Dave Grohl discussed Foo Fighters’ new album Concrete and Gold, Axl Rose, and the world famous rock and roll throne in a new Rolling Stone interview.
Now that the record is done and the group is touring again, Grohl feels rejuvenated. He’s looking forward to attempting another season of his HBO musicology and travel show Sonic Highways “sometime when I can,” but mostly he’s just enjoying being on the road and walking by himself. “I lent the throne to Axl Rose because he broke his foot awhile back, and I went to the show to see them,” he says. “It was the first time I’d been in the audience, watching someone perform in this thing, and I thought, ‘That is the most ridiculous fucking idea.'”
Grohl needed time to recuperate after spending nearly a year on the road on a mobile “throne,” as he’d broken his leg falling off a stage mid-song at a 2015 gig in Sweden. “We had such a great run, but I couldn’t walk yet,” he says. “In order to take care of myself, I needed to get away from everything. I was in physical therapy for two or three hours a day for almost a year.” So he told his bandmates he didn’t want to touch an instrument for 365 days. “We’ve never taken that much time off,” he says.
