{"id":543831,"date":"2026-04-22T01:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/543831\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:26:10","slug":"foo-fighters-interview-were-a-different-band-without-taylor-hawkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/543831\/","title":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters interview: We’re a different band without Taylor Hawkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I’m 57 years old,” says Dave Grohl. “But there are still times where I feel like the little punk I was at 13.<\/p>\n

“I can still connect with that side of myself where I can scream and we can thrash, and it feels good.”<\/p>\n

As if to prove it, the rock frontman has gone back to his post-grunge, punk roots on Foo Fighters’ 12th album, Your Favourite Toy.<\/p>\n

He has described the record as a “powder keg”, as “burning diesel”, and even a spicy “jambalaya”, external<\/a> \u2013 and it’s certainly harder and faster than anything the band have released over the past decade.<\/p>\n

Recorded in a period of personal upheaval, the record is full of slashing guitar lines and scorched-earth vocals. At times, Grohl sounds desperate. His lyrics bristle with turmoil and paranoia.<\/p>\n

On the opening track, Caught In The Echo, he’s paralysed by the prospect of moving forward.<\/p>\n

“Decide, decide, decide, decide \/ Do I? Do I? Do I? Do I?” he screams, his voice spinning around your headphones like intrusive thoughts.<\/p>\n

Of All People is more direct. A furious diatribe, it was written after Grohl bumped into a drug dealer he’d known in Seattle in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

“I knew a lot of people whose lives suffered from buying those drugs,” says the star, who has been largely drug-free since he turned 20 (although he was admitted to hospital in 2010 for overdosing on caffeine).<\/p>\n

“I was so conflicted. I was like, ‘I feel so happy for this person survived’. But part of me was like, ‘All that [stuff] that was going around, it didn’t do anybody any good’.”<\/p>\n

On the night of the encounter, he distilled his confusion and anger into a song, recording it the following morning in the small studio above his garage.<\/p>\n

“That was kind of the intended process of this record,” he says.<\/p>\n

“You write something really quickly, and the next day you record it and it’s done. That’s the photograph, that’s the one moment that you catch.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I’m 57 years old,” says Dave Grohl. “But there are still times where I feel like the little…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-543831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}