Metro Chicago

Riding the wave of their debut album’s success, Queens of the Stone Age performed at Metro 13 years ago today, August 30, 1999. Other Star People and Wickerman ushered in the Californian rockers’ house rattling set of skull-pounding riff rock that founding member Josh Homme dubbed “robot rock.” The set included their eponymous debut album in near-entirety, with a light sprinkling of The Desert Sessions (a musical collective founded by Homme in 1997) covers. Check out the ticket stub above along with the QOTSA set list, silkscreen, and show flyer below:        

Setlist: 

1. Regular John
2. Richshaw
3. Hispanic Impressions
4. The Bronze
5. How to Handle a Rope
6. Tension Head
7. If Only
8. Walkin on the Sidewalks
9. I Was a Teenage Hand Model
10. Born to Hula
11. Avon
12. Mexicola
13. Infinity
14. You Would Know
15. You Think I Ain’t Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire
16. You Can’t Quit Me Baby

Encore:

Eccentric Man

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