(The Beginning of What's About To Happen) Hwy 74

This year from Dolce & Gabbana: The bass guitar.My cousin Nathan got me into Kyuss. He lent me Blues for the Red Sun and after that I just bought everything they ever did. I got the original Man's Ruin Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age Split, I got the singles, I got them all back in Australia. Like my dear cousin did for me, I have evangelized Kyuss to many a friend to the point of the slammed door in the face of the Mormon: having a record taken off at a party. Hey, man!

But this album. This album is special. It's called 'Wretch' and it was the first album Kyuss did as Kyuss, and not 'Sons of Kyuss', as only dorkwads would know.

Anyway, the indisputable kings of desert riffage, Josh Homme and bassist Nick Oliveri were only about 18 or 19 when they recorded this song. The album and production is rough as guts but the intro to this song is just in-fucking-credible. The bass has the chopping fury of one on a hard drug, and the guitar the urgency of one needing it.

I love, love, love this. As always, plug in the earphones, and enjoy Kyuss in 1991. Fourteen years later, these guys top the charts as Queens of the Stone Age. I couldn't even wank properly at 18. And these guys are coming up with seminal music, and probably lots of semen too.

Just listen, without distraction, and with maximum air guitar, to the intro. Please.

http://www.brownnoiseunit.com/kyuss_hwy_74