Foo Fighters: Back and Forth Page #2

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I didn't wanna play the drums.

When Kurt died,

it wasn't just that my friend died.

It was my whole life kinda died around it

and with him, you know?

And I quit the music business.

At some point, I was finally motivated.

"I'm gonna get myself out of this funk

I've been in for the last eight months. "

Or whatever it was, you know?

I decided that I was gonna take

my favorite songs

that I'd written over the last four or five years

that no one had heard...

and I was going to record them...

...at a 24-track studio

down the street from my house.

And it was really exciting,

because I was doing it totally by myself.

I didn't know why I was doing it.

I just wanted to do something, you know?

So I booked a week at the studio,

and at the end of the week, I had a cassette,

and it sounded good.

And I started thinking,

"I won't put my name on it.

"People will imagine it's just a band.

"They won't know it's the guy from Nirvana. "

In the middle of that session,

I get a call at the studio

that Tom Petty wants me to come

play drums for him on Saturday Night Live.

I just thought,

"Oh my God, he's a hero of mine. "

And I had the opportunity to join the band

if I wanted to join the band.

I really had to kind of choose.

Was I going to play drums with Tom Petty,

or was I gonna start over from scratch

and be the lead singer

and guitar player of a band,

do something I'd never done before,

that I was terrified doing?

Believe me, it was not easy to tell Tom Petty

that I wasn't going to be his drummer.

It was not an easy decision to make.

I can still see my hand

just putting the phone down,

and thinking, "OK, let's see what happens. "

There was a band in Seattle

called Sunny Day Real Estate.

And a good friend of mine told me

that Sunny Day Real Estate

were playing a show,

and it was gonna be their last show

because they were breaking up.

My band was falling apart

about the same time that

Dave found himself without a band.

We were broken up

while we were doing the tour.

We decided we weren't gonna do it anymore,

but had already booked this tour,

so we were like,

"This will be the last thing we do. "

It was ironic because that was the first tour

that we were playing shows

where people were actually showing up.

We were like, "Oh, well!"

I went to the show to see them play,

knowing it was probably the last time

anyone was gonna see them play.

And I was watching them thinking,

"That's a really good rhythm section. "

I gave them the cassette, thinking,

"Hey, check it out.

Maybe we could jam sometime. "

Dave was the first famous person I'd ever met.

He was just out of Nirvana, you know,

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