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Queens of the Stone Age shredded their way through Breese Stevens Field on Tuesday night, playing a short but sweet set full of fan favorites both new and old.<\/p>\n

But one of the night\u2019s real highlights was a bizarre anecdote from frontman Josh Homme.<\/p>\n

As he tells it, when Homme was a fresh-faced 18-year-old and Queens was touring with Ween<\/a>, he tended bar at O\u2019Cayz Corral, the beloved late Madison venue and High Noon Saloon precursor. Oh, and he also claimed that he wrote \u201cNo One Knows,” his best known song, in Madison.<\/p>\n

Given the specificity of his story \u2014 why else would Homme, a California native, bring up something about a Wisconsin venue that was destroyed by fire in 2001 \u2014\u00a0 we decided to dig a bit deeper.<\/p>\n

In an email today, former O\u2019Cayz and High Noon owner Cathy Dethmers, certainly an authority<\/a> on this sort of thing, cast suspicion on certain elements of Homme\u2019s story.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe did not actually tend bar at O\u2019Cayz, though he asked me if he could serve some drinks the night of their show,\u201d says Dethmers, who attended Tuesday\u2019s show. \u201cBut all I remember is I said \u2018no\u2019 but then let him pour shots for the staff and the bands after the show was over.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, he was not 18 in 1999,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Queens of the Stone Age and Ween played O\u2019Cayz Corral on Feb. 6, 1999, meaning Homme would have been 25 (he was born May 17, 1973). Dethmers says he did play Madison at 18, though, with his old band, Kyuss. \u201cMaybe he is confusing his Madison memories?\u201d<\/p>\n

As for \u201cNo One Knows,\u201d she can\u2019t confirm or deny the Madison roots of Songs for the Deaf<\/em>\u2019s lead single.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no idea if he wrote \u2018No One Knows\u2019 here,\u201d Dethmers says, \u201cbut it\u2019s plausible to me. Wikipedia has a quote from him saying he wrote the song long before it ended up on [their 2002] record, and their O\u2019Cayz show was in February 1999.\u201d<\/p>\n

I, for one, want to believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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