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This article is about the band. For the band's self-titled debut album, see Them Crooked Vultures (album).
Them Crooked Vultures

New Fang, is THE best song EVER!

History

Formation and early shows

A collaboration between John Paul Jones, Homme and Grohl was first publicly mentioned by Grohl in a 2005 interview with Mojo, in which he declared "The next project that I'm trying to initiate involves me on drums, Josh Homme on guitar, and John Paul Jones playing bass. That’s the next album. That wouldn’t suck."

Of the nascent project, Homme's wife Brody Dalle commented in July 2009 that "I'm not at liberty to talk about it [...] but I think [the project] is pretty amazing. Just beats and sounds like you've never heard before."[3] After finding that the name Caligula was already taken, the members arbitrarily chose "Them Crooked Vultures" as a name with no significance.[4] British music magazine NME reported in July 2009 that the trio had begun recording in Los Angeles.[5] The band performed its first show at the Metro, Chicago on August 9, 2009 at midnight.[6][7] The band played all original material during its 80-minute set, debuting such songs as opener "Elephants", "Scumbag Blues", "Caligulove" and closing song "No One Loves Me & Neither Do I".[8] TCV made its European debut on August 19 with a performance at Melkweg in the Netherlands, the same day on which a short video clip of studio footage was uploaded by the band, featuring the song "No One Loves Me & Neither Do I".[9]

With subsequent festival performances in Europe at Pukkelpop and Lowlands, the band first performed in the United Kingdom at London's Brixton Academy supporting English alternative rock band Arctic Monkeys on August 26.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). with support coming from Little Fish.[10][11]

On April 20, 2010, Them Crooked Vultures released a digital 45 onto iTunes featuring the songs "Mind Eraser, No Chaser" and the song "Hwy 1" on the A side. "Hwy 1" wasn't featured on the band's self-titled album but was usually played live. For those reasons, the version of "Hwy 1" featured was recorded live in Sydney, Australia. The B side featured "Vulture Speak", an interview with the band members.

Second studio album

Grohl said in an interview that they are working on a second album that will be "more powerful than the first one".[12] John Paul Jones also stated in an interview while touring in New Zealand that they will be recording a new album, with a likely release date towards the end of 2010. When asked about the futures of Grohl and Homme's bands Jones said that they will get their frontmen back "eventually".[13] A video was uploaded to the band's official YouTube channel entitled 'Fresh Pots' which NME claimed was filmed during recording for their follow-up album.[14] Grohl clarified after the video's release that it was filmed a year prior, during the self-titled album's recording sessions.[15]

Band members

Them Crooked Vultures members
Dave Grohl; drums
Josh Homme; guitars, vocals
John Paul Jones; bass, keyboards
Official members
Live members

Discography

Albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US
[16] 		AUS
[17] 		BEL
[17] 		CAN
[18] 		GER
[19] 		IRE
[20] 		FRA
[21] 		NZ
[17] 		NOR
[22] 		UK
[23]
2009 Them Crooked Vultures 12 4 5 5 13 16 38 2 5 13

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US US
Main. 		US
Alt. 		US
Rock 		CAN AUS BEL (Fla)
[24] 		UK
[23]
2009 "New Fang" 124 13 10 14 39 70 69 156 Them Crooked Vultures
2010 "Mind Eraser, No Chaser" — — 39 — — — — —

References

  1. ^ Rabinovitch, Simona. "Them Crooked Vultures Take Spinner Backstage -- Exclusive Video - Spinner". Spinner.com. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
  2. ^ Popoff, Martin. "Bravewords.com > Hardwares". Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
  3. ^ Firecloud, Johnny (July 3, 2009). "24 Minutes With Brody Dalle Of Spinnerette". Antiquiet. Retrieved August 2, 2009.
  4. ^ John Jurgensen (2010-02-17). "From ABBA to ZZ Top, All the Good Band Names Are Taken". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2010-02-17. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. ^ "Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and Led Zeppelin man recording together". NME.com. July 2, 2009. Retrieved August 2, 2009.
  6. ^ Catchpole, Chris (2009). ""Heavy! Heavy! Heavy!"". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  7. ^ Kot, Greg (August 11, 2009). "Them Crooked Vultures: Grohl, Homme and Jones debut supergroup at Metro". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved September 2, 2009. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  8. ^ "Led Zeppelin, Foo Fighters, Queens Of The Stone Age supergroup make live debut". NME. August 10, 2009. Retrieved September 2, 2009. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  9. ^ "No One Loves Me & Neither Do I (Studio)". Them Crooked Vultures (MySpace). August 19, 2009. Retrieved September 2, 2009.
  10. ^ "We'll be supporting Them Crooked Vultures..." Twitter. March 2, 2010.
  11. ^ "Teenage Cancer Trust: Them Crooked Vultures". Last.fm. March 2, 2010.
  12. ^ Nick Neyland (November 20, 2009). "Them Crooked Vultures Plotting Quick Second Album". Prefix.
  13. ^ Chris Schulz (2009-02-02). "Vultures promise second album". stuff.
  14. ^ "Dave Grohl 'rushed to doctor' during Them Crooked Vultures album session". NME. 2010-03-16. Retrieved 2010-03-22.
  15. ^ "Interview at the 2010 Teenage Cancer Trust concerts". YouTube. 2010-03-22. Retrieved 2010-03-26.
  16. ^ http://acharts.us/album/51934
  17. ^ a b c "ThemCrooked Vultures (album)". Australian-charts.com. HungMedien. Retrieved 2009-11-26.
  18. ^ http://www.billboard.com/#/album/them-crooked-vultures/them-crooked-vultures/1311741
  19. ^ http://www.media-control.de/gute-reise-von-ich-ich-startet-auf-platz-eins-der-album-charts.html
  20. ^ [1]
  21. ^ http://lescharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Them+Crooked+Vultures&titel=Them+Crooked+Vultures&cat=a
  22. ^ http://lista.vg.no/album_info.php?AlbumOp=show&albumId=11365&albumtype=album&albumtype_id=1
  23. ^ a b [2]
  24. ^ Belgian singles chart
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