For the first time ever, all the members of the Foo Fighters appeared on the Howard Stern Show yesterday, and it was quite an interview.
FAN POLL: what’s your favorite @foofighters song? #Howard http://t.co/Y2d5Hm5ZLm pic.twitter.com/o0B3fSGqhd
— Stern Show (@sternshow) December 3, 2014
The Foo Fighters played hits from their new album, Sonic Highways , as well as their hit “Learn to Fly” from their 2006 album Nothing Left to Lose . They also sat down with Stern and got real.
Dave Grohl , the Foo Fighters frontman, has always been a songwriter, and had written and recorded songs by himself before joining Nirvana. He never shared his work with Kurt Cobain, the legendary lead singer of Nirvana, because of Cobain’s immense talent. Once Cobain died and Grohl was recording again, he found the name Foo Fighters from a book he was reading at the time about UFOs.
The Foo Fighters had some great hits early on, including “My Hero,” which for years has been interpreted as being about Grohl’s former bandmate, Kurt Cobain. During the interview with Stern yesterday, though, Grohl insists that it was not about Cobain. And that the line “there goes my hero” was simply used as a “ filler line to show the melody .”
Another early hit for the Foo Fighters was “Everlong,” which was written by Dave during a very dark time for him. Grohl was going through a terrible divorce, all of his assets were frozen, and he was living on vocalist Pete Stahl’s floor. The lyrics “if anything could ever be this good again” suddenly take on new meaning.
The Foo Fighters also shared with Stern encounters they had with legendary artists like David Bowie and Prince. As a matter of fact, Grohl almost decided that the band should stop playing the band’s hit “Best of You” after hearing Prince’s “far superior” cover of it. And then there was the time that Paul McCartney came to visit Dave Grohl at home. Grohl, having Beatles memorabilia all over his house, didn’t realize how it must have looked, and told Stern, “I felt like a stalker, it was a little weird.”
Stern then asked Foo Fighters frontman Grohl about his longtime feud with Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love. The two were seen to be making up at Nirvana’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year, but as reported on Loud Wire , Stern wanted to know if it was just a truce or a real friendship .
Grohl replied, “It’s a friendship because we saw each other not too long ago and sat and got trashed together.”
It doesn’t get more rock and roll than sharing large quantities of tequila.
The band has released their latest album, Sonic Highways , along with a docu-series on HBO of the same name, whose season finale is this Friday.
The season finale of #SonicHighways — this Friday on @HBO http://t.co/aCMH46jZat
— Foo Fighters (@foofighters) December 1, 2014
The Foo Fighters plan to embark on a North American tour in 2015. If you missed their performance on The Daily Show last night, then you can catch the Foo Fighters on The Tonight Show tonight, December 4.
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