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Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones have formed a supergroup called Them Crooked Vultures. Grohl, the Nirvana drummer who went on to form the Foo Fighters, has teamed up with Homme, singer for Queens of the Stone Age, and Jones, who once played bass in a little band called Led Zeppelin.
Them Crooked Vultures is now streaming its debut album online at YouTube before its release on Nov. 17. The band isn't doing interviews right now, a rep says, but we wonder what sort of environmental work Dave Grohl will be up to this time.
Vultures, after all, help clean up carrion. Grohl and Homme have been involved previously with charity work including a benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina victims.
Grohl also has supported charities including 21st Century Leaders, which helps fund Greenpeace, and Live Earth, the 2007 worldwide concert for climate change, according to LooktoTheStars.org, which tracks that sort of thing.
And hopefully you've heard the story behind the Foo Fighters song "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners," about a mine collapse in Australia. One of two men trapped in a mine requested an mp3 player with Foo Fighters music, and Grohl delivered, with a personal message, two tickets to a show and, later, a song in their honor.
Them Crooked Vultures is what you'd expect --- a mix of sounds from all members' bands --- and that's a good thing.
Jones says the group is purposely staying low key about the album to keep the hype to minimum, according to the folks at Blabbermouth.net.
"What can I tell you?," Jones told an Australian radio station about the new disc, "... it sounds like me playing bass and Dave playing drums and Josh singing and playing guitar. It's very obvious. It's just us -- it's straight-ahead, it's very honest and it really rocks."
The guys hit the road on the day the album drops, with a show at The Wiltern in Los Angeles.
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