Iggy Pop on Josh Homme, American Valhalla, Stage Diving. Working with Iggy Pop changed the life of Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, who produced the former Stooges lushly arranged 2. LPPost Pop Depression. Iggy is the single greatest example of a frontman that you could have for rock roll, Homme recently told Rolling Stone. Working with him just recharged my faith in rock roll and in trying to blaze your own path at whatever cost that is. It was such a monumental experience for Homme that he decided to document it with the just released film, American Valhalla, which he co directed with Andreas Neumann. It features Anthony Bourdain interviewing Pop and Homme, as well as their band and crew members, as they explain how the Stooges frontman sought out Homme as a collaborator and how two xylophone and guitar demos that the latter made became the albums shadowy American Valhalla and dramatic I Want to Break Into Your Heart. In turn, Pop sent Homme detailed notes about his time in the late Seventies with David Bowie in Berlin, and the pair bonded. The doc also follows them on the short run of shows they did supporting the album, playing Post Pop Depression songs, as well as a nice chunk of tunes from Pops first two solo LPs, 1. The Idiot and Lust for Life. Watch The Tell-Tale Heart Online Facebook. Its an interesting film in that, as Pop tells it, Post Pop Depression may well be his final album. But at the time, he didnt think much of making a movie about it. Josh wanted to do it I just cooperated, Pop, now 7. Rolling Stone with a laugh during a lengthy, wide ranging interview. With 3 MCU films set to hit in 2017, we list the characters making their movie debuts and what you need to know about them before you buy a ticket. Housing in the Santa Clara region of California is insanely expensive. Tech companies have taken to building modern day versions of mill towns just so their employees. Iggy Pop on Josh Hommes Genius, Singing Opera, Why Hes Done Making Albums. With the release of American Valhalla doc, the singer talks Post Pop Depression, his. We were doing it and then at some point we were doing it about doing it, which was all right with me. Its a compliment on his part. Now that he has hindsight and has moved on to other projects, including doing the interviews for American Valhalla, Pop can see the albums larger significance. When you watch this film and look back on Post Pop Depression, how do you feel it stands out in your discography Im singing more and the vocal range is wider. Im aware Im not Caruso or. Michael Bubl. Im not even him. One Way To Valhalla Full Movie Part 1' title='One Way To Valhalla Full Movie Part 1' />But theres a big range of style on it, and I never expected going into this for it to be a rock record. It has an awfully nice groove. I put a lot into it. We lived it. I havent really lived a record like that since 1. American Caesar, but mostly all my albums in the Sixties and Seventies were more of a communal experience where youre living the whole thing. Why did you never expect it to be a rock record Because, look, Ive done these things before. Welcome to Download City, the ultimate destination for movie fans, where one can download any movie Were one of the most prominent and the coolest websites on the. Ive worked with a lot of different people. Generally, when I collaborate with somebody, I dont expect them to bring what theyre already good at, what they already do really well as some sort of free pass for me to, Oh, Ill sing on it this time. No. So Queens is a hard rocking group, but, on his last record, I heard this ballad master coming out on stuff like. Like Clockwork. That was the stuff that really floored me. I was like, Jeez, he can do that So I thought he was gonna keep this rock stuff for himself he earned that. You earn your rock spurs the hard way. Its a really dirty business laughs. So I knew wed do something just different. I didnt know what it would be. Then once I heard the first two little bits he gave me, I thought, Oh, its gonna be kind of like Chelsea Girls or something. Its gonna be like sings the Velvet Underground Sunday morning. You knowBut there was a little more to it than that. He got into this midtempo swagger on this stuff. It all ended up with a really nice groove. I was pleased. The film makes it seem like you had to pursue Josh to get him to work with you. What is it you look for in a collaboratorWell, it can be different given the occasion and what it is I want to do. I wanted to do something fresh for me, but I wanted it to be something that could and would communicate to the applicable, current music audience. Josh is a valid, current musician that people listen to. So that was important to me. Then, basically, the taste and articulation that I heard from his Desert Sessions recordings hes kinda open for anything. If youve ever heard Shepherds Pie by him, its basically a ragtime comedy track. In advance, I just thought, Well, this guys intelligent. I knew hed listened to what Id done with some degree of interest, so I thought wed just give it a whirl. That was it. I also watched their Wiltern concert from the last record and although I didnt want to go out and tour I wasnt thinking about a tour for Post Pop Depression I noticed how well presented it was live. And I read the comment section and I was shocked by how much the people who went appreciated the quality and the detail. It was refreshing to see there were a lot of people who really respect and appreciate what this guys doing. I thought it was good myself. I thought it had feeling. Thats what was really, really important the feeling. Josh is a valid, current musician that people listen to, Pop says. So that was important to me. Matt Helders. Why didnt you want to tour Because Ive been touring a lot, and its hard, bloody work. I had thought, Oh, Ill just do this as what it is, then Ill go out and just do it normal. What I do is a measured amount of touring anyway, in a way thats sustainable for me at my vintage and thats great for me. I think I do a good job of it. Im proud of it. But do I want to go out with this. Josh is a force. Hes a handful. So its like, Do I want to go out with this maniac and actually put boots on the ground and play theaters and have a production and everything And Im so glad I did. It was a once in a lifetime result for me, to bring the repertoire forward and to get washed up and dressed nicely and play beautiful places where theres actually a toilet seat on the toilet in the dressing rooms. We played a lot of opera houses on this tour. We had a kind of a thing between us. I think it came from something he heard in a couple of my vocals. There was a certain way I was singing that he took to be like opera. He would put his hand aloft like a Siegfried in the ring, and he would say, Weve gotta keep it up there. Its opera. Im actually talking to somebody. Im threatening to do some opera in a couple of years laughs. Why not I really like Wagners Tristan and Isolde thats a big favorite for me. It seems like youve been doing a little bit of everything lately jazz, electronic music. You worked with Oneohtrix Point Never recently. Part of it is just because people called and asked to work with me. Im approachable. The Oneohtrix Point Never song I did was probably kickstarted by the theme song I did with Danger Mouse for the Matthew Mc. Conaughey vehicle, Gold, which was a last minute job. They were desperate for a vocal, and I had two days off on the tour break and I said, Allll right. But Danger Mouse had heard a song I did called I Wanna Go to the Beach, which is on Prliminaires, which is one of these little, quiet, French ette albums I was making when I could scrape time away from the original Stooges. So he knew what I could do. He said, Ive got a song, I want you to sing it the way you sang such and such. Then when that came out, it got a bit of attention and I started getting calls. Ive done three since then, and the Oneohtrix has come out. I think its like, if youve got a Disney movie, you can call Elton John, but if youre indie, Im available laughs. And the Oneohtrix was just such a wonderful piece of music. And it was the same with Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow and Bobby Previte. They sent me three tracks through an old friend named Bill Laswell, whos a jazzbo, a really interesting producer and just a general music maverick. I like Bill, so I keep in touch with him, and Ive done things over the years, like I did a Buckethead thing for him and I did a Burroughs thing, just because I like him. He sent me word that these guys were looking for me.