Kyuss: Whatever Happened To the Band Behind Blues For The Red Sun & Welcome To Sky Valley?

Kyuss: Whatever happened to the band from the Palm Desert?

0:00 - Introduction
1:07 - Early days of Kyuss
5:23 - Kyuss Signs Label Deal
7:45 - Kyuss Falls Apart
12:31 - Kyuss Reunion?

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It’s become so cliche seeing bands emerge out of major urban areas, whether it’s Los Angeles, New York, Chicago or some smaller cities like Seattle, but the band Kyuss didn’t fit that label. In fact, they came out of the California desert, which seemed like an unlikely place to find loud guitars and thundering drums. Referred to as stoner rock or desert rock, the sub-genre borrowed elements of psychedelia, blues, heavy metal, punk rock, acid rock, and alternative rock.

The members of Kyuss saw the desert as a key ingredient of their music, that couldn’t be found in nearby places like Los Angeles with singer John Garcia telling the LA Times in 1994
“The desert is the key ingredient in our sound,” “We’re always trying to work the desert vibe into our music. “We’re only two hours away from Los Angeles, but considering how different things are over here, we may as well be on Mars. The thing is, we’re a very satisfied bunch of Martians" he’d say.
Today, let’s talk about the rise and fall of Kyuss

Kyuss roots dated back to the palm desert when a 14 year old drummer named Brant Bjork, formed a band with his best friend bassist Chris Cockrell. They would start jamming with a metal loving school mate of theirs known as nick oliveri who had just picked up guitar after selling his bass. Soon enough they added a second guitarist in Josh Homme and Originally calling themselves Katzenjammer which in german either meant hangover or moaning of a cat. You guys can take your pick. The band eventually changed their name to Sons of Kyuss after they added vocalist John Garcia. The name was born from a character in dungeons and dragons. Garcia would recall to Loudersound how he joined the band revealing “I played football with Nick Oliveri and Brant Bjork and Chris Cockrell, the original bass player. Nick kept bugging me to see his band, Katzenjammer, play. This is when they still jammed in Brant’s room. So one day me and my buddy went up there, and that was it for me. I wanted a piece of it”

Located two hours from Los Angeles, there weren’t a lot of venues for the band to play at and by Garcia’s own admission the band would pack up their equipment including a generator, a light, a keg and play in the middle of nowhere for free and have their own party. These gigs would be referred to as generator parties. While the media seemed to indicate that generator parties were started by kyuss they wouldn’t be the first band to do these types of gigs as the members of Kyuss, were heavily influenced by several groups who sprouted came before them including Across the River and Yawning Man. While these generator parties were free gigs, guitarist Josh Homme stressed that the g crowds could be hard to win over revealing to Billboard “If people don't like you, they'll tell you. You can't suck. While many in the media seemed to romanticize or glamorize these gigs,, the generator parties started to get bigger and soon changed for the worst. Soon enough, people who weren’t even fans of that type of music stated showing up bringing guns and knives and Brant would tell Loudersound the reality of the parties revealing "It was like Altamont every weekend,” referring to the infamous 1969 Rolling Stones gig. “There was no security, no nothing. That’s what’s so ironic about people romanticising those parties. You had a lot of fun, but it was primal and dangerous.” When it got bigger, a lot of people gave up, because more and more people showed up who weren’t necessarily into punk rock or music – they just wanted something to do,” “When you bring all those people together from different parts of the desert, it turns into tribal warfare! You get a lot of guns and stabbings, and that’s what really ended it" he'd say.
The band would change their name from Katzenhammer to Sons of Kyuss in 1989 and it was around this time that guitarist Nick Oliveri left the group and the band shrunk to a four piece temporarily. The following year they would release their self titl

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