In a freshly revealed interview with The New York Instances, drummer Josh Freese mirrored on his comparatively temporary time spent serving because the drummer for exhausting rock chart-toppers Foo Fighters, his eventual firing from that outfit, and his return to industrial metallic legends 9 Inch Nails.
A veteran of the Vandals, A Good Circle and plenty of extra, Freese was chosen to get behind the drum equipment for Foo Fighters again in Could of 2023, taking over the arduous job of filling the void left by the late Taylor Hawkins.
Nevertheless, this previous Could, roughly two years later, Freese introduced he had been fired from the group. On the time of his dismissal, Freese acknowledged that he was “shocked and dissatisfied” in being let go from the band.
As it might prove nevertheless, Foo Fighters would go on to welcome drummer Ilan Rubin of 9 Inch Nails as Freese‘s substitute. Satirically, Rubin had beforehand changed Freese in 9 Inch Nails in 2008, and with that place as soon as once more left vacant, Freese was invited to rejoin NIN.
Within the aforementioned NYT piece, Freese admitted his instatement within the Foo Fighters camp got here with challenges, providing, “I’m coming in as Dave Grohl’s drummer, and the man that’s supposed to save lots of the day after the beloved Taylor Hawkins died.”
Whereas in the end shedding such a high-profile gig might have been crushing to most musicians, Freese was a bit flippant about it, posting this record during which he joked in regards to the 10 attainable causes he acquired ejected
Reflecting on that cut up now and the way it performed out, it appears Freese wasn’t fully invested within the music of the Foos, telling The New York Instances, “Wanting again, it was in all probability extra a difficulty with their administration. It wasn’t music that I actually resonated with.”
