Nick Oliveri

I was over in the...

Nick Oliveri took me.

He was like, come here.

And we went over to the VIP section of... of Ripple Fest and have a beer with me.

I'm like, all right, cool.

I didn't even want a drink.

But Nick Oliveri says, come on, let's grab a

drink.

So the Queens of the Stone Age that we're listening to today has both Dave Grohl and Mark Lanigan as members of it, which I knew Dave Grohl was on this one.

I don't think I knew that Mark Lanigan was fully a member of the band at this point, but This is also the last album for Nick Oliveri, who is the bassist on the first three albums.

He had a little bit of an issue with Josh Homme after this related to sort of a fight with...

Josh told me about the way he treated fans and a girlfriend.

The lineup's been a who's who of rock and metal demigods.

You've got Alfredo Hernandez, Dave Ketching, Nick Oliveri, Mark Lanigan, Gene Toutman, Dave Grohl, Joey Castillo, who played for Danzig, who we mentioned in the Sabbath episode.

Alan Johans, who the band has called a musical genius, and he went on to record works with Mark Lanigan on his projects.

Natasha Snyder, Troy Van Leeuwen.

So as much as all these different people come in and out, it's, it's a band, but you really don't have the band without Josh.

It would be weird to separate the two, you know? So if later on in his career, if some, like I can see the Tony Iommi thing happening to him, you know,

Yeah, even when Nick Oliveri got the boot from the band, a lot of fans were upset about that.

How can you have Queens of the Stone Age without Nick? Well, you could.

Yeah, every now and then they'll get into our scene.

And Nick Oliver, was his, Josh Holmes, like, best friend.

He used to always, one stage, just reverb, you know, naked and that.

We did, I mean...