Dave Grohl: It’s Electric! Interview | Apple Music

yes indeed boys and girls it is electric it's your humble host Lars Ulrich hitting you here from somewhere in Southern California and I've got an air drumming glass wearing toothpick chewing rock-and-roll guy sitting across from me we're about four feet across from each other kinda like looking in the mirror so I think we forgot to mention to the world that it is a Dave Grohl that's sitting across from me you've been up in your studio just doing interviews about the new album we are in our studio talking to people from all over the world about our new record and it's I think it's funny when you wind up doing press like well after you've made a record you're happy that you're finished with it and but you don't really you haven't had time to like overanalyze anything that you've done and then people start asking you questions about it and you kind of start to figure out what you did in the last five or six months so what's your favorite song what was your mo what's your watch of this I always sit there and kind of go can you come back and ask me that's three years from now yeah I have had any distance any separation from this record this process yet and you just gets thrown into the deep end right oh that's kind of where we are right now kind of well we also just went to Europe and we did a festival tour saw you over there Glastonbury we did at Glastonbury special about a month ago and I talked about how awesome your performance was there between Radiohead you guys and its share and that was some pretty high level pretty - watching you standing up at the side of the stage there you're presumed this is public information your monitor guy was passing around Jagermeister shots and there was the serta festive it was a very festive feeling in the air of the side stage at Glastonbury that I had a great time not just watching you guys but the whole weekend and you like a chill the other day I mean you had that audience in the palm of your hand and you were taking complete control you're not just the singer and the guitar player but you're also the emcee the host you've got like this incredible vibe is there anybody that's inspired you to take that kind of tongue-and-cheek easy approach turned an audience at that level yeah well a few different people actually James is one like James I remember I had this box set and I would listen to all the stage banner in between songs and just think like this is the funniest I've ever heard in my entire life you know and when you sort of break down that barrier where you stop feeling like Superman an entertainer guy and it's just you and your pals on stage with a bunch of rowdy friends and it and you're the guy with the microphone that's what it gets fun to me you know actually there was I was wouldn't have been first started I was really freaked out about being the guitar player and the singer I'm a drummer and so you know he always got the drum set to hide behind and you don't worry about anything I was always really nervous and uncomfortable out front and then we did this show with Bowie in like Switzerland or something like that and we were opening for him and I saw him backstage and he's you know gracefully walking around like David Bowie was smiling and being so incredibly amazing and then he gets up on stage and he's walking just as he did when he was backstage and having a cigarette I realize like oh he's being himself Wow maybe that's all you have to do like you just get up on stage adopt a different persona yeah and so if as long as you can make that connection with the audience and just you know just be yourself then it's easy do you think of yourself primarily as a drummer or dude yeah absolutely I love playing guitar but it's my guitar as my first instrument I started playing drums by default I was in a band where the drummer was just lame and I knew that I could do I basically said like how about I got an idea why don't you play bass and I'll play drums totally musical chairs this is not right setup it actually words and but for me it's the name I was like freak baby but there was no records or demos or anything involved though all that the first record I made I think I was fifteen and it was just a single that we made as a band and it was that bad but wood drums it's like I don't really have to think about it you know it's like dancing you really think about dancing you just kind of do it and that's drumming with guitar and singing oh my god like I have to really try so it's I guess 94 right mm-hmm and the whole Nirvana thing has come to an abrupt stop what made you was it a conscious decision to kind of I'm gonna pick up a guitar and start writing my own songs I mean there must have been some sort of moment where something shifted even before I was in Nirvana I had this friend that had an 8-track studio and I don't know how I figured it out but I eventually realized like oh wait I could record something where I play all the instruments if I do the drums first and then I do the bass and then I do guitar and put a vocal on it and so I would ask him at the end of I would always record on his and then I would ask him at the end of a session I'd say hey is there any tape left cuz I want to try something and then I'd sit down and record something in like three minutes and it would be like bass drums and guitars and stuff and then I would play it for my friends like check out this new bed and they'd be like wow that's cool who's that I'm like that's me and they're like oh we don't like it anymore cuz it's you so for a long time I would just do that like even while I was in hermana I was can we all relate to that my friends don't like my bad every time I have a great idea always get somebody else to say it just so they'll give it a show exactly and so so I was recording all of these songs just in my basement by myself and then when Nirvana was over I didn't I didn't do anything for a while I didn't want to do anything for a while and then I thought okay I gotta get my head together so there was a studio down the street from my house and I just picked like 12 of my favorite songs that I'd written that nobody had ever heard and just went in over a long period of time in queen of mine from like 92 94 there was all the I'd recorded that I didn't really think anybody would ever hear and you know I didn't want it like try to edge in on the songwriting in Nirvana because our songwriter was pretty kick-ass and that's the famous joke like what's the last thing the drummer said before I got kicked out of the band I didn't wanna mess it up I didn't get that memo but I to it notes to the bars don't say that so you know so I just went in and did it and that was the that's how it started obviously should be no surprise you have one of the greatest drummers or at least what I think is you know you're an insane drummer but a Hawkins Taylor is just this badass that sits now back behind you but you also what was cool at Glastonbury he came up and sang a song you would back and played like for years and a bunch of beer and I gotta go played what do we do under pressure I like the you were so hammered you're in front of a hundred thousand people at the biggest festival in the world on live on BBC television for people all over the country like you guys were great like how did you see it the last time I had a beer before I went on stage was like in upstate New Jersey like 1983 years the Masters tour know I'm like to kill em all we were playing a New Year's Eve show with anthrax and I realized afterwards I played like half the show on the offbeat you know literally I got offstage I got you know I got an idea what's not drinking well that was 34 years ago but you were here's the way I get it yeah we were actually talking about this today that the last tour that we did there was a part of the tour it was 70 shows Taylor attacks music have you seen the itinerary for the tour I'm like nah man I don't even want to look because it's like 70 shows 70 dates is that what's ahead of you oh no we got more than that I mean this is we're just at the beginning now you sort of put an end on it when you started you just see what happens kind of see what happens it's usually after like a year and a half that's when we get a little crusty but we say the same thing at the end of every tour it's like mark my words I am never doing this ever again yeah I look at everybody and go I don't want to see you I don't want to see you I want to see you for a year don't even talk about music and that for six months I'm like I can't help it like I don't want to do anything else we only do singles now we don't do doubles which means two shows in over two consecutive days do you guys have sort of rules and boundaries or do you mean you do two in a rose sure do this we know rules sometimes Wow we have to so you do three nights in a row where you play for what two and a half hours right sometimes it doesn't with your voice oh by the last show I sound like lennier jazz from Killing Joke what they want to see your hands I mean it's a little crusty but it's never look if I mean like the last run we hadn't been out for a couple years and uh a year and a half or something like that and I've just been driving a minivan around the valley packing lunches and go to the bus stop every morning's fine look at me sweetie Rose it's okay and no but you I mean you kind of get to the point where you're like how am I gonna go up there and do that I don't even remember to do that and then right before the first show we did we were at that bottle rock festival in Napa Valley and it was for a first show back he was 50,000 people or whatever I was like okay and we were about to come on stage I could tell the guys were sort of nervous your first show yeah and I was kind of nervous too but I looked at the guys and jokingly on site I was like hey we're the Foo Fighters okay you're doing the different bands have their different but they do before they go on you know like some bands pray or some bands like the high five or whatever the we just crack each other up like I don't want to walk on stage until everyone's dying laughing I have to say I told you this the other day when when I walked into your dressing room at Glastonbury this is yeah that was right 15 15 20 minutes before either sort of like we're hovering outside and I see your manager John and it's like go on in and say hi to them like I don't want to get in their it's 15 20 minutes before they're going to go on in I'd love to see you so I sort of like you know tiptoe in expecting raised eyebrows and all the seriousness you guys are standing in the back room basically doing shots drinking I mean it's like the party's already started in the dressing room if you walked into Metallica's dressing what goes on in there stretch for getting massaged we're gonna limper it I mean it's like a sports team really it's as opposite as you can get from your vibe and and you guys were there and I was kind of Taylor get stretched maybe you want to massage you a little bit it's like yeah that was very cool and you guys were you know you shoved a beer in my hand and you trying to clean I'd only been up a couple hours okay I know you tried you did resist I know I mean that's the way just in a couple years you'll be there you know you Geritol the whole absolutely I'll be getting a colonic right before going on and it's eventually it's gonna happen and I know this but at the moment it's still a party I see you guys are kicking off your us-run you're doing a Cal Jam and so as a there's a huge deep purple fan one of the monumental concerts in Deep Purple's history is the legendary Cal Jam from 1974 yes and then there was a subsequent Aerosmith and Nugent won in 78 are you sort of reviving that it gets for lack of a better word brand or whatever the you call it did you well here's how that happened okay we I had this idea of how we were gonna record this record that I kept secret for a super long time it didn't tell anybody and then we didn't do it thank God but but I wanted to write and rehearse an entire record and then book a night at the Hollywood Bowl build a recording studio on the stage of the Hollywood Bowl like with isolation booths in a control room and the whole like tape reels and the whole deal I wanted to do that invite 20,000 people to watch us record our album live on HBO I was like this is them nobody's done this that would be way to top the the TV series yeah exactly at that point I was like how much more up can I be and so so I'm like okay that's what we're gonna do that's what we're gonna do so we booked this night at the Hollywood Bowl I go and I tell the band like here's what we're doing for the next record they're like dude watch it live straight to vinyl straight to life straight to the world like it would be a little live on your stupid phone or whatever like everybody be watching us blow it alive so that was the idea originally and then like maybe eight months later PJ Harvey sort of did something similar where she set up a recording studio it was almost like an installment in an art museum where you could come and kind of watch and I was like that's sort of similar fact now I can't do that other thing but we held the data at the Hollywood Bowl so then someone said well do you want to keep that date and just have that be a record release party I was like ok and then I thought about it more I'm like I love the Hollywood Bowl but I want some like big and loud and like people and volume just huge so we started looking around and we were looking around at speedway's sure and so the original was either at Ontario Ontario Ontario where the cow first yep Callum and then the people that I work with JC and Kristin they're like we got a great idea let's let's bring Cal Jam back I'm like oh my god yeah like one day huge because whenever I think a cow Jam I think of like dudes with slitscan and no shirt on all sunburned and cutoff jeans T's and their socks pulled up all the way just listening to Tull you know like that's the I'm like yeah let's see that it'll be amazing so we the place holds a hundred thousand people or something crazy actually I pulled this up early look this is the the OG like flyer poster it's got deep purple Emerson Lake & Palmer Black Sabbath seals and Crofts sued Black Oak Arkansas Jim Dandy where David Lee Roth got the eagles of rare-earth and then the second was he the cool thing is all those bands are playing with us at the gig so you got Queens you got Cage yeah and you got Liam come on I mean you're bringing Liam Gallagher to the US well you know it was really funny before at Glastonbury when he came into the game into the dressing room right so the Glastonbury Festival in England it's a big deal right the biggest deal well I guess but like I didn't realize I thought like we've done reading before this will be easy or whatever and so everybody would like when we do interviews they're like this is the pinnacle of your career how does it feel like a killer I guess I mean really is it the are we getting knighted like hell costumery what do you think about that like it's gonna be kick-ass I guess what's going on you know and so Taylor was really nervous I don't really get that nervous anymore I just go like laughs it's all good so Taylor's kind of the beer left I mean Taylor's all freaked out he's like dude I'm getting nervous about this very thing I was making it sound like it's like dude I should have warmed them up a little bit I'll give you a massage squish on him Metallica Jarret oh really and so so he's all nervous and like who I could see him and then Liam walks in and he's like alright we're like hey man how's it going and we all love Oasis and we love Liam and Noel too and so he walks in and he walks right up to Taylor Taylor made this solar record last year or something like that had the song called Range Rover on it so he plays like all the instruments and does you got to see the video for this song dude it's one of the funniest things change over Range Rover yeah I can see I mean the song is super fun and it was to self okay I'm telling you the video you will laugh your ass off it's insane anyway so Liam comes he's like any he he turns straight to Taylor he goes Range Rover man that's the until I was like huh and he goes and then he starts leaves went so we went to Taylor first oh absolutely they start singing all the words to Taylor like the lyrics and we're away from his face is this even happening right now eight years of me he's like yo stuffs all right you know but Range Rover man and it was amazing because I swear to god it's one of the reasons why the show was so good is because Taylor just went yeah and then he was fine we wanted to jam a song with him that night but it didn't work out but we're also doing I mean we're playing with played with him yeah could you plan to waste a song in the heat oh yeah absolutely supersonic or sure yeah any of them really I mean like I know those songs well enough it I could pull one out of my ass when we were doing Death Magnetic which was the last super long indoor tour we did we would change setlist every night yeah we had around 60 songs that we could play more or less at a given snowed I mean we have that tuning room back there and we you know pulling through the never or whatever and we run it up but when you say you can pull them out or you ask how many songs can you pull out as it a Givens notice okay so Taylor has this cover band called Chevy metal what he started it was like 15 years ago and he just started it so that he'd stay in shape when we weren't touring where he plays drums and he sings my kids and I went in some they were playing on one of the Orion festive that's right played van Halen and not all this way cool yeah that's fun so the the Chevy metal set like you know like 30 like they know turning Japanese and Ziggy Stardust and they know so there's all these songs that inevitably make their way in the Foo Fighter shows eventually where it's everything from like by the Rolling Stones to talk in Detroit Rock City to whatever so we've gotten to the point where it's like we'll start playing a song that we don't know and the first minute might be rad and then we'll get like to the chorus or something and then it just often we did the other day we did this van Halen things yeah and we you exactly you get through the cycle of the verse bridge in the cores and then by the time you hit the second verse it's like okay enough exactly but if you can get through the first 90 seconds you usually gets through the four minutes of the song right I mean if you've done the cycle you know people love to see bands the bed like that's the thing is nowadays there's so many bands that have such an involved production that there are no mistakes you know whether they're playing the track or they're playing their shits locked up to lights or whatever the so there's no wiggle room where you can actually be a human being and blow it so then when you I mean I think like all of these bands that are super awesome with amazing production that play songs that sound exactly like the record I think that works to our advantage because then we go out and we the bed and everyone's like to see that nobody there are people people can relate to that you and throw names in there you've jammed with Jagger McCartney the Zeppelin dudes how does all that sort of work how do you how do you end up playing Saturday Night Live with Mick Jagger what's the mechanics of something like that well that in particular we were home and I got a call on my cell phone just out of the blue like hi Lauren Michaels assistant could he hold please I'm like okay we started talking and he said he goes well look I'm working on the season finale and the host is gonna be make Jagger I'm like oh my god that's amazing he goes yeah he's nervous about it he's never like hosted before and so this is his first time imagine Mick Jagger being nervous about anything I know isn't it weird well I'd say okay so anyway so he goes and the stones aren't doing anything right now and he needs a band and so so I was wondering if you guys would be his backing band I'm like and I remember I was in the bathroom when I got this call so I'm like oh when is it of course and he goes you know may 18th or something and I go yeah and I I grab my laptop and I'm like Luna just check really quick and I look and there's a show in like Jones Beach or something that you guys the food's are playing yeah on that same day I'm like okay I think we have something to do but I'm gonna get rid of it so let me call you back and I call up silver I'm like dude Lorne Michaels just call he once this is jann with Mick Jagger and he goes what's the date I told him he goes well you got a show that day I'm like it I don't care Mick Jagger man he's like once is the jam with him on SNL because I can't I can't get you out of that gig like you've already been paid or something like that I'm like dude no way I'm saying no to this there's just no way so you're doing like double duty or yeah we took a helicopter flew over did a two and a half hour get that would you the flew back and then jammed with them and then since it was a season finale they were having a party out of that square I think where the ice rink is right next door or whatever and they're like would Chevy metal play the party and so we're like yeah the cover band so we're like so we played soundcheck then we play this 3-hour gig and I think this is New Jersey then we do the SNL thing and then at 2:30 in the morning we start playing the after-show party thing but it was amazing because we do by the Rolling Stones and we do miss you sure and so we said to make like hey would you wanna come up and maybe do with us and and then the party starts we see him we're like please Mick Jagger and he came up and did and it was amazing dude and we don't do it like we do it and so he ends and we just go straight into miss you like to make sure he doesn't leave the stage and do's unbelievable let me just be a fanboy and geek out here like you play with McCartney what do you walk away from other than the great stories and I think that when you jam with somebody you learn a lot about them as a person without talking you record it with Paul him and you also did on what was the punch it was a Sound City documentary yeah and it was amazing you know like because it was so simple but you guys wrote it together we did in like half an hour or something like that and and but we're recording it really quickly and it was me and Novoselic from Nirvana and Pat smear and I'm on the drums and Paul was playing this crazy guitar that's made out of a cigar box it just happened out of a jam it was like so fast he's went out and sang it or no he's sang it as we were jamming on it and writing it and then it was time to like do backup vocals and he's he's like alright should we do the high note okay let's do the high note together or you do the low note and I'll do the high note ago okay and then we go like and Butch the producer is like okay that sounds great I looked at Paul and I said God why can't it always be this easy and he said man we haven't really told anybody but he plays drums on a song on our new record we haven't really told anybody yet there's a song called Sunday rain that Taylor sings I thought man this would be a good one for Taylor to sing because Taylor's got great voice Taylor sounds like Roger Taylor from queen or Rod Stewart he's got this raspy killer boys I'm like Taylor you should sing this one and I'll play drums on it and then Daryl thora power engineer had made records with Paul before and Paul was coming into town and so he's like me you should get McCartney to play drums like this so I text him I'm like hey Paul you don't play drums on a Foo Fighters song and he basically says like crazy no no and then I saw him when he was we went out to dinner and he was like he said what's his song that he want me to play drums on cuz you know he's played on I mean he's played on so much stuff that you don't even know he's played on and I don't want to rub you but I'll tell a really quick story I was and I don't want to give too much away in case the guilty parties get offended but you know our friend who hosts a party every year in the end of February he had another party that I went to like a year year and a half ago I don't think you were there but it was like a birthday party or something and so they had they had all this equipment set up at the backyard and they were encouraging all these people to play together mm-hmm so Bono and the edge up and start playing right there playing one song from the new album and there was a drum kit up there and there's a bass and I'm like this is my chance to drumming you to drum with Bono and the edge right and I'm like I'm start building up the courage yeah I'm standing at the back hoping nobody will see me and I'm just like okay I'm 15 seconds away from walking I'm 10 seconds away I think I can hear the beat and I'm just like okay I'm gonna start walking up and right as I start walking up this other guy is like five feet ahead of me and walks up and I can't see who it is and then he goes up and sits behind the drum kit up there and it's Paul McCartney you to my shop and I like ran screaming out of there and haven't been back since but it was like he's a great drummer I mean he see this and it was so cool because there was no phones allowed as you know at that party and it was just something that existed in the people's minds that were there yeah except now that I've blown it and talked about it on the air and don't say anything but I promise I won't tell anybody that McCartney drums on your new album too if you'll not share my better tells some people great there's some stuff on this record where Greg the producer was a genius man I have never worked with anybody as talented and brilliant as Greg Kurstin that dude is there's that first record you've made look yeah he has this band called the bird and the bee there's sort of like electro dream pop it's just he and this girl Inara George whose dad was Lowell George from loafie oh yeah mm-hmm but one day I was driving my car and I heard one of their songs and it was like if Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys played Girl From Ipanema but Liam from The Prodigy produced it it was like super like but melodically and the arrangement of the composition and the harmonies and the melodies and the modulation like it was like smartypants it wasn't like cowboy chord stuff it was like somebody went to school because this is highbrow I bought the record and it blew my mind it honestly like and then like two months later I'm in a restaurant in Hawaii at the place in Hawaii where I have a place and you've been and I look across the the restaurant I see the dude from the bird and the bee and I'm like oh so I totally Starr him like in front of his family I'm like I'm sorry I want to interrupt I know I'm an but you're a genius dude oh my god I'm so obsessed with your record what the heck what are you doing here he's kind of shy as I call I have a place here and I'm like oh my god what's up at the burden to me and he's like well we're gonna make another record but first I have to produce SIA and Adele Beyonce and then we made friends but he's born and raised here in Los Angeles first record he ever made was produced by Eddie Van Halen with Dweezil Zappa when he was like 11 years old so he has this like crazy sort of like punk rock new wave background but he's a studdy jazz musician so that he went and studied jazz oh you love jazz don't you oh you gotta meet Greg dude he's amazing anyway so he went study jazz at the new school in New York he might have gotten Berklee I'm not sure but so we would like sit there waiting around in the pool hall talking about like Coltrane or the Bad Brains or the Beach Boys or Hawkwind or Steely Dan or whatever we just sat talked about music for years like three years we would see each other down there and but meanwhile every time I go down there you know SIA would have a gigantic hit and then like hello by Adele comes out and my wife is like guess who produce that I'm like who she goes Greg I'm like are you kidding me he's such an unassuming mellow dude and not like some bling-bling pop producer dude he's just like a mellow dad you know and so then I started thinking about making the next record I call up John Silva and my manager I'm like what about what about Greg Kurstin he's a good luck gettin line he's the hottest producer in the world he's gonna hate my weight I never and I'm like okay we were having dinner and I said to Greg I'm like yeah I made the mistake of saying I wanted to make a record to you to my managers I got in line and Greg was like dude at any time you want to do it I'd love to do it and he's never made a like a rock record he's made beck records and he's made records with the shins and Tegan and Sara and so forth but he's never made like a blown-out rock record or dudes in a room play four six dudes playing oh yeah and so he was like I'd love to it so then I go back to my guys I'm like dude here's what we do Greg Kurstin should produce and who's he and I'm like well he'd produced Adele and Pat smear a guitar player he goes what'd she sound like he's never heard it I'm like really and now I'm like well he did see it - he's like I don't leave it what's that whoo she Pat's in his own world so then I play an Adele song and he's like that's pretty kick-ass but how the does that even apply to what we do know I swear I've talked to this guy for years about Brian Wilson and George Martin and jazz and punk and he's gonna be great man he's so smart and so that's why we did it with them and it's nuts too because because he's a jazz guy he'll go way outside so I'll say like dude I want this one to be super blown out noisy and there's like okay we do a take it she's like not that noisy so working with somebody like that what was the magic that came out of it how did it Scelzi like sound stuff production idea of vocal ideas kind of all of the above because what we wanted to do is we wanted to make an album that was sonically bigger than anything that we had ever done let's just go bananas so we'd record something and then do sort of the usual configuration of what we do but then I'd say I think I got a harmony and I'd go in and sing a harmony over the chorus thing and then Greg would say okay I hear another one if you want to put another one on there and I go yeah sure so he'd sit down at a piano he'd be like Cygnus and he'd send me like a line and I'd sing that and then I'd like triple track it and then go oh actually you know what sing this too and I take another one and he's like you wanna do one more yeah I'd sing another harmony line and he's like oh wait I got two more and so now it's a seven part harmony with like 28 vocals and then you go and he can see it shaping like he knows what he's doing and I'm just lost like just give it to me I'll sing and what is it I don't even know and then you go in and he pushes up all the faders and it becomes like look at Beach Boys Bohemian Rhapsody and the first actually the first time we did it there's a song called concrete and gold it's the last song on the record super Dorjee heavy riff with like this kind of whispery vocal that then just blows up into the biggest sounding thing we've ever done it's like a mushroom cloud just goes it's so gigantically huge and so I was about to go in and put these background vocals on it and I'm out in the parking lot like with my pen and paper and my guitar and I'm like working on stuff and all sudden this dude Sean who sings in boys to men comes walking through the parking lot and I'm like dude what are you doing here he's like oh I'm here to do this do op thing what are you doing Mike we're making a record he's like no way we start talking and then I said yeah this song I kind of wanted to do like a choir on it like when the chorus blows up I want there to be like I wanted to be a choir and then I'm like ah Sean will you sing on our record he's like yeah are you kidding like no let's do it because okay well let me do the thing I got to do I'll be in an hour so I run in there and I tell everybody I'm like guys but dude for boys to men's could've sing on the thing they're like how do you know the guy from I was like he's in the parking lot so he comes in and playing the song and it's and I'm nervous cuz it's like the verse is just like it's dark like someone looking black flag my war or Sabbath it's dark but then it like blows up and his crazy Pink Floyd thing and so I play it for him he's like what do you want me to do I'm like I wanted to sound like a chorus I'll be the choir and he's like alright here's I'm gonna do I'm gonna sing the Triad which I didn't even know what that meant because I'm gonna sing a triad that I'm gonna do a wandering track then I'm gonna harmonize and the wandering Chuck I'm like just do whatever you did in boys to man please just do that so he goes in and it dude the way he did it and the sound and the tone of his voice and the control that he has I mean it was we did a whole choir by himself yes and it turned the song into its I mean it had to be the last song on the record it was everything after that flee fart so it's just like it was just so gigantically huge it was maybe the third saw on a four song that we recorded and I turn around to the rest of the guys after he split I'm like the rest of the record has to sound this big I'm telling you and we kind of did it do you sort of write somewhere else and then bring it in no kind of I mean you know my house is like full of kids and stuff and it's like I can't I don't have a minute to myself so I Airbnb the house in Ojai brought a case of wine as one does I know a nice little place on an olive tree for me and you come awesome you said one of the well I like the mantra that it became my mantra for a while where we can't remember when I came and interviewed you for the for the you guys were releasing a Metallica record and me and Taylor flew up to your studio and I interviewed you yeah that was that was in oh wait yeah years ago oh my god and so a lot of so much fun dude that was a great interview but so so you guys sent your plane down to pick us up right so that now we've got a plane so after you know we're drinking why I never start to get a little loaded but I had to get home like to my wife and kids and and you were like you go let's go to Vegas and I'm like what do you mean you like you've got the plane right like yeah it's your plane you're like I know let's go to Vegas I'm like dude we can't go to Vegas and you go we can tell whatever we want I was like then I went straight home back in the day was you know whenever we're flying around and back when we were certifiable not that long ago but yeah that one every day we would go up to the cockpit and you'd see you're like nine beers into your unit you know what let's just redirect this plane to Vegas rather than to the next city could you do that yeah on that plane one dude we should fly to like Portland and then half way up the coast we'll go Dave let's go to Cabo Wabo yes let's start in Vegas hang in Vegas then we can move our way down to Cabo on the second day but listen I mean you hey you know what brother I feel you if I was the drummer Metallica I'd be doing the same goddamn thing talking about writing songs matter what we're talking about you know periodical so flying on coffee right now yeah I actually had to go to the hospital once for drinking coffee I did tell me about that Dave I was making at them crooked vultures record and do it in a Foo Fighters record and just had a new kid and I was like sleeping four hours a night I was drinking three pots of coffee a day and I started having chest pains oh my god I think I just turned 40 it sound like well of course I'm gonna die cuz I'm 40 and so my man and it was crazy because we had to go play on a 4th of July at the White House and this is a couple days before going to play at the White House on the 4th of July and I'm like I don't want to go to the doctor because he's gonna tell me not to go play the White House so I'll just put some bear house what am I don't tell your manager he's gonna tell you they've got a gig if I have a heart attack it's probably that's a great way please that's the safest place in the world that will be people on top of you and nano six I'll be fine and so so we do it and I come home and I call my doctor I'm like no I'm having chest pains he's like okay are you having them right now Mike well yeah kinda just get in here so I go into the doctor's office and like full six-million-dollar man like on the treadmill and x-rays and stuff everywhere and look at the readouts he's like okay I don't like he's doing sonograms and stuff he's like more pregnant worried not yet and so then he's like just go to Cedars and get a MRI or whatever I'm like okay and I'm convinced I'm dying and so I go and I'm like in the MRI and get the whole thing and then I come out I'm sitting there and just there's the readout thing the doctor comes in like hello I'm a doctor I'm like hi and he looks he takes one look at my heart thing and he goes well how old you I'm 40 you shouldn't be alive right now because you have no heart no he goes he goes why are you here and I said because I'm having chest pains man I think I'm gonna die and he goes alright well your heart looks fine are you under a lot of stress I'm like yeah a little bit and he goes do you sleep much I sleep like four hours a night I'm not a sleepy person I mean could you imagine like okay this time does not shut down he's got it's like I'm on a dimmer circuit when you told me the other day you were but 5:30 in the morning scooping off the lawn bare hands Lars no Nessa he he he's like okay he's actually sleep much like now he goes to drink coffee shoot coffee into my mind a little bit and he goes alright well um I told him like he goes what do you do I'm like a I'm a I'm a musician I play drums and stuff videos alright well you know lay back on the coffee play drums three or four days a week and have a glass of red wine before bed that was this prescription you're a doctor you must know what you're talking about and I did look at me now it worked like a charm on that happy note word Lars and Dave or signing off it's electric episode 429 over and done thank you very much remember boys and girls never ever refer to yourself in the third person see you next week okay chairs like sitting on LeBrons toilet look at this thing I had a girlfriend

Channel: Apple Music

Views: 1,439,727

Rating: 4.9368696 out of 5

Keywords: apple, Beats 1, Apple Music, Beats Radio, pop, appl, Lars Ulrich, Dave Grohl, music interviews, Metallica, dave grohl interview, foo fighters, foo fighters interview, rock, nirvana, interview, music, taylor hawkins, kurt cobain, dave grohl nirvana, rock music, krist novoselic, grunge, pat smear, nirvana interview, rock and roll, grunge rock, courtney love, alternative rock, drummers, david bowie, applemusic, sub pop, 90s rock, nirvana dave grohl

Id: IbL3gCIxZGA

Length: 44min 25sec (2665 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 14 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/jamstag]

I loved that Lars was genuinly interested in all of Dave's stories! They have great chemistry together!

[u/rd1994]

I like interviews like these where its either musicians interviewing each other or basically the interviewer actually being friends with one another (or in this case both). Cause it breaks from the formula and thus its entertaining.

[u/GodMau]

this has to be one of the best dave interviews i have ever seen.