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Guitar World
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Jonathan Horsley

“Some things you are supposed to touch, and some things you are never supposed to touch”: Remembering when Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme played George Harrison’s Rosewood Telecaster – and got so star-struck by the guitar he couldn’t speak

A still from a video of Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme wearing a blue western shirt and playing George Harrison's rosewood Telecaster.

Josh Homme is so cool he has to live in the desert. It’s, like, medical or something, regulates the body heat. But seriously, when we talk of rock stars having a certain presence, the Queens of the Stone Age frontman is the kind of person we mean – he’s the walking definition of cool.

He, is however, reassuringly human, and we have video evidence to prove it. Said footage shows us why no one – besides maybe four other people, two of whom are deceased – is cool enough to play George Harrison’s iconic 1968 Rosewood Telecaster and not break out into a sweat, to find that even the gift of speech has deserted them.

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