Throughout their world stay stream occasion on Sunday afternoon (Might 21), Foo Fighters: Getting ready Music For Live shows, Foo Fighters introduced Josh Freese because the band’s new drummer. Freese is moving into the function following the surprising loss of life of Taylor Hawkins on March 25, 2022.
Freese is a veteran rock drummer, taking part in with the Vandals, Devo, Weapons N’ Roses, A Good Circle, 9 Inch Nails, Weezer and plenty of extra bands. In keeping with his profile on the worldwide recorded music database Discogs, Freese is credited for acting on greater than 400 albums.
Getting ready Music For Live shows opened with Foo Fighters standing round in Studio 606, speaking about random issues from preventing band members on stage to Pat Smear’s favourite shoe restore store. Particular friends interrupted this discourse, first with Purple Scorching Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, who merely mentioned, “There is a white Mercedes blocking me in,” then with Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee bringing in takeout from P.F. Chang’s and lastly with Instrument’s Danny Carey dropping off a few freshly-groomed poodles.
Abruptly, the digital camera panned to an offended Freese, sitting behind a drum equipment carrying a nametag that learn “Josh,” who mentioned, “Excuse me, guys, may we identical to, I do not know, play a music or two? One thing?”
With that, the band members walked to their spots and Grohl began taking part in the instantly-recognizable opening to “All My Life” from 2002’s One by One. The stay stream occasion featured Foo Fighters performing a complete of 9 songs, together with three tracks from their upcoming album, However Right here We Are—”Rescued,” “Below You” and “Nothing at All”—and a few jams honoring Black Sabbath and Huey Lewis and the Information.
You Can Nonetheless Watch Foo Fighters’ Dwell Stream, Getting ready Music For Live shows
Foo Fighters: Getting ready Music For Live shows first premiered on Sunday at 3PM ET and it’s nonetheless accessible for on-demand viewing for the following 72 hours. The stay stream is unique to Veeps and you may view it without spending a dime at this location.
The hour-long occasion allowed followers to behave as flies on the wall whereas the band rehearsed collectively. There have been moments of levity, like when Grohl tousled some lyrics in “Monkey Wrench” or when he was joking about what the title of the stay stream ought to be, finally tossing out “getting ready music for live shows.”
Foo Fighters Setlist — Might 21, 2023 at Studio 606 in Los Angeles
1. “All My Life”2. “Rescued”3. “No Son of Mine” (with Black Sabbath jam within the center)4. “Below You”5. “Workin’ For a Dwelling'” (Huey Lewis and the Information cowl)6. “The Sky Is a Neighborhood”7. “Nothing at All”8. “Monkey Wrench”9. “Aurora”
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Taylor Hawkins died unexpectedly in March of 2022 whereas the band was preparing for a pageant efficiency in Bogota, Colombia. Since then, they’ve vowed to maintain transferring ahead as a band and introduced a number of 2023 performances on the prime of the yr.
Foo Fighters’ first official present for the reason that loss of life of Hawkins is ready for Might 24 on the Financial institution of New Hampshire Pavilion in Gilford, N.H., adopted by a headlining efficiency at Boston Calling on Might 26. You could find Foo Fighters’ full tour schedule right here.
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