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Despite their misleading name, ‘Eagles of Death Metal’ sound nothing like the Eagles, and are worlds away from resembling any death metal. EODM was formed by Jesse ‘Devil’ Hughes, Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), and Timmy VanHamel. Their debut album, ‘Peace, Love, Death Metal’, recorded in three days and released in March 2004, is classic garage rock, with a good time boogie feel. Jesse ‘Devil’ Hughes is the man at the front of EODM, sporting the camp moustache.
Jesse Devil first appeared on the ‘Desert Sessions 3&4’ project, led by Homme, but then disappeared from the radar until Homme began talking about Eagles of Death Metal in interviews. When Homme wore an EODM T-Shirt on stage with QOTSA, the word began to spread, and people started asking him in interviews “Who the hell are the Eagles of Death Metal?” His response was a description of founding member and childhood friend, Jesse, as a National Rifle Association member who loves porn and crystal meth. The buzz that preceded the release of ‘Peace, Love, Death Metal’ couldn’t have been orchestrated by the best spin doctors in the world.
Jesse Hughes met Josh Homme in 1979, at the age of seven, when he moved into a house down the street from Josh, in Palm Desert. The pair chose different paths after school, with Josh forming the underrated band Kyuss, and Jesse graduating from South Carolina University, and becoming a journalist. Cut to a few years later and the childhood buddies reunited to form EODM.
The ‘Devil’ was first introduced to Maton Guitars by Brodie Dalle, of The Distillers, after one of their shows. He was drawn to her MS503 Mastersound by its classic look and sound. He now owns an MS500, a BB1200 and an EAJ85 Jumbo Acoustic. When playing live Jesse plugs straight into a Laney tube amp, and turns it up loud. "When you've got such a tough sounding guitar, plugged into a tube amp, you don't need anything else," says Jesse. He also adds that only Maton guitars were used on the new album, which should be released soon, and his Jumbo features heavily on almost every song.
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