![]() Hughes’s most distinctive facial feature is his bushy mustache, which reads as comic, in part because it’s reminiscent of the comedian Rip Taylor, whose cheerily hirsute mug is emblazoned on Hughes’s guitar picks. I’ve always been on speed, one form or another, since I was a kid.” “Drinking is a lot of work for a shitty high, so I don’t drink. It’s weak,” Hughes, 43, says between drags from his cigarette. I’m here to talk about the LP, but Hughes would rather pontificate on the world at large and how it’s going to hell.īut before that, he wants to discuss one of his favorite topics - drugs. Hughes’s copilot in the band and best friend in life, Josh Homme, isn’t with him on this tour in advance of Zipper Down, EODM’s first album in seven years. In a few hours, Hughes will perform with his band, Eagles of Death Metal, which recalls Sticky Fingers-era Rolling Stones filtered through the post-modern sensibility of the Cramps. It’s early September, and I’m sitting backstage at a club in Minneapolis with rock’s last wild man. ![]() ![]() Jesse Hughes is looking out through actual rose-colored glasses, but the view seems far from upbeat.
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