Dave Grohls raw tracks for the Queens Of Stone Age album

jckinnick · Post by **jckinnick** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:58 pm

I found this on a blog

Dave Grohl's raw drum tracks for Queens of the Stone Age

This is something a little different today. Instead of perfectly polished tunes, I've got some raw and awesomely primal fodder for my drummer/aspiring-drummer/beatbox readers courtesy of Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) during his stint in Queens of the Stone Age.

I'll be transparent here as always: I'm not gonna pretend to be all "Oh, yeah, I've always loved Queens of the Stone Age." In fact, I was initially totally turned off to them for something as stupid and shallow as their band name. I know, right? But then I was reading up on them, and I saw this interesting quote which explained the name, so it makes more sense to my too-literal brain:

"Kings would be too macho. The Kings of the Stone Age wear armor and have axes and wrestle. The Queens of the Stone Age hang out with the Kings of the Stone Age's girlfriends when they wrestle. And also it was a name given to us by [producer] Chris Goss. He gave us the name Queens of the Stone Age. Rock should be heavy enough for the boys and sweet enough for the girls. That way everyone's happy and it's more of a party. Kings of the Stone Age is too lopsided."

-- frontman Josh Homme (2000)

I can dig that. Plus, I didn't realize that their first album, the self-titled 1998 debut, was released on Loosegroove Records, operated by Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard, and their very first show that they played as a band was at the OK Hotel in Seattle (which you and I would, of course, want to call The Java Stop, from Singles). So those two things alone are enough to make me wonder what my problem was.

My friend who sent me these said that they are "perfect headache relief." Ha! He obviously digs percussion as I do, and loves it fast and furious as Grohl delivers it here. These are the raw tracks from the 2002 album Songs for the Deaf, and most are either just drums or drums with guitar. I agree that for me they are oddly soothing, a bit hypnotic. Definitely fascinating.

DAVE GROHL DRUM TRACKS
for QOTSA Songs For The Deaf sessions
late 2001/early 2002

Do It Again (drums and guitar)

http://fuelfriendsblog.com/listenup/Gro ... uitar).mp3

Do It Again (drums only)

http://fuelfriendsblog.com/listenup/Gro ... 0only).mp3

Song for the Dead (raw mix)

http://fuelfriendsblog.com/listenup/Gro ... 20mix).mp3

Song for the Dead (drums only)

http://fuelfriendsblog.com/listenup/Gro ... 0only).mp3

Unknown Track (drums and guitar) (Little Sister)

http://fuelfriendsblog.com/listenup/Gro ... uitar).mp3

Unknown Track (drums only) (Little Sister)

http://fuelfriendsblog.com/listenup/Gro ... 0only).mp3

digitaldrummer · Post by **digitaldrummer** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:01 pm

jckinnick · Post by **jckinnick** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:02 pm

Well it looks like the mp3 links I posted arent working so you can hear them here

http://fuelfriends.blogspot.com/

jampola · Post by **jampola** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:16 am

the kit sounds fucking great. especial kick and the snr.

jonathan · Post by **jonathan** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:16 pm

i cant really find them...

im interested to hear these sounds alone because of the fact that they tracked drums and cymbals seperate.. in a very small room

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:01 pm

yeah, i can't find them either. i think the post got nixed. does anybody have these saved so we could hear them?

RefD · Post by **RefD** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:19 pm

i saved the drums-only selections.

where to host, tho?

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:12 pm

http://www.4shared.com/
http://www.mediafire.com/
http://www.filecrunch.com/

one of my favorite music bloggers is using 4shared and seems to like it... can't vouch for the other ones but they look ok.

centurymantra · Post by **centurymantra** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:19 pm

I just thought you guys might want to know that I was able to copy and paste the link text into the browser address bar and they worked fine. If you take a look at the original post, you'll see the link is only half highlighted, so it's probably not picking up the whole thing when you click on it.

Very cool stuff BTW.

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:32 pm

centurymantra wrote:I just thought you guys might want to know that I was able to copy and paste the link text into the browser address bar and they worked fine. If you take a look at the original post, you'll see the link is only half highlighted, so it's probably not picking up the whole thing when you click on it.

Very cool stuff BTW.

Jeff White · Post by **Jeff White** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:03 pm

Does it sound like the cymbals are overdubbed to anyone else? I swear that I hear weird kick stuff to the far left in the cymbal tracks. I could have sworn that I heard that DG did this as well.

Jeff

digitaldrummer · Post by **digitaldrummer** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:39 pm

I also remember hearing that they did that for this session. Much easier to get a nice drum sound if the cymbals are not bleeding through. Sure would feel weird playing like that though.

jonathan · Post by **jonathan** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:01 pm

the guy who assisted on the session told me that its typically dg's preferred way to track drums/// cymbals and drums seperately.

its funny just dead and tight the drums are on some of the songs. conventionally lo-fi sounds. which is totally awesome/ especially for qotsa.

there is also a video floating around of them rehersing a song and

homme saying- here play this drum part instead
dave says no
homme then says- PLAY this part
dave just replys by saying, fuck you, i was in nirvana

jonathan · Post by **jonathan** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:03 pm

the way you do it is really quite simple and ive done it on tracks of mine before---

simple.. put pillows over the cymbals and high hats and track the drums.

then put pillows over the drums and take off the beater.

let the drummer warm up to both styles and its quite simple...

beware though, the drummer really has to understand the concept of flow and playing in time...

RefD · Post by **RefD** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:20 pm

digitaldrummer wrote:I also remember hearing that they did that for this session. Much easier to get a nice drum sound if the cymbals are not bleeding through. Sure would feel weird playing like that though.

i also do that when i record drums.

mostly due to the fact that i incapable of playing a trap kit properly.

my drummer friends tell me this is cos i'm a guitarist.

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