Further, Queens of the Stone Age lack common sense.
Last week, the band was booked to play an intimate six-song show at an inpatient rehab facility in Los Angeles. Why they chose Queens of the Stone Age, a band that makes the news for not being drunk, is beyond me, but they did.
In what apparently shocked the band, they were roughly removed from the stage before they were able to finish playing the first song, which happened to be "The Feel Good Hit of the Summer." You know, the one that goes, "Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol... co-co-co-co-co-cocaine". I guess the people who run the facility didn't feel the song quite sent the right message to the people they were performing for, and had the band immediately removed.
In fairness, the song doesn't give you much of a sense of whether or not the band is for or against these substances, so it seems really unfair to kick them out of a rehab center just for playing this song. For all they know, it's extremely against all of them!
Anyway, it appears that Queens of the Stone Age can't be stopped from playing their little pranks. Word on the street is they asked around if there were any schools for educating the deaf who would like them to come perform Songs For The Deaf live in its entirety, but there were no takers. [Note: this did not actually happen. But it should have.]
