My Band

As a little bit of a side note, i'm going to post the link to my bands page for a little bit of free publicity. Keep in mind when you listen to it that it's all self produced, so it's not a professional recording by any means. I'm really interested to find out what you really think, so be honest with me.

http://www.purevolume.com/thisibelieve

Them Crooked Vultures

What do you get when you take a little Nirvana, add a cup of Queens of the Stone Age and a whole lotta Zeppelin? You get Them Crooked Vultures, the latest supergroup. Them Crooked Vultures is composed of Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal on vocals and guitar, Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Foo Fighters on Drums and John Paul Jones of Led Zepellin on Bass. I was literally bouncing in my chair when I first read about this. Seriously. Those are 3 of my favorite bands of all time and they just had a child together.

Supergroups often make me nervous because they don't always turn out as good as the original bands the people were a member of. Just because all of the members of a band are good, doesn't mean that they can effectivly mesh together as a group. Despite that, I was exstatic when I first heard about this. This is probably one of the best, and more unlikely combinations that I could even think of, let alone actually exist.

One of the things that you might be thinking is "how did this even come to be?" Dave Grohl drummed on the Queens of the Stone Age album "Songs for the Deaf." Also, John Paul Jones (JPJ) played bass with the Foo Fighters at one of their concerts at Wembly stadium, since then JPJ and Grohl have been good friends. They decided to put something together, and Josh Homme's name came up and he accepted the gig.

I would of course, reccomend listening to the whole album, but I'm just going to hilite some of my favorite tracks.

My favorite song on the album is Elephant. I really like the intro of the song, it gets me so pumped up. Even though you can easily hear the influences from all of their bands, the band still has it's own "brand" and this song really shows it. I also like how many different riffs and styles there are in the song, and how it still flows together very well. I almost hear some punk influences in the intro with how fast it is. Overall, it's an awesome song.

Another awesome song is "New Fang" which is the first single off the album. It has a sort of shuffle feel to it that drives the song.

Overall, I really enjoy this band and I look forward to their next album (which they have already started!).