Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl have a longstanding friendship that dates back more than 30 years.
They’ve collaborated musically on multiple occasions, with Grohl playing drums on QOTSA’s albums Songs for the Deaf and …Like Clockwork, and as members of the supergroup Them Crooked Vultures alongside Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones.
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As Homme explained to Consequence in the video above, having Grohl as a friend has helped him navigate the tumultuous life of a prominent musician.
“I met Dave when I was 19, and he was much older [laughs],” Homme told us. “And now I’m 53, and it’s a crazy life as you go through the ups and downs, especially in the public eye. It can be really challenging to figure out how to do that well and represent yourself well, and you have these successes and these failures and these difficulties and these things to celebrate.”
He added, “But it’s nice to go through all that time with someone that can also look at you and say, ‘Oh, shut the fuck up,’ and I think just talk truth to each other.”
Consequence spoke with Homme not too long after the QOTSA frontman had taken Grohl to a Bass Pro Shops for the first time, and he remarked, “We went to a Bass Pro Shops… and he rented a car, and we just went driving around and went to see his boyhood home outside of Cleveland, and then bought fireworks… He’d never been to a Bass Pro Shops, and so it’s fun to go adventuring and spend that time. It’s just cool to have traversed such peaks and valleys together.”
Queens of the Stone Age recently announced a Spring 2027 US tour with support from Pixies and Wheelchair Sports Camp. Tickets are available here (use code COS20 at checkout).
