Josh Homme, Dave Grohl, and John Paul Effing Jones unite to form Voltronesque rock machine called Them Crooked Vultures

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Remember a few months back when members of Hanson, Smashing Pumpkins, and Cheap Trick all teamed up to form Tinted Windows? Remember how they were terrible? Well that pitch black cloud hasn’t prevented other big time artists to take part in a supergroup renaissance of sorts. On one hand we have the commercially successful Van Hagar/ Satriani combination, Chickenfoot, which you probably don’t care about as much as your cool dad does. And on the other, we have the overwhelmingly awesome Dead Weather, which combines members from most of my favorite bands (White Stripes, Raconteurs, The Kills, Queens of the Stone Age). Well apparently there’s a new supergroup of the good variety coming our way in the form of Them Crooked Vultures.

There’s not much information about the band yet but the lineup is Josh Homme from Queens of The Stone Age on guitar, Dave Grohl of Nirvana (and Foo Fighters I guess) on drums, and John Paul Jones from LED ZEPPELIN on bass. That last one will probably be the biggest deal to most people, but honestly the idea of Grohl and Homme working together again is exciting on its own. It’s easy to scoff at Dave Grohl considering the Foo Fighters are just about the most average anything ever, but his involvement here should in no way be glossed over. Not only is the guy a great drummer, but he has an impeccable taste in side projects. His Probot project (where he wrote all the songs and played all the instruments while classic metal singers provided vocals) was excellent, and the dude also provided drums for the first Tenacious D album AND for a Killing Joke album. Not to mention he was an honorary member of QOTSA for awhile during their Songs for the Deaf period. Watch the following video and imagine John Paul Jones playing bass in place of prominent drug enthusiast , Nick Oliveri.

Good, right? It will probably sound nothing like that, but regardless, I think there’s plenty of reason to be pretty optimistic here. Now we can only hope that Trent Reznor’s collaboration with Bono and Ghostface Killa works out.