Queens Of The Stone Age frontman says he misses ex-bassist

Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme admitted in a new interview with the U.K.'s Kerrang! magazine that he's still upset about having to dismiss longtime bassist Nick Oliveri from the band in 2004. Homme said, "I miss Nick and I miss the fact that I can't hang out with somebody that I really want to. No one ever asked me 'Wow, he was your best friend of all these years. That must have been real difficult?' No one ever asked me that simple question. And no one ever considered that I'm still friends with everybody else so there must have been something there."

Homme told us that it didn't help matters when the split went public, with Oliveri making several slams against his former bandmate in the press: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "That separation there was tough enough for me in the first place, and then on top of it, it ended up being, like, more public. You know, I've always had sort of a 'my business is not your business' sort of, and more to protect the people I care about than anything else. It's like that in my family, it's like, you don't talk about your family outside of the family, you know."

Homme fired Oliveri reportedly because his hard-partying ways had gotten out of control. Homme told Kerrang!, "I realize that I kind of enabled the situation and that's where I'm at fault, but I wouldn't take it back."

Queens Of The Stone Age's new album Era Vulgaris came out on June 12th and entered the Billboard charts last week at Number 14.

The group recently announced details of the "Duluth" tour, which will begin on July 22nd in Costa Mesa, California and play less-traveled concert markets like Billings, Montana and Eugene, Oregon.
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