New trio Them Crooked Vultures sat down with afternoon drive jock Meltdown of WRIF/Detroit prior to the band's October 8 performance in the Motor City, and they talked about how the band got together. Drummer Dave Grohl explained that he put the group together, as he is old friends with Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and he had worked with Led Zep bassist John Paul Jones a few times in the past.

"Josh and I were both taking time off from our bands, and I love playing with him, and he's pretty good. And John is pretty good too, so why not put a band together?" Grohl quipped. Jones then recalled the story of the first time he met Homme, at Grohl's birthday party at the theme restaurant Medieval Times in Anaheim.

"They gave me my crown and we talked over dragon soup. I had to get to know Josh. He was kind of apologetic for just being there at this thing," Jones laughed. "It was Dave's birthday, which is great, but it's a whole cultural thing for me, although they're all pretending to be English with strange accents."

When Meltdown asked them how they feel about the term "supergroup," they said it's basically a term that gets "hoisted" on them by the media. "It's really not unlike how any other band begins," said Grohl. "It's a bunch of musicians that have sort of jammed with each other before. It's just that we've all established ourselves doing other projects. Each of us are known for doing other things, but when I was playing with Queens of the Stone Age, you had Mark Lanegan, Josh and me, who had all done things with other bands before. But I don't think anyone ever called that a supergroup."

Jones added that the word has negative connotations of being "contrived and hyped, and not actually a bunch of musicians who want to play together. Whereas this came from the music... it's Dave's fault originally... but after getting us together to see if we could actually do anything, it seemed like a good idea. We got in the studio and just started jamming and it was like, 'Oh, actually, this is pretty good!'"

The band said they don't know exactly when their album is coming out, but it will be before the end of the year. You can check out the full audio of the interview at WRIF.com.