You Can Blame/Thank DAVE GROHL for THEM CROOKED VULTURES

MUSIC NEWS - With only video clips and a  live performances to satisfy us, the debut album from Them Crooked Vulture, can't come soon enough.  Recenlty, frontman Josh Homme spoke with Antiquiet.com at ACLFestival and tipped us all off on news that the TCM  debut will be self-titled and that it's due for a release by the end of 2009.  He also reported that the album will be out via Interscope Records in the USA and Sony BMG internationally. 

Apparently, it was Dave Grohl who put first imagined the alignment of Homme on guitars and vocals and John Paul Jones on bass, more amazing since the two had never met.    "Dave mentioned this idea, and we’re always looking for a chance to do stuff together," Homme said to Antiquiet . "So he said, 'You know what, maybe I should ask John Paul Jones!' And I was like, 'That’d be awesome. And I’ll ask The President. And we can put it all together.' And then all of a sudden he starts sending me e-mails of correspondence between him and Jones... I hadn’t played guitar for five months, and I was gonna maybe take a break for a second, for my first time in a long time. But then [Dave] has his birthday party at Medieval Times, and of course he sat us right next to each other. That was the blind date. But he sat in the next row behind us, looking over. But you know, I think it’s fairly common to meet someone from Zeppelin at Medieval Times."

The trio came together fairly rapidly after that first meeting and were able to write a number of tunes for the album. "We just finished figuring out what songs we’re going to put on it, which took a little bit of time," Homme said. "We couldn’t decide what [we wanted] to do. Do you make a triple album? An EP? How many songs is too much? I tend to think that even if you’ve got a bunch of good songs, maybe you should err on the side of brevity, and keep it tight. But we really enjoy lots of songs, so we couldn’t decide."

Check out Kevin "Skwerl" Cogill's full talk with Homme at Antiquiet.com.