During their world dwell stream occasion on Sunday afternoon (May 21), Foo Fighters: Preparing Music For Concerts, Foo Fighters introduced Josh Freese as the band’s new drummer. Freese is getting into the position following the sudden dying of Taylor Hawkins on March 25, 2022.
Freese is a veteran rock drummer, enjoying with the Vandals, Devo, Guns N’ Roses, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails, Weezer and plenty of extra bands. According to his profile on the worldwide recorded music database Discogs, Freese is credited for acting on greater than 400 albums.
Preparing Music For Concerts opened with Foo Fighters standing round in Studio 606, speaking about random issues from combating band members on stage to Pat Smear’s favourite shoe restore store. Special company interrupted this discourse, first with Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, who merely stated, “There’s a white Mercedes blocking me in,” then with Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee bringing in takeout from P.F. Chang’s and lastly with Tool’s Danny Carey dropping off a few freshly-groomed poodles.
All of a sudden, the digicam panned to an offended Freese, sitting behind a drum equipment sporting a nametag that learn “Josh,” who stated, “Excuse me, guys, could we just like, I don’t know, play a song or two? Something?”
With that, the band members walked to their spots and Grohl began enjoying the instantly-recognizable opening to “All My Life” from 2002’s One by One. The dwell stream occasion featured Foo Fighters performing a complete of 9 songs, together with three tracks from their upcoming album, But Here We Are—”Rescued,” “Under You” and “Nothing at All”—and a few jams honoring Black Sabbath and Huey Lewis and the News.
You Can Still Watch Foo Fighters’ Live Stream, Preparing Music For Concerts
Foo Fighters: Preparing Music For Concerts first premiered on Sunday at 3PM ET and it’s nonetheless accessible for on-demand viewing for the subsequent 72 hours. The dwell stream is unique to Veeps and you’ll view it without cost at this location.
The hour-long occasion allowed followers to behave as flies on the wall whereas the band rehearsed collectively. There had been moments of levity, like when Grohl tousled some lyrics in “Monkey Wrench” or when he was joking about what the title of the dwell stream needs to be, ultimately tossing out “preparing music for concerts.”
Foo Fighters Setlist — May 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. “Under You”
5. “Workin’ For a Living'” (Huey Lewis and the News 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 high of the 12 months.
Foo Fighters’ first official present for the reason that dying of Hawkins is about for May 24 on the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion in Gilford, N.H., adopted by a headlining efficiency at Boston Calling on May 26. You can discover Foo Fighters’ full tour schedule right here.
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