My apologies for lambasting you, we got off on the wrong foot.

I suppose, for me, the difficulty with the album is getting past the over-influence of Josh Homme. For better or worse (in my opinion, worse), his presence on the album seems to be a dedication to his back catalogue. An opportunity to flex his forearm muscles in the memory of Queens of the Stone Age.

For all the album’s faults that you list in your review, they are significant enough for me to relegate this “project” to a glorified jam session between three staples in modern (and obviously, classic) rock. I say jam session because there are ideas there: the hooks, the rhythm and the darkness. But, like most jam sessions, it never evolves beyond a hint at what could have been if the 3 players took the time to carve out a niche for themselves and really push the envelope and create something that people haven’t heard before.

I can’t help but see this as a Queens of the Stone Age B-sides compilation performed by celebrated musicians in JPJ and Grohl. For that reason, I question its relevance as the product of a supergroup. In fact I question the whole idea of a supergroup: Traveling Wilburys started the trend but never perfected it, Audioslave was a major disapointment and I won’t even get started on the pond scum that is (was?) Velvet Revolver.

What would have been far more interesting for me, is if Dave Grohl sat behind his Drum-kit and made friends with Jimmy Page on his Gibson, Chris Wolstenholme from Muse driving the rhythm section, and Cedric Bixler-Zavala from The Mars Volta topping it off with his falsetto.

Would that be a supergroup? Not sure, but it would be a group that was super.