1. Nick Steven Oliveri was born on October 21,1971 and is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter.
31 Facts About Nick Oliveri
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Nick Oliveri is best known as a former bassist of Kyuss and later Queens of the Stone Age from 1998 to 2004.
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Nick Oliveri is currently the frontman of his project, Mondo Generator, a punk and metal hybrid that he formed in 1997, and the co-founder of the stoner rock power trio, Stoner.
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Nick Oliveri has worked periodically with the Dwarves since 1993.
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Nick Steven Oliveri was born in Los Angeles on October 21,1971, and was then raised in Palm Springs from the age of 11.
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Nick Oliveri's first instrument was a guitar but he later moved to bass.
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Nick Oliveri was described by lifelong friend Brant Bjork as having a Spicoli-esque lifestyle growing up in his youth.
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Nick Oliveri began his career in 1987 as a guitarist, when he formed Katzenjammer with bandmates John Garcia, Josh Homme, Chris Cockrell and Brant Bjork.
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Nick Oliveri left the band following completion of Blues for the Red Sun and was replaced by Scott Reeder, who had been approached about joining Kyuss five to six months earlier during a West Coast tour with The Obsessed.
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Nick Oliveri formed Mondo Generator in 1997 and with friends Josh Homme, Brant Bjork, Rob Oswald, Karl Doyle and others, recorded the debut album, Cocaine Rodeo.
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Nick Oliveri was a core contributor to Queens of the Stone Age from 1998 to 2004, playing bass and providing backup and lead vocals on two of the band's biggest albums, Rated R and Songs for the Deaf, in addition to co-writing most of the album's songs with bandmate Josh Homme.
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Nick Oliveri first appeared on the band's self titled debut album in the form of a voicemail confirming his commitment to the band on the album's final song, "I Was a Teenage Hand Model".
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In January 2004, following a string of dates touring in Australia, Nick Oliveri was fired from the band, with reasoning at first being aggressive treatment of the band's fans, later being accusations of possible abuse to his girlfriend.
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Nick Oliveri has said to have come to the conclusion himself that during a soundcheck at a show in Spain in 2003, he acted too aggressively to Josh Homme over his relationship with then-girlfriend Brody Dalle after getting too drunk on wine, raising tension between the two.
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Nick Oliveri then joined Queens of the Stone Age on stage for the first time in over a decade to sing "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire".
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Nick Oliveri left Kyuss later that month after it was revealed that Garcia and Bjork had tried to take control of the Kyuss trademark.
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In 2020, Nick Oliveri formed the stoner rock trio Stoner, along with former Kyuss bandmate Brant Bjork and Ryan Gut, touring member for Bjork's live band.
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In 2005, Nick Oliveri appeared on the Turbonegro album Party Animals as guest vocalist on the song "Final Warning".
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Nick Oliveri joined the band on stage for performances of the song during their US tour in 2007, which included Mondo Generator as support.
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In early 2008, Nick Oliveri joined a West Coast offshoot of Moistboyz dubbed Dickie Moist OTC, on bass.
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In 2010, Nick Oliveri appeared on Slash's debut solo album, Slash, contributing vocals to the track "Chains and Shackles" that was included on the Australian edition of the album.
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In July 2013, while on tour in Alaska, Nick Oliveri met members of Men With Guns, Lowell George Granath and Cody Kniceley, resulting in the formation of a band called The Situationalists and the recording of two demo tracks.
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In 2015, Nick Oliveri collaborated with Russian punk rock band Svetlanas and occasionally toured with the band.
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In 2019, Nick Oliveri joined Desert Rock veterans Bob Balch and Gary Arce in the band Big Scenic Nowhere for the group's debut EP, Dying on the Mountain.
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Nick Oliveri again played for the band on their debut full-length album, Vision Beyond Horizon.
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Nick Oliveri was arrested as a result, but was released several hours later without being charged.
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On January 19,2001, Nick Oliveri was arrested after a performance at Rock in Rio III in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for performing nude on stage.
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Nick Oliveri apologized for the incident and stated that he was not aware that it was a crime in Brazil.
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On July 12,2011, Nick Oliveri was arrested for suspicion of felony domestic violence after a standoff with police SWAT team.
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Nick Oliveri allowed his girlfriend to exit the house two hours into the standoff and two hours before the SWAT team made entry into the home and arrested Oliveri.
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Nick Oliveri adopted the "Rex Everything" moniker after shattering a vase at a former Dwarves bassist's house, upon which he replied to Nick Oliveri with "Rex Everything".