“You can kind of get away with not playing great if you look the right way, and your guitar is not really very audible, and they’re gonna hit the track,” Feder explained.
“This means they can hire a 22-year-old with no touring experience, pay them nothing, and they’re gonna be super jazzed to do it. There are artists that do that.”
Feder further highlighted that even the most accomplished musicians are not immune to sudden job loss. He pointed to Josh Freese as a cautionary example. Freese is widely regarded as one of the top session and touring drummers in the world.
“So if a big act comes along, unfortunately, if you’re maybe the top call guy in the world…I mean, look, even Josh Freese is probably the top call guy in the world, and we don’t know why, but he lost the Foo Fighters gig,” Feder said.
“Who knows why, but that goes to show that you can be the best. You could have been on every top gig there is. And maybe tomorrow you’re gonna wake up and your job’s gonna be gone.”
While Foo Fighters have let go Josh Freese, Linkin Park roped in Emily Armstrong as their lead vocalist.
In a new interview with Chile’s Futuro, Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda talked about how fans have been reacting to singer Emily Armstrong joining the band in 2024, seven years after Chester Bennington’s passing in 2017. He said:
“ It’s just a very exciting time. It’s kind of a rebirth of the band.
“We had kind of started getting back together a few years ago, and it was a very slow and organic build. When it started, we didn’t say, like, ‘We’re going to bring the band back.’ We didn’t say, ‘We’re going to go tour.’ We just kind of got together and wanted to see what it would be like to get together and write music and spend time together again. And we hoped we would end up here, but a lot of things had to go right in order for that to happen. And they did. So we’re very grateful for that, the opportunity, and thrilled with the new music and the tour and the way the fans have responded to it.”
