July 3, 2025 • 20 mins
Foo Fighters released their first new original song since 2023 this week with "Today's Song."
We give our thoughts on the track, the Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl's famous fall from grace last year and how he got away with having such an annoying personality for so long without anyone saying anything.
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We give our thoughts on the track, the Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl's famous fall from grace last year and how he got away with having such an annoying personality for so long without anyone saying anything.
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Subscribe so you don't miss an episode!
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
First listen the music podcast for people who don't always
get the hype but want to.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I'm Andrew, I'm Dominique.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
And today we're talking about the new foo Fighters song
Today's song, which came out yesterday as we're.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Recording the day we're recording.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
This, Foo Fighters. What do you think.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
You know? I'm I'm I've been I've always been brainwashed
to be just like an anti anti Dave girl kind
of just always kind of yeah, I don't I never
got into the Foo Fighters same.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I don't know about being brainwashed, but they were never
a band that excited me. I've never disliked the Foo Fighters.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Really Uh.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
They definitely have some great songs. Their show was really good.
It was I think the first concert I saw after
COVID was when they played the Garden. Very controversial. You
need to be vaccinated to go to that. Oh imagine
having to be vaccinated to do something like go to
school to.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Go see yeah, imagine it.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Was a real violation of my civil liberty.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It was to go see Dave Grohl of all people.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Okay, so this is a thing that annoys me that
you just did.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It's like six guys in the band. It's not people
will say, oh, the Foo Fighters, I love Dave Grol.
There's many other people in the band, and yes he
is the lead singer and songwriter, but there's it's not
just Dave Grol.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
True, But do you think that I do you think
that it's possibly in part his fault for being the
most like vis ale person in the band by far,
and like he's his face comes up when you google
Food Fighters. You don't have to look up Dave Grohl,
yeah to find his face.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
For sure, he is sort of synonymous with the Food
Fighter's band in brand. Dare I say he did?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
He did guest host the Jimmy Kimmel Live or whatever
it's called. Definitely an ambassador for rock music and for
that reason I appreciate his personality and the fact that
he is like a famous person.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I think it's like one of those things where terrible comparison,
but like you know, it's not just Donald Trump destroying America.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
There's a whole bunch of people.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
It's a whole bunch of people, but he gets all
the credit. But like and.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Never liked his vibe and then recently he took a hit.
His vibe took a hit, and his vibe could not
take the hit.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
So yeah, maybe let's play a minute of song and
then we'll talk about.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Where we're talking about. So this is like a slow
burned food Fighters song has some full rips in the.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Really big chorus, and then something that I've never heard
him do before vocally.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I wonder, genuinely if that is the highest note he've
ever he's ever sung on a recording. I don't think
it's actually that good of a choice for the chorus
say it, but it is cool that he went for it.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
This song reminds me so much of the most obscure
reference ever, but I think it's actually good thing because basically,
there's these like a few episodes on the show American
Dad Cartoon where like they're in space and there's this
like crazy rock like thing where it's like they're summoning
(04:21):
this monster the Majestic and like an alien is singing.
And I've always been like, who is this? Like it's
a good song because I always like it has to
be some band.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Are you finding something?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
I'm finding something? It's not what you're talking.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And I like it reminds me so much of that song,
which is actually it's a it's a great song from
a cartoon. It's like one of those songs it's like
too good for the setting and it seems like it's
a real song, but it's from the show.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
So you saying that made me think of this spit
from It's Always Sonny in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Fight Men exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, so it is it is giving a little try hardy.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It's that it's that I think, like, uh something for
Seth MacFarlane has always has like these crazy uh compositions
in his in his shows. That's like one of the
cool things about him, So I think, but I do.
It's it's very like I don't want to like I
don't even know what this word means. But arena rock.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, yeah, it is for sure an arena rocky Foo
Fighters song, a Foo song that is acknowledging that they
are in fact an arena band.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Which maybe that I think maybe they're in an era
where they're and I maybe they haven't. I don't know
Foo Fighters music, but like it's not trying to be
it's not trying to be like alternative really and maybe
that's you know, them coming into their you know, later
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part of their career or also you know. Maybe I
mean it's it's very it's nicely produced, it's it's I
could hear it in a car commercial, you.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Know, like it.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You know, maybe they are just wanting a song that
they can I don't know, I don't know what is this?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
What like?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
What is this doing for people? Are people excite our
fans into it?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
On Reddit? They don't seem to be excited.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
In the comments on that video, people seem pretty excited.
People go crazy for the Foo Fighters. Again, I've never
quite understood the the excitement around them, because it's not
a band that has specifically excited me musically. It always
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seemed very like almost two radio friendly, which I don't
think was the goal of the band. I think that's
just sort of the music that Dave sort of ended
up writing after Nirana. What I am wondering about is
if the drummer Josh Freese played on this, if this
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was a song that Taylor Hawkins played on, or if
Dave played this himself. I suspect that Dave played the
drums himself, but I think it's Dave. The thing that
had kind of grated on me about Dave girls whole
thing is I think because the rock community felt like
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they needed him so much they really overlooked a lot
of the kind of annoying thing about his vibe. And
also that he is clearly drunk every time he performs.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
It it's pretty obvious if you're watching him.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
And also he.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
In an interview that I'm sure he regrets, described his
pre show routine and it's just like, it's a little
passe to get like extremely drunk before you perform.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Does he have stage fright?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Like?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
What's the is like?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
It comes off to me.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I'm gonna try to find the clip of it. It
comes off to me like this is a habit that
he developed probably as a teen in punk bands that
just continued through being in Nirvana and then being more
of a grown ass man in his own band, where
it's just like the pre show is a party. I
(08:55):
don't warm up, but I don't wear your plugs. I
just get drunk and I scream for two hours. I
found I found the interview in question, and I'll credit
ninety five five kl os for this.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Really does Peter should I tell people how to do it.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
How to do it, how you do it.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
This is also with famously sober at the time Taylor Hawkins,
who within a few years obviously passed away of a
drug overdose. He is essentially telling Dave Girl to not
tell people what he does before shows, that.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Kids stay in school, don't you drugst An hour and
a half before the gig, I take three advil? Okay,
an hour before the gig. I have a cors light okay.
Also futes before the game. Hit your first Okay, Giger,
I've finished the Coors light. I get another cores light going.
Now there's a bunch of people around, so I'm throwing
(09:49):
shots at everybody, and I'm taking shots with everyone.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
In the room.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
So this goes on for a couple more minutes, but
you get the point. Yeah, he gets as as you
might say, tuned up before every game.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, that's that's not cute at all.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And he's his front man presence a little bit annoying
the way he like he's he literally shouting and everybody
it's like, you have a.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Microphone, dude, Yeah I don't so.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
His fall from grace last September, which resulted in the
Foo Fighters canceling a bunch of shows, not a good
thing that happened. Not a good thing that he did.
I do believe he is a good person and he
does a lot of good things. I kind of felt
like he had it coming though, where theyre just needed
some of the bloom needed to come off the rose.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well yeah, when he had like a second family ostensibly yes, yeah,
And I mean, yeah, that's definitely having it coming if
if if I ever had you know, you don't need
the by accident and it it is. It's funny because
like that fits so well with that, like having a
(11:06):
second family, being a rock star, alcoholic guy with a
second family.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
That's like that makes sense, that works.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I think that's actually really it's actually funny because I
think that it's like it's not doesn't seem like it
was out of character for him. It's not like this
is Santa Claus, you.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Know, like yeah, and he was sort of portrayed like
rock and roll Santa Claus.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
That's the problem. That's the problem.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
It went too far and that's not even really his fault.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
It doesn't seem like he was trying to be that.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
It seems like he wanted And I think that's what's
also annoying, is it's like we want you to.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Just be dad.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You have like an entire industry presenting you as something
that's that's a little missing who you pretty clearly are.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah, and like it's but it's also because like it's
not that marketable to be like an alcoholic asshole like
people I I I think like fans can be. You know,
we're pretty entitled these days. I don't know how it
was in the past, but like it's a big conversation
(12:19):
right of fans being really entitled. But I don't think
it's too entitled to ask that you know that they
try to be sober at work or a little bit sober.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You know, yes, is that we're not drug testing?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Maybe maybe whatever you're doing that requires the three advill
don't do that.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, And it's always like that's what.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Like wearing in your monitors. Dude, don't you want to
be able to hear?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
He doesn't. He doesn't like to. He doesn't want to hear.
He doesn't want to. That's it's it's pretty irritating, and
I think, like, I think it's also irritating that he's fine.
I think it's like Kurt Cobain rip, he like did
all of that condensed? It didn't even reach thirty right,
Like all you know, being you know, just like messing
(13:13):
up your body with drugs and stuff. It's like usually
you see like, oh, those concerts where they're obviously high
or drunk, and that's like a part of their downfall
and you know, and then they die. But it's like
kind of annoying for you to be like sixty or
whatever however old he is, and you're like the the
(13:34):
part you're supposed to get, Like you're not supposed to
be able to do this.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
For decades and decades.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Like that's why you didn't want to talk about He
shouldn't say that. People don't want to hear about that,
because it's like if people think, Okay, I can do
that before work every day every time I have a gig,
and I'm can be a successful man with two with
(14:01):
two families, a successful musician, and like I appear to
be fine.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It's irritating. That's annoying. Sure, other people lose stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
But the other alarming thing about that clip is Taylor
Hawkins almost died of a drug overdose in like the
year two thousand. That interview was somewhere in the twenty teens.
It was like twenty seventeen or something, twenty eighteen and
so Taylor since his drug overdose, has been watching this
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take place where his best friend is making people do
shots and like he's got to stay sober during that.
It's like a frat party is sort of the picture
that Dave paints, and gotta be hard to do that.
You have to have some empathy for what people in
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music who are trying to be sober and stay sober,
what they're they have to go through, and why so
many of them just give up performing live because this
is sometimes the environment.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And I mean also like I will say, you know,
my sister's band is very everybody is pretty sober and
like everybody's doing yoga and stuff like that. That's the vibe. Yeah, wellness,
they're caring about their bodies.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
But like a festival is not the right place to
be sober. I will say. I was like, I get why.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
You get like a case of beer in your dressing area.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, well, it's just kind of not that fun to
walk around a big field and like go dance to
music all day long and like and be sober.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Like it's just not meant to You're not meant to
do that.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I don't think that's what it was created for and
so like I actually do think that, Yeah, like there,
it's not there is a reason that he does that,
Like there's a reason that everybody does everything.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
But like it's.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's possible that he was he wouldn't be the musician
he has today. He wouldn't have maintained his career if
he was basically, if he wasn't entertaining himself this whole time,
Like he made he figured out how to make it fun.
He's like, I'm making a party before every single show.
It's a party, And like I think it's a lot
more in style now to think of it as a job.
(16:35):
We're all, you know, we're showing up to work to
do our jobs, and like that is in a creative thing.
But like we know that we're our best selves when
we're when we're physically and mentally present and then we
can go home and sleep and wake up the next
day and post on social media or whatever.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yeah, I think he sees the food Fighters, and rightfully so,
as a throwback and that they're they're doing rock music
the way it's supposed to be done. It just happens
to be on a stadium scale. Like they're not using
pre recorded tracks. Everything you hear is from the six
guys on stage, and they mess up sometimes, and they'll
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do covers sometimes, and they'll improvise, and it's just it's
a show that not a lot of people doing are doing,
and not a lot.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Of people are doing on that scale.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
And I guess I'm like, do we want it at
that scale? And that's the whole problem with the Foo Fighters,
I think why they've never been interesting to me. I
would I would love to see my local rock band
get drunk on stage and you know, like jump on
into the audience and there's like four people in the audience,
and it like, that's that's the vibe I can get behind.
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But I don't really want to see a multi millionaire
do it.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
It's like, Okay, cool, a rich guy having fun. I
gave it. Yay, Like good for you. I'm not.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I think that's that's where there's like the disconnect for
me is I think I think that it's like, you're not.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
That special dude. You were at the right place at
the right time. I don't know. The song is fine,
listen to it, listen to the trucks.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I agree, the song's fine. I don't think I'm gonna
listen to it again.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I you know, I one of these days.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I always just I thought I was going to get
into the Food Fighters at some point, like I felt
like it was one of those things I would like.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Eventually it just happens.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah, and I think the time is maybe passing well.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Going back to our conversation about bands putting out albums infrequently,
I think the Food Fighters put out albums too often, right, Like,
if you were going to get.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Into the Food Fighters today, it's at least ten albums.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It's too much. It's too much.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
It might be eleven.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
That's I'm never gonna do that for sure. I'll pick one.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yeah, and I'm sure at some point through the course
of doing this podcast we will have to. Someone will
pick one for us if we don't pick it ourselves.
But that's our first listen.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Tell us about yours?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yours? I would love to.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Know on Instagram at at first listen podcast, let us
know what you think about the Foo Fighters, and I
don't know, let us know what you want us to
cover on a future episode.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Who cares?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah? Yeah, do you guys here.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Tell us whatever you want. Yeah, I'm not the boss
of you.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I have a show coming up at the Pit on
July nineteenth, Saturday. It's ten thirty at the Pit Loft
Character show with my with my character team.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I have a show the day before that, putting tracks
and booting one hundred thousand. We are playing headlining set
over there with Matt Simon opening for us with a
little acoustic.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Very excited for there.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
It's gonna be fun and we'll be back next time
on a for Sessa
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
First listen the music podcast for people who don't always
get the hype but want to.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I'm Andrew, I'm Dominique.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
And today we're talking about the new foo Fighters song
Today's song, which came out yesterday as we're.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Recording the day we're recording.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
This, Foo Fighters. What do you think.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
You know? I'm I'm I've been I've always been brainwashed
to be just like an anti anti Dave girl kind
of just always kind of yeah, I don't I never
got into the Foo Fighters same.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I don't know about being brainwashed, but they were never
a band that excited me. I've never disliked the Foo Fighters.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Really Uh.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
They definitely have some great songs. Their show was really good.
It was I think the first concert I saw after
COVID was when they played the Garden. Very controversial. You
need to be vaccinated to go to that. Oh imagine
having to be vaccinated to do something like go to
school to.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Go see yeah, imagine it.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Was a real violation of my civil liberty.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It was to go see Dave Grohl of all people.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Okay, so this is a thing that annoys me that
you just did.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It's like six guys in the band. It's not people
will say, oh, the Foo Fighters, I love Dave Grol.
There's many other people in the band, and yes he
is the lead singer and songwriter, but there's it's not
just Dave Grol.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
True, But do you think that I do you think
that it's possibly in part his fault for being the
most like vis ale person in the band by far,
and like he's his face comes up when you google
Food Fighters. You don't have to look up Dave Grohl,
yeah to find his face.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
For sure, he is sort of synonymous with the Food
Fighter's band in brand. Dare I say he did?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
He did guest host the Jimmy Kimmel Live or whatever
it's called. Definitely an ambassador for rock music and for
that reason I appreciate his personality and the fact that
he is like a famous person.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I think it's like one of those things where terrible comparison,
but like you know, it's not just Donald Trump destroying America.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
There's a whole bunch of people.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
It's a whole bunch of people, but he gets all
the credit. But like and.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Never liked his vibe and then recently he took a hit.
His vibe took a hit, and his vibe could not
take the hit.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
So yeah, maybe let's play a minute of song and
then we'll talk about.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Where we're talking about. So this is like a slow
burned food Fighters song has some full rips in the.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Really big chorus, and then something that I've never heard
him do before vocally.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I wonder, genuinely if that is the highest note he've
ever he's ever sung on a recording. I don't think
it's actually that good of a choice for the chorus
say it, but it is cool that he went for it.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
This song reminds me so much of the most obscure
reference ever, but I think it's actually good thing because basically,
there's these like a few episodes on the show American
Dad Cartoon where like they're in space and there's this
like crazy rock like thing where it's like they're summoning
(04:21):
this monster the Majestic and like an alien is singing.
And I've always been like, who is this? Like it's
a good song because I always like it has to
be some band.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Are you finding something?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
I'm finding something? It's not what you're talking.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And I like it reminds me so much of that song,
which is actually it's a it's a great song from
a cartoon. It's like one of those songs it's like
too good for the setting and it seems like it's
a real song, but it's from the show.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
So you saying that made me think of this spit
from It's Always Sonny in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Fight Men exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, so it is it is giving a little try hardy.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It's that it's that I think, like, uh something for
Seth MacFarlane has always has like these crazy uh compositions
in his in his shows. That's like one of the
cool things about him, So I think, but I do.
It's it's very like I don't want to like I
don't even know what this word means. But arena rock.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, yeah, it is for sure an arena rocky Foo
Fighters song, a Foo song that is acknowledging that they
are in fact an arena band.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Which maybe that I think maybe they're in an era
where they're and I maybe they haven't. I don't know
Foo Fighters music, but like it's not trying to be
it's not trying to be like alternative really and maybe
that's you know, them coming into their you know, later
(06:10):
part of their career or also you know. Maybe I
mean it's it's very it's nicely produced, it's it's I
could hear it in a car commercial, you.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Know, like it.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You know, maybe they are just wanting a song that
they can I don't know, I don't know what is this?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
What like?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
What is this doing for people? Are people excite our
fans into it?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
On Reddit? They don't seem to be excited.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
In the comments on that video, people seem pretty excited.
People go crazy for the Foo Fighters. Again, I've never
quite understood the the excitement around them, because it's not
a band that has specifically excited me musically. It always
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seemed very like almost two radio friendly, which I don't
think was the goal of the band. I think that's
just sort of the music that Dave sort of ended
up writing after Nirana. What I am wondering about is
if the drummer Josh Freese played on this, if this
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was a song that Taylor Hawkins played on, or if
Dave played this himself. I suspect that Dave played the
drums himself, but I think it's Dave. The thing that
had kind of grated on me about Dave girls whole
thing is I think because the rock community felt like
(07:53):
they needed him so much they really overlooked a lot
of the kind of annoying thing about his vibe. And
also that he is clearly drunk every time he performs.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
It it's pretty obvious if you're watching him.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
And also he.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
In an interview that I'm sure he regrets, described his
pre show routine and it's just like, it's a little
passe to get like extremely drunk before you perform.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Does he have stage fright?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Like?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
What's the is like?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
It comes off to me.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I'm gonna try to find the clip of it. It
comes off to me like this is a habit that
he developed probably as a teen in punk bands that
just continued through being in Nirvana and then being more
of a grown ass man in his own band, where
it's just like the pre show is a party. I
(08:55):
don't warm up, but I don't wear your plugs. I
just get drunk and I scream for two hours. I
found I found the interview in question, and I'll credit
ninety five five kl os for this.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Really does Peter should I tell people how to do it.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
How to do it, how you do it.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
This is also with famously sober at the time Taylor Hawkins,
who within a few years obviously passed away of a
drug overdose. He is essentially telling Dave Girl to not
tell people what he does before shows, that.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Kids stay in school, don't you drugst An hour and
a half before the gig, I take three advil? Okay,
an hour before the gig. I have a cors light okay.
Also futes before the game. Hit your first Okay, Giger,
I've finished the Coors light. I get another cores light going.
Now there's a bunch of people around, so I'm throwing
(09:49):
shots at everybody, and I'm taking shots with everyone.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
In the room.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
So this goes on for a couple more minutes, but
you get the point. Yeah, he gets as as you
might say, tuned up before every game.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, that's that's not cute at all.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And he's his front man presence a little bit annoying
the way he like he's he literally shouting and everybody
it's like, you have a.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Microphone, dude, Yeah I don't so.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
His fall from grace last September, which resulted in the
Foo Fighters canceling a bunch of shows, not a good
thing that happened. Not a good thing that he did.
I do believe he is a good person and he
does a lot of good things. I kind of felt
like he had it coming though, where theyre just needed
some of the bloom needed to come off the rose.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well yeah, when he had like a second family ostensibly yes, yeah,
And I mean, yeah, that's definitely having it coming if
if if I ever had you know, you don't need
the by accident and it it is. It's funny because
like that fits so well with that, like having a
(11:06):
second family, being a rock star, alcoholic guy with a
second family.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
That's like that makes sense, that works.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I think that's actually really it's actually funny because I
think that it's like it's not doesn't seem like it
was out of character for him. It's not like this
is Santa Claus, you.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Know, like yeah, and he was sort of portrayed like
rock and roll Santa Claus.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
That's the problem. That's the problem.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
It went too far and that's not even really his fault.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
It doesn't seem like he was trying to be that.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
It seems like he wanted And I think that's what's
also annoying, is it's like we want you to.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Just be dad.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You have like an entire industry presenting you as something
that's that's a little missing who you pretty clearly are.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah, and like it's but it's also because like it's
not that marketable to be like an alcoholic asshole like
people I I I think like fans can be. You know,
we're pretty entitled these days. I don't know how it
was in the past, but like it's a big conversation
(12:19):
right of fans being really entitled. But I don't think
it's too entitled to ask that you know that they
try to be sober at work or a little bit sober.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You know, yes, is that we're not drug testing?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Maybe maybe whatever you're doing that requires the three advill
don't do that.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, And it's always like that's what.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Like wearing in your monitors. Dude, don't you want to
be able to hear?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
He doesn't. He doesn't like to. He doesn't want to hear.
He doesn't want to. That's it's it's pretty irritating, and
I think, like, I think it's also irritating that he's fine.
I think it's like Kurt Cobain rip, he like did
all of that condensed? It didn't even reach thirty right,
Like all you know, being you know, just like messing
(13:13):
up your body with drugs and stuff. It's like usually
you see like, oh, those concerts where they're obviously high
or drunk, and that's like a part of their downfall
and you know, and then they die. But it's like
kind of annoying for you to be like sixty or
whatever however old he is, and you're like the the
(13:34):
part you're supposed to get, Like you're not supposed to
be able to do this.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
For decades and decades.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Like that's why you didn't want to talk about He
shouldn't say that. People don't want to hear about that,
because it's like if people think, Okay, I can do
that before work every day every time I have a gig,
and I'm can be a successful man with two with
(14:01):
two families, a successful musician, and like I appear to
be fine.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It's irritating. That's annoying. Sure, other people lose stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
But the other alarming thing about that clip is Taylor
Hawkins almost died of a drug overdose in like the
year two thousand. That interview was somewhere in the twenty teens.
It was like twenty seventeen or something, twenty eighteen and
so Taylor since his drug overdose, has been watching this
(14:33):
take place where his best friend is making people do
shots and like he's got to stay sober during that.
It's like a frat party is sort of the picture
that Dave paints, and gotta be hard to do that.
You have to have some empathy for what people in
(14:54):
music who are trying to be sober and stay sober,
what they're they have to go through, and why so
many of them just give up performing live because this
is sometimes the environment.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And I mean also like I will say, you know,
my sister's band is very everybody is pretty sober and
like everybody's doing yoga and stuff like that. That's the vibe. Yeah, wellness,
they're caring about their bodies.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
But like a festival is not the right place to
be sober. I will say. I was like, I get why.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
You get like a case of beer in your dressing area.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, well, it's just kind of not that fun to
walk around a big field and like go dance to
music all day long and like and be sober.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Like it's just not meant to You're not meant to
do that.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I don't think that's what it was created for and
so like I actually do think that, Yeah, like there,
it's not there is a reason that he does that,
Like there's a reason that everybody does everything.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
But like it's.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's possible that he was he wouldn't be the musician
he has today. He wouldn't have maintained his career if
he was basically, if he wasn't entertaining himself this whole time,
Like he made he figured out how to make it fun.
He's like, I'm making a party before every single show.
It's a party, And like I think it's a lot
more in style now to think of it as a job.
(16:35):
We're all, you know, we're showing up to work to
do our jobs, and like that is in a creative thing.
But like we know that we're our best selves when
we're when we're physically and mentally present and then we
can go home and sleep and wake up the next
day and post on social media or whatever.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yeah, I think he sees the food Fighters, and rightfully so,
as a throwback and that they're they're doing rock music
the way it's supposed to be done. It just happens
to be on a stadium scale. Like they're not using
pre recorded tracks. Everything you hear is from the six
guys on stage, and they mess up sometimes, and they'll
(17:19):
do covers sometimes, and they'll improvise, and it's just it's
a show that not a lot of people doing are doing,
and not a lot.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Of people are doing on that scale.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
And I guess I'm like, do we want it at
that scale? And that's the whole problem with the Foo Fighters,
I think why they've never been interesting to me. I
would I would love to see my local rock band
get drunk on stage and you know, like jump on
into the audience and there's like four people in the audience,
and it like, that's that's the vibe I can get behind.
(17:52):
But I don't really want to see a multi millionaire
do it.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
It's like, Okay, cool, a rich guy having fun. I
gave it. Yay, Like good for you. I'm not.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I think that's that's where there's like the disconnect for
me is I think I think that it's like, you're not.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
That special dude. You were at the right place at
the right time. I don't know. The song is fine,
listen to it, listen to the trucks.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I agree, the song's fine. I don't think I'm gonna
listen to it again.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I you know, I one of these days.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I always just I thought I was going to get
into the Food Fighters at some point, like I felt
like it was one of those things I would like.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Eventually it just happens.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah, and I think the time is maybe passing well.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Going back to our conversation about bands putting out albums infrequently,
I think the Food Fighters put out albums too often, right, Like,
if you were going to get.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Into the Food Fighters today, it's at least ten albums.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It's too much. It's too much.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
It might be eleven.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
That's I'm never gonna do that for sure. I'll pick one.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yeah, and I'm sure at some point through the course
of doing this podcast we will have to. Someone will
pick one for us if we don't pick it ourselves.
But that's our first listen.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Tell us about yours?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yours? I would love to.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Know on Instagram at at first listen podcast, let us
know what you think about the Foo Fighters, and I
don't know, let us know what you want us to
cover on a future episode.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Who cares?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah? Yeah, do you guys here.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Tell us whatever you want. Yeah, I'm not the boss
of you.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I have a show coming up at the Pit on
July nineteenth, Saturday. It's ten thirty at the Pit Loft
Character show with my with my character team.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I have a show the day before that, putting tracks
and booting one hundred thousand. We are playing headlining set
over there with Matt Simon opening for us with a
little acoustic.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Very excited for there.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
It's gonna be fun and we'll be back next time
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