an incredible band in their most bad ass lineup. brant is a monster on the drum kit, scott reeder totally shredding that rick to pieces, love watching those two playing, such powerful rhythm section. garcia has a stage presence like no one else, just gets into the groove without being typical pompous frontman. homme' s guitar work is completely his own and is instantly recognized. these guys did it the hard way, developed a totally new sound in the middle of know where and then went on to spread the gospel to so many other bands. kyuss were just a viciously talented ensemble of bored teenagers who set their energies to create something positive, instead of burning their cities and inciting civil unrest. awesome upload, thank you for this super rarity.
@@smkxodnwbwkdns8369 no way, Josh for sure was by far the weakest performer. He never made anything good again after Kyuss and is a sad joke nowadays. Not to mention hes a moneygrubber asshole.
When Kyuss opened for Metallica in Australia in 1993 they had a full PA the first show and Metallica’s soundman promised Kyuss they’d have full PA during their set, but quickly changed his mind after Kyuss plugged in and turned on. “We douched them,” Homme laughs. “On a frequency spectrum, we were like a brick wall until you hit the high end-and then there was no high end. I mean, high end is not fun for anybody; you don’t party with high end.”
This was a golden era for rock in Melbourne locally...so many incredible bands...Kyuss won an entire generation of fans with this performance...their sound was more like the sound that was coming out of the city at the time, not Metallica...rougher, grungier, rhythmic, honest... I heard they were told to turn their shit down by Metallica too...can't confirm but heard it from a few different people in the know.... ps I wasn't there...had a ticket, had a once in a lifetime job offer too...turned out I picked the wrong 'once in a lifetime'...
@@assisoliveira7454 I kind of understand it but would've been tougher just to go head to head with the supports...better for fans too...ps much love for Sepultura...fucking Policia!!!!!
I was also there, I reckon I was amongst 3-4 people deep from front. Will never forget it. I had never heard of them before that night, i was there for Metallica. Since that night my life changed. In the 20 years since then I now own every Kyuss, Unida, Dozer & Hermano album ever released. Thanks so much to the uploader, this is great footage and brings back so many memories.. PS: Just for the record I have never purchased another Metallica album after seeing these guys..
saw them in sydney ...same tour fukn awesome!!!!!.....p.s no-one listened to metallica after justice....thats why they changed they're name to nickelback???
Yes.. already have.. got most of their stuff.. if not all... saw Unida live in Perth and Kyuss Lives live a couple of times and even spoke to John Garcia...
I was at this gig,Kyuss sonically blew Metallica away!I was in the second row,i could see Jason Newsted on the side totally rocking out to them,later i found out that he was pivotal in bringimg Kyuss along for the support!
Was at this show and Kyuss destroyed! Im a huge Metallica fan and maybe they were spent after a huge tour as this was the very end of it, but Kyuss won the night for me. Turned me into a lifelong fan. I have Metallica's set on VHS from this night, and this will go perfectly with it 🤘🤘
Can we go back in time and tell the person filming this that they don't have to stay on Garcia the whole time...oh look they realised there is a guitar player 15 minutes in...and who is more entertaining to watch than Reeder. Spread the love. Damn.
Man i saw them after in Perth. I didnt know who they were but ever since I have been a huge fan! They came out and just rocked and blew me away. In my opinion pissed on Metallica for raw power and emotion and always will!
Saw them open up for Faith no More in Denver just a few months before this show. My buddy and I were totally blown away and we ran out and bought the Blues for the Red Sun CD and never looked back. Incredible! Thx for posting this, nostalgia hits hard.
Legendary! I was there and no-one knew who they were. I did though :-)! 'Blues for the Red Sun' my fav album at the time, and one of the best albums of all time!! What a gig! they were just kids really. Ha, then I had snakepit tix for Metallica, one of my top gigs of all time.
@@hps69 that’s not what underrated means. perhaps most overlooked band every, they are very highly rated, i rarely heard a negative word about them except that their singer isn’t as good as the band.
@@hps69 Literally the most common comment I have read about Kyuss besides wow they’re amazing, is their singer is bad, I can’t stand the singer, I wish someone else sang, etc. even Josh Homme admitted one of the main reasons he left Kyuss is he didn’t like the vocal performance, hence getting Mark Lanegan to sing who was originally supposed to be the lead singer on the first Queens album. His voice is grating, strained, one-dimensional, and lacks expression. It’s not incompetent like Dave Muscatine’s vocals which is an extreme example but its not very good either. I heard he got better after Kyuss and maybe that’s where he earned the reputation you’re talking about. Underrated/overrated has nothing to do with popularity per say, it has to do with the degree their reputation is generally positive or negative, is a way to put it. Hence the word RATED which means to rate. It has to do with esteem and value. The way massive amounts of people misusing the word is not unlike how most people misused the word irony a decade or so ago, which seems to have stopped incredibly. Now that I think about it, it temporarily slipped my mind that metal bands got no respect from critics. So actually Kyuss was underrated, but it has nothing to do with your definition of not being “well known like other rock bands” and it looks like you later tried to dishonestly fudge the argument by inserting “critics” into your new definition which has nothing to do with your initial comment I was correcting neither explicitly nor implied.
thanks for the upload! I have a few shows a bit earlier, same sets on VHS I have never seen posted. this is nice, this is the pinnacle, rockstarred out Kyuss, ....hints at how powerful they would have been if Brant had not left. I remember brant talking about hearing his drums on Metallica's PA system for the first time. All the shows from this year where just awesome, they were just killing it.
the best line up of Kyuss ... so sad that here not many video's from this era exist... so powerful ... no one has this special groove as brant ... many thx for upload... legend
I heard they only got to use half the PA system during their opening shows for Metallica. It still sounds fucking huuuge, though. Josh was a genius using that bass amp along with regular Marshalls. Would kill to have seen them in their prime.
I was there man !!! - - had never heard of Kyuss at the time - went to see Metallica as a friend had a spare ticket....They friggin rock man! Metallicanor yr a legend
Nice one man... I seen them in March '93 in Brisbane... loved it.. been a fan ever since, even though most of the crowd where booing them Because Metallica where late... Always remember josh doing the crazy feedback in front of the amps..
Wow, just, wow!!! Piece of history as far as I'm concerned. Amazing you were not only able to capture this, but hold on to the tape.......yes.....tape!!!! 😆 cheers!
I know it's easy to be over indulgent about this band but, fuck, Kyuss is the best rock n' roll band ever. They came from punk and they managed to put together hardcore, psychedelia and heavy rock in something so awesome. It's indescriptible. Don't have the words, except that, everything that, John, Brant & Josh gave in the future is worse listening to. Everything, from QOTSA to Slo Burn and Brant's Low Desert Punk. Fuck, Californian stoner is the last best thing that happened to rock n'roll.
maluorno Metallica are kinda known for this, it’s just that a lot of people don’t realise it. Check “Why Go” by Pearl Jam next to “End of the Line” off of Death Magnetic
Thanks heaps for this! I saw Kyuss in Sydney on that tour - they were the reason I bought a ticket, not Metallica! - still have their shirt - even tho I was up in the stands, I stood the entire time rockin' out to their set (different than this set) despite there bein next to no-one up in the stands. Must admit, I thought Josh's playing lost it right at the end when he went into a total wah-wah wank -- that amazed me, since i'd read an interview where he dissed solos and wank-theatrics! lol
+gratefulmule I saw them in Perth, had no idea who they were and was blown away. I enjoyed them more than Metallica. I was never a big fan of Metallica anyway but I went because my friend had a spare free ticket. I am glad I went and witnessed Kyuss. I have been a big fan ever since 1993. Was really disappointed when they broke up a few years later.
an incredible band in their most bad ass lineup. brant is a monster on the drum kit, scott reeder totally shredding that rick to pieces, love watching those two playing, such powerful rhythm section. garcia has a stage presence like no one else, just gets into the groove without being typical pompous frontman. homme' s guitar work is completely his own and is instantly recognized. these guys did it the hard way, developed a totally new sound in the middle of know where and then went on to spread the gospel to so many other bands. kyuss were just a viciously talented ensemble of bored teenagers who set their energies to create something positive, instead of burning their cities and inciting civil unrest. awesome upload, thank you for this super rarity.
Amen brother. Amen.
Kyuss came along and kicked everyone's ass on this tour.
Garcia is a hell of a front man. So fucking into the music.
weakest link
@@smkxodnwbwkdns8369 no way, Josh for sure was by far the weakest performer. He never made anything good again after Kyuss and is a sad joke nowadays. Not to mention hes a moneygrubber asshole.
@@smkxodnwbwkdns8369even if he is, we can’t deny how incredible he is
the best lineup of kyuss.
with scott and brant
Mario Albertengo a short lived but unmatched lineup.
Definitely!
100% agree. They made Welcome to Sky Valley and it’s magic
@Chad Ryan nah reeder kicks his ass on bass
@@tidalcliff2202
Definitely.
When Kyuss opened for Metallica in Australia in 1993 they had a full PA the first show and Metallica’s soundman promised Kyuss they’d have full PA during their set, but quickly changed his mind after Kyuss plugged in and turned on. “We douched them,” Homme laughs. “On a frequency spectrum, we were like a brick wall until you hit the high end-and then there was no high end. I mean, high end is not fun for anybody; you don’t party with high end.”
Went to the Sydney show just to see Kyuss. We didn't stay for all of the Metallica set. Wish Kyuss played longer
This was a golden era for rock in Melbourne locally...so many incredible bands...Kyuss won an entire generation of fans with this performance...their sound was more like the sound that was coming out of the city at the time, not Metallica...rougher, grungier, rhythmic, honest...
I heard they were told to turn their shit down by Metallica too...can't confirm but heard it from a few different people in the know....
ps I wasn't there...had a ticket, had a once in a lifetime job offer too...turned out I picked the wrong 'once in a lifetime'...
It's true that Metallica took charge of the sound system and turned it down. It's mentioned in Joel McIver's book on Queens of the Stone Age.
This happened with Sepultura. Sepultura was open act for Metallica in São Paulo in mid of 90's. Metallica turned down volume...
@@assisoliveira7454 I kind of understand it but would've been tougher just to go head to head with the supports...better for fans too...ps much love for Sepultura...fucking Policia!!!!!
Holy shit brant kills it in this set. there's no one better on the drums.
check out kyuss desert sessions live, i think its the best video with brant live
@@ashleywilson8819 holy fuck. brant is an absurdly talented musician
1. Odyssey 0:30 - 4:30
2. Writhe 4:35 - 8:15
3. Thumb 8:15 - 12:28
4. Green Machine 12:30 - 16:08
5. Gardenia 16:16 - 23:18
6. Allen's Wrench 23:20 - 26:15
Thee Ol' Boozeroony haha you get around
I’d it just me or is Allen’s Wrench a WEIRD song to finish their set with? Green Machine would be a much better choice.
If a volcano could make warm, sexy, heavy, groovy music, this is what it would sound like... molten lava pouring into a desert!
I was also there, I reckon I was amongst 3-4 people deep from front. Will never forget it. I had never heard of them before that night, i was there for Metallica. Since that night my life changed. In the 20 years since then I now own every Kyuss, Unida, Dozer & Hermano album ever released. Thanks so much to the uploader, this is great footage and brings back so many memories.. PS: Just for the record I have never purchased another Metallica album after seeing these guys..
saw them in sydney ...same tour fukn awesome!!!!!.....p.s no-one listened to metallica after justice....thats why they changed they're name to nickelback???
you rule dude
+Ben O'Donohue I saw them in Perth and was blown away too! Pretty much same story as you man! You got the Slo Burn EP?
If you haven't already mate, you must check out HERMANO, UNIDA & VISTA CHINO 3 awesome bands..
Yes.. already have.. got most of their stuff.. if not all... saw Unida live in Perth and Kyuss Lives live a couple of times and even spoke to John Garcia...
Kyuss is the only reason I'm proud to be born and raised in palm desert
After this you have to leave, Metallica can't top this.
Agreed
My ass
In 1993 they could
Best Kyuss lineup in my opinion but they are all great. Legendary band for good reason.
I was at this gig,Kyuss sonically blew Metallica away!I was in the second row,i could see Jason Newsted on the side totally rocking out to them,later i found out that he was pivotal in bringimg Kyuss along for the support!
Jason knew what the fuck was UP!
Grohl was the guy giving Kyuss tapes to Metallica before this tour....
Scott tried out for Metallica when Jason left
Scott was almost in fuckking Metallica!!!!!!
I was a big Kyuss fan then. Always regret not going. Thanks for recording this.
Way more aggressive version of Writhe, especially on the vocals. Holy shit I liked that lol
Best version of Writhe ever.
there's a 92 version and john kills it, the chorus is so much better when hes not signing falsetto@@Nebuloid1
Thanks for posting this! Josh Homme was only 19!
20
@@GD-hd7ol it's ok not everyone gets signed 2 weeks out of high school... except those three
I was smiling like an idiot through the whole video.
Writhe what a song, what a performance!!🤩
#Garciasingslikeanangel
1:30 We got Ned Flanders as head of security here.
😂
Garcia studied dancing at Fred Astaire's Dance School... I recognize the classic moves
I was one month off being 18 and this gig made me become a life long kyuss fan and this is almost 30 years ago now.
The band Metallica wanted to sound like in 93.. Kyuss Ruled!
Van Halen opened for Black Sabbath in 1978...killed em
Kyuss opened up for Metallica in 1993...killed em
@ these days yeah they could lol. OP also implying anyone can kill Sabbath.....
@ yeah of course they were it's a tastament to their legacy
VH never once did anything to Sab
@@uncledrosselmeyer6480 they opened for them in '78. Do your research.
Good!
Wow... NICE!
Metal, blues, classic powerrock, funk, it's all there
Was at this show and Kyuss destroyed!
Im a huge Metallica fan and maybe they were spent after a huge tour as this was the very end of it, but Kyuss won the night for me.
Turned me into a lifelong fan.
I have Metallica's set on VHS from this night, and this will go perfectly with it
🤘🤘
Can we go back in time and tell the person filming this that they don't have to stay on Garcia the whole time...oh look they realised there is a guitar player 15 minutes in...and who is more entertaining to watch than Reeder. Spread the love. Damn.
40watt I was thinking the same!
still, this is better than not seeing it at all
Man i saw them after in Perth. I didnt know who they were but ever since I have been a huge fan! They came out and just rocked and blew me away. In my opinion pissed on Metallica for raw power and emotion and always will!
Saw them open up for Faith no More in Denver just a few months before this show. My buddy and I were totally blown away and we ran out and bought the Blues for the Red Sun CD and never looked back. Incredible! Thx for posting this, nostalgia hits hard.
They really excelled as live musicians. Well..they still do :-)
Odyssey... what an opener. Brant is god.
That is very unortodox bass playing... awesome
Scott Reader, badass!
Reeder is a mad man
I would say so
just sayin....Brant Bjork is a fucking beast. That gardenia breakdown snare roll was insane
Legendary! I was there and no-one knew who they were. I did though :-)! 'Blues for the Red Sun' my fav album at the time, and one of the best albums of all time!! What a gig! they were just kids really. Ha, then I had snakepit tix for Metallica, one of my top gigs of all time.
most underrated band ever , all hail the kings
Underrated?
@@hps69 that’s not what underrated means. perhaps most overlooked band every, they are very highly rated, i rarely heard a negative word about them except that their singer isn’t as good as the band.
@@hps69 Literally the most common comment I have read about Kyuss besides wow they’re amazing, is their singer is bad, I can’t stand the singer, I wish someone else sang, etc. even Josh Homme admitted one of the main reasons he left Kyuss is he didn’t like the vocal performance, hence getting Mark Lanegan to sing who was originally supposed to be the lead singer on the first Queens album. His voice is grating, strained, one-dimensional, and lacks expression. It’s not incompetent like Dave Muscatine’s vocals which is an extreme example but its not very good either. I heard he got better after Kyuss and maybe that’s where he earned the reputation you’re talking about.
Underrated/overrated has nothing to do with popularity per say, it has to do with the degree their reputation is generally positive or negative, is a way to put it. Hence the word RATED which means to rate. It has to do with esteem and value. The way massive amounts of people misusing the word is not unlike how most people misused the word irony a decade or so ago, which seems to have stopped incredibly.
Now that I think about it, it temporarily slipped my mind that metal bands got no respect from critics. So actually Kyuss was underrated, but it has nothing to do with your definition of not being “well known like other rock bands” and it looks like you later tried to dishonestly fudge the argument by inserting “critics” into your new definition which has nothing to do with your initial comment I was correcting neither explicitly nor implied.
Best three piece rhythm section ever. Reeder, Bjork, and Homme rule!!
....they barely even played together
@@uncledrosselmeyer6480 They still played a decent number of shows together before Brant left and when they did, they killed it.
Brant Bjork = Animal from the Dr. Teeth band on The Muppet Show.
mighty metallica? kyuss is beyond metallica, kyuss is the cosmic trip
Nah bro.. just no 😂
@@riffgodinc7993 ...what’re you talking about..?
Metallica were just awful
@@uncledrosselmeyer6480 they aren't better than Metallica.
True who tf wants to trip to that boomer shit
thanks for the upload! I have a few shows a bit earlier, same sets on VHS I have never seen posted. this is nice, this is the pinnacle, rockstarred out Kyuss, ....hints at how powerful they would have been if Brant had not left. I remember brant talking about hearing his drums on Metallica's PA system for the first time. All the shows from this year where just awesome, they were just killing it.
Alfredo is just as good
absoluetly man.. Alfredo's a beast as well
@@maluorno not really. And they’re very different
@@uncledrosselmeyer6480 - You're on glue
SO FUCKING AMAZING GOD LOVE KYUSS, KYUSS LOVE GOD
This is magic, man. Garcia, Bjork, Holmes and Reeder. Thanks for posting! Cheers from Brazil.
1. Odyssey 00:30
2. Writhe 04:35
3. Thumb 8:14
4. Green Machine 12:30
5. Gardenia 16:14
6. Allen's Wrench 23:20
ST♥NER.
the best line up of Kyuss ... so sad that here not many video's from this era exist... so powerful ... no one has this special groove as brant ... many thx for upload... legend
That's a nice piece of history right there.
kyuss the best band for ever....
22, 21, 20 ,19
those kids are doing alright eh
I heard they only got to use half the PA system during their opening shows for Metallica. It still sounds fucking huuuge, though. Josh was a genius using that bass amp along with regular Marshalls. Would kill to have seen them in their prime.
This guy knows whats up how this band wasn t the biggest rock act on the entire planet remains to be a foggy mystery
Man this brings back some awesome memories! Massive props to the uploader.
I was there man !!! - - had never heard of Kyuss at the time - went to see Metallica as a friend had a spare ticket....They friggin rock man! Metallicanor yr a legend
LOL....look at the dude in the mustache in the snake pit. he's diggin it
Nice one man... I seen them in March '93 in Brisbane... loved it.. been a fan ever since, even though most of the crowd where booing them Because Metallica where late... Always remember josh doing the crazy feedback in front of the amps..
Thank you very much for the upload!
I prefer Kyuss to Metallica, but props for opening them up to a wider audience by taking them out on tour...
0:31 Odyssey
4:36 Writhe
8:14 Thumb
12:31 Green Machine
16:14 Gardenia
23:20 Allen's Wrench
Awesome footage!! Wow!!! Kyuss best lineup!!
what...a....trip!! thanks so so much dude! this is a nice rec and sounds pretty great. yeah!
Credit to Metallica for having the balls to have a way better band to open for them😆
Awesome
Thank you SO much for uploading!
I use to live in Aussie and used to get told Kyuss left cracks in the building for playing to loud
thanks a LOT my friend!!!! i'm a fan since there begining...
Wow, just, wow!!! Piece of history as far as I'm concerned. Amazing you were not only able to capture this, but hold on to the tape.......yes.....tape!!!!
😆 cheers!
thanx for uploading this jewel !!!
These guys are always fuckin studio quality. I'm so thankful for this band
Man!!!! What a gig! What a sound! I saw them in Perth on the same tour! Excellent! If Batman had a guitar it would be the one Josh uses!
I know it's easy to be over indulgent about this band but, fuck, Kyuss is the best rock n' roll band ever. They came from punk and they managed to put together hardcore, psychedelia and heavy rock in something so awesome. It's indescriptible. Don't have the words, except that, everything that, John, Brant & Josh gave in the future is worse listening to. Everything, from QOTSA to Slo Burn and Brant's Low Desert Punk. Fuck, Californian stoner is the last best thing that happened to rock n'roll.
Worse or worth listening to? I'd agree with the latter.
@@hps69 worth* 😬
Best Band ever
Dude with the stash tho
great uppload! thankin you
They totally killed this show. Thanks for sharing xxx
Yess! I was at this gig. Thank you!
this guy really loves John Garcia D:!!
wow... just wow!!! THANK YOU!!!
This must be the reason why Metallica 'changed' direction after their Black album. They seem to riff a little more like the dessert bands.
sususegar in reality it's because of COC, they admitted it
@@rikkit9380 The big ones will never admit the real truth.
Only something close.
Its clear they went in Kyuss direction also Alice in chains.
Kyuss opened up for Tool also and Tool covered Kyuss's "Demon Cleaner" Josh said Metallica copied a lot of his riffs.
which riffs?
www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=16822
maluorno Metallica are kinda known for this, it’s just that a lot of people don’t realise it. Check “Why Go” by Pearl Jam next to “End of the Line” off of Death Magnetic
Dont forget Jim Root of Slipknot gave them a nod by playing Thumb while ending Spit it Out on their set of Download 2009
Blurry by Puddle of Mudd copied a riff from Josh's solo in Writhe.
Sunds fcking awesome. Thanks for sharing.
great show. thx
Very good quality!!
Thanks heaps for this! I saw Kyuss in Sydney on that tour - they were the reason I bought a ticket, not Metallica! - still have their shirt - even tho I was up in the stands, I stood the entire time rockin' out to their set (different than this set) despite there bein next to no-one up in the stands. Must admit, I thought Josh's playing lost it right at the end when he went into a total wah-wah wank -- that amazed me, since i'd read an interview where he dissed solos and wank-theatrics! lol
I thought the opening act wasn't supposed to blow the headliner off the stage In this case that is exactly what happened
Yeah was there, incredible!
thanks a lot mate :)
What a great band
This is gold, tx!
youtube DVD here I come! thank you metallicanor for making me so very rich!
Metallicanor you rule for uploading this!!!!
This is great!!!!
Dude, this is so fuckin awesome!
Thanks a lot!
Brant is a monster drumer
Just watched this again, fucking hell. I caught Gacia Plays Kyuss and Kyuss Lives! Last year, but nothing could compare to this.
One of the best if not the best performance that is on the net especialy for garcia.Wish i was there
Love love josh !
i thought they were better than Metallica that night they smoked them!!
+gratefulmule I saw them in Perth, had no idea who they were and was blown away. I enjoyed them more than Metallica. I was never a big fan of Metallica anyway but I went because my friend had a spare free ticket. I am glad I went and witnessed Kyuss. I have been a big fan ever since 1993. Was really disappointed when they broke up a few years later.
Love this band I love Josh 🖤🖤 badass
This is fucking amazing, nice touch!!
Brant is a beast on those drums.
Kyuss and Metallica at the same night *-* so epic
No shit! they did man.. what a band!
you can feel the awestruck in the crowd
Gardenia is fuuucking sick.