David Catching (born June 7, 1961) is an American musician from

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. He is a founding member of the California

stoner rock Stoner rock, also known as stoner metal or stoner doom, is a rock music fusion genre that combines elements of doom metal with psychedelic rock and acid rock. The genre emerged during the early 1990s and was pioneered foremost by Kyuss and Sl ...

bands earthlings? from 1993–present, and

Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age (commonly abbreviated as QOTSA or QotSA) is an American rock band formed in Seattle in 1996. The band was founded by vocalist and guitarist Josh Homme shortly before he returned to his native Palm Desert, California. ...

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.

Career

Catching has played the guitar for well-known hard rock bands Eagles of Death Metal,

, Tex and the Horseheads, as well as

Mark Lanegan Mark William Lanegan (November 25, 1964 – February 22, 2022) was an American singer and songwriter. First becoming prominent as the lead singer for the early grunge band Screaming Trees, he was also known as a member of Queens of the Stone Age ...

, The Ringling Sisters, earthlings?, Mondo Generator and the Masters of Reality, Yellow #5, and Gnarltones. Catching has been associated with the desert country rock band, Smith & Pyle. He contributed to the debut album of country rock duo Smith & Pyle, ''It's OK to be Happy'', which was recorded at his recording studio Rancho de la Luna and released in 2008. He currently resides in

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. Catching was on stage with Eagles of Death Metal during the

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, and escaped the Bataclan with the rest of the band. Catching talked about this at length on the show Conan Neutron's Protonic Reversal,

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and other media.

Musical equipment

With earthlings?, Mojave Lords and other live performances Catching plays a 1984

Gibson Les Paul The Gibson Les Paul is a solid body electric guitar that was first sold by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1952. The guitar was designed by factory manager John Huis and his team with input from and endorsement by guitarist Les Paul. Its typic ...

, gifted to him by his brother in law, Frank Watts. He also uses for live shows and recording Echopark Guitars Albert 58, and Yamaha AES 1500. His pedalboard consists of Earthquaker Devices, Dispatch Master and Astral Destiny, a T.C. Electronics Polytune 2 tuner, and Spark, Jim Dunlop Wah pedal and Rotovibe pedal, Origin Me-Q Drive, Dr No Effects Colossus, Solid Gold FX Lysis and EM-III, Boss DD#3 Delay,

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BigShot, into a combination of Bruce Zinky Tremoverb, and Mofo, or Lanham Amps Dragonslayer with Colby Amps Elpico. With the Eagles of Death Metal, Catching played his 1967

Gibson Flying V The Gibson Flying V is an electric guitar model introduced by Gibson in 1958. The Flying V offered a radical, "futuristic" body design, much like its siblings: the Explorer, which was released the same year, and the Moderne, which was designe ...

through a tuner and distortion pedal and Supro amplifier with a 2x12 cabinet and Orange Amplifiers. He also used an Ampeg Dan Armstrong guitar when playing with Eagles of Death Metal. Catching also use
HipStrap
vintage styled guitar straps. He is endorsed by and uses Ernie Ball ultra slinky guitar strings, coiled red Bullet Cable. Catching released a signature fuzz wah pedal in 2015, th
Roadrunner
through Dr. No Effects. In 2023 partnered with Grancasino Factory to imagine and develop the F.R.E.D. 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 The Fender Stratocaster, colloquially known as the Strat, is a model of double- cutaway electric guitar designed between 1952 and 1954 by Leo Fender, Bill Carson, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares. The Fender Musical Instruments Corpora ...

or his 1972 double cutaway

through a tuner and a distortion Rat pedal. His Les Paul is 1 of 6 ever made by Strings & Things in Memphis, Tennessee. Other guitars were bought by

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, Pat Travers, and Michael Woods, guitarist for the group

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. Photos have circulated of Dave's very guitar nearly being bought by

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of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer fame, but opting out at the last minute for an acoustic bass. Catching co-founded Rancho de la Luna recording studio with Fred Drake in 1993. After Drake's death in 2002, Catching has since run the studio and continues to this day, hosting such musical acts as

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and many others

Partial discography

* ''The Modifiers'' (1980s) * ''60 Watt Reality'' (The Ringling Sisters, 1990) * '' earthlings?'' (earthlings?, 1996) *

, 18AD on ''Burn One Up!'' compilation album (1997) * '' The Desert Sessions 1 & 2'' (1998) * ''

'' (Queens of the Stone Age, 1998) * '' Scraps at Midnight'' (Mark Lanegan, 1998) * '' The Desert Sessions 3 & 4'' (1998) * '' The Desert Sessions 5 & 6'' (1999) * '' Rated R'' (Queens of the Stone Age, 2000) * '' Human Beans'' (earthlings?, 2000) * '' Deep in the Hole'' ( Masters of Reality, 2001) * '' Songs for the Deaf'' (Queens of the Stone Age, 2002) * '' A Drug Problem That Never Existed'' (Mondo Generator, 2003) * '' The Desert Sessions 9 & 10'' (2003) * ''

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'' (Mark Lanegan Band, 2004) * '' III the EP'' (Mondo Generator, 2004) * Cowboy Coffee and Burnt Knives (Hulk, 2004) * '' Lullabies to Paralyze'' (Queens of the Stone Age, 2005) * '' I Got a Brand New Egg Layin' Machine'' ( Goon Moon, 2005) * '' Impeach My Bush'' (

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, 2006) * ''

Death by Sexy ''Death by Sexy'' is the second album by the American rock group Eagles of Death Metal. It was rumoured to be released in summer 2005 but was pushed back to be released in the United States on April 11, 2006. It was released in Europe on July 3, ...

'' (Eagles of Death Metal, 2006) * '' Powder Burns'' (The Twilight Singers, 2006) * '' Dead Planet'' (Mondo Generator, 2006) * '' Licker's Last Leg'' (Goon Moon, 2007) * ''Neptune'' ( The Duke Spirit, 2008) * '' Prime Motivator'' (Giraffes, 2008) * '' Heart On'' (Eagles of Death Metal, 2008) * ''

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'' (Gutter Twins, 2008) * '' Humalien'' ( earthlings?, 2009) * '' Pine Cross Dover'' (Masters of Reality, 2009) * '' Blues Funeral'' (Mark Lanegan Band, 2012) * '' Spine Hits'' (Sleepy Sun, 2012) * ''Tomorrowland Blues'' (Star & Dagger, 2013) * '' Do to the Beast'' (Afghan Whigs, 2014) * ''Unfuckwithable'' (Mojave Lords, 2014) * '' ecaps'' (earthlings?, 2014) * ''Wild Nights'' ( PINS, 2015) * '' Your Desert My Mind'' (The Mutants, 2016) * '' Mudda Fudda'' (earthlings?, 2016) * '' Mojave Lords'' (Gloria In Absentia, 2017) * '' The Golden West'' ( Gayle Skidmore, 2017) *'' Shared Hallucinations Pt.1'' (David Catching and Friends, 2017) * '' Expensive Feelings'' (Mojave Lords, 2021) * '' Rabbit Rabbit'' ( Speedy Ortiz, 2023)

References

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