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| Birth name | Joshua Michael Homme III |
| Born | May 17, 1973 |
| Genres | Desert rock, hard rock, alternative rock, alternative metal, neo-psychedelia, blues-rock, stoner rock[1] |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter, producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, drums, organ, lap steel |
| Years active | since 1987 |
| Labels | Dali Records, Elektra, Roadrunner, Bongload Records, Loosegroove Records, Rekords, Interscope, Southern Lord |
| Associated acts | Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal, Mondo Generator, The Desert Sessions, Screaming Trees, Fififf Teeners, Them Crooked Vultures |
| Website | http://www.qotsa.com/ |
| Notable instruments | |
| Ovation - Ultra GP Maton - BB1200 Motor Ave - Bel Aire |
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Joshua Michael Homme (born May 17, 1973[2] in Joshua Tree, California) is an American rock musician and record producer. He was a founding member of the stoner metal band Kyuss, as well as the founding and only continuous member of the hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age (QOTSA), in which he mainly sings and plays guitar. However, Homme is a multi-instrumentalist and plays guitar, bass, drums, and keyboard. He co-founded and occasionally performs with Eagles of Death Metal as its drummer, and continues to produce and release a musical improv series with other musicians, mostly from the Palm Desert scene, known as The Desert Sessions. In 2009, he appeared in a new project called Them Crooked Vultures with Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones. In 2010, Homme has concentrated his efforts on Them Crooked Vultures over all other projects.
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Homme was born in Joshua Tree, California and grew up in Palm Desert, and began playing guitar at age nine.
At age 14 in 1987, Homme formed a heavy metal band with school mates John Garcia and Brant Bjork in Palm Desert called Sons of Kyuss (later shortened to Kyuss). Homme was the band's lead guitarist. The band would become a cult phenomenon by the early nineties.[citation needed] The band often drove for hours out to isolated locations in the desert and plugged into generators to perform, and these events, known as "Generator Parties" became urban legend among rock subculture.[3]
Kyuss split up in 1995 and Homme went on tour with grunge act Screaming Trees, as their second guitarist to fill spare time.[4] He and vocalist Mark Lanegan became close friends during their time touring,[citation needed] and Homme would later recruit Lanegan as an additional vocalist for Queens of the Stone Age. Disliking the band's constant arguing and lack of progression, Homme left the group after less than a year.[citation needed] He founded Gamma Ray,[5] a group more centered to his unique style and tastes, which later became Queens of the Stone Age in 1997. Queens of the Stone Age released their eponymous debut album in 1998. Originally, he had asked a number of singers, including Lanegan, to perform as lead vocalist for Queens of the Stone Age,[citation needed] but ended up singing lead for the first time in his career.
Following their debut, the band released several singles and EPs. With the next album, Rated R, the band used a wider range of instruments to achieve a more relaxed, spacious and psychedelic sound.[6] Despite differences from the band's debut, Rated R became Queens of the Stone Age's first mainstream hit. The next release, 2002's Songs for the Deaf, however; would gain even more buzz from the music community and fans alike.[7] In Deaf, Homme continued his filtering of stoner metal and hard rock through the progressive rock aesthetic. The album centers around Homme's memories of an uncomfortable ride through the California desert, where he had performed in his days with Kyuss, and where there was little else to do but listen to Spanish radio stations.[8]
During this time, Homme had a falling out with bassist and friend Nick Oliveri. Following the release of Deaf, their relationship deteriorated until Homme fired Oliveri from the band in 2004.[9] Homme began writing their next album, Lullabies to Paralyze, named after a lyric from the Deaf hidden track "Mosquito Song".
Queens of the Stone Age's fifth album, Era Vulgaris, was released in early June 2007 and received generally positive reviews from critics.[10][11][12]
Homme founded The Desert Sessions in 1997 as a musical collective series "that cannot be defined", at the Rancho De La Luna in Joshua Tree. The recordings are done "on the spot", in matters of hours and the line-up is constantly changing with new contributors being added for each new recording. Artists such as Brant Bjork, PJ Harvey, Jeordie White, Dave Catching, Nick Oliveri, Mark Lanegan, Ben Shepherd, John McBain, Josh Freese, Chris Goss, Alain Johannes, Dean Ween and many others from the Palm Desert scene have recorded with The Desert Sessions.
| “ | At Desert Sessions, you play for the sake of music. That’s why it’s good for musicians. If someday that’s not enough anymore, or that’s not the reason behind you doing it--that’s not your raison d’être--then a quick reminder like Desert Sessions can do so much for you, it’s amazing. It’s easy to forget that this all starts from playing in your garage and loving it. - Josh Homme | ” |
So far, ten volumes of from The Desert Sessions have been released. Homme also stated in the September issue of NME that he would record more material with The Desert Sessions.
In 1998 Josh formed Eagles of Death Metal with friend Jesse Hughes. Recordings from this project first appeared on Homme's, The Desert Sessions Volumes 3 & 4, released that year. Over the next few years, Homme became distracted from EoDM due to the success of Queens of the Stone Age. However, in an October 2008 interview, he re-affirmed his commitment to the band saying, "This isn't a side project for me. I'm in two bands. I have musical schizophrenia, and this is one of those personalities[13].
So far the band has released three albums: Peace, Love, Death Metal in 2004, Death by Sexy in 2006 and most recently Heart On in 2008. Due to his commitments with QOTSA Homme doesn't regularly tour with the band, but occasionally makes appearances during live performances.
In July 2009, it was revealed that Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones were recording together for a musical project named Them Crooked Vultures.[14][15] The trio performed their first show together on August 9, 2009 in Chicago at The Metro to a crowd of approximately 1,100 ticketholders. The band has been steadily touring with live rhythm guitarist/auxiliary man Alain Johannes.[16] Them Crooked Vultures was released by Interscope Records in the United States on November 17, and Sony Music internationally.[17] They performed on Saturday Night Live as a musical guest on February 6, 2010, and on Austin City Limits on February 14, 2010.
Other acts with which Homme has collaborated include: Mondo Generator, Foo Fighters, PJ Harvey, Fatso Jetson, Mark Lanegan Band, Trent Reznor, Masters of Reality, Millionaire, Wellwater Conspiracy, U.N.K.L.E., Melissa Auf der Maur, Paz Lenchantin, A Perfect Circle, Death from Above 1979, Earthlings?, Mastodon, Peaches, The Strokes, Local H, Biffy Clyro and Arctic Monkeys.[18]. He also collaborated with Liam Howlett from The Prodigy for a remix of The Prodigy track Take Me To The Hospital in August 2009 called Take Me To The Hospital(Josh Homme and Liam H.'s wreckage remix).
Homme was featured on Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen in the song "Stone Cold Crazy", on Blood Mountain by Mastodon, in the song "Colony of Birchmen", and on Impeach My Bush by Peaches in the song "Give 'Er".
Homme, along with friend and Kyuss/QOTSA contributor/producer Chris Goss, performed as "The 5:15ers" at the inaugural ArthurBall (an offshoot of the ArthurFest festival) in Los Angeles on January 26, 2006.[19] The two were credited as "The Fififf Teeners" when they co-produced QOTSA's second album, Rated R, and their latest disc, Era Vulgaris.
Homme and his wife, current Spinnerette frontwoman Brody Dalle, have a daughter named Camille Harley Homme, born on January 17, 2006. The couple resides in Palm Springs. Coined "Queens' rough rider" by the Los Angeles Times, Homme collects motorcycles and rides a rare, post-war Falcon Motorcycle.[20] In a radio interview, Homme and Nick Oliveri agreed to give the LAPD permission to use the song "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" in anti-drunk driving films in return for a reduced sentence, following the Blag Dahlia incident.[21]
Homme's surname is of Norwegian origin, and is believed to come from the town Valle, Norway.[citation needed] On several occasions (the BBC radio documentary "Time For Heroes: The Pixies" and on his secret "fan letter" on the final track of Mastodon's album Blood Mountain), he pronounced it as rhyming with "mommy". However, according to the most commonly used Norwegian variants the right pronunciation would be [hummə]. When Homme was interviewed in 2005, he again pronounced his surname as rhyming with "mommy". 
Josh Homme pronounces his name, 647k OGG file (help·info)[22] Homme adopted the pseudonym "Carlo Von Sexron" to credit his playing of bass, keyboard, piano, and drums on such albums as The Desert Sessions Volumes 3 & 4, and Peace, Love, Death Metal from Eagles of Death Metal.[23]
Homme is also known as "(King) Baby Duck" to Dalle and the members of Eagles of Death Metal.[24] He is also referred to as "J.Ho.", "Joe's Hoe" and "The Ginger Elvis".[25]
In 2004, Homme was arrested for assaulting Dwarves frontman Blag Dahlia and Karl Doyle, at an L.A. club. Upon pleading no contest, Homme was ordered to remain at least 100 yards (100 m) away from Dahlia and the club, was sentenced to 3 years probation with community service, and was forced to enter a rehab program for 60 days.[26]
At the 2008 Norwegian Wood festival in Oslo, Norway, Josh Homme drew criticism for his reaction to an audience member who had thrown a bottle at him during the song "3's and 7's".[27][28]
| “ | Hey, you with the fucking hat on, hey, pussy. Turn around you fucking pussy with the black hair. Turn the fuck around you chicken shit fucking faggot. Hey, you. You fucking pussy motherfucker. I will fuck you up. Come on up here. Come on up here, you fucking little faggot. You know what? Get your fucking ass up here. You're so stupid you'll come up here. Lift him up so I can kick him in the fucking face. | ” |
The incident drew accusations of homophobia from several blogs, which were then picked up by the mainstream media.[29][30] Homme replied with a lengthy public letter denying all accusations of homophobia, and blamed the tirade on a high fever.[31][32]
"I don’t [share secrets] only because my sound is important to me and I’ve spent a lot of years just working it over with little tricks here and there, I almost feel like if you reveal too much of that you give away something that’s near and dear to you. It’s like you put it up on the altar and say, ‘Here, everyone take a slice"
In an interview about guitars in 2008, Homme claimed to own an amount of guitars close to 35, adding that only 3 of them were "really good". He also declared that he purposely did not have a Fender Stratocaster or a Gibson Les Paul, but that he's always in search of intriguing, unique guitars, which are not always generally accepted as "quality" guitars, but are nevertheless great to use. He said that he tends to buy "weird, Japanese" guitars, or guitars that are already "scarred" and thus have a story.[34]
Homme owns three 1984 Ovation GPs[35] and often downtunes his guitar to C standard. He is very evasive about his guitar equipment, choosing to either change the subject or even lie when asked about his setup in interviews.[36]
During the tours up until Lullabies to Paralyze, Homme mainly relied on his Gibson Marauder, his Epiphone Dot, Maton M503 and M524 along with his Ovation GPs and Ovation VXT. For the Lullabies to Paralyze and Era Vulgaris recording sessions and tours, Homme retired his GPs, and almost exclusively plays semihollow guitars. He is also listed as a user of Seymour Duncan's SH-11, SHR-1b and SH-1 guitar pickups.[38]
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During the early days of QOTSA much of his late setup from Kyuss was still being used, later Homme turned more towards Ampeg amplifers and cabinets.[37] Throughout his career Homme has experimented a lot with different combinations of amplifiers, cabinets and settings, here is a list off some of the equipment he has been known to have used.[37][48][49]
In addition to guitar, Homme frequently plays a Yamaha SA-70 semihollow body bass on songs such as on "Burn the Witch" and "Long Slow Goodbye," as well as every track on QOTSA's debut album except for "You Would Know" and "Give the Mule What He Wants" as well as piano and keyboard under the pseudonym "Carlo Von Sexron". Homme also plays the drums with Eagles of Death Metal, on The Desert Sessions as well as on some QOTSA tracks. He has also occasionally played lap steel during the Desert Sessions.
| Band or artist | Album | Release date | Credits |
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| Kyuss | Sons of Kyuss | 1990-04-19 | Guitars |
| Kyuss | Wretch | 1991-09-23 | Guitars |
| Kyuss | Blues for the Red Sun | 1992-06-30 | Guitars and co-producer |
| Kyuss | Welcome to Sky Valley | 1994-06-28 | Guitars and co-producer |
| Kyuss | …And the Circus Leaves Town | 1995-07-11 | Guitars and co-producer |
| The Desert Sessions | Volumes 1 & 2 | 1998-02-24 | Vocals, guitar, keyboard, drums, and bass |
| Queens of the Stone Age | Queens of the Stone Age | 1998-09-22 | Vocals and guitar, bass, keyboard and piano. |
| The Desert Sessions | Volumes 3 & 4 | 1998-10-27 | |
| The Desert Sessions | Volumes 5 & 6 | 1999-09-14 | |
| Queens of the Stone Age | Rated R | 2000-06-06 | Vocals, guitar, percussion, drums, piano, backing vocals, mixing, concept and co-producer. |
| Kyuss | Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss | 2000-11-28 | Guitars and co-producer |
| The Desert Sessions | Volumes 7 & 8 | 2001-10-16 | |
| Queens of the Stone Age | Songs for the Deaf | 2002-08-27 | Vocals, guitars and co-producer. |
| The Desert Sessions | Volumes 9 & 10 | 2003-09-23 | Vocals, guitar, bass, drums, percussion. |
| Eagles of Death Metal | Peace, Love, Death Metal | 2004-03-23 | Drums, percussion, bass and producer. |
| Queens of the Stone Age | Lullabies to Paralyze | 2005-03-22 | Vocals, guitar, bass , piano, drums, percussion and co-producer. |
| Eagles of Death Metal | Death by Sexy | 2006-04-11 | Drums, backup vocals, keyboards, bass, guitar and producer. |
| Queens of the Stone Age | Era Vulgaris | 2007-06-12 | Vocals, guitar, percussion, bass guitar, lap steel guitar, piano, organ, percussion ball and co-producer. |
| Eagles of Death Metal | Heart On | 2008-10-28 | Drums, guitars, bass, percussion, vocals and producer. |
| Arctic Monkeys | Humbug | 2009-08-24 | Producer, guitars and back vocals. |
| Them Crooked Vultures | Them Crooked Vultures | 2009-11-17 | Guitar, Vocals, Misc. |
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