JOHN PAUL JONES New Project

[SteveAJones]

John Paul Jones Interview to be published in Tight But Loose Magazine (#25)

This from Dave Lewis:

In between his hectic schedule, John Paul Jones very kindly made some time on Tuesday to conduct an interview on the phone with me for the new TBL magazine. He was on great form and it was fantastic to hear him enthusiastically recounting the events of the past remarkable Vulture filled nine months and his take on life inside the new best band in town. This interview with the man himself just met the deadline for the new issue which is due this month. Another reason to make it an unmissable Zep reading experience.

Link to order/subscribe:

http://www.tightbutloose.co.uk/tblweb09/?page_id=1469

[Rock Historian]

John Paul Jones Interview to be published in Tight But Loose Magazine (#25)

This from Dave Lewis:

In between his hectic schedule, John Paul Jones very kindly made some time on Tuesday to conduct an interview on the phone with me for the new TBL magazine. He was on great form and it was fantastic to hear him enthusiastically recounting the events of the past remarkable Vulture filled nine months and his take on life inside the new best band in town. This interview with the man himself just met the deadline for the new issue which is due this month. Another reason to make it an unmissable Zep reading experience.

Link to order/subscribe:

http://www.tightbutloose.co.uk/tblweb09/?page_id=1469

Steve I still have a postcard from you that I recieved about 9 years ago. I sent you a story/write-up on my meeting with JPJ at the H.O.B. in New Orleans back in 2000. You said the story couldn't make the deadline for TBL (for the month), but you sent me a thank you note along with a cool postcard of Zep from 71'. I have it in a frame along with some autographed items from JPJ.

[SteveAJones]

Steve I still have a postcard from you that I recieved about 9 years ago. I sent you a story/write-up on my meeting with JPJ at the H.O.B. in New Orleans back in 2000. You said the story couldn't make the deadline for TBL (for the month), but you sent me a thank you note along with a cool postcard of Zep from 71'. I have it in a frame along with some autographed items from JPJ.

PM sent.

[SteveAJones]

Isorski's Musings

November 19, 2009

Them Crooked Vultures

I fired up the new Them Crooked Vultures CD with a level of trepidation. Because I felt like before anyone even heard the band they were over-hyped. I have friends who worship Dave Grohl and he could shit in a bag, post the sound on iTunes and they'd buy five copies and say it was GREAT.

But from the first song I was smiling. This is gooood shit. First off, the sound. It's raw. The drums are pummeling and it sounds like Grohl is auditioning for the next Zeppelin reunion (he probably is, as a matter of fact). He throws in a few Bonham fills for good measure before the first song hits 1:15.

The guitars are in your face and again, from the first song there is excellent riffage. Don't forget that bassist John Paul Jones wrote the riff to Black Dog. Need I say more? The same syncopated heavy riffs that add a beat here, take away a beat there to throw you off are weaved throughout these songs. The singing is urgent and one-off. They must have made this CD quickly because that is how it sounds – Excellent players cranking out fresh unprocessed, not overthunk rock and roll. Good for them.

For me, the quintessential track is Elephants. In this song, I hear late 70s era Zeppelin, mixed with the rawness of (believe it or not) The White Stripes (but with better drumming) and fer God's sake I know squatney about Josh Homme but I personally think he sounds a lot like David Byrne. That is a hell of a combo and it's one of the reasons why I think this band is so good.

Also, check out Scumbag Blues. Partway through the song, JPJ dusts off the clavinet and it's Trampled Underfoot part two. Great tune, that Scumbag Blues.

There is some really weird/interesting stuff on the CD, like the track Interlude With Ludes (the song is named appropriately), the latter half of Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give Up and the closing track, Spinning With Daffodils. It sounds like at the very end of this last track, after the band fades out, Jimmy Page steps in for some slide work. But that is just my overactive imagination plus wishful thinking!

Fellow blogger Seano told me that the band live was a life changing event. I have tickets to see these guys this Sunday in Portland at the Roseland, a theater-like rock club that holds about 2,000 people. Bring it ON, vultures!

http://isorski.blogs...d-vultures.html

[SteveAJones]

Circle of Fits

Monday, November 16, 2009

Them Crooked Vultures

Vultures in nature are often depicted as shady scavengers, lying in wait on vague branches, shadows on a heat bleached scenic palate, circling to a natural metronome. Their move is never the first, but most certainly the last in a convulsive and passionate burst of activity as they lunge for their comfort foods.

Them Crooked Vultures, on their self- titled debut are indeed as crooked as they come, with an effortlessly manic, yet ferociously forthright display of hunger, power and need. These bulky songs, tucked under dirty wings have no patience to hold back, allowing themselves to briskly swoop down and pick them bones clean with a carnal, yet sexy intensity. We have been blessed with an uneasy and relentless rock album.

Here is a smeared Polaroid(found under a hotel bed) of each song :

No One Loves Me and Neither Do I: Two lost souls meander back to a flea-bit flophouse and mumble beer breath sonnets to each other until they end up in a bloody tumble of self deprecation and sex. A monster of a riff break as the money shot escapes. One of the best album openers this side of Saturn.

Mind Eraser, No Chaser- "Give Me the Reason Why the Mind's a Terrible Thing To Waste" shouts Josh Homme, on this quest for pill perfection..The wicked escape is soundtracked by a crushing frontline of rhinocerotic drums and bass, stomping over the drug of choice, obliterating it into a snort-able snack.

New Fang-A slinking slimy beast of a song.. preying on the backstage flooz of its choice. Its coil and strike entwined with an unapologetic kiss and tell, buried in a droning rhythm...what a charmer.

Dead End Friends- Trust No-one, drive further, push harder, channel your doubts toward that destination..but that horizon line laughs at you...a myriad of monstrous mirages. The minutia of a jam at the end is epic. Pleasantly recognizable back up vox by Mr. Grohl.

Elephants- "Like lumbering giants on shameful parade". The centerpiece of the album...an unclassifiably massive stomp stamped and notarized by John Paul Jones, and delivered by Grohl and Homme like a cad and his wingman returning to the jungle,smelling like sex. The mildly operatic break is scored vaguely reminiscent of a deep cut from In Through The Out Door.

Scumbag Blues-A scuzzy funk and blues crawl through mud and thunder...we are encased in bass..we cannot move unless it is a dance move..heartbeats bleeding and bursting in time, a carousing arterial spray of a jam.

Bandoliers- Could be a lost track from QOTSA's Lullabies to Paralyze, a song of yearning, basquing in a haze of mantra like keys, but don't call it a love song, call it a leave song. Grohl doesn't hesitate to bludgeon a mountainous beat through a bleeding heart.

Reptiles- Doozy of a "Crunge" intro breaks off into a spastic piledriver of the most beautiful bruises and breaths until the bottom, driven by a druggy slide accompaniment, just fucking breaks the song apart.

Interlude With Ludes-An afternoon delight of pharmaceutical, beautiful..baby's breath angel dust under her cuticles. Revolution Number Nine as she's done from behind. Unwind, unrefined. A lysergic convergence of drug lust.

Warsaw or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up- A layered, bluesy peek into the un-hostile brothel in Homme's mind..the first breath you lose is the one you try to catch as it catapults into a slide tastic spook jam that unwinds somewhere in between the sweaty sheets and the nebulaic rings of the nearest star.

Caligulove- JPJ's Bass pedal push and heavy 70s bush panties in a ball in the dark corners..de-flowered in a west coast porn set after party jam. The farfisa is the only organ you will need.

Gunman- An addictive funk disco riff that pummels, yet the vocal melody misses its messy mark. A higher register and the removal of that Vulgaris -era vocal break would have burst every bulb on that lit dance floor.

Spinning In Daffodils-The album closes with monoliths moving behind mountains on wheels..a tri- fold of musky scents unfurled as the dirty demons are released ...immense richter rock spray coated with Homme's most sultry delivery.. copulation the sincerest form of flattery...

This is a sexy album. This album is the girl you never take home to mama...Sex is the weapon here. The dirty little secret you masquerade around, sex that causes wars, angers gods and leaves us submissive and sublime. Sex is the ever present destiny, sex sells, baby. And this record left me busted, bankrupted ..left with a dry mouth and an empty chamber, each song like prying open the next page of a dirty mag, ashamed and excited. Each beat like the thuddy flicker of a stag film frame as we watch in the dark. Each riff like a shadowy knot of flesh in a moaning room next door, calling, cursing...catching up to your senses and burying them in an overwhelming rush of breathless climax and animal magnetism.

More than what the music media tagged a "supergroup", Them Crooked Vultures is merely a super.. group. This trio of musical masters and the accompanying album was conceived in JUNE of this year on a well calculated, simmering whim. Here it is finally birthed as a sensuous and steamrolling, yet streamlined wishlist of musical ideas that come together as a unconventional and crushing, not overstated or mish-mashy...album.

Grohl's beats are like a battering ram that leaves your soul calloused, denting your senses with agility and aplomb. John Paul Jones is again a secret weapon here, as he has been throughout his career. His low end is a proper bully, cunning and congenial. Mr. Homme's guitar work is, raucous stellar and jammy, but something must be said for his smirky lyrics, a biting pictoral of carnal carnival barking, booty calling and satire, with equal parts deprecation and bravado. An under-rated lyricist for sure, here his prose is simply overshadowed by the beauty of it all.

Posted by Seano at 5:21 PM

http://seanoandjefe....d-vultures.html

[SteveAJones]

This is clever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-hKWcKL6rc

[MadScreamingGallery]

John Paul Jones, from Led Zeppelin to Them Crooked Vultures

[SteveAJones]

Article below from the link provided above by Mad Screaming Gallery.

John Paul Jones, from Led Zeppelin to Them Crooked Vultures

By John Jurgensen

Wall Street Journal

December 5, 2009, 1:00 PM ET

Since anchoring Led Zeppelin, bass player John Paul Jones has played the role of journeyman artist. A multi-instrumentalist, his unpredictable resume includes composing a score for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, providing orchestration for R.E.M, and producing an album for the Butthole Surfers.Capping these under-the-radar collaborations, Jones's latest project evokes the high-profile bombast of Zeppelin. Under the name Them Crooked Vultures, Jones has teamed up with Dave Grohl (former Nirvana drummer and current Foo Fighters frontman) and Josh Homme (leader of the stoner rock act Queens of the Stone Age). After a stealthy build-up, the group released a self-titled album last month, and is currently touring.

With titles like " Scumbag Blues" and "Dead End Friends," Them Crooked Vultures' songs feature Homme's furry guitar riffs and louche lyrics, often sung in falsetto. The music's scuzzy atmosphere and circular jams are offset by the lock-step barrage of the Grohl/Jones back end. From London, Jones spoke to Speakeasy about Googling band names, musicians who bow to him, and the odds on another Zep reunion.

The Wall Street Journal: Your solo album "The Thunderthief" also featured an ominous-looking bird-headed man on the cover. Is this a theme of yours?

It did, didn't it? I don't know what it is with strange carrion creatures. It's a complete coincidence, unless there's some guiding hand, perhaps.

Who came up with the name of the band and how?

The official line is, and it's true, every other name is taken. Think of a great band name and Google it, and you'll find a French Canadian jam band with a MySpace page. We had loads of names. We'd look them up between tracking and overdubs. The first one was Caligula. There were seven of those. And on it goes.

So you just worked Caligula into a song title instead?

Yes, "Caligulove" it ended up being.

How did you first meet Dave Grohl?

I first met him at one of the Grammy Award shows where they were presenting Zeppelin with a lifetime achievement award. One of those awards for achieving life. The next Grammys I conducted the orchestra for [Foo Fighters song] "The Pretender," and we got to know each other fairly well. Then he came to the GQ Awards in London, and at that one he mentioned he'd be doing something with his old mate Josh and would I be interested. I wasn't quite sure. Up until then I'd been working with Jimmy

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and Jason [bohnham] in rehearsal. We were starting another band that wasn't Led Zeppelin with Robert Plant. We thought, let's just have a band, but it failed. We had new material and it was a great rock and roll band, and we were prepared to do some Led Zeppelin songs, because that's what people would expect. We couldn't agree on singers in the end. It more or less came to a halt. After it finished I called up Dave. I think he was quite surprised.

So you hadn't met Josh before?

We finally met at a medieval themed restaurant for Dave's 40th birthday. A particularly bizarre place to have a blind date with Josh. It went well. How cool can you be wearing a paper crown and eating dragon soup?

When you assemble with new musicians, in this case Josh and Dave, do you start with a blank page? Who makes the first move?

We first started off literally just jamming. Either I or Dave starts a beat or something. Which is great, but what do we do? Someone had to start something and Josh had some chords. It was really just something to get your teeth into. I was only there for a few days, then I came back for a couple weeks and we started seriously.

You're a multi instrumentalist. What are some less traditional instruments you played on the album or on stage with this band?<BR aptureProxy="18">Out of the basses, apart from regular four string, I play a 10-string bass, and a 12-string bass. The song "Elephants" is all on bass mandolin, which I don't think exists anywhere else. Mine is actually tuned like a mandolin, only two octaves below. It's an interesting sound. What else did I use? Bass lap steel, another invention. And onstage, on "Interlude With Ludes," a keytar. I thought, where am I going to get one of those? Ebay! It's good for a laugh: Watch John Paul Jones strap on a keytar.

Many listeners have heard echoes of Led Zeppelin in some of the riffs. Was that inevitable?

I remember when I did a record with [avant-garde artist] Diamanda Galas. She was asked, do you think this music is Zeppelin influenced? And she said, don't you think Zeppelin was John Paul Jones influenced? And I think that's a good answer.

You have long been creatively involved with artists from later generations, from R.E.M. to the Butthole Surfers to bluegrass musician Sara Watkins. How do you stay connected to younger circles of musicians?

I just tend to pursue the music I like. The whole thing with Sara was that I really liked her band [neo-bluegrass act] Nickel Creek. In fact I toured with them a bit with Mutual Appreciation Society [including members of Nickel Creek and Toad the Wet Sprocket's Glen Phillips]. I just really liked what she was doing. Sara is the first musician I've gone and asked, can I work with you? I have a great interest in Americana and roots music and fiddle music. Uncle Earl [a female old-timey group whose album "Waterloo, Tennessee" he produced] also came out of that. The Butthole Surfers was entirely different. [He produced their album "Independent Worm Saloon."] I don't know how that came about, now that you mention it.

Any other collaborations on your calendar?

Nope. I rarely have a calendar or a plan. I think I used to have a plan, but it never worked out. I know something will come along. This year I did shows with Merce Cunningham. I've had this interest in contemporary classical music since the Zeppelin days. This stuff just seems to happen and I say yes or no.How do you defuse the hero worship you encounter from young acts? Or do you just bask in it?

Yes. All of that. It's always nice when people say nice things about you, isn't it? With Josh and Dave, we always joked that they'd have to leave my presence in reverse and bowing. It's great that people appreciate what we did.

Has your taste for hard rock changed as you've gotten older?

I was never a huge fan of rock in the Zeppelin days. I was always much more into jazz and soul, as it was called in those days, and classical. It was only when I discovered Hendrix that I got into rock. My tastes haven't really changed. I suppose I've picked up on bands over the years. Radiohead, for instance. Josh played me the Mark Lanegan album "Bubblegum." It's beautiful. Rock has never been that much of a spectator sport for me, but playing it is another story.

Is it the rush of it?

I just like making that noise. Zeppelin was always like a rock band with a soul rhythm section. It all stems from the blues. There's a lot of parallels between [Zeppelin and Them Crooked Vultures.] The way they formed, the way they operate, the way they sound.

A practical question: How have you protected your hearing?

Kind of sporadically. I got some good earplugs and some nights I wear them. I try to stand further away from the drummer, but I like to feel the kick drum, and that's what does you in. I get my hearing tested regularly, and it's pretty good for a man my age, especially bass sounds, surprisingly. That little area where the cymbals live is a bit iffy. But you learn to hear around it. Sometimes [on stage] I feel a bit isolated, so I take the earplugs out. Oh well, there'll just be some ringing in the morning.

Will there be a second Them Crooked Vultures album?

I'm pretty happy with this band. It'a good music with good people. We've started to talk about another record. We had so many songs for the first that we didn't include. We said, we can't have a debut double album. We're keen to keep going. Eventually their bands will want them back, but they'll have to get past me first.

Here's the obligatory Led Zeppelin reunion question: Will the band play together again?

I shouldn't think so. Robert has stated that he doesn't want to do it anymore, and that's it really. At the 02 show [a 2007 tribute concert in London for late record executive Ahmet Ertegun], I remember thinking while I was playing something, "I'll change that for tomorrow night. Oh, there is no tomorrow night."

http://blogs.wsj.com...ooked-vultures/

[Ady]

I don't know if this has been posted or not...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu2J3vaR7Bk

[SteveAJones]

French Television Gig Announced

The band will return to Paris to perform a gig for the French television programme l' Album de la Semaine on December 4th. It will be telecast on Canal+ on December 17th. Unfortunately for fans, this gig is being used to showcase the band for approximately 150 media representatives and it is doubtful any fans will be able to attend.

Setlist

- Nobody Loves Me & Neither Do I

- Dead End Friends

- Scumbag Blues

- Elephants

- Highway 1

- New Fang

- Gunman

- Bandoliers

- Mind Eraser, No Chaser

- Caligulove

- Interlude with Ludes

- Spinning in Daffodils

- Reptiles

- Warsaw Or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up

The crowd was essentially comprised of music industry and media representatives, though a few lucky fans won

tickets through Oui FM Radio.

[NobodysFaultButJimmys]

Dont like TCV tbh.

[SteveAJones]

Dont like TCV tbh.

They're playing Germany, England & Scotland this month. C'mon dog, bring yo ass.

[Vega]

I don't know if this has been posted or not...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu2J3vaR7Bk

thank you thank you for posting, I wanted to see that. Seeing them on that chat show was kinda funny, loved the way they looked and sounded. JPJ was the most quiet of the three. Anyway, he didn't need to say much

[taker328]

I don't know if anyone put this, but here is an interview from BBC.

[Vega]

Here's the obligatory Led Zeppelin reunion question: Will the band play together again?

I shouldn't think so. Robert has stated that he doesn't want to do it anymore, and that's it really. At the 02 show [a 2007 tribute concert in London for late record executive Ahmet Ertegun], I remember thinking while I was playing something, "I'll change that for tomorrow night. Oh, there is no tomorrow night."

http://blogs.wsj.com...ooked-vultures/

Some of those TCV riffs are so Led Zeppelin, you just can't help it, it blows you away. Wow, and I never realized (as it appears from a different post) that JPJ wrote riffs for "Black Dog".

[taker328]

I'm pretty sure this interview hasn't been posted yet.

Complete interview:

Them Crooked Vultures: The Interview

Preview:

Hanging with Them Crooked Vultures in LA Part 1

Hanging with Them Crooked Vultures in LA Part 2

I love the part right before the end, he asks about Glastonbury 2010, and about Robert Plant, Dave sarcastically says "So wait a minute, Robert's in control of all our lives? Oh s**t!" I almost fell out of my chair with laughter.

[taker328]

TCV Live in Munich kicking off their world tour.

[estofest]

I love the part right before the end, he asks about Glastonbury 2010, and about Robert Plant, Dave sarcastically says "So wait a minute, Robert's in control of all our lives? Oh s**t!" I almost fell out of my chair with laughter.

As much as I would like to see Zep, I say screw it if Robert is the one who 'decides' that it should be done. If Robert wants to, Jones should have the power and say 'no'. Jones, Page and Bonham were ready for a new album with new material in the works and Robert said no, maybe the tables can turn for once.

[eternal light]

Robert Plant has power over my life? In that case, maybe I should give him a wish list of important things. :-)

[Vega]

As much as I would like to see Zep, I say screw it if Robert is the one who 'decides' that it should be done. If Robert wants to, Jones should have the power and say 'no'. Jones, Page and Bonham were ready for a new album with new material in the works and Robert said no, maybe the tables can turn for once.

Robert clearly went his own separate way wanting to do his ows things on his own. So what? I hope he enjoys doing it as much as I like what TCV are doing .

[glicine]

As much as I would like to see Zep, I say screw it if Robert is the one who 'decides' that it should be done. If Robert wants to, Jones should have the power and say 'no'. Jones, Page and Bonham were ready for a new album with new material in the works and Robert said no, maybe the tables can turn for once.

Yes, Jones, Page and Bonham were rehearsing and had new material, were they ready for a new album? Hardly I'd say when they couldn't even agree on the singers. And it had nothing to do with Robert Plant's decision, the band, as John Paul Jones said, was not planned as Zeppelin.

[leddy]

Yes, Jones, Page and Bonham were rehearsing and had new material, were they ready for a new album? Hardly I'd say when they couldn't even agree on the singers. And it had nothing to do with Robert Plant's decision, the band, as John Paul Jones said, was not planned as Zeppelin.

Thats a shame they couldn't agree on a singer, but lets face it if you do not get the singer right it can really ruin it all..the times I like the music by a band , then the singer comes in and it either grates on me or I just do not like the sound of the voice, I have to say I love QofSA and Them Crooked Vultures but Josh singing sometimes is a bit I dunno but stillcounting down ten days untill the gig and looking forward to it

[The Pagemeister]

Zep's quiet man meets Nirvana's powerhouse

By Denise Quan, CNN

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

* Dave Grohl's new band features Queens of the Stone Age and Led Zep friends

* Them Crooked Vultures has Zeppelin's riffs and Queens' time signatures

* Why the band name? Given predecessors, it "didn't sound so ridiculous," says Grohl

Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Dave Grohl is furiously pounding on his drum kit, his shoulder-length hair flying in 16 directions. It's a scene straight out of 1993, except Kurt Cobain isn't at the mic.

It's Josh Homme, best known as the frontman for Queens of the Stone Age. At his side, a gentleman in a button-down shirt lays down fat bass lines with the quiet confidence of a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer with nothing left to prove except that he can still have fun.

The man is John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin, and the band is Them Crooked Vultures.

The supergroup trio has just released its self-titled debut disc. When they hit the stage at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, they're greeted with a hero's welcome.

Their current single, "New Fang," is indicative of the Vultures' sound: quirky time signatures in the vein of Queens of the Stone Age, anchored by chunky Zeppelin-influenced riffs, with enough stops-and-starts to keep a drummer on his toes.

"I think the idea was that it should sound like me playing drums and John playing bass and Josh playing guitar and singing," said Grohl, who is clearly relishing a more behind-the-scenes role in this band than he does as the leader of the Foo Fighters.

We caught up with the Vultures backstage in their first-ever television interview. Onstage, Grohl and Homme want to show that they can keep up with a world-class bass player. Offstage, the 63-year-old bass player more than keeps up with two world-class smart alecks.

CNN: How did this project come together? Who's the mastermind behind it?

Dave Grohl: I'd known Josh for a long time. We've been friends for years and years. Worked with John on a Foos record maybe five years ago. Josh and I talked about doing a project away from our other bands. Foo Fighters were taking a break; Queens of the Stone Age were taking a break. We thought we'd do something together, so we decided to invite the greatest bass player in the world.

Josh Homme: But he couldn't make it.

Grohl: So we got John Paul Jones. (Laughter)

CNN: Dave, didn't this come together at your 40th birthday party? Something about [the theme restaurant] Medieval Times?

Grohl: Yeah, I had my 40th birthday in January this year, and I thought it would be funny to have the party at Medieval Times.

John Paul Jones: Where you normally have your 14th.

Grohl: So I invited the guys to come to the party. John flew all the way from England to come to it.

Homme: Well, they already have Medieval Times.

Jones: Yeah, I left it behind to go to it -- 400 years ago, when my band started.

CNN: You had to figure out what to name the band.

Grohl: I have a band called Foo Fighters. John was in a band called Led Zeppelin. Josh's band is called Queens of the Stone Age. It was all relative. So Them Crooked Vultures didn't sound so ridiculous.

Homme: I think in these modern times, a little bad English -- we came up with the name after we'd done the music, and it felt like what someone would say once we left town. Like (goes into Jimmy Cagney voice) "Them Crooked Vultures."

CNN: Did it all come together at someone's house or at a studio?

Homme: I got a studio called Pink Duck.

Jones: A very macho sort of place.

Homme: It's a little bungalow hideaway. ... It was nice having that secret. It was nice knowing that we were going to surprise everyone.

CNN: We were watching your soundcheck -- and Dave, it looked like you were having a good time pounding on the drums once again.

Grohl: It hurts.

CNN: Do you have blisters?

Grohl: I have problems.

CNN: I know you were looking for aspirin after soundcheck.

Jones: I get blisters standing next to him. In my ears.

Grohl: It's great playing the drums. The drums aren't my first instrument, but it's the instrument I can play and not really have to think about what I'm doing. I just sort of do it off the top of my head.

CNN: What's it like playing in a band with John Paul Jones?

Homme: He's right here. Hello-o-o.

Jones: It's great. I'm really enjoying it.

CNN: Where do you want to take this project? Is it the first of many albums, many tours?

Homme: There's no need to Nostradamus your way through that. Just kind of let it do it's thing. We have a little Magic 8 Ball that we bought together -- our first gift -- so we might use that a little, too.

Grohl: I look at it like every day is one step closer to breaking up.

CNN: John, how do you deal with all this juvenile humor?

Jones: I hate it. The kids, you know?

Homme: You know what? We're never going to grow up. Ever.

CNN: But isn't that the point of being in a rock band?

Homme: I don't know. I'm such a child, I have no idea.

Grohl: Pssh, no -- the MONEY! What are you, crazy?! You know how rich we are? Whoo!

CNN: Well, that's just it; you guys don't really need to do this.

Jones: No, you're right. Bye! (They all walk away laughing)

CNN

[audioservant]

Could anybody please tell me how long the concert in Munich lasted and when TCV went on stage? (think there was a support act call Sweethead). Just tryin' to plan my route back home for tomorrow night in Cologne

Thank you very much!

[glicine]

Could anybody please tell me how long the concert in Munich lasted and when TCV went on stage? (think there was a support act call Sweethead). Just tryin' to plan my route back home for tomorrow night in Cologne

Thank you very much!

TCV came on at about 21:00 and left several minutes after 22:30.