QOTSA's JOEY CASTILLO: It's Scary Sometimes Being Mobbed By Fans

June 13, 2007

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE drummer Joey Castillo tells Australia's Beat magazine he does worry about the huge mobs that surround the band when it hits the road. "We are around and surrounded by so many people so often," he explains after discussing the Virginia Tech atrocity. "And I hope we never have to come cross anybody as crazy as the kind of people we've been talking about. It is very scary sometimes to be mobbed by fans and all you see is tonnes of faces and it does cross my mind 'what if somebody did want to get at me... Then there's the festivals. You can't help but think the kids are supposed to be at a place where they are safe but you just don't know. You just don't know."

What strikes strongest about QUEENS' new album, "Era Vulgaris", are the melodies; wherever the music turns, the melodies here are as good as any QOTSA has ever penned.

"We took a different approach to making this album," Castillo says. "We wrote while we were in the studio and then recorded. It was a little bit strenuous and heading into unknown territory but the result? I have to say I love it; I absolutely love it. And this is exciting now – doing interviews. To have the luxury of other people hearing it and telling us what they think is even better because, so far, the comments have been nothing but great. We decided early on that we weren't going to play anybody anything until we finished so the people we are talking to now are really the first people to have heard it and been able to tell us what they think."

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