No One Knows by Joel McIver

Author:Joel McIver [McIver, Joel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-85712-115-8
Publisher: Music Sales Corp.
Published: 2009-03-14T04:00:00+00:00

The subject of a Kyuss reunion became a recurring theme. A persistent rumour had been doing the rounds for some time that an unknown promoter had offered them a significant sum of money – some said up to a million dollars – to re-form. Homme confirmed that the rumour was true: “Yes, it was a lot of money. It was six weeks in Europe to headline all the major festivals, and I mean all of them. They pay you about a hundred thousand plus to headline those things. But it was never about money, and there’s no reason to make it about money now… it was enough to set up everyone and change everyone’s life for the next bunch of years. So when that came about, it was a proud moment for us. I wish all the naysayers were there to hear that phone call. And we just went like, ‘Nope.’ Everyone declined. And everyone stopped and said, ‘Should we?’ Everyone went home, slept on it, woke up and in the morning everyone was like, ‘I can’t…’ I felt proud that this was a testament to who we are. Anyone can say that I sold out or something like that. But I don’t care about that any more. I just see something like that as a poison. It killed Kyuss… I play music, I make records that are real. If you can tell, then you can tell. If you think I’m full of shit, then there is nothing I can do.”

Had Homme thought of the thousands of Kyuss fans who would give their eye teeth to see such a reunion? “I do realise that,” he answered, “but it would also take… we were talking about what it would take for us to do something like that. We would want to rehearse for three months till we were set in fighting form, because we would want to be like a well-oiled machine. In Kyuss, especially in the last two years, we were on the road and road ready. We could jam any of our songs at a moment’s notice. And secondly, we wondered about how it would look if we were to get back together. And when the subject of money came up, it’s Kyuss, so we’d have to fully disclose what we were about. And in the end we didn’t like the way we looked, it would’ve been better if we did it for free. It would’ve just been a shame to put the cherry on top of a sundae. It would’ve been a cherry on a sundae made of shit. So that’s why I think Kyuss will never get back together because there’s no situation around that would make it correct.

“Someone handed me a picture of John Garcia and I from 1993 yesterday. I just sat and looked at it for 20 minutes without saying a word, you know. And I never thought all of this would come of it… We never even planned on leaving the desert, to tell you the truth.

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