Punk fans in Los Angeles were given a bit of a surprise recently, with Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme joining them in the mosh pit at a gig by The Distillers.
It’s not even been a week yet since Queens Of The Stone Age wrapped up their recent Australian tour, but that hasn’t stopped their iconic frontman from getting right back into the middle of a mosh pit in Los Angeles.
On Saturday night, the newly-reunited Distillers took to the stage at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Palladium for a pretty huge gig. In addition to old classics, new favourites, and plenty of hearing loss, the show also featured the husband of The Distillers’ frontwoman Brody Dalle going hard in the mosh pit.
As fan footage of the gig shows, Josh Homme can be seen happily thrashing about in the mosh pit as the group play through their set. (In case you can’t pick him out, he’s the tall, red-headed one in the checked shirt.)
This footage also comes just a couple of weeks after Josh Homme explained to an Australian publication how he and Brody Dalle kicked off their relationship many years ago.
“She is my punk-rock dream girl,” Homme explained in an interview with The Brisbane Times. “I always thought if I could go out with a chick with a mohawk who also read philosophy, I’d be winning. Brody is the real deal. She does everything the boys can do and a whole slew of things no boy ever could.”
“I met Brody when she was 17 and I was 23,” he recalled. “It was her first day in the US after relocating from Melbourne and I was playing guitar in the Screaming Trees. She came up to me backstage and asked if I was in Kyuss. We talked for an hour and a half and I never forgot her.”
“I didn’t like her ex [Rancid’s Tim Armstrong], so I lied and said I had made out with her in the hope that he would find out. I didn’t see her again until seven years later.”
“Our bands played the Big Day Out in Australia in 2003,” he concluded. “I was with someone in a casual way but had my eye out for Brody and saw her walking past. I pretended I didn’t see her and tried to be cool. From that moment we clicked and it was on. We’ve been together ever since.”
“I never thought I would get married, but I found someone I couldn’t live without.”
While Josh Homme certainly isn’t the first rocker to join us average punters in the mosh pit, we doubt he’ll be the last. Who knows what sort of celebrities will be spotted in a Distillers mosh pit if the group make their way down to Australia as part of their reunion?
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