KYUSS LIVES!' Nick Oliveri On Touring - "We Didn't Realize There Was So Many People That Wanted To See It"
March 23, 2011, 13 years ago
UGO.com's Greg Prato has issued an interview with Nick Oliveri of stoner rock legends KYUSS LIVES!, which features ¾'s of Palm Desert metal-punks KYUSS. The following is an excerpt:
Q: How did the idea for Kyuss Lives come about?
A: "MONDO GENERATOR was on tour - we went to Europe and did a festival in France called Hellfest, and John Garcia and the guitar player, Bruno Fevery, were playing a version of Kyuss called GARCIA PLAYS KYUSS, and he was going out. He hadn't toured for a bit and wanted to go out and do some Kyuss stuff. They were headlining one of the side stages, and Brant Bjork's band was playing, and Mondo Generator was playing on the same day.
John asked us to come up and play some songs with him, so me and Brant up and did it, and it felt really great. It was great to play those old tunes - we hadn't thought about them for a long time. I think Brant being the first drummer that I ever interacted with as a musician - I played in their bedrooms playing these songs - kind of just felt normal and natural.
I got a call from him when I came home, saying, 'Hey man, do you want to do some more shows?' And I said, 'Yeah man, that sounds cool. Let's do it.' So that's how it started - John was doing it and it was getting good response from people that never got a chance to see any version of Kyuss at all. We didn't realize there were so many people that wanted to see it, so it's been a pleasant surprise and it's been a lot of fun."
Read the full interview at this location.
