Queens Of The Stone Age have played live with Nick Oliveri for the first time since 2014 – check out footage below. READ MORE: How Queens Of The Stone Age’s ‘Rated R’ was a no-bullshit antidote to nu-metal Oliveri played with the band from 1998 until 2004, contributing to their classic albums ‘ Rated R ’ (2000) and ‘ Songs For The Deaf ’ (2002), and had played with frontman Josh Homme before that in the stoner rock group Kyuss . He was fired from the band in 2004, but reunited with them to provide backing vocals on ‘If I Had A Tail’ from 2013’s ‘ …Like Clockwork ’, and then joined them on stage for the first time in a decade at a 2014 show in Portland . On Friday night (April 24), he ended a 12-year wait by joining them again during a show at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center in Joshua Tree, California.…