Joey Castillo was born on March 30 , 1966 in Gardena, California . He is an American drummer who left Queens of the Stone Age in 2012. He had previously played in bands like Danzig .
Summary
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- 1 Biography
- 1 Origins
- 2 Queens of the Stone Age
- 2 Discography
- 1 Danzig
- 2 Queens of the Stone Age
- 3 Sugartooth
- 4 Wasted Youth
- 5 Zilch
- 3 Sources
Biography
origins
He began playing drums when he was 15 years old and his first break in the music world was in 1984 with Wasted Youth, a hardcore punk band from Los Angeles with whom he recorded two albums, Get Out of My Yard in 1986 and Black Daze in 1988 , the year the band disbanded after seven years. After dissolution, Castillo entered 1991 in Sugartooth, a band Californian of grunge , and in the summer of 1994 I, along with Josh Lazie and Todd Youth (who would be his companions later in Danzig ), a band of punk rock called Chronic Halitosis, which was hardly relevant. In that year, Castillo left Sugartooth to enter Danzig , with whom he achieved his first successes on the music scene, recording four albums during his eight-year period with the band ( 1994 – 2002 ).
Queens of the Stone Age
In 1999 he collaborated in different concerts with the band Zilch, led by the late Hide , and recorded three albums with them. In 2002 , Castillo left Danzig to replace Dave Grohl in Queens of the Stone Age , with whom he remains to this day having recorded two albums, Lullabies to Paralyze ( 2005 ) and Era Vulgaris ( 2007 ).
With QOTSA , Castillo has had the greatest success worldwide in his career, after having to replace the old Dave Grohl (former drummer of Nirvana and frontman of Foo Fighters ). However, he affirms that he does not feel any pressure about this: ” I always liked Dave as the drummer of Nirvana and everything he did with the QOTSA seems perfect to me. I have been friends with the guys in the band long before and see who were members of QOTSAfrom day one to today is something that I look at naturally. He doesn’t pressure me or anything like that. I remember when Josh invited me he said, ‘I need you to join us tomorrow if you can.’ That’s how simple my approach to Queens of the Stone Age was . I have enormous respect for those who were drummers in the group before I arrived: Dave Grohl, Alfredo Hernández , Gene Trautman, all of them have felt the same pressure to be in a great band, but I don’t let it affect me at all. ”