"When he did the four-tom fill that he was famous for, I almost fainted twice": Masters Of Reality's Chris Goss on Ginger Baker, David Bowie and the aggression of Rick Rubin

Chis Goss smoking a cigarette (headshot).

Masters Of Reality mainman and noted Kyuss/Queens Of The Stone Age desert-rock pioneer/producer Chris Goss has just risen and is partaking of his first coffee and smoke of the day, while talking to Classic Rock.

“The pictures I saw as a kid of Keith Richards and Jimmy Page with cigarettes hanging out of their mouths, I can’t shed that,” he says. “I associate the action with rebellious music, and so I’ll die right along with them, I suppose.”