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And Why Did Kyuss Break Up, Mr. Homme?

Strange and seemingly evil?

With former Kyuss guitarist Joshua Homme about to join the

traveling Lollapalooza '96 circus as hired rhythm guitarist for the Screaming

Trees (and with a debut single from his new project, Gamma Ray, due shortly

from Frank Kozik's ultra-hip Man's Ruin label) it seemed a good time to grill

Homme as to why, exactly, Kyuss had to throw in the towel, when to our ears,

they were gearing up to become the new Metallica. "There are so many little

things," Homme told us. "It ends up boiling down to this: I'd been in that band

since I was 14 years old; that was only thing I knew how to do. So I just had

to quit. We're friends enough that we were able to put it away...I'd rather

have Kyuss be something where people say, 'That was the coolest shit ever.'

It's

a really good track record--we made four records. Nothing too out of control

[happened] as far as having to deal with BS. I didn't want to have to kick the

dead horse. I like the Jane's Addiction theory of music: 'See ya!'"


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