SCUMBAG BLUES
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 at 3:00pm by Vince NeilsteinPeople seem to be pretty into Them Crooked Vultures, the new group featuring Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones. Ya’ll have been emailing us all sorts of live clips that have been popping up, and Blabbermouth posts news about them any time one of the members so much as takes a shit. I admit, the prospect of this band is pretty tantalizing and I’m quite excited about them myself — I just don’t need to get all in a tizzy about 30 seconds of crappy cell-phone footage and a U.S. tour that doesn’t even hit New York (prediction: CMJ. Watch for it.)
Anyway, here’s some actual, real, worth-reporting news about the band: there’s a preview of the song “Scumbag Blues,” along with some nifty old-school looking animation, posted on Them Crooked Vultures’ official YouTube account (sent in by MS Maniac Jonathon Edwards). Watch it below.
So the guy with the umbrella/cane is obviously JPJ (cane = old, and all of those platinum records on the wall behind him), but of the other two vultures which is Grohl and which is Homme? Your guesses are as good as mine.
-VN
Is there a release date for this yet?
Im sure ill get slagged for this but i really wish John Paul Jones had gotten anybody ANYBODY but fucking Josh “King of trendy hipster wannabe Stoner metal” Homme. I can tolerate Grohl only because of Probot (sorry i dug it) but Homme? sorry ill pass.
I take it you’ve never heard Kyuss.
You take it wrong my friend. I just dont understand why everyone kisses his ass.
Have you heard of Electric Wizard, or the mighty Sleep?
two bands that smoke Kyuss
No Pun intended.
I think you mean, “two bands that wouldn’t exist without Kyuss.” Sleep is quite mighty though.
In all fairness, I think Sleep predated Kyuss. Sleep wouldn’t exist without Black Sabbath.
Kyuss pre-date Sleep by a year or so when they played as “Sons of Kyuss.” If you go with “first release as Kyuss,” it’s the same year for Sleep, 91.
Ah, good point. (I was feeling lazy and didn’t feel like looking it up.)
I’d still wager that Sabbath and some of the other traditional doom bands had more an an influence on Sleep than Kyuss, though.
Sabbath’s influence is a bit irrelevant though, as they’ve influenced 90% of the metal bands we know and love. “Exist” was a strong word, maybe just “not be as well known.” Kyuss opened a lot of doors for a lot of great bands. I would argue that there would be no such thing as “stoner metal” as we know it today without them.
To quote Josh Homme from the QOTSA live album: “Hey, cocksmoker, eat a bag of dicks.”
There, that’s my flaming out of the way. Now, to respond to things a bit more logically… I’ve never seen anyone who thought QOTSA were metal, and they were kind of trendy when ‘Songs For The Deaf’ came out, but that album was brilliant so it didn’t really matter. QOTSA were stoner rock back when they started off, sounding like an offshoot from Kyuss, and they’ve turned into their own thing entirely.
As for Dave Grohl, he’s a badass drummer when he actually decides to get behind the drumkit… see the aforementioned ‘Songs For The Deaf’ or his drumwork on NIN’s ‘With Teeth’ (regardless of what you think about the album, he was brilliant there). And there is his work in Probot as well.
Feel free to take a pass… you’ll be missing out on a great album. I, for one, plan to enjoy the fuck out of it.
Agreed
In (somewhat) related news, I recently learned that Homme produced the latest Arctic Monkeys record (I know, weird right?) and he actually makes them not suck…. as much. Can’t wait for Crooked Vultures!
I actually quite enjoy Arctic Monkeys. I haven’t heard the new album, though.
Bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. Thought their first album sucked, there second was decent, but I think their latest is their best, probably because of the obvious Queens elements on a few tracks.
Arctic monkeys……………………………………………………………….
Point proven.
What point? Guy produced a band of a different genre. HOLY SHIT!!
Sounds really good to me but i’ll wait until i hear some vocals before i can say i’m really excited over this.
Saw this the other day… sounds fucking great. And I love the animation.
This is gonna kick so much ass
sounds good. cool vid– i’m interested.
How The Fuck Can You Be Into Something Thats Not Even Out Yet, Or Is This Shit Leaked?
No leak yet… just some previews and live bootlegs. But it sounds awesome.
Also, Is There A Reason You’re Capitalizing Every Word? Typing Like This Is Very Inconvenient.
(I’m Guessing You Tried Using The Old Cruise Control For Coolness, Caps Lock.)
You can be into the snippets that have been released, the fan footage, and maybe liking the other bands these guys have been involved with?
good these guys work hard on their brand….
more important than the music
Kyuss were underrated at the time and are massively overrated now. Queens Of The Stone Age did one half-good album (the debut) and released dull bullshit ever after. This sounds like generic hard rock – no, it’s worse than that; it sounds like ’80s hard rock by ’70s performers; it sounds like The Firm. (Go look it up, kids – they were a shitty band with Paul Rodgers of Free and Bad Company, and Jimmy Page.) If these three had decided to do a stripped-down, early ’70s style bluesy hard rock album in the vein of Free, early Grand Funk Railroad, Groundhogs, Toe Fat, Mountain, and a zillion other bands like that, they might have been able to pull it off (though I doubt it; Grohl is too committed to his image to really settle into the pocket as a drummer). But the little clip I heard is too slick and too…Homme-ish. Another “supergroup” turns out to be a big puddle of wet crap. Surprise, surprise.
Grohol… too concerned with his image to settle into the pocket??? Huh? What?
Dave Grohl doesn’t make bad music….. Please be gentle on me.
I like Grohl, good dude, hes done some cool stuff and is funny as fuck. Also QTSA’s only decent album is Rated R, rest is a bit boring but I am looking forward to project.
QOTSA and Grohl kick ass.
and so does this….at least so far.
ill wait until it comes out to fully judge it, but I am not a fan of Homme or Grohl previous work. Well except Kyuss. I disliked Nirvana, Foo fighters, and QOTSA.