Overview
- Queens of the Stone Age and former bassist Nick Oliveri reunited onstage Friday at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center, marking their first performance together since 2014.
- Josh Homme brought Oliveri out as “one of the people that I love dearly,” and Oliveri took lead vocals on Auto Pilot from the 2000 album Rated R.
- Stereogum reported the appearance as a one-off cameo during the band’s Joshua Tree show rather than a permanent return to the lineup.
- Oliveri played with QOTSA from 1998 to 2004, contributing to Rated R and Songs for the Deaf before the band fired him.
- QOTSA are set to open Foo Fighters’ stadium tour starting in August, with announced stops in cities including Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Vancouver.