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Phil Weller

“If something works there, it works everywhere”: Why Josh Homme prefers to write his songs on acoustic guitar first

Josh Homme.

Queens of the Stone Age have just released their latest sonic adventure, Alive in the Catacombs. It finds Josh Homme’s outfit stripping back an intriguing mix of songs for an acoustic film captured in the depths of the Paris Catacombs.

However, discussing his songwriting approach with Uncut reveals that these songs likely started in such bare-bones formats as they're presented here – pun intended. Homme believes every guitarist should sow the seeds of an idea on an acoustic guitar before even thinking about going electric.

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