Foo Fighters: Back and Forth Page #3

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like, that was a very big deal.

I remember the first time that

Nate and William and I got together to jam.

It was over at William's parents' house.

I remember going up

to William's parents' kitchen

and sitting there after we played,

and Dave just goes,

"You guys wanna be in the band?"

And I was like, "Hell yeah!"

Playing in front of people

was very difficult for me.

I did have a conversation with Dave

and I said,

"I don't think that I should do it. "

Dave said, "That's exactly

why you're the guy that has to do it. "

I don't know what that meant

but that convinced me, I guess.

After that rehearsal, Dave brings up

that he wants a second guitar player,

and thinks it should be Pat Smear,

who William and I knew from him having

played in Nirvana and the Germs.

Then Dave came over,

and he gave me a cassette.

I listened to that whole tape,

just front to end,

and I thought it was all great.

I didn't have anything against Pat.

I didn't know him as a musician or as a person.

But he lived in Los Angeles,

and I just thought that was f***ing crazy.

The way I'd grown up,

you were in a band with your friend from school

that you saw every day.

You'd go home after school and get together

at somebody's mom's house or basement

and work it out.

You can't do that

if the guy lives in Los Angeles.

Pat came up, we played,

and he was perfect,

so I got over that "Him living in LA" thing.

I might have talked to him

about trying to move to Seattle.

All of us came from bands

that ended prematurely.

We didn't really talk about our former bands.

For me, it was always

kind of a touchy subject.

At this point in time,

Kurt had only been dead for a year,

and I didn't wanna talk about it.

So we all entered into this new band

like it was helping us get through the loss

of the bands we'd been in before.

I remember it really vividly,

Dave saying, like, "Let's have it be fun.

"Let's have things be out in the open.

"Let's talk about sh*t.

Just no drama. "

He was like,

"I don't want it to be a stressful thing.

"We're not gonna tour into the ground. "

And...

Which I was glad about.

The first tour that we did,

was with a musician named Mike Watt.

He is a legendary punk rock bass player.

And he asked me if I would tour with him.

And I said, "Yeah, man.

How about this?

"I'll be in your band

if my band can open up on tour. "

And Eddie Vedder, from Pearl Jam,

had done the same thing.

And we said, "Cool,

"Let's put together a tour

where Eddie's other band,

"they were called Hovercraft,

my band - Foo Fighters,

"would open up for Watt,

and we would all be his band. "

It was just this, like,

revolving cast of musicians.

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