He's the most innovative guitarist of his era...he does so much with so little and made rock danceable with his groove...add to this his songwriting and singing...unreal

he says in some interview from a young age when he started playing he intentionally wanted to play the weirdest things possible, and would experiment in trying to take notes out of scales, "most of my playing is about taking something away" in a music theory sense, this takes away the "relief" in a section of music where your brain is expecting what kind of note is supposed to come next in the pattern, or what note its supposed to end on, creating a lot more tension and actually creates a little bit of stress in listening, it creates dissonance where what you're hearing doesn't sound "right" but it still sounds "correct"... if that makes sense, and after while can be really enjoyable, this is why qotsa music has always sounded a bit strange and can have a lot of intensity or a really sticky groove. Homme also mostly plays in C standard which tunes down the guitar quite a bit and complements the mood

@@BigHotSauceBoss69 I've always had guitar teachers tell me that solos HAVE to be hummable. If you can't hum the solo, nobody will want to listen to it. I listen to that solo for Little Sister - there ain't no humming that solo and I can't get enough of it. And I'm clearly not alone.

@@BigHotSauceBoss69 That was the Noisey interview where they are sitting in a hot garage sweating and presumably stoned. Great interview, Josh says that if you want more than the joy of playing, you want too much.

Great comment. He’s a monster on the guitar but he’s a better songwriter. Josh constructs sonic masterpieces where every instrument plays its part (secret to being great). I actually heard Kyuss first and didn’t get it … once I heard QOTSA I became a fan for life (went back to Kyuss in the end).

Nicolás Guirao I second this to the utmost degree.

I know im 3 years late but i think this is a remaster of God is In The Radio from the songs for the deaf album. (kind of a remix i guess)

Dude thank you for that

Era of the Deaf

Each of their albums has its own sound. They wouldn't be as good if they all sounded the same

I found this while looking for the video of someone singing cathedral City to the tune of we built this city

It's not bad but far from best. Besides, it's not even a song, just an instrumental.

@@computermaster360 haha! instrumental is also music

@@whipshaw Read the first sentence of this article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song

@@computermaster360 oh no pls don't

@@whipshaw Don't what? Are you able to lead a conversation like an adult? You said it's a *song*. I said, it's not a song, it's an instrumental. Your reply "instrumental is also music" doesn't make sense -- I've never disputed the fact that instrumental is music, I said 'Cathedral City' is not a song.