How to Handle a Rope / The Queens of the Stone Age Thread

[BurtReynolds]

Yeah I couldn't disagree with that assessment more.

[Birds in Hell]

Huge huge QOTSA fan here and I am NOT getting the big reaction to Like Clockwork.

I do think the album is decent, I mean it's the Queens and they are not going to put something crappy out. But it doesn't crack their first 4 albums. What are people seeing in this?

Vampyre of Time and Memory is the single worst shittiest piece of crap they've ever recorded.

That said, I love Fairweather Friends and Smooth Sailing is pretty cool.

I listen to Queens for the monster riffs and hooks. Turns out, when you take those out, you have a spotty vocalist/lyricist.

Agreed.

[Gods' Die]

I, too, don't think all the love is warranted to the level it's gotten. I think it's a pretty damn good record.

I really hope the Binaural analogy doesn't hold in coming years. I really, really enjoy Binaural...and it was the last record before PJ stopped being PJ really. It was a dip in quality from what came before but still to a high standard and they haven't come close to putting out a record of its or their 90s output yet.

So I hope Homme can keep finding inspiration and creating music that I listen to because I love it and not because he's the head of a band that is one of my favorites and I bend over backwards to give benefit of the doubt.

[Tuolumne]

Huge huge QOTSA fan here and I am NOT getting the big reaction to Like Clockwork. My theory is that they were so underrated in the past that people feel like they took them for granted and we're just happy they are still around. I def get that and they do deserve to be up their with the greats, even though my one experience with them live sucked.

I do think the album is decent, I mean it's the Queens and they are not going to put something crappy out. But it doesn't crack their first 4 albums. What are people seeing in this?

Vampyre of Time and Memory is the single worst shittiest piece of crap they've ever recorded. The guitar solo salvages it from killing the entire album. They place it in the 3rd spot which is crucial andthe album almost doesn't recover for me. My God is the Sun is just okay and has too many parts in it and just feels like it drags out. Kalopsia is done better by a tons of other bands out there, and Like Clockwork makes it sort of limp to the finish line.

The "good" songs on the album like I Sat By the Ocean and If I had a Tail prevent the album from totally petering out, but not good enough from covering up from the other bad spots on the album. I Appear Missing is a classic song and keeps the album from being an average one.

That said, I love Fairweather Friends and Smooth Sailing is pretty cool. The TCV vibe comes across in some of material.

The album exposes Josh's weaker points: when he doesn't have a killer melody, his voice isn't good enough to carry a song. And his lyrics can really suck balls when there's no monster riffage or great hook to mask it.

I listen to Queens for the monster riffs and hooks. Turns out, when you take those out, you have a spotty vocalist/lyricist.

I feel like when the album came out, in the interviews the band alludes to this. They had a tough time making it and they salvaged a listenable and sometimes good record out. I feel like they know that it's not their best record. I think it does, however, open up their sound which bodes well for future material. To me, it's the Binaural of their catalogue. Interesting enough diversion, but somewhat of an anomaly that doesn't quite feel put together right. You can feel them sweating and laboring through the making of it, and it should keep them going for future strong records. Great rock album? Hellz no, but long live the Queens.

Oh god no. It might be their best album...It has all the elements we know of QOTSA and they add this delicate sound and melody that was missing from previous albums.

There is not a bad song in the album.

You have no idea how much I want that to be true. On paper it's the album I want from them. Old Queens plus a big TCV mixed in to create something. But they didn't deliver enough of the old Queens, and the new vibe wasn't good enough to keep the record going for me. Josh acknowledges major writer's block for this record, and I can clearly tell. It can be as much of a struggle for me to listen to as it was for him to write it, at times.

[VinylGuy]

Huge huge QOTSA fan here and I am NOT getting the big reaction to Like Clockwork. My theory is that they were so underrated in the past that people feel like they took them for granted and we're just happy they are still around. I def get that and they do deserve to be up their with the greats, even though my one experience with them live sucked.

I do think the album is decent, I mean it's the Queens and they are not going to put something crappy out. But it doesn't crack their first 4 albums. What are people seeing in this?

Vampyre of Time and Memory is the single worst shittiest piece of crap they've ever recorded. The guitar solo salvages it from killing the entire album. They place it in the 3rd spot which is crucial andthe album almost doesn't recover for me. My God is the Sun is just okay and has too many parts in it and just feels like it drags out. Kalopsia is done better by a tons of other bands out there, and Like Clockwork makes it sort of limp to the finish line.

The "good" songs on the album like I Sat By the Ocean and If I had a Tail prevent the album from totally petering out, but not good enough from covering up from the other bad spots on the album. I Appear Missing is a classic song and keeps the album from being an average one.

That said, I love Fairweather Friends and Smooth Sailing is pretty cool. The TCV vibe comes across in some of material.

The album exposes Josh's weaker points: when he doesn't have a killer melody, his voice isn't good enough to carry a song. And his lyrics can really suck balls when there's no monster riffage or great hook to mask it.

I listen to Queens for the monster riffs and hooks. Turns out, when you take those out, you have a spotty vocalist/lyricist.

I feel like when the album came out, in the interviews the band alludes to this. They had a tough time making it and they salvaged a listenable and sometimes good record out. I feel like they know that it's not their best record. I think it does, however, open up their sound which bodes well for future material. To me, it's the Binaural of their catalogue. Interesting enough diversion, but somewhat of an anomaly that doesn't quite feel put together right. You can feel them sweating and laboring through the making of it, and it should keep them going for future strong records. Great rock album? Hellz no, but long live the Queens.

Oh god no. It might be their best album...It has all the elements we know of QOTSA and they add this delicate sound and melody that was missing from previous albums.

There is not a bad song in the album.

You have no idea how much I want that to be true. On paper it's the album I want from them. Old Queens plus a big TCV mixed in to create something. But they didn't deliver enough of the old Queens, and the new vibe wasn't good enough to keep the record going for me. Josh acknowledges major writer's block for this record, and I can clearly tell. It can be as much of a struggle for me to listen to as it was for him to write it, at times.

Well, its a matter of taste i guess..i dont hear TVC at all with this album. Its more like a Neil Young type of record, but fill with little QOTSA things, that why i found it so refreshing and new. And the lyrics are awesome. It might be my favorite album in a long long time.

[ridleybradout]

Like Clockwork was my album of 2013. In the second half of last year I listened to every live soundboard/broadcast from their current tour I could get my hand on. One of the best (and longest) was the show they recorded in Dusseldorf for the German music TV show, Rockpalast. It features nearly every song from LC (all except Keep Your Eye Peeled ) and heaps of great renditions of Queens classics.

I decided to remaster the already high-quality audio from the HDTV-rip and patch in the missing tracks from a satellite capture to create a definitive audio bootleg CD of the tour. Here it is, with artwork created from the show poster by Horse.



Link

Queens Of The Stone Age
Mitsubishi Electric Halle
Düsseldorf
Germany

8 November 2013


Patching, remastering and artwork by ridleybradout
Thanks to pawel and knowsley19 for original satellite captures

Cover image from show poster by Horse: http://bloodandthunder.bigcartel.com/pr ... -stone-age


Main source: pawel
Lineage: WDR HD > TT S2-3200 > DVB Viewer > VideoReDo H.264 (cut, chapters) > MKVToolNix (mkv) > MKV Extract GUI > Dolby Digital 448kbps AC3 > 44.1 KHz WAV > Nero WaveEditor (normalizing, equalizing, track splits and patching) > FLAC

Secondary source for patching missing tracks: knowsley19
Lineage: Digital Satellite Feed (Astra 3 @ 23.5°E) > TBS 6922 > DreamDVB v2.4b > .ts video > My MP4Box GUI > 256kbps MP3 > 44.1 KHz WAV > Nero WaveEditor (normalizing, equalizing, stereo broadening, track splits and patching) > FLAC


Tracks cut from WDR HD broadcast have been patched from secondary source.
Some cut between song banter and shortened song intros (e.g. Mexicola, Better Living Through Chemistry) also restored from secondary source.
Recommended disc split between Kalopsia & Little Sister.


TRACKLIST:

01 Intro #
02 You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire
03 No One Knows
04 My God Is The Sun
05 Burn The Witch
06 I Sat By The Ocean
07 Long Slow Goodbye
08 ...Like Clockwork
09 In The Fade
10 Misfit Love
11 If I Had A Tail
12 Kalopsia
13 Little Sister
14 Fairweather Friends #
15 Smooth Sailing
16 Make It Wit Chu
17 Mexicola
18 Sick, Sick, Sick #
19 Better Living Through Chemistry
20 Go With The Flow
21 Encore Break #
22 The Vampyre Of Time And Memory #
23 I Appear Missing #
24 Song For The Dead #

# Patched from secondary source.

[makeshift]

thank you.

[Bob Loblaw]

thank you.

[Revelator]

ridley, you are fucking awesome

[VinylGuy]

[zeb]

I'd just like to express my sincere thanks to ridleybradout for this amazing comp of this show. It is a truly fantastic performance and you've obviously shown it the care befitting such a gem.

Good work, man.

[VinylGuy]

been listening non stop to that show....amazing performance.

In The Fade

[ridleybradout]

Cheers guys

Glad to hear the show is getting the love it deserves

[zeb]

[zeb]

[zeb]

Good to see that the band enjoyed their trip to Australia.

[Fuzzcharger]

This Rockplast show sounds great! Thanks for sharing.

[zeb]

http://www.3news.co.nz/Josh-Homme-talks ... fault.aspx

Josh Homme talks new Eagles of Death Metal, QOTSA tour

Josh Homme's band Queens of the Stone Age have played two shows in New Zealand so far, in Auckland and Wellington. Tomorrow night they finish their tour with a show in Christchurch.

Homme has been touring with his wife Brody Dale and industrial giants Nine Inch Nails, led by Trent Reznor.

Today the bands are taking a day off, taking in the sights and sounds of Wellington. Homme tells me they're all having a blast so far.

"There's a wonderful concentric overlap in the audience, but there's also these fringes of both audiences, and I keep noticing it doesn't matter if you walked in a Queens fan, or a Nails fan, or a Brody fan, everyone is kind of leaving exhausted, together. And it has a certain singularity that's grander than the bands individually," says Homme.

After this tour, Homme says he's returning to the United States to complete the next Eagles of Death Metal record.

"Jesse [Hughes, Eagles of Death Metal] is extremely contagious in a wonderful way. Ideally, everyone catches it, you know what I mean?" says Homme.

As to finishing the next EODM record, Homme says, "I intend to go home and jump right back in. It's been tough, and I feel like responsible for it not being done, because I am here! I hate being at the epicentre of what something isn't happening. So I am going to go home and jump into that."

As for another Desert Sessions record, according to Homme it's almost another year away.

"As far as Desert Sessions goes, I was going to do a Desert Sessions this year but we did some Eagles recording instead. Because Desert Sessions works best at a certain time of the year, when everything slows and everyone takes a deep breath out. At the end of the year, in that December-January timeframe, everyone has exhaled. And post-exhale is the time to do something like that.

"So if I miss that window… I miss that window".

Josh says he loves the process of making music, with any of his bands.

"It's always been where I worship. I love those moments where things become something out of nothing. So that's why it's easy for me to go home to Eagles, because where there's no Eagles of Death Metal songs, soon there will be something.

"I guess I am sort of watching eggs being laid all the time!"

Last time Homme was interviewed by 3 News (in 2010 with These Crooked Vultures), reporter Tova O'Brien asked him, "Has it been sex, drugs and rock and roll?" to which he replied, "Six drugs? There's been more than that!"

He says he recalls the moment (which went viral online) fondly, "I think I was a little out of my mind then. Dave [Grohl] will never let me forget that!"

The last time Queens of the Stone Age were in New Zealand, they were due to play Christchurch. Then, the earthquake hit.
Homme says it's a no-brainer to come back.

"For me that's so simple. I come from earthquake territory too, and we were going to go there and something major happened there and it just seemed mandatory to go there. Do you know what I mean? Why would you pass that up?

"That seems like a really natural move to me. And it's a beautiful city that any attention there for any reason. I think the short-term memory of the world is terrible. So anything that focuses a little bit of something there, even if it's only nationally - you can only cover a great distance by making one little step at time".

Homme says touring with a band like Nine Inch Nails keeps him and his band on their toes.

"It's great touring with a band that sets its own bar at such a high level. It keeps you in a state of total-awareness. And I think for playing music, that's where you want to be, is standing right in the centre of your own feet.

"I've always been a now-ist. I don't care what already happened."

Homme says there was some discussion with Nine Inch Nails about perhaps doing some band-member crossovers during the tour, but it was decided against. Each band will just do their thing.

"You can appreciate something without having to finger it all the time." Homme laughs, and gives me a look. "You know what I mean?"

This tour has also seen both Reznor and Homme travelling with their young children. Homme says he finds their energy invigorating, and it ties in with the process of playing music.

"I've always been a family person, so I don't really need much else. It's so hard to have 2 or 3 things that you really like. And to maintain those things. Plus with my own intellect size I need to keep it very simple!"

Simple is the key to his success, he reckons. "It's like I have bananas on my feet. I slip constantly," he laughs.

[zeb]

[Reflection]

I think Eagles has run it's course, but Homme can do whatever he wants it's always good. Still I think his talent is wasted in EODM at this point. The current Queens lineup seems to be have great chemistry, looking forward to anything they do next.