More Oliveri On The QoTSASplit

Thu 26th Feb, 2004 in International News

The QoTSA story continues:

Queens Of The Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri has left the band. This week, he spoke exclusively to Kerrang! about the reasons for his departure from the group. ‘I had a blow out in Barcelona’ he says. ‘I was pissed and did some stupid shit. I freaked out, did some Absinthe or something and we had a big fight that night. We’ve known each other long enough and that’s what happens, a brother fight, you know?

“Josh came to my house and said, ‘I don’t know if I can do this anymore’. It sounded to me like he was quitting and one of the excuses he gave was he said I’d hit my girlfriend, which is totally untrue. To me it seemed like he was trying to justify that he was quitting. Then I read on the internet I had been fired!”