Queens Of The Stone Age Donates Song To Police Video

01/07/2002 7:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Micah Abrams

(1/7/02, 7 a.m. ET) - Queens Of The Stone Age has allowed one of its songs to be used by the San Diego Sheriff's Department and the San Diego County Office Of Education in a highway safety film. The band has donated the track "Better Living Through Chemistry" from its album Rated R to inform area high school students about the dangers of drinking and driving, and drugging and driving.

The video clip hasn't been titled, and it's still in production. There is also no word as to when the video will be seen in driver's education classrooms.

Queens Of The Stone Age vocalist Josh Homme told Rolling Stone magazine that the decision to do the song was an easy one, "I feel like doing donuts in San Diego County and dropping my name when the cops come. Dude, it's a get-out-of-jail-free card. I just want to be in league with the cops."

That may not be easy, considering bassist Nick Oliveri's penchant for playing nude at shows and getting arrested. He was last arrested in January 2001 in Brazil at the Rock In Rio festival, and charged with indecent exposure.

--Darren Davis, New York

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