Foo Fighters: Back and Forth Page #7

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and he was like,

"Well, we could put this out,

"but I don't know if we're gonna be able

to sell any of them. "

Immediately following that,

Dave had done a record with

Queens of the Stone Age as their drummer,

and went out and toured on that record.

And was like, "I'm gonna go do this.

"We'll figure out what we're gonna do about

this record that didn't work later. "

Dave's not happy with the record

and he wants to shelve it.

And he's also gonna go on tour

with Queens of the Stone Age.

And so it was kind of like,

"Whoa. He's doing what?

"You know, what are we doing again?

What did you say?"

I just started to think that we should stop.

"I don't have to be here,

"and I really f***in' love

doing this other thing, so...

"f*** it. "

He went off with Queens,

and that went on for a little while.

Then we got together to rehearse,

to go play Coachella.

We were signed on to do this show,

where Dave was playing with Queens

the day before,

and then we were playing.

There was so much tension.

Nobody was talking, and we were

just rehearsing to get through these songs.

God bless him, Chris at one point in time

in the rehearsal just goes,

"I don't know if I'm the only one,

"but you could cut the air in here

with a f***in' knife.

"What the f***'s goin' on?"

Then it was just on.

We had this big fight,

one of the biggest arguments we've ever had.

It was mostly between Taylor and Dave.

They had it out, like this serious discussion.

Stuff that had been pent up.

When I went to play drums with Queens

of the Stone Age, Taylor resented me for that.

What bands are you listening to now?

The new Queens of the Stone Age CD

is amazing, everybody knows that.

He was really upset that

I didn't come see him play drums

and how exciting it was

for him to be back onstage

playing with another band.

I just went through this awful trauma,

and I was supposed to be happy

that Dave's having such a good time.

But I wasn't, you know?

"I'm not f***ing happy

for you to go play with another band.

"Why should I be happy for that?"

So Dave was trying to write

the set list for the show,

and we had an argument about it, just,

"You're a f***in' a**hole. "

"If you don't like it, you can leave!"

And the next day, I said,

"I will be leaving. As soon as we finish this.

"As soon as we play Coachella

and finish this record,

"do whatever commitments we have,

I'm out of here. "

"Look, let's go and do this show,

"and if we never wanna do it again,

then let's not. "

"The Foo Fighters are over.

And I'm OK with that. "

"OK. That's it. Oh well. "

I played two nights at that Coachella.

One with the Foo Fighters,

and one with Queens of the Stone Age.

And Taylor sat and watched Queens

of the Stone Age that night, at Coachella.

At that point, I was OK with it.

I didn't care anymore.

I was like, "Well, this is probably

our last show, so, you know,

"maybe Dave will just end up being

Queens of the Stone Age drummer for now

"or whatever,

and that'll be what it is. "

And then we played the next day

and we played great.

Dave was like, a new front man

in front of 10,000, 20,000 people,

however big that f***in' thing is.

It was really good.

After that, me and Dave went for a walk.

And he said, "Let's go back to Virginia,

record a couple songs. "

We made a plan to meet and just jam,

see what happens.

I said, "I have this new song.

It's called Times Like These. "

Times Like These was basically written

about the band disappearing

for those two or three months.

And me feeling like I wasn't entirely myself.

I just thought,

"OK. I'm not done being in the band.

"I don't know if they are, but I'm not. "

It wasn't too long before Dave was excited

to get back to work on the record.

We just started picking all the songs

and going, "Let's re-record that.

We have a week. "

And we re-recorded the album

in seven days in my basement.

It was all finished really quickly,

and it had the passion,

it had the feel and sound that was like...

a record we could be proud of.

I remember that being like, the turning point.

Like, "OK, this isn't ending. "

We had already spent

three months and a million dollars

on something that we threw away.

The difference between

All My Life and All My Life

was that this one cost a million dollars

and sounded like crap.

This one,

we did in my basement in half an hour

and became the biggest f***in' song

the band ever had.

It was a big record, you know?

Millions of people bought it.

All My Life we just have to play

when we play gigs.

To this day, that's by far

my favorite song to play live.

Every night, good or bad show,

it doesn't matter,

when you get to that part of the set,

it always goes bananas.

If you're having a bad show,

that's the turning point every night.

Ladies and gentlemen,

please welcome the Foo Fighters!

Ladies and gentlemen, Foo Fighters.

Please welcome back to the program,

Foo Fighters.

Foo Fighters!

Ladies and gentlemen, Foo Fighters!

We barely got through making a record,

and then started kinda

going up the ranks as a live band.

We didn't have huge success

right up front.

It's been little milestones of things

we've been asked to do and been able to do.

It was a fun time.

We were doing these great tours,

and the shows were getting bigger,

and we were on a good roll.

We'd get asked to play on the MTV Awards,

and we'd show up,

and we'd be

the only f***in' rock band there.

So it'd be like us and f***in' boy bands,

girl bands, rappers, solo artists.

After a while we got suspicious, like,

"Wait a minute, do they know who we are

or do they just need a rock band?"

Thank you.

After One By One,

I went home and started demoing

all this really delicate acoustic music.

I thought, "Let's make an album

"where you have one CD

that's all the really heavy rock sh*t,

"then you have another CD

"that's really beautiful

acoustic-based, lower dynamic stuff. "

And we'll tour for six or seven months

on the rock record,

then go out on this theatre tour

doing the acoustic shows.

Since the acoustic record

had additional instrumentation,

I thought, "We need a bigger band. "

I always had in the back of my mind

that someday I'll get to come

and play along with them.

And in 2006, Dave called me and said,

"Come out and do

this acoustic tour with me. "

I didn't actually know Pat,

but I was aware that there'd been

a couple times through the years

when Dave had almost brought him back.

And so, to me, Pat was just a guy

that wanted my job.

So when I found out about that, I was just like,

"You gotta be f***in' kidding me. "

Pat is a Foo Fighter,

whether he's in the band or not.

He and I have gone through a lot together.

Pat should be in the band.

I definitely thought

it must be awkward for Chris.

So I felt awkward only in that...

"I hope this isn't awkward for you. "

The first rehearsal, Pat showed up,

and we actually instantly hit it off,

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