{"id":2335,"date":"2025-06-05T11:37:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/rock-it-from-the-tombs-150018\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T11:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:37:51","slug":"rock-it-from-the-tombs-150018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/rock-it-from-the-tombs-150018\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock It From The Tombs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As Queens Of The Stone Age release a new stripped-down concert film, Josh Homme recounts his \u201cnear-life experience\u201d in the Paris catacombs…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As Queens Of The Stone Age release a new stripped-down concert film, Josh Homme recounts his \u201cnear-life experience\u201d in the Paris catacombs\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAbout 18 years ago, I was trying to go to the catacombs on a day off in Paris, and the line was three hours long. So the un-humble beginnings [of this performance] was like, \u2018How do we cut this line?\u2019 Perhaps the greatest gift of playing in a band is that it gives us access to such incredible locations and situations. There\u2019s no end to the juicy stories about the catacombs. There\u2019s been talk of secret meetings and late night raves, but we\u2019re the first people to legally play there. It feels really good for me to do something legal!<\/p>\n

THE JULY 2025 ISSUE OF UNCUT IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW: STARRING NICK DRAKE, A 15-TRACK NEW MUSIC CD, THE WHO, BLACK SABBATH, BRIAN ENO, MATT BERNINGER, PULP, BOB WEIR AND MORE<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe catacombs is the star of the show, so all the decisions we made were about respecting the space. First of all, you can\u2019t plug anything in \u2013 we had an electric piano that was hooked to a car battery. The floors were wet in some areas, like you were in this living, breathing thing. It felt like we\u2019re not supposed to roll out the hits, we\u2019re not supposed to play loud.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe origin story of most of our songs starts by sitting on the edge of the bed, playing acoustic guitar. If something works there, it works everywhere. But I feel that [in this setting] these songs really change their heaviness, they change their intensity. When things are stripped away, lyrics step forward, emotions run much hotter and higher. I\u2019ve always felt that we\u2019re a band that had a lot of emotion on its sleeve, but somehow we\u2019re not as known for our softer side as maybe we should be.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could not have enjoyed it more, even though I was in a very tough situation personally. I\u2019ve played with all manner of injuries before, but this was different. I ended up in the hospital in Rome, and by the time I got to Paris, I played with a 102.8 temperature. I couldn\u2019t quite shake it, no matter what medicines they were trying to give me. But if I\u2019m being honest, it actually felt like a gift to feel so terrible, because I got to show what I\u2019m actually capable of.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a cot in there because I needed to lay down between takes. We broke for lunch, but it\u2019s about 130 steps up a spiral staircase so I said, \u2018I\u2019m gonna stay down here\u2019. It was just me and six million dead, but I never felt so welcome in my life. The next day I was being emergency-flown to Los Angeles, and three hours after landing I was under the knife. But there\u2019s something about being hit with the kitchen sink that I just love. I\u2019m not interested in dying, but the view from there is fucking amazing. So it was more like a near-life experience than a near-death experience. I think what we ended up with is something as real as it gets.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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