Just heard about these guys about a week ago.... and holy crow am I stoked. A new supergroup consisting of Dave Grohl on drums, Josh Homme on guitars/vocals, and John Paul Jones on bass/keys. They just played their first ever show yestereday and the reviews sound phenomenal. New album is supposed to come out October 23rd.... and boy am I stoked. Anyone else know anything about these guys?
Jack White plays drums and produced this album for the band headed by The Kills' Alison Mosshart, which also includes The Raconteurs' Jack Lawrence and Queens of the Stone Age's Dean Fertita.
John Paul Jones is one of the most underrated musicians in the history of music. Page, Plant and Bonham are all commonly considered amont the best at their craft in rock history. Jones is almost always overlooked among his peers.
I'm a big fan of both Homme and Grohl. The last 3 QOTSA records are among my favorite. Great stuff.
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Grohl and Homme have already proven the fantastic stuff they can create together. Together with John Paul Jones..I can't even imagine how amazing it'll be.
That short clip MonsieurFish posted is all I've heard of this and its got me excited already.
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I've been waiting for an Eddie Vedder supergroup.. but this will do for now.
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As I recall, Eddie was only a major vocalist on Hunger Strike. I think he may have sung backup vocals on one other song but he really wasn't part of the group as he was not connected to Mother Love Bone, to which the group was a tribute. It was really Chris Cornell's project and Eddie was only involved because a couple of members of Pearl Jam were more directly involved. Having said that, I always wished he had had a bigger role in the album a I thought his vocals outclassed Cornell's.
Back OT, I can't wait to hear some more from this group, I love Grohl on drums and hope he does some vocals as well, although Homme is fine by me on that front as well.
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Dave Grohl can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned. I definitely want to hear more. Grohl and Jones had been friends for sometime apparently.
Jones played on 2 tracks of the acoustic disk from In Your Honor. He played piano in one song and mandolin on another.
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In 1974, a Time magazine article entitled "Return of a Supergroup" quipped that the supergroup was a "potent but short-lived rock phenomenon" which was an "amalgam formed by the talented malcontents of other bands." The article acknowledged that groups such as Cream and Blind Faith "played enormous arenas and made megabucks, and sometimes megamusic", with the performances "fueled by dueling egos." However, while this "musical infighting built up the excitement...it also made breakups inevitable." [3]
Chris DeVille's 2008 article "Super or blooper?", which is subtitled "Supergroups: So much promise, so often squandered", notes that "when well-known rockers get together in new configurations, they're guaranteed lots of attention, but these ego summits rarely bear fruit as fresh as what made these guys famous in the first place."[4]
New Supergroup: Them Crooked Vultures
