The newly-appointed Foo Fighters drummer Josh Freese recently paid homage to Dave Grohl’s other career as a drummer, by surprising the Foos frontman with a few bars of his own groove during his live drum solos. Freese recently took to his Instagram account and posted a video clip jamming with Dave Grohl.
Freese uploaded a clip of his third gig with Foo Fighters where he revealed that he decided off-the-cuff to drop in Grohl’s wrist-burner of a tom-and-snare groove from Nine Inch Nails’ You Know What You Are? —a song that Freese is no stranger to, given his stint as drummer for Trent Reznor’s band — during his drum solo in Breakout.
In the clip below, you can see Freese launch into the beat at around 30 seconds, to Grohl and guitarist Chris Shiflett’s delight, before he transitions into some speedy sixteenths between his feet. At the end of the solo, Freese points to Grohl and appears to ask “Did you get that?!”.
His caption read:
“Middle section of ‘Breakout’ on my 3rd @foofighters show about a month ago Columbus, Ohio. Out of nowhere, I decided to reference the NIN song “You Know What You Are” that I used to play every night on tour, but Dave recorded it on the record. I love when he hears it and lights up. At the end, you can see me making sure he caught it. Yes, he caught it. Duh. BTW, playing drums behind one of the worlds greatest drummers is a TOTAL trip. Surprisingly not nerve wracking but really just inspiring and fun. And that’s the truth Ruth. 📷: @rizz_is_high”
