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47-416: Recorded during a period of strife in the band members' personal lives, Quebec was described by Dean Ween as a "very negative" album that takes on a darker tone compared to the band's prior work. Josh Freese performed the drums on the album, stepping in for Claude Coleman Jr. as he was recovering from a near-fatal car crash in 2002. Freese also played with the band on tour during this time, including during

94-565: A 2007 Guitar Center interview, Freese stated: "My set up never gets that crazy or out of the ordinary I don't think. You can pretty much always count on starting off with the basic Ringo 4 piece set up and add from there. With the Vandals that's all I use. With Devo add a second rack tom. With NIN keep only 1 rack but have 2 floors and a 3rd floor off to the left of my hi-hat (with NIN the drums are all about 2 inches bigger than I normally would use... 14 rack. 24 kick, 18 and 20-inch floors... 16 off

141-532: A Yamaha drum set he had received through a promotional deal. After playing around on that drum set for two years, Freese's father took him to the 1983 NAMM Show , an annual music industry trade show at the Anaheim Convention Center . There he attracted the attention of the crowd by playing on a vendor's sample drum set. Freese returned to the NAMM Show in 1985, where a representative from Simmons found

188-491: A dad for a while, I need to be home for my family.' And he was like, 'Yeah, man, that's a totally noble, understandable reason.'" Freese performed live with Weezer from 2009 to 2011, during which time Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson played guitar, and also played on the band's 2009 album Raditude . In 2011, Freese became the touring drummer for Paramore on the South American leg of their Brand New Eyes World Tour after

235-415: A handful of recordings that eventually made the album, the demos feature several alternate takes as well as a number of songs that have remained unreleased. well what can i say about this here, lemme see. the first thing that comes to mind is that all the while we were doing this we still had claude coleman on drums, he eventually got into a major car wreck and wasn't around when it finally came time to make

282-583: A lot of good press and attention to the fact that I'm putting out a record because of it! Mission accomplished." In 2020, after Freese's touring work came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he recorded an album of one-minute songs at his home studio titled Just a Minute, Volume 1 . The album was released in 2021 by Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard on his label Loosegroove Records. Taylor Hawkins, who Freese would go on to succeed in Foo Fighters, featured in

329-591: A promotional video for the song "Heavy Metal Car Collection", which appeared on the album. Freese lives in Southern California with his wife Nicole and their four children—Hunter, August, Olive, and Lu Lu. He is the older brother of musician Jason Freese , a touring keyboardist and session player for Green Day who has also performed with the Goo Goo Dolls , Dr. Dre , Jewel , Lenny Kravitz , Liz Phair , Foxboro Hot Tubs , Joe Walsh , and Weezer . In

376-456: A record, but it's very negative. It's one of our darker records, I think. I don't listen to any of our records, but I have never listened to that one." The album received generally positive reviews from music critics. Mark Prindle named Quebec the best album of the 2000s in an interview on Fox News Channel 's Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld . Mojo named it the No. 39 best album of 2003. "CMJ" named it

423-477: A regular band. They want to write and record a record and go on tour six weeks from now. It all seemed very realistic." A Perfect Circle's first album, 2000's Mer de Noms , was the highest charting debut for a rock group at number four on the Billboard 200 in its first week of sales. "I think it's a great record, and I feel proud of it," Freese said, retrospectively, in 2020. "I always feel okay patting myself on

470-466: A series of benefit concerts for Coleman at New York City's Bowery Ballroom on October 7 and 8, 2002. The album cover is an edited version of the packaging for the game Thorns from the 3M Paper Games series with the band superimposed on it. The album was the band's first since 1991's The Pod to be released on an independent label, as Ween's contract with Elektra Records expired following 2000's White Pepper . The three-year gap between albums

517-590: A session drummer has featured multiple enduring collaborations. He played on the Offspring 's 2003 album Splinter after the departure of Ron Welty , played on several of the band's subsequent releases, and served as their touring drummer from 2021 to 2023 after they fired Pete Parada for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccination . Producer Bob Rock has worked frequently with Freese, and requested that he contribute drum tracks for Lostprophets ' third album, Liberation Transmission . Freese has worked on and off with

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564-541: A shoot for the TV movie 14 Going on 30 . Zappa got Freese together with Zappa's brother Dweezil and the two began playing together casually. Dweezil then asked Freese to record with him, and Freese dropped out of high school to pursue recording full-time (Freese eventually received his GED years later). Not being old enough to drive, Freese's father drove him to the recording session in Los Angeles before Freese began staying with

611-474: A streaming event titled "Preparing Music For Concerts". Throughout his career, Freese has performed as a session drummer on hundreds of recordings for dozens of artists, joking that his client list of popular musicians made him "the blue collar freelance drummer to the stars." Among his early studio recordings as a session musician, Freese played on the Infectious Grooves album Sarsippius' Ark and

658-401: A two-disc, MP3-only collection of songs, The Caesar Demos , named after the band's original working title for Quebec , to friends on his Facebook page. In his comment, he stated the songs were all recorded between 2001 and 2003 while drummer Claude Coleman, Jr. was recovering from injuries sustained in a car accident, and that many of the tracks featured only himself and Gene . In addition to

705-510: Is an American drummer. A member of punk rock band the Vandals since 1989, Freese has also been a member of new wave band Devo since 1996 and rock band Foo Fighters since 2023. A prolific session and touring drummer, Freese has appeared on over 400 albums since 1986 and performed live with artists including Nine Inch Nails , Weezer , Sublime with Rome , Sting , 100 gecs , the Offspring and Danny Elfman . His considerable workload has earned him "the pristine reputation as one of

752-532: Is the seventeenth studio album by Canadian musician Devin Townsend . It is the seventh and final album in the Devin Townsend Project series. It was released on September 9, 2016, via HevyDevy Records. Transcendence is the first Devin Townsend album not to be produced solely by Townsend, by featuring ex- Periphery member Adam "Nolly" Getgood as additional producer, engineer and mixer. By Townsend's request,

799-590: The Junior Star Search competition on television. Freese became friends with the band's drummer, Jimmy Keegan , and was invited to sit in on a few songs during their sets at the Tomorrowland Terrace stage. The guest spots went so well that Freese was ivited to join the band as an additional drummer. Freese played with Polo at Disneyland and other venues from 1985 to 1988. In 1988, Freese met and befriended Ahmet Zappa , son of musician Frank Zappa , at

846-535: The Coachella Music & Arts Festival in Indio , California. Freese also performed in the studio with both artists, on Elfman's 2021 release Big Mess and 100 gecs ' second album, 2023's 10,000 gecs . In 1998, Freese recorded a number of songs that he wrote and performed himself (including bass, guitar, keyboards and vocals). The result is the lo-fi, 6-song EP Destroy Earth As Soon As Possible , released under

893-617: The Suicidal Tendencies album The Art of Rebellion in 1992, as well as two albums by the Korean group Seo Taiji and Boys ' in 1994 and 1995. He also played some shows in early 1998 with the band 311 as a fill-in drummer for them on the Warped tour in Australia, Japan and Hawaii. Chad Sexton, 311's drummer had broken a hand just before a show in Australia early in the tour. Freese was already on

940-443: The "real" record. instead the drum duties fell on me, josh freese, and sim cain for a couple of tunes. almost all of this was recorded at our beach house in holgate, nj onto 16 track tape. a tiny bit of it was recorded in the garage behind aaron's house in pt. pleasant, pa. some of it was recorded in the spare bedroom of my house in new hope. most of the tunes are just me and aaron, with the two of us playing everything, with me on drums.

987-564: The 12-year-old Freese playing a sample drum set and signed him to an endorsement deal. Freese played a Simmons electronic drum set at PASIC (the Percussive Arts Society International Convention) and in television commercials for Simmons. By 1985, Freese's father had transitioned out of his bandleader role and into talent booking at Disneyland. That summer, Freese's father hired Polo, a Top 40 cover band composed of teenagers around Freese's age, which had just won

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1034-534: The Foo Fighters or something obvious?" Coincidentally, Freese would subsequently go on to join an alternative band, A Perfect Circle, and later joined Foo Fighters. With Guns N' Roses, Freese recorded the song " Oh My God " for the End of Days soundtrack and co-wrote the song " Chinese Democracy " with Axl Rose . Freese drummed on 30 tracks to potentially be included on Chinese Democracy , but his recordings were scrapped and re-recorded note-for-note by Bryan Mantia . He

1081-501: The No. 8 best album of 2003. All tracks written by Ween. The song "It's Gonna Be a Long Night" is featured in the video games Tony Hawk's Underground 2 and ATV Offroad Fury 3 , as downloadable content in the Rock Band franchise, and in the TV show The Shield . The song "If You Could Save Yourself (You'd Save Us All)" was featured in episode 7 of The Morning Show . "Tried and True" and "Transdermal Celebration" appeared in

1128-572: The Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg since 1992, including playing drums with the reunited Replacements from 2013 to 2015. Freese also provided the drums on two Replacements tracks that appear on their greatest-hits album Don't You Know Who I Think I Was . Beginning in 2005, Freese served as Sting 's touring drummer and went on to appear on several of his studio recordings including the album 57th & 9th . Freese served as Nine Inch Nails ' touring drummer from 2005 to 2008 and performed on

1175-451: The Zappas during the week and going home to Orange County on the weekends. Freese's first recorded collaboration with Dweezil was the 1991 album Confessions . While he was playing at Disneyland with Polo, Freese caught the eye of Dave Quackenbush and Joe Escalante , two members of the punk rock band The Vandals . In 1989, they hired Freese to be the band's drummer. Freese has played on all

1222-433: The back for certain projects because there's tons of projects I played on that I don't like." The band's follow up release, 2003's Thirteenth Step , charted at number two in its opening week with over 233,000 copies sold. Freese ultimately played drums on the band's first three albums before leaving in 2012. Freese also played drums on two solo albums by Howerdel, one released under the moniker Ashes Divide in 2008 and

1269-576: The band announced the departure of the Farro brothers ( Zac and Josh ). The next year, Freese toured in 2012 with Sublime with Rome after Bud Gaugh announced his departure from the band. Notable albums Freese appeared on as a session musician in the 2010s include Bruce Springsteen 's High Hopes , Katy Perry 's Teenage Dream , Kelly Clarkson 's Stronger , Rascal Flatts ' Rewind , and Lana Del Rey 's Norman Fucking Rockwell! In 2022, he played drums with 100 gecs as well as Danny Elfman at

1316-711: The band's albums since except 2000's Look What I Almost Stepped In... , on which Suicidal Tendencies drummer Brooks Wackerman was deputized due to Freese's commitments with A Perfect Circle . In 1996, Freese joined a reformed Devo for a show at the Sundance Film Festival , replacing David Kendrick . Freese has become their primary drummer in concert and in the studio since. Freese has said that he learned to play drums thanks to Devo's 1980 album Freedom of Choice . Freese played drums on Devo's 2010 album Something for Everybody , and provided backing vocals on Devo's holiday single "Merry Something to You". Freese

1363-493: The group's 2007 album Year Zero and 2008 album The Slip . He left Nine Inch Nails at the end of 2008 in order to spend more time with his family and long-time girlfriend, who was pregnant with the couple's third child at the time. "With [Nine Inch Nails frontman] Trent [Reznor], I left on good terms because I was like, 'Listen, man, I don't have anything else lined up, I'm not leaving because this band over here offered me more money," Freese said. "I need to just go home and be

1410-420: The guitar solo on "Transdermal Celebration" illicitly using Carlos Santana 's guitar and amplifier at a storage space where it was to be shipped to New York. After being informed by a roadie, he took a hard disk recorder with him and successfully recorded it in ten minutes without getting caught. The recording of Quebec saw the band deal with many struggles in their professional and personal lives. Gene Ween

1457-519: The most in-demand session drummers in the business," according to Variety , while Freese jokingly dubbed himself "the blue collar freelance drummer to the stars." He was previously a member of hard rock band Guns N' Roses from 1997 to 1999 and a member of alternative rock band A Perfect Circle from 1999 to 2012, the latter of which he rejoined in 2024. Joshua Ryan Freese was born on December 25, 1972, at Florida Hospital in Orlando, Florida . At

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1504-480: The name 'Princess' by T.O.N/Stone Lizard Records. In 2000, the songs "Caffeine and Vaseline" and "Rock N' Roll Chicken" were revived for the 12-song album The Notorious One Man Orgy , this time released under Freese's own name by Kung Fu Records . Guest appearances include Stone Gossard , Warren Fitzgerald , Michael Ward , Lyle Workman , and Freese's brother Jason. Freese released his second solo album, Since 1972 , via his website on March 24, 2009. Since 1972

1551-612: The ones i happened to burn to cd before we drove home from the beach every week. hope you dig it for what it is. A few of the songs on the Caesar Demos would end up on later records by the band. "Someday" and "I Fell In Love Today" would later be featured on the B-sides compilation Shinola, Vol. 1 , while a slightly rewritten version of "Don't Let The Moon Catch You Crying" would end up on Dean Ween's second solo album rock2 . Josh Freese Joshua Ryan Freese (born December 25, 1972)

1598-647: The other under Howerdel's name in 2022. In March 2024, Freese confirmed he would be touring with A Perfect Circle in April for the first time in 13 years. Freese appeared as one of several guest drummers for the Foo Fighters during a pair of concerts held in tribute to the band's late drummer Taylor Hawkins in London and Los Angeles in September 2022. In May 2023, the Foo Fighters introduced Freese as their full-time drummer during

1645-403: The other musicians' input to songs, arrangements and production is also greater than on previous Devin Townsend albums. The first song on the album, "Truth", is a re-recorded version of a song that appeared for the first time on Devin Townsend's solo album Infinity , while the bonus disc includes a re-recording of the song "Victim", from Physicist . The song "Stars" was publicly demoed during

1692-477: The park while their father worked. Freese said that some of his earliest memories are of he and his brother marching with the Disneyland Band holding toy instruments. Freese's first job was at Disneyland as a shoe shine boy during the summer of 1985. Freese and his brother would shine the shoes of park employees and worked for tips. Freese began playing the drums when he was eight years old. His father set up

1739-413: The second season of Superman & Lois with the former being featured in the sixth episode of the same name. Indie pop band Water from Your Eyes covered "If You Could Save Yourself (You'd Save Us All)" in 2024 for mental health awareness. Heavy metal musician Devin Townsend covered "Transdermal Celebration" for his album Transcendence in 2016. On August 11, 2011, Dean Ween quietly released

1786-519: The side of my hihat). With A Perfect Circle 2 racks and 2 floors, 2nd snare off the left of my hihat... more cymbals with APC too. With Sting there are 3 racks but smaller sizes and only 1 floor. Never too many cymbals (except with APC I guess). In the studio my drums are usually something really basic a 4, 5, or 6 piece kit with lots of snare and cymbal choices." Solo discography Transcendence (Devin Townsend Project album) Transcendence

1833-462: The songs on the album deal with drug abuse, mental health issues, and failing relationships. Gene Ween has admitted to taking inspiration from his divorce, saying to Pop Matters “I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it’s not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.”. Reflecting on these themes in 2007, Dean said to The A.V. Club , "With Quebec , I like it as

1880-445: The songs with claude, dave, and glenn are pretty obvious. on just a few tunes we took what you hear here and cleaned them up and had andrew weiss mix them for the record after some overdubs. dave sings on "it's gonna be a long night", this was days before he had surgery to remove polyps in his throat and his voice was really rough so we figured he was the guy for the job. This isn't even all of the tunes that we ended up choosing from, just

1927-593: The time of his birth, Freese's father, Stan Freese , was. working at the newly-opened Walt Disney World Resort as the director of bands and leader of the Walt Disney World Marching Band. His mother, Patricia (née Weatherhead, later Bridenstine), is a classical pianist and a writer. In 1974, Freese's father was transferred to Disneyland Park in Southern California to lead the Disneyland Band. Freese and his younger brother Jason spent summers at

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1974-558: The tour playing with the Vandals every day and played with both bands for the majority of the tour. In 1999, Freese drummed on Mike Ness' first solo album Cheating At Solitaire. Among the notable albums Freese performed on in the 2000s are The Young and the Hopeless by Good Charlotte , Fallen by Evanescence , Let Go by Avril Lavigne , Thankful by Kelly Clarkson , Quebec by Ween , Next Level by Ayumi Hamasaki , and Crazy Love by Michael Bublé . Freese's career as

2021-424: Was a member of hard rock band Guns N' Roses from 1997 to 1999, replacing Matt Sorum and signing a two-year contract. Initially hesitant about joining the band, he was persuaded by his friend and collaborator Paul Westerberg of the Replacements , who told Freese, "You should do it. Go do it. It sounds totally wrong; go do it. What are you going to do, be in some totally cool alternative band? Are you going to join

2068-436: Was credited with arrangements on four tracks on the album, released in 2008. Freese left Guns N' Roses in 1999 to join A Perfect Circle alongside Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan and the band's founder Billy Howerdel . Freese said he chose to make the switch "because it seemed like a more tangible thing that was really going to happen. These guys aren't spending a million in the studio. They seem like they want to start

2115-525: Was distributed similarly to the value-added packages offered by Nine Inch Nails 's recent releases. The album was offered as a $ 7 digital download, and a $ 15 CD/DVD on his website. As a marketing stunt, the website offers unique incentive packages at prices up to $ 75,000. Publications covering the offer include SuicideGirls , The UK's The Guardian , NPR , and Boston Herald . Of the novelty items for sale, Freese stated, "I'm not expecting to sell any of those ridiculously priced packages but I sure did get

2162-404: Was going through a divorce from his first wife, Dean Ween was dealing with drug issues and was "partying way too hard", Claude Coleman was recovering from a life-threatening car crash that left him unable to perform on the record (with drumming instead being primarily handled by Josh Freese ), and the band was moving from Elektra Records to a smaller, independent label. As a result, many of

2209-407: Was the longest for the band up to this point. The album was originally titled Caesar . It was changed to Quebec because, according to Dean Ween, "Our vision is like this rainy, colder than Paris , Parisian place. The vibe of our record is like romantic and rainy without being as classy as Paris. That was why we called it Quebec , it's like this B-version of Leonard Cohen ." Dean Ween recorded

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