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Josh Homme and Scott Reeder are suing Kyuss Lives!

by Tyler Munro

One of the reasons Kyuss Lives! doesn’t go by Kyuss is because original members Josh Homme and Scott Reeder aren’t in the band. Well, that and the fact that they legally can’t.

But while the relationship between the current and former members of Kyuss and Kyuss Lives! has been tepid at best since the reunion (of sorts) first started in 2010, it’s about to hit its boiling point with the Pitchfork reporting today that Homme and Reeder are initiating a lawsuit against Nick Oliveri, Brant Bjork and John Garcia over claims that their former band mates are trying to take back the Kyuss name.

Reeder and Homme had this to say in a joint statement released today:

It sucks. To think we went to a meeting in January solely to help them with their request to continue Kyuss Lives! With open arms, we made every attempt to help them continue Kyuss Lives! respectfully. Only to discover while they looked us in the eye, Kyuss Lives! management and band had filed federal documents in 2011 in an attempt to steal the name Kyuss. This is desperately what we were trying to avoid. It’s a sad day for us and for John – but most of all for the fans. What a needless mess.

An interesting thing to note is that while Scott Reeder has never technically been in Kyuss Lives!, he did fill in live during Nick Oliveri’s most recent legal troubles.