Somebody had their face
messed up by Josh...
‘You need some ice on that?’
64 KERRANG!
THE K! INTERVIEW
SO I HIT THIS GUY
WITH ONE, LIKE,
THEN THE COPS JUMPED ON ME
I
t’s fair to say that Nick Oliveri
doesn’t do anything by half
measures. As one of the last great
hellraisers in rock’n’roll, he lives his
life in the fast lane with very few
fucks given about the consequences.
As a member of Kyuss, Queens Of The
Stone Age and the Dwarves, to name
just a few, he’s made more influential
music than you could care to mention,
frequently getting himself fired or
arrested along the way. Ever the loose
cannon, he was once even kicked out
of his own band, Mondo Generator, and
left by the side of a German motorway.
Shit happens. Or at least, it does if you’re
Nick Oliveri AKA Rex Everything, Pierre
Pressure, The Great French Manipulator
or one of the many other alter egos he
often favours.But rock’n’roll needs his kind – the
untamable lifers who do this because they
have to, and because they don’t know or
want to do anything else. His laugh tells
you much of what you need to know – it’s
not some quiet chuckle, but a loud cackle
from the gut that finds humour in pretty
much everything. It’s difficult not to like
the man.
He’s back living in the desert at the
moment, in Joshua Tree, California (“It’s
fucking hot! I just sprayed the roof of my
house with water to cool it down”), but
who knows how long he’ll stay there.
Many years ago, he’d send demo tapes
to Kerrang! from Texas, San Francisco,
Los Angeles or Baltimore, but he’d always
moved on by the time we could write back.
“Please contact us at these numbers that
don’t work!” he laughs about it today.WORDS & PHOTOS: MÖRAT
nicK oliveri
queens of the stonE age,
kyuss, dwarves
I REMEMBER SEEING THESE
LITTLE PACKS OF ICE,