![]() ![]() He's now got a dapper ginger-and-white Van Dyke beard fit for Robin Hood or one of the Three Musketeers, and he's clad in a gray hoodie, skull and lightning bolts across his chest, leopard-print loafers on his feet. In a month he'll be turning 50, and he's still a wisecracking, sturdy redhead who stands tall and fills whatever room he's in. In most ways, Homme is as he's always been since I first met him in 2002. Video of Queens of the Stone Age - " Emotion Sickness" And there's a lot of people I want to do that with." "Cancer is just the cherry on top of an interesting time period, you know? I'm extremely thankful that I'll get through this, and I'll look back at this as something that's fucked up - but will have made me better. But I do say it can get better," he offers. I never say that, and I wouldn't advise it. As he sits in a cushioned chair, in an enclosed patio overlooking the backyard, he gets the occasional twinge of pain. He won't get into details other than to say that surgery to remove it was successful, though he's still healing. ![]() It's his first since COVID-19, since the death of many close friends and colleagues, since the end of his marriage and the public nightmare of a custody battle over his three kids - and the first since so much else went off the rails. Today's mid-April conversation with Revolver is his first extensive personal interview in years. I think I was doing it because when I'm in trouble, this is what I do. "I think this is the first time I didn't want to make a record, but I was dealing with a lot of stuff in my personal life," Homme adds. "When someone says it's not personal, I'm like, 'That's just the lie you tell yourself, motherfucker.' If it's not personal, don't do it." ![]() "For me, it's all personal," the singer-guitarist says with a laugh. If some of the band's earliest lyrics were notable for bizarre, surreal imagery, Homme's songwriting has grown increasingly personal and vulnerable. Song titles are often made-up words and phrases that are self-explanatory and revealing of his state of mind: "Obscenery," "Carnavoyeur," "Paper Machete," or the first single, "Emotion Sickness." The album that came out of those sessions, In Times New Roman…, is their most direct and hard-rocking in years - with a sound and feeling that Homme describes as "sonic brutality," as songs aim to make sense of this period of his life. "I felt chained to the floor for the last three years," he says, but he did ultimately begin work on new music with his band of brothers in Queens of the Stone Age. The single was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1996.His work as a creative artist slowed to a crawl during that time, he says now. "Take Five" went on to become the biggest-selling jazz single of all time and still receives significant radio airplay. Released as a promotional single in September 1959, the track would not achieve commercial success until it became a sleeper hit in 1961. The track is written in E ♭ minor and is in ternary (ABA) form. The track's name is derived from its meter. Desmond composed the melodies on Morello's rhythms while Brubeck arranged the song. The track was written after the Quartet's drummer, Joe Morello, requested a song in quintuple ( 5Ĥ) meter. ▼ "Take Five"ĭave Brubeck was inspired to create an album based on odd time signatures during his state sponsored 1958 Eurasia trip. Quick facts: "Take Five", Single by Dave Brubeck Quartet. ![]()
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