator Chris Goss appeared as The 5:15ers, the ArthurBall's offshoot of the ArthurFest festival in Los Angeles. When they co-produced QOTSA's second album Rated R and fifth album Era Vulgaris, the two were later identified as "The Fififf Teeners."

Homme collaborated with Liam Howlett of The Prosecutors on a remix of the Prosecu "Take Me to the Hospital" in August 2009. It was re-titled "Take Me to the Hospital (Josh Homme and Liam H.'s Wreckage Remix)" when it was launched. He made the majority of the Arctic Monkeys album Humbug that year. He continued to perform vocals on "All My Own Stunts" and "Knee Socks" on their 2013 album AM, as well as vocals on "One For The Road" and "Knee Socks." Homme performed at several Arctic Monkeys concerts in the United States, including Austin City Limits and The Wiltern.

In June 2010, Homme appeared on Comedy Central's Tosh.0 to perform an unplugged duet version of Samwell's hit viral song "What." He also contributed to Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1, formerly known as Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and worked with Mark Lanegan to provide the theme song for Anthony Bourdain's travel show Parts Unknown.

It was revealed on Dean Delray's comedy podcast Let There Be Talking that Homme would make a guest appearance on Nick Oliveri's album Hell Comes To Your Heart in May 2012. On the album's final track, "The Last Train," Homme's Pink Duck Studios in Burbank, California, captures the album over three days. This was the first time Homme and Oliveri met since their public falling out in 2004. In addition, fellow Kyuss bandmate John Garcia appears on "The Last Train," which was recorded shortly before Homme's complaint against Garcia about the Kyuss Lives! It was the first time Homme had collaborated with Garcia since 1997, according to the band's name.

It was announced in June 2012 that Homme would be in the music video for Glen Campbell's last album Ghost on the Canvas's song "A Better Place." Homme portrays a bartender who shows Campbell a photo album of his life, from his childhood to his career to the present day in the video. Campbell's musical career came to an end, and it was a retrospect on his life after his diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Following White's escapades throughout the film, he had a brief cameo at the end of Jack White's music video for "Freedom at 21" in July. He contributed "Nobody to Love" to the soundtrack of End of Watch's action-drama film in September.

Alain Johannes and Chris Goss, two Queens contributors, contributed three tracks each to Dave Grohl's documentary Sound City: Real to Reel's soundtrack in early 2013. Homme was filmed for the film and was particularly prominent in a scene where he collaborates with Grohl and Trent Reznor under the name Sound City Players to produce "Mantra" a song. Homme performed bass and provided backing vocals on the album.

Bang!

Homme began hosting The Alligator Hour with Joshua Homme on Apple Music's 24-hour streaming internet radio station Beats 1. Homme's show features a large variety of songs personally chosen by him, interspersed with his own wry introductions of (and commentary on) the various tracks on that week's playlist. The show's musical picks have a similar, stream-of-consciousness-type relationship to each other.

Post Pop Depression, Homme's surprise album in March 2016, was titled Post Pop Depression by Iggy Pop. The nine-track album was shot at Rancho De La Luna in Joshua Tree, California, as well as Homme's Pink Duck Studios. Dean Fertita and drummer Matt Helders, guitarist and keyboardist, appeared with Pop and Homme on tour, as well as Troy Van Leeuwen on guitar and Matt Sweeney on bass. The band appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on January 21, 2016, announcing the album, and ending in a performance at The Royal Albert Hall that was shot and released as a concert DVD. The album's footage was also shot and assembled into the 2017 film American Valhalla. Homme produced New Skin, Nick Valensi's first album from his new band CRX, in October 2016.

In 2017, Homme composed the score for Fatih Akin's German-language drama In the Fade, named after the Queens of the Stone Age song.

Homme performed "Cruel, Cruel World" on the soundtrack of the Rockstar action-adventure video game Redemption 2. Two interpretations of the game include Homme's version and Willie Nelson's version playing during the epilogue.

Homme appeared on the Run the Jewels' song "Pulling the Pin" from their fourth album RTJ4 in 2020. During Run the Jewels' voter encouragement performance, which was broadcast on YouTube later this year, he and Staples appeared on big screens due to the COVID-19 pandemic) and joined Run the Jewels (via separate pre-recorded performances on huge screens.

Homme's 2021 version of "Boilermaker," "Space," and "King" from the Royal Blood album Typhoons. The former was included on the standard album, but the latter two were not included on the deluxe version.

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