Queens of the Stone Age performed at the Fox Theatre earlier this week in Detroit, the site of Chris Cornell’s final show with Soundgarden. This was one of the most high profile alternative rock shows at the venue since Cornell’s death.
At the concert, QOTSA sought witnesses likely in regards to a lawsuit filed against frontman Josh Homme. The band put up a sign that said the following:
ATTNTION:
Would the couple who saw the stooges in ’68 & who met Joshua outside the MOCA exhibit on the Iggy Pop show in April 2016 please contact an usher & ask for Kevin or Rob
The Detroit Metro Times reports, “The sign is in reference to the last time Queens of the Stone Age frontman Joshua Homme performed in Detroit, as part of Iggy Pop’s backing band at the Fox Theatre last year. An official afterparty was held at the Musuem of Contemporary Art Detroit, which featured an exhibition of photos of Iggy. Both Iggy and Homme were in attendance.
The band is likely seeking witnesses for legal purposes, having posted a similar message on their Facebook last month. The message stated they were looking for people who were talking to Homme at the MOCAD reception on April 7, 2016, when he was swarmed by people seeking autographs.
A TMZ video released last year shows Homme berating one autograph collector, calling a man who says he is a school teacher a ‘fucking loser’ and appearing to almost get physical with him. However, as Metro Times contributor Jarrett Koral noted in their blog last year, the edited video wasn’t an accurate portrayal of the events: Homme was happy to take photos with fans, but he said he didn’t want to sign autographs for resellers. The man persisted, which is when Homme started shouting at him. The man filed suit against Homme and TMZ this year.”
The Facebook message reads, in part:
“That evening, a group of people were gathered outside the museum entrance. Some of those people were witness to a group of people swarming the band members seeking autographs, allegedly, for resale.
We are looking for one couple specifically who was engaged in conversation with Josh Homme about the evening’s performance when they were interrupted by a man demanding an autograph.”
Josh Homme discussed the current radio landscape in a new LIPulse interview, “I’ve always thought this about radio. If you just played the good shit, whatever you thought was good, people would dig that. People like whatever they think is good…When downloading started and all that money went away from the business side of it, all these people left and said, ‘I’ll do something else.’ To me what happened was people started saying, ‘What you need to do is do what you did last time that worked.’ And that was always there—’Make a hit, kid.’ Bands seem to believe that, too. Now, that’s a huge generalization.”
Sign posted outside the Detroit #QotSA show pic.twitter.com/grANbeQNid
— Leyland “Boo” DeVito (@leedevito) October 18, 2017
