Foo Fighters

[Kevin Davis]

Now do Spenno's post

(*that's me summarizing his post, not rolling my eyes at you)

[Stickman]

Foo Fighters have tapped long time NIN drummer Ilan Rubin to join their lineup

[daft twat]

Foo Fighters have tapped long time NIN drummer Ilan Rubin to join their lineup

Dave will fucking tap anything. What a slut.

[Ello Sailor]

Foo Fighters bad.

[B]

Foo Fighters have tapped long time NIN drummer Ilan Rubin to join their lineup

I thought for sure it was going to be Matt.

[Birds in Hell]

Foo Fighters have tapped long time NIN drummer Ilan Rubin to join their lineup

I thought for sure it was going to be Matt.

Matt's 62 years old and probably wants to wind down from doing major touring.

I doubt the Foo Fighters gig would've been on his radar - not only because of the above, but following the fallout from the Rolling Stone article published after Taylor Hawkins's death that Matt was extensively quoted in.

I get the impression this went down like a lead balloon with Grohl and crew and Matt ended up issuing a public apology, insisting he'd been taken out of context. Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if Grohl's a bit frosty with him these days. With this, the out-of-wedlock kid and bluntly firing Josh Freese, Grohl's really been doing a number on his public reputation over the last few years.

“He had a heart-to-heart with Dave and, yeah, he told me that he ‘couldn’t fucking do it anymore’ — those were his words,” says Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron, a close friend of Hawkins’ for decades who recorded music with him recently under the banner Nighttime Boogie Association, one of Hawkins’ many side projects. “So I guess they did come to some understanding, but it just seems like the touring schedule got even crazier after that.”

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Even though friends say Hawkins told Grohl and Foo Fighters’ management he wanted to scale back, they believe he agreed to continue touring with them to be a team player. “[A band like that] is a big machine [with] a lot of people on the payroll,” Cameron says. “So you’ve got to really be cognizant of the business side of something when it’s that big and that has inherent pressure, just like any business.”

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“He tried to keep up,” Cameron says. “He just did whatever it took to keep up, and in the end he couldn’t keep up.”

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Hawkins turned to Cameron for advice, since the Pearl Jam drummer faced similar pressures. “There’s only a handful of guys in our profession that still play this intense high-energy, Nineties rock music,” Cameron says. “We both had to strike that balance of ‘We never want to complain,’ but there are real, specific things about what we do that’s really fucking challenging and really difficult. … It’s like we have to be able to sort of run a marathon every time we hit the stage, just because the music sort of calls for that type of energy.”

But Pearl Jam took off all of 2019 and 2020. They played a scant four shows in 2021. In that same three-year span, the Foos did more than 70 concerts. “They were the first ones to go back at it super hard, and [Taylor and I] definitely had discussions about that,” Cameron says. “He was a little apprehensive, understandably, just because of all the Covid bullshit that was going on. So there was all these different factors that were weighing on him stepping back into the ring.”

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“There’s so many questions about what the fuck happened in Bogotá,” Cameron says. “I don’t even know if I believe any of the toxicology reports coming out of that country in, all honesty, because it happened so quickly.”

Grohl had started Foo Fighters in 1995 as a way to escape the tragedy of Kurt Cobain’s death, and for 27 years the group was his refuge. It’s unclear if they’ll attempt to continue without Hawkins. “[Taylor] is kind of irreplaceable,” says Cameron. “It’s going to be weird [if they continue]. I don’t think anyone’s ready for that. Taylor was half their show.”

[daft twat]

Foo Fighters have tapped long time NIN drummer Ilan Rubin to join their lineup

I thought for sure it was going to be Matt.

He’s not leaving Pearl Jam for another major band other than playing with Kim and Ben and whomever. If it’s Brandi, I can’t wait.

[Stickman]

[daft twat]

This band could use a 5 year hiatus. They always threaten to go away for a bit and never do.

[Ello Sailor]

[wease]

They’ve put out a live EP with six tunes. Five of them are from first album era. New drummer playing fucking great on them.

https://foofighters.bandcamp.com/album/ ... here-vol-i

[Kevin Davis]

Man that first album is so good

[wease]

It really is.

[Birds in Hell]

Man that first album is so good

It really is.

Co-sign!

That first record still sounds great to me.

They’ve put out a live EP with six tunes. Five of them are from first album era. New drummer playing fucking great on them.

https://foofighters.bandcamp.com/album/ ... here-vol-i

These live recordings also sound great and I agree about the new drummer, he kills it.

[armogi]

He’s been killing it in nine inch nails for 15 years or so, he’s talented for sure.

[wease]

God damn. I just listened to I’ll Stick Around about three notches below full blast on the way home from the pharmacy. Fuck yeah.

[VinylGuy]

I actually love the first two albums

[wease]

I listened to Pocketwatch for the first time this morning. Some good stuff on there.

[daft twat]

Asking for a Friend is maybe their worst song ever. It’s maybe THE worst song ever.

[Stickman]

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13:57 All My Life
19:53 Times Like These
24:16 My Hero
28:39 Learn to Fly
32:09 The Pretender
40:32 This Is a Call
45:09 No Son of Mine
47:55 Ace of Spades
52:05 Nothing at All
56:10 Best of You
01:06:13 Monkey Wrench
01:15:24 Everlong