There were a variety of celebrity insiders who liked to get around — both the self-consciously sycophantic way and the real, serious stuff — as Josh Homme produced a lucrative all-star live performance for his Candy Stuff Foundation on Wednesday at the Belasco in Los Angeles, with a cast of musical and comedic visitors, from St. Vincent and Beck to Bill Burr and Sarah Silverman.
A perhaps impressive example of much less exaggeration, agape The love came when Dave Grohl announced he was debuting an all-new, original song he had written in honor of Homme for the charity event. Homme and Grohl engaged in enough foreplay – so to speak – that sold-out concertgoers were prepared to laugh at what would presumably be a sarcastic amount. It was somewhat ironic when Grohl unleashed what turned out to be an anthem of unabashed concord, making the headstrong Queens of the Stone Age frontman weep.
The first verse of Grohl’s ode to Homme, which sounded like it could be called “No Matter What You Want” or “I’ve Got You, Man”: “When I’m in a moment where I’m all combined / When I feel like I’ve already I’ve had enough, I’ve had enough / If you really feel like writing, you already know that I’ll write with you / And if I’m free and you have big plans / Believe me, I’ll take that chance / Tell me the explanation, I understand / O You want it, I got you, man. Other lines included: “Tonight I’m drinking with all your friends / Because we’re all your friends” and “When you feel like dying, I feel like dying too… / As of this writing, you owe me and I owe to you.”
Grohl even managed to include a highlight of the name of Homme’s charity in the lyrics of his new song: “Come to me if you want anything / Some sweets”. (Watch video of the performance below.)
The Foo Fighters frontman explained the torturous process that led him to write an original song for the show at the last minute – including a near-miss with a cover of “Paint the City Crimson.”
“When Josh asked me to come back and play today, I said, sure, and then I spent a few days trying to decide, what the fuck am I going to play?” Grohl mentioned. “I was like, you know what? This shit is funny — I’m going to go out and I’m going to do a Doja Cat song, and I spent f***ing days trying to learn this,” he noted, singing a snippet of “Yeah, bitch, I mentioned what I mentioned.” Having abandoned it because of too many words to memorize, “I was actually on Spotify at 3am on a bizarre playlist that said ‘Nice Acoustic Covers’, trying to figure out what the fuck I’m going to do for this. this factor. And so I thought that instead of reading something that I’m going to completely ignore, I’d write something. So I did something that might actually be considered uncool – I wrote a song that’s heartfelt about my friend Josh.
“We’re all here for a big reason, but I don’t know if we’d all be here if it weren’t for that man,” Grohl continued. “And when that guy calls you and says, ‘Hey, I’m doing something,’ you just go; he’ll kick your ass if you don’t, mostly. So I thought I’m going to write a song about him and embarrass him in front of all his friends by actually singing about how much I love you, man. This is real. I never sang out loud.”
The two men hugged after the performance, as Grohl handed the tuxedoed emcee his lyric sheet as a souvenir. Said Homme: “We just heard an original Dave Grohl song about an incredible human being that he completely shocked me into making me look like a complete idiot, and in fact, you probably did. It’s okay to cry,” he reassured himself.
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This acoustic solo wasn’t Grohl’s only appearance during the two-hour show. Previously, he had participated in a segment in which Homme said he was introducing a longtime friend who was the best drummer in the world, at which point Grohl and Crimson Hot Chili Peppers stickman Chad Smith emerged from opposite sides of the stage. and took to the respective kits for a battery. Homme then sarcastically clarified that he intended to introduce comedian Invoice Burr as the best drummer in the world.
Burr then emerged to take Grohl’s place in one of the kits, joining the local band (which also included members of the Arctic Monkeys and Queens of the Stone Age) in backing singer Patty Smyth, her guitarist husband, the tennis legend Invoice McEnroe and his daughter Ruby in two Go-Go classics.
Bill Barr on drums at the Belasco Theater during Josh Homme’s Profit
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Smith returned to the top of the show, supporting Homme and the local band on a penultimate version of the Zombies’ “Time of the Season,” which the Chili Peppers’ drummer interrupted with a less-than-appropriate drum solo. “You took the song and just hijacked it,” Homme joked. “That was an exciting song, and you took it to Fresno.”
Burr was in fact one of three comics who performed throughout the night, although he said, with evident seriousness, that he was restricting the material he had planned because of the number of smartphones recording his set (in contrast to the growing number of famous comedians who have phones locked in bags in their exhibits). Having just delivered a line that seemed to allude to the situation in the Midwest, Burr said, “You’re filming my act. I’m going to get in trouble right here. I just ended my career.” He also noted that he was about to do a special and couldn’t let the fabric blow up online before filming it. But before summing things up, Burr managed to get one final look at the expense of a woman shouting inarticulately from the balcony (apparently in support).
Bill Burr and Sarah Silverman
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Silverman was testing out some new material, mostly related to sex or death, from a bit about how porn-targeted ads are a telltale sign of search histories to some fun conversations that took place at her father’s deathbed last year. Magician and comedian Justin Willman performed the first set of the night, engaging Homme in a trick that involved the host choosing between what turned out to be pre-scribbled options for “hugging” and “anal.”
Many of the musical guests were invited to sing covers, and in his second moment, playing guitar alone on a stool, St. Vincent provided a languid reading of the Patsy Cline/Willie Nelson traditional “Loopy,” saying “it’s a song I learned in small Lithuanian fishing village where I grew up.” (This was a callback to the incongruous introduction she received from Homme’s announcer that night, “Worth is Proper” stalwart George Gray.)
Vincent performs in Josh Homme’s Do the Candy Stuff at the Belasco Theater
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Beck did his part to pay homage to most of the night’s covers, performing a duet of Seals & Crofts’ “Summer Breeze” with Homme, but also—per pre-show request—covering two of his more obscure songs, “Fume.” and “Hole Log,” semi-apologetically explaining, “Josh asked me to sing two songs from 1992 that no one had heard.”
Josh Homme and Beck at the Belasco Theater
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Homme also led the band in singing his version of Gerry Rafferty’s “Proper Down the Line,” and was joined by fellow Eagles of Death Metallic member Jesse Hughes on “Caught in the Center,” keeping a line from Rafferty. The Kills introduced a more electrified duo with performances of “Child Says” and “New York”.
The first musical performance of the night was provided by Vivant, a boy band that features Homme’s son Ryder on drums, covering Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Kanye stole “Conflict Pig,” but a group of Thousand Oaks kids were stealing it again.
The older Homme also saved everything in the family in the end, criticizing for a moment and saying, “I’ve had a very difficult five years and I want to celebrate one person, my mother,” Irene, also known as “the Homme mom.” She works with him based on inspiration: “This charity is a family charity. There are only five or six of us. There are only so many people because 98 cents of every dollar goes where it’s supposed to go. He also informed the SRO staff that they sold the Belasco within five minutes of selling the profit and that it raised over $250,000 for the Candy Stuff Foundation.
The cast of Josh Homme’s Candy Stuff wins on stage at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles
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Homme explained some of Candy Stuff’s points of origin, noting that it began “around the time Queens lost a band member named Natasha Schneider. Bless her heart, she had cancer. She was powerful, man. It was difficult (to get help for) her. The federal government will get in the way, as it always does. You know you want to do something right, but it’s hard to decide, how can I do something to help? So we tried to simplify.” He spoke of “indie kids on the road who get sick and don’t go to the hospital. … In fact, a lot of times when you play music, you’re not that good at math, so you can write a song that’s going to crush all of their hearts, but you have nowhere to go.
The charity has expanded beyond serving musicians, he said, citing the example of “a young girl… who contracted lymphoma when she was 3, but she recently rang the cancer-free bell at Children’s Hospital. And,” he added, consistent with the 98% irreverent tone of the evening, “I know when she’s older, I’ll pick her up from rehab, too.”
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