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After years of keeping tight-lipped about it, Queens of the Stone Age main man Josh Homme has finally begun detailing aspects of his much-sought-after and oft-imitated guitar tone. In the past, he tells us, he'd often go to great lengths to maintain that secrecy...

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00:00Put the pressure on it first so that someone goes, oh, I'm sorry, you know, but then let them off
00:05the hook.
00:05I used to have a couple dummy pedals on stage behind my amps because people would always come up and,
00:13you know, try to sneak photos.
00:15And I always told my guitar techs, hey, sort of jokingly, if someone comes near, go, hey, hey, man.
00:24But then after you kind of read them the riot act and say, hey, no pictures, no, no, that, you
00:30can't look at this, it's secret.
00:31Then just sort of afterwards be like, no, man, it's fine, you know, but like put the pressure on it
00:37first so that someone goes, oh, I'm sorry, you know, but then let them off the hook, you know, afterwards.
00:43Those secrets are what's cool about this.
00:46You know, there is a sound that sounds just like you and it takes a minute to figure out what
00:52that is.
00:52And that journey is truly joyous to take.
00:58But it's also fun to make it a bit of a scavenger hunt for other people to figure out how
01:03this works.
01:05And also so they don't miss the good stuff along the way, tripping and falling and finding their sound.
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