Fu Manchu

Mm-hmm

... last album had a song that sounded a whole lot like Fu Manchu, while other tr- songs on their last album sounded like things made for the radio, like, literally.

Um, this is a good album.

I still need to spend more time with it.

A, a release who I was only talking about the other week, um, suddenly got announced.

So I said about Fu Manchu and how pretty much the only album I would ever buy is California Crossing, and I've had trouble trying to get hold of it.

There's not been a reissue for ages.

Literally, the next day they went, "Oh, we're doing a limited, uh, reissue of California Crossing." Cargo Records are putting it out.

We got some old hardcore from 81.

Then some like Fu Manchu and some Riverboat Gamblers.

How's that? How's that trip your trigger? They can

make things worse for me Sometimes I'd rather die They can tell me lots of things But I can't say I die I know they know the way I think I know they always will But someday I'm gonna change my mind Sometimes I'd rather kill Blood stains, speed kills, fast cars, cheap bills, rich girls, fine wine.

Something to crow about.

Both of those from that record.

Fu Manchu, Evil Eye.

I think that's in the 90s.

Um [clears throat].

But, um, so the, around that time was when loads of that stuff sort of, after grunge, quite a lot of bands like Fu Manchu and Kyuss, um, and stuff like that, Monster Magnet was, was sort of selling quite well, because people who liked bands like Soundgarden and stuff like that-

Yeah

... would sort of, you know, fit in quite well.

Yeah.

And I got really into it.

Like I, I loved, um, Fu Manchu and stuff like that.

I got really, really into that.

lot of the music that i've listened to you know like i just say like in the stoner doom scene uh when i was in florida it wasn't there Right.

You know, so you're getting every once in a while, maybe Fu Manchu will come by or the sword.

But that's it.

You know, that's all I had.

So.

The band Sunbender, my band, played a show on Friday night with the mighty Fu Manchu.

And you were just saying you loved the intro.

The Fu

So the show was amazing.

We played at the music box and yeah, Thank you to the crew at the Music Box.

Thank you to the Fu Manchu guys.

It was just a really amazing experience.

Yeah.

You've mentioned Fu Manchu before.

Do you have another favorite

desert rock band? I mean, Fu Manchu is definitely up there and I was going to talk about them in a little while, but yeah, we'll hold off because I've got some others to

mention.

And Josh was quoted as saying, I look at my career and body of work, not just Queens of the Stone Age record records.

Check that out.

Now some others.

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