Guns N’ Roses members Slash and Duff McKagan attended Queens of the Stone Age’s show in Boston at Agganis Arena over the weekend. See a photo below.
Dave Grohl and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme discussed recording their albums close to each other in a recent Los Angeles Times interview.
“I was excited to go down to the studio every day to make my record,” said Grohl. “But I was also excited to go down and steal Josh’s doughnuts and hang for the first three hours of every day. It was like ‘Hill Street Blues.’ ”
“‘Let me know your opinion on this cold case file,’” Homme added in an exaggerated detective’s voice.
“Rock bands making vital records, trying to push boundaries — these days it’s few and far between,” Grohl continued. “Having Josh so close made me feel like we weren’t alone.”
Every once in a while the men would go out for lunch; afterward, they’d sit in one of their cars and play each other songs they were working on.
“That’s not something I’d normally do with anybody else,” Grohl said.
“Maybe it’d be embarrassing,” Homme agreed. “But with him I don’t feel that way at all.”
As Homme’s children played old-school arcade games in the lobby at Studio 606 — the family was headed to the beach after our talk — he and Grohl described their relationship as a special one both for its longevity (“These things, they’re not supposed to last,” Homme said) and for its creative alignment.
