{"id":209711,"date":"2026-04-25T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209711\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T20:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:05:10","slug":"watch-queens-of-the-stone-age-reunited-with-nick-oliveri-for-the-first-live-performance-of-auto-pilot-in-over-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209711\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Queens Of The Stone Age Reunited With Nick Oliveri For The First Live Performance Of &#8220;Auto Pilot&#8221; In Over A Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gold-certified alternative rockers Queens Of The Stone Age had a surprise live reunion in store last night, April 24th. In a throwback to their rowdier younger days, vocalist\/bassist Nick Oliveri rejoined the band onstage during a set that took place at the Joshua Tree Retreat center in Joshua Tree, CA. Oliveri came out during the third act of the set, guesting on a performance of \u201cAuto Pilot\u201d from Queens Of The Stone Age\u2018s 2000 sophomore album, \u201cRated R\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Oliveri was fired from Queens Of The Stone Age in 2004 amid his increasingly erratic behavior, and while that initial split was bitter, he and frontman Josh Homme would eventually reconcile. Fan-filmed footage of last night\u2019s performance can be seen below. That reunion marked the first time this song had been performed live since 2014 \u2014 the last time Oliveri was invited to hit the stage with the band.<\/p>\n<p>This show launched  a brief spring tour from Queens Of The Stone Age that will pick up again this Monday, April 27th, in Rancho Mirage, CA.  Libby Grace is opening that run:<\/p>\n<p>04\/25 Rancho Mirage, CA \u2013 Agua Caliente Rancho Mirage<br \/>04\/27 Portland, OR \u2013 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall<br \/>04\/29 Seattle, WA \u2013 Paramount Theatre<br \/>05\/01 Lincoln, CA \u2013 Thunder Valley Casino Resort<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gold-certified alternative rockers Queens Of The Stone Age had a surprise live reunion in store last night, April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,25146,63,122,124,123,2856],"class_list":["post-209711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nick-oliveri","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-queens-of-the-stone-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}