Josh Homme Calls Dave Grohl the ‘Other Love of My Life’

Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme has maintained a longtime friendship and dealing relationship with Dave Grohl, however how deep is their bro-down? Enough in order that in a brand new Los Angeles Times interview, Homme referred to Grohl as “the other love of my life.”

The praise got here throughout a critical dialogue about some of the troublesome occasions each musicians have confronted lately. Homme revealed earlier this yr that he had been recognized with most cancers in 2022, however simply final month he was given the “all clear” from his medical doctors. The musician additionally went via a headline-making cut up and custody case together with his ex, The Distillers’ Brody Dalle, over the previous few years. Meanwhile, Grohl confronted the deaths of his longtime buddy and bandmate Taylor Hawkins and his mom Virginia Grohl in 2022. The Foo Fighters frontman addressed each losses in his memoir and on the band’s newest album, But Here We Are.

Within the L.A. Times chat, Homme addressed the bond that he and Grohl share, one which seems to have solely strengthened over the occasions of the previous few years.

“Look, Dave’s been the other love of my life. I know everyone’s like, ‘Dave’s your buddy!’ And I agree. But it’s in our dark moments that he and I have gotten close. You don’t have a real relationship with somebody unless you can tell them to shut up at some point. And we have shut each other up in the most loving ways,” says Homme.

“One of the great comforts of these last few years was visiting each other without saying, ‘I’m coming over.’ Just being there when somebody needs it — when they don’t expect it and they didn’t ask for it. I love being that way for Dave, and he’s always been that way for me too. So I feel closer to Dave than ever. We’ve done so much stuff together, and really nobody’s helped my career more than Dave Grohl, in terms of just not shutting the hell up about me.”

When requested about what he is realized about Grohl as the musician has confronted his personal troublesome occasions over the previous yr, Homme responded, “Dave is a tough nut to crack, no matter what anyone thinks they know. He keeps that shit in tight. It’s a small group of people that really know Dave. He’s a guy that toughs it out with a smile on his face, and that smile is very disarming to someone else. They go, ‘Oh, everything’s fine.’ I’ve learned that he’d be really good in a foxhole. Not physically — not at all [laughs]. But emotionally.”

The two musicians have labored collectively incessantly over the years. For a interval, Grohl was the drummer in Queens of the Stone Age, and he and Homme later collaborated with Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones in Them Crooked Vultures. So the working relationship has developed over the years as effectively.

Grohl was additionally spoken to about their friendship, with the Foo Fighters chief telling the Times that their friendship dates again over 30 years. He says their bond “goes far beyond the music stuff. It’s life stuff. We’ve both been there for each other — moments where everything else is stripped away and all that you’re left with is real vulnerability and fragility.”

He went on so as to add, “But I’ve never seen the guy give up. He’s just not that type.”

And surrender Homme didn’t, channel some of the troublesome occasions of the previous few years into Queens of the Stone Age’s In Times New Roman album. “Sometimes you ask yourself, ‘Who needs my take?’ Especially if you’ve got seven or eight records, like we do,” said Homme. “It’s a question you should ask, but this time it just felt like survival.”

READ MORE: Josh Homme Recalls Taking Shirtless Iggy Pop to a Steakhouse

The band will wrap up their 2023 tour with reveals in San Diego and Los Angeles this Friday and Saturday, however you possibly can search for Queens of the Stone Age again on the street in February with extra North American dates coming in April. Stay updated with their touring right here.