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There havent really been any EODM-only interviews/articles, but lots of QOTSA interviews reference the band, and the best place for QOTSA stuff is thefade.net. Though the band has been around since they first appeared on the Desert Sessions volumes 3 & 4 in 1998, most interviewers have only asked about josh's side-project in recent interviews, with the new album's release approaching.
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CLICK BELOW FOR GREAT NEW JESSE INTERVIEW - http://www.perfectpitchonline.com/v02i03/eagles.php

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NEW TIM INTERVIEW HERE: http://www.qotsa.com/bboard/qotsa/viewtopic.asp?TopicID=1438903&topic=EAGLES+OF+DEATH+METAL+IN+MY+NEW+HUMO%21%21%21++WOOHOOO%21%21%21%21&forumID=24
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Here's a couple i've typed up for you (just the EODM parts) -

*ROCK SOUND – September 2002 (septic-member anyone?)

-(To Josh) Have you ever been tempted to play in the nude?

Josh - “I already have. It was at an Eagles of Death Metal gig in La in ’99. That band is about shocking people and as it was really hot and I am a self-conscious person, I thought why not? If you have never appeared naked anywhere in public, you should try it”

*NME – June 14th, 2003

…About five years ago, Josh was back home in Palm Desert with some old friends, sat in a VW van listening to death metal.
“We decided to form a mellow death metal band, The Eagles of Death Metal. And 20 minutes later, when everyone was still pissing themselves laughing, Jesse went home and started writing what he thought that was.”
Jesse is Jesse “The Devil” Hughes, leader of this thin, weird, infectious boogie band. Josh, who’s drummer and producer, calls it “bluegrass stripper dance music”, which is about right, from the tracks he plays in the Queens’ dressing room.

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BBC Radio 1's Rockshow recently interviewed Josh & Nick, and talk turned to the Eagles of Death Metal, and "So Easy" was broadcast for the first time.

I've painstakingly transcribed the EODM part for you guys and girls -

Radio One Rock Show with Mary-Ann Hobbs, June 24th, 2003 (and she just laughed all the way through basically)

Mary-Ann Hobbs– Tell us about Carlo Von Sexron…who’s that guy? I think we need to know him
Josh Homme – “He’s the drummer for The Eagles of Death Metal….He’s also just a lot like me except very…a lot drunk, more drunk than me…And he looks identical to me and he acts like me. As I said, he’s just a drunk bastard”
Nick Oliveri – “He likes to wear skirts”
JH – “Yeah, sometimes he wears skirts, and sometimes he dresses drag when he drums for the Eagles of Death Metal.”
M-AH – So this is another satellite project, let’s call it?…Is Nick playing on this as well?
NO – “I played on two songs”
JH – “There’s no bass on these, it’s…the band…this guy Jesse “The Devil” Hughes, he’s a very perverse individual.”
M-AH – “I like him already”
JH – “He’s into the devil, but he’s not into Satanism. He’s like, ‘let’s do evil!’”
NO – “In love with the idea I think”
JH – “He would stay up for days on crystal meth and write speeches for the local Republican senator.”
M-AH – “Which probably isn’t advisable for all of our listeners”
JH – “And he wears jeans-shorts”
NO – “…And cut-off shirts”
JH – “He’s just a strange guy. But his songs are great, and he finds it very easy to write them. So…I play drums, or…wait a minute…’Carlo Von Sexron’ plays drums, and I recorded them. Drums and guitar. I mean , when it’s live there’s the backup-singer girls that clap and wear prom-style dresses”
NO – “Who you callin’ a girl?!”
JH – “Well, you look like a girl!”
NO – “I did bass on two songs, and the things is, the songs didn’t really need bass”
M-AH – “And the dresses were chafing, I can imagine”
JH – “Well it’s hard to find a dress that’s like I want but in Nick’s size. Cuz I want him to look good”
M-AH – “What track are we gonna play, Josh?”
JH – “err…”
*Nick starts singing “So Easy” in background*
JH – “This is about his songwriting; it’s called “So Easy”


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They played for a Fox show earlier this year too, you may be able to find it here -
http://www.fox6.com/foxrox/

From FoxRox -

"Darling FOX ROX viewers... you will not believe what we have for you this week. If internet buzz was hair, this weeks guest would have gnarly thisk dreadlocks 90 feet long. J. Devil Huge... THE EAGLES OF DEATH METAL. They (minus Carlo von Sexron) sunk their talons into our psyches and pulled out the devil. Look up the EAGLES OF DEATH METAL on any search machine and you will see what the hell I'm talking about. The album, "Peace, Love, and Death Metal" wont even be out untill October and the song "I Only Want You" has charted in New Zealand and was at #98 on the German top 100! All word of mouth. Josh Homme's RekordsRekords and Mike Patton's Ipecac Records will be reasing this dirty nugget, but the songs are on the internet and the juggernaut has begun to roll. Look the f*ck out for this one folks, prepare to have you hams knocked off! The Coachella Valley can't be explained in musical terms, it's just too weird. J. Devil Huge will give you just a tiny taste of the dirt, and it's pungent as hell. Mark my words people... THE EAGLES OF DEATH METAL will be huge. They are huge. The music isn't death metal (Boo Hoo metal lame asses), its freaky blue-grass stripper stomps that adheres to no musical convetions. Its real and obviously, not for the weak or timid. If you are ready for the next big thing, check out this band. We dug them up in Palm Desert and sprinkled them all over our studio, and now, all over your homes. Don't fight it people, you will only lose in an ugly way... the music of J. Devil Huge and Carlo von Sexron will make you realize how completely unimportant your latest favorite emo band is. Whatever your trip might be, desert freaks show you the truth in music, and you will be reborn. That or, burned to a crisp. It's your choice folks. Get with the program, or die pretending to be hip. FOX ROX is honored to be the first show in the whole world to bring you THE EAGLES OF DEATH METAL. Get online now pleb, and download the availible songs, or check out Josh Homme's Desert Sessions for the genesis of this evil ensemble. Double Horchatness for everyone, the Eagles have landed! END OF LINE."

Patrick C. Sheehy
CHAOTIC NEUTRAL SAVANT

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New York Times - August 9th - author unknown (contact me if you know)

EAGLES OF DEATH METAL/TED BENSON
Slowly, dozens of musicians have
been amassing at the frontiers of good taste, armed with heavy metal
and a smile. These are the legions of joke metal bands, some more
serious than others, among them Satanicide, the Darkness, Metal Shop
and Dave Grohl's Probot. Add to this list the Eagles of Death Metal
and Ted Benson. The Eagles are Josh Homme, of Queens of the Stone
Age, playing drums behind the slide guitar boogie and falsetto
choruses of an eccentric rock newcomer, Jesse (The Devil) Holmes.
The pair's first work of pile-driver psychobilly can be heard at
www.rekordsrekords.com/eodm. The sole goal of the British band Ted
Benson on "Benson Burner" (Jet Set) seems to be to weld the ultimate
head-banging, wheel-rolling metal riff to a song title that Spinal
Tap overlooked.

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The Weekly Dig - Boston.
'Nick Oliveri Talks Tons of Bullshit by J. Bennett'

extract -

Are you involved with [Josh Homme's side project] the Eagles of Death Metal?

"Yeah, I play bass on a couple songs. They're actually down in the studio today, man. I'm about to go down there after this. I did a bass track last night, and they said it was good, but shit, man - I don't even remember being there. I gotta go check it and make sure it's good."

Is it the same kind of Eagles shit that was on the old Desert Sessions records - a guy doing some Cannibal Corpse vocals over an acoustic guitar riff?

[Laughs] "No, the death-metal guy isn't in the band anymore. It's basically a two-piece, but I get to do things once in a while. I try to force my way in on stuff that I like. Josh plays drums, and this guy Jesse “The Devil” Hughes plays slide guitar and sings in this high-pitched falsetto voice. It's pretty good, man - all the songs are about being in love with the devil. He's not sitting around worshipping the devil - he's just in love with the devil."

How can you be the Eagles of Death Metal if you kicked out the death-metal guy?

"I don't know, dude. I don't know how they can go on ... peace, love and death metal, I guess."

uncletommy / jesusquintana
11/06/03 / 18/11/04