Foo Fighters: Back and Forth Page #2
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
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
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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