Dave Catching

from 1993–present, and Queens of the Stone Age from 1996-2000, a former touring member of Eagles of Death Metal from 2003-2017 and the current operator of the Rancho De La Luna recording studio.

[1][2] Catching has played the guitar for well-known hard rock bands Eagles of Death Metal, Queens of the Stone Age, Tex and the Horseheads, as well as Mark Lanegan, The Ringling Sisters, earthlings?, Mondo Generator and the Masters of Reality, Yellow #5, and Gnarltones.

With earthlings?, Mojave Lords and other live performances Catching plays a 1984 Gibson Les Paul, gifted to him by his brother in law, Frank Watts.

or Frequency Re-arranging Experimentation Device, cited by Catching as a tribute to Fred Drake, his departed former partner in Rancho de la Luna as 'an unequalled sonic enhancement device befitting such a fantastic, uniquely wonderful, talented man as Fred Drake From 1993-2015 with earthlings?, he used his 1958 Fender Stratocaster or his 1972 double cutaway Gibson Les Paul through a tuner and a distortion Rat pedal.

After Drake's death in 2002, Catching has since run the studio and continues to this day, hosting such musical acts as Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Iggy Pop, Daniel Lanois and many others

Catching performing with the Eagles of Death Metal in 2009