Foo Fighters drummer Josh Freese recently posted a video clip on his Instagram in which he could be playing a drum solo. While he was playing one of his sticks went off flying but he still managed to complete the segment. He laughed with Nate Mendel and Dave Grohl. He also jokingly blamed it on the “massage sauce” (lotion) that must’ve caused the mishap. He said that he and Nate and were talking about just that right before the show.
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Josh Freese has revealed how he ended up joining the Foo Fighters replacing the legendary Taylor Hawkins. Ever since his stellar performance at the Foo Fighters’ deeply emotional all-star Taylor Hawkins tributes staged in 2022, Josh Freese has been the fan pick for the successor of the band’s untimely departed and universally loved drummer.
After all, Freese’s credentials read like the definite list of who’s who in contemporary rock. His resume has Nine Inch Nails, Guns N’ Roses, Paramore, Devo, A Perfect Circle, Weezer, and many more proving that there’s no job the Florida native can’t tackle.
However, Freese told Rick Beato in a new interview that he had no clue that Dave Grohl was also thinking along those same lines, even as fans heaped requests to get him into the Foos on various social media (transcription via Blabbermouth):
“On my children’s lives, I had zero plans of being called to be the drummer. And everyone and their mother — my neighbor walking the dog, ‘Hey Josh, the Foo FIghters call you yet?’ Other people hitting me up, other drummers, Reddit forums, ‘Josh Freese is gonna be the guy.’ I’m going, ‘I don’t even know if they’re gonna continue on [after Taylor’s death].’ And most people I knew said, ‘Oh, they’re gonna have to. They’re gonna figure it out.’ I was, like, ‘Well, maybe. Who knows?’
Similarly, Freese held the reasonable opinion that the Taylor Hawkins tribute shows weren’t the right time to check Dave’s opinion on the matter, noting that he already had more than enough on his plate at the time:
“Once again, I wanted to give everybody space. I wasn’t gonna be another guy coming at Dave, going, ‘So dude, if you need a drummer, I’m around. I’m just saying.’ I didn’t mention it once, and was busy enough and making a good enough living already that I wasn’t freaked out about it. I wasn’t going, ‘God, I hope they call. I hope they call.'”
