Dave Grohl Makes a New Friend While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

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and today we. We're joined by Dave Grohl, a 16-time Grammy Award-winning artist whose story, career and music have been immortalized in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on two separate occasions. He recently published a New York Times bestselling book, as well as the narrator. tales of life and music and get this, a horror-comedy movie starring the Foo Fighters is on the way.

Studio 666, out February 25, Dave Grohl, welcome to the show. Hi, I'm excited, I've been waiting to do this. for years, you know, I would say in the years since Gordon Ramsay you're probably the most requested guest we've had on the show, five years in the making it's finally for the fans, Dave, are you ready to rock? I'm ready to rock, I feel like Gordon had a hard time, well, the British palette is that, yeah, maybe I should play a drinking game with him sometime, oh, drinking game, you say yes, I mean, I Like, I thought you knew how to return the favor since you.

If you were to invite me and invite me to your show, he would bring a couple of cocktails and maybe every few

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we could have a drink, come on, let's do this, yeah, let's just do a drink, let's do it, okay, let's do it now. I don't know if you know Pantera, but they are the most evil heavy metal band of all time and they did these shots they call black tooth smiles and you can do it in different ways, but basically it's like a little corona a little coke this is getting complicated in a sweet little cocktail like this come back gently applause applause for panther it's a panther so let's hit one of these real quick hell yeah they work too there we go you gotta be careful with that i already tried this sauce before no, it's good no, it's something I think I would have in my house oh well, you know what you can take with you you're not the only one I can take this home to everything you're not the only one who brings gifts today

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constellation award exactly So your new film studio 666 is inspired by the Foo Fighters' 10th studio album, which was also recorded in a possibly haunted Encino mansion steeped in rock history.

What were your original expectations? For the project I recently read a quote of yours where you enthusiastically and perhaps even surprisingly declared that it is a film. About three years ago I was writing music for midnight medicine and when I do I like to demo things by myself where I'll set up a little studio, write instruments and play, you know, I'll write this stuff down and send it to the guys and tell them. I'll say, "Hey, what do you think sounds like a good song? But I like to do it in private, so I was looking for a house where I could just turn everything off and just record and then I'm in this creepy old house making demos.

I wonder why don't we make the record here, we took a little time off and then I made a super fast, low-budget horror movie with shooting and running, and I came up with this idea like, oh, I know the Foo Fighters are They move into a house that's haunted, I get possessed, I kill everyone and then I go off alone and that was it and everyone was fine and then there's also millions of wasted dollars and special effects and so on, when we start to see the. diaries or the cuts that came back we thought, oh my God, this is a movie something I never expected us to do, but I feel like we're the band to do something so stupid because that's all we've done for 26 years.

You know, you watch our videos and César smokes garlic. I like everything smoked. I have almonds that would go. I'd give him some brisket with that, you know what? It's such an amazing transition here to the next question because your deep and abiding love for barbecue you have a quote that I think would make any food writer jealous where you say you create a recipe as you make a meal with a song like you would. with a disk? When people come back for seconds. Well, that's your encore. What is the key to a good massage?

In your opinion, simplicity. So I like a really good mix of salt and pepper because that really always highlights whether it's pork or beef, it can be fancy with sugars, it can be fancy with cumin and things like that, but I'm very simple when it comes to those. things because it really comes down to time and temperature in the smoke and if you let all those things, like sitting and resting in the right place for the right amount of time, you want the taste of the meat, you know more than the taste of a rub , that's just me, I mean, I love sweet barbecue too.

Um, but man, I love it when it's like a really good piece of meat that's perfectly smoked. They are the two types of barbecue chefs, there are the

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that really delve into the molecular breakdown and science of barbecue and then there is. the other guys who just take a pig and throw it on the fire and wait and they're both amazing, but I love that someone like Sam Jones Barbecue goes back a hundred years in his family or something and I really respect that because then he becomes tradition, it's like a heritage, maybe there's a connection between grill masters and drummers, you know the people who are technical and who are into rhythm and timing, and then the people who just bang yeah, well , that's every drummer's best excuse, like I'm a country drummer, like I don't know how to do it and that's just because they don't know how to do the fancy thing, that's just me, no man, I'm like a club drummer 'cause I'm not good enough to play Rush, that's basically what the Italian scene is, oh really, Calabrian chilis, yeah, we have a hot sauce guru on our team, a guy named Sean, wow, yeah It's true, imagine that I told him yesterday that I was going. on the show he's trying to give me advice and he's like make sure you have some milk before you go it's not about your mouth it's about you or whatever that's good advice no we've had countless lists of the five best MCs on the show and Don't worry, I won't ask you to make one for drummers, but I'm curious what you think people get wrong when debating the best drummers of all time.

My sign of a good drummer would be if you listen to about 15 seconds of their playing and you know who it is, it doesn't matter how technical it is, you just know who the distinctive sound is, the feel and feel is indefinable, it's like a fingerprint, you know, I wrote a whole essay on sensation because I think some people believe it can be created. but it's not, I mean, it's as characteristic as your soul or your voice or your heart or whatever, so if you had a sheet music and two different drummers played the same sheet music, it would sound different because of their lives and their hearts and soul and whatever, if you listen to 15 seconds of Ringo Starr, you'll know it's Ringo Starr.

If you listen to 15 seconds of John Bonham, you know it's John Bonham. They are two completely different players. He is absolutely one more technical than the other, but that amount to what is that, what does that mean? you know if your name is attached to a very specific thing then you have it let's make a drink let's make a drink let's make a drink I mean that's to me that's the thing like and I think it

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sense unless you go I'm trying to keep the ice out so you don't choke on it, put some coke in there, very thoughtful, yeah, and I mean, you know, and the drummers, man, when you have drummers.

Speaking of drums, you're stuck, cheers, cheers, Dave, okay, that was a great shot. Angry Phoenix sounds like a tenacious song. Oh, he has Scottish hats. You know, I spent a lot of time on YouTube. You do it because I have attention span. of a nat and uh, I enjoy watching people with hot sauce. You've seen the show Hot One before, maybe a couple of times. I mean, I could throw out all my favorite episodes. I have some favorites. I must be honest. I love watching it, I thought Billy Eilish did great, amazing, he did a good job running laps around this Gordon Ramsay just angry all the time with over 170 F-bombs.

I think the first episode is the classic classic. You know, I'm actually a huge. Thundercat fan, I love Thundercat, I mean his music is amazing, he's a genius, I really think he's a genius and I met him for the first time about a month ago at a party, oh amazing, he was on a dance floor dancing so and so. I walked up behind him and started walking around him like this and his girl

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was looking at me, she looked like she was laughing but he has no idea who he is and I finally turned him around, I'm writing his face and I did it. .

I'm not saying anything about his music, I thought, man, you're the best hot ones episode I've ever seen, oh, you know what next time I see it I can't wait to get that story out of him? He's the king, oh, that's it. amazing amazing i love this is everything i dreamed it was you having a good time yes i can taste the blood this is great so i'm going to burp a lot just burp i'm zapping i do it too i burp on stage and sometimes my burps get more cheers that our songs, FYI, this is a good sounding burp, I like it, yeah, you know why I like this, please tell me it tastes like b.o, it's that earthy summer bus, yeah, I'm trying to get home.

It's like it's like well, earthy, let's say, earthy, earthy, yeah, it's like someone who uses deodorant, uses crystals and yeah, yeah, or maybe this, now we're going to do a spray, okay, Dave, we have a recurring segment on our program called explains that. gram where we do a deep dive on our guest Instagram, we pull up interesting images that need more context, so we'll upload the image here on the monitor, just tell us the bigger story, okay, first things first in 2015, you finished a famous show in sweden after falling off stage after two songs and seriously breaking your leg, what is the second most serious injury you have suffered

while

performing?

We got hit in the face with a half dollar in Atlanta like 1996 and me. I'm like, damn, and I went to the hospital. They said okay, we'll get back to you in a couple of minutes. I sat there for five hours and then they finally came to me. They said yeah, it's too late, just put a band-aid on, damn, um, oh, one time I got electrocuted on stage like we were playing a corporate gig for Doc Martens in Las Vegas and it was like a hotel and there was a pool and the stage was right next to this pool and me.

I thought it would be fun if I invite the entire audience into the pool with me during this type of improvisation. I told them, "Come on everyone, I jump in the pool and the whole audience follows me into the pool and we're all like." I party and then I go back on stage, someone hands me the guitar and I step on my distortion pedal. I thought it was like a real electrocution which sucked. How would you distill your connection to the last show with David Letterman between being his last musical act? and then paying tribute to him when he guest hosted Kimmel, seems like a unique bond.

One of the reasons I love Letterman is because his show is so musical. You know, he always had really cutting-edge musical acts on the show and I mean. Be honest, I seemed like a smart evil idiot and those are the people I hang out with, you know, I want, I want my best

friend

to be smarter, funnier, and more well-traveled than anyone else, so I honestly felt like I spent my entire life watching . him, so I really felt like you know he was my friend in a way, he had this connection to our music. I guess he liked our song long after his heart surgery.

We came back and played a show and he's a Dave guy. Dave has to stay. together, wait, let's make a drink, let's make a drink, oh man, we got a song called Sean, you do it, we recorded a song called Sean, I didn't know that in Austin, Texas, at the Saint Cecilia Hotel it's called Shawn the Saint Cecilia. hotel. It's great, we recorded it in the Saint Cecilia hotel bar, we made a whole album there, what's called Saint Cecilia lp ep, and we have a song called Shawn, oh you know what the chorus says, what a shot it sounds like a success. a sean greetings

dave

by the way it wasn't a hit so it's interesting sure let's move on real quick let's double down on what you were talking about greetings dave sean I'll send you that song I can't wait so it's interesting for me.

When you started your career, getting started meant having teenagers put your poster on the wall and be the definition of untouchable, but now we live in an era of such widespread accessibility and so many different ways to reach an audience. What excites you the most is when you see young artists building. a wave in the Internet age and then what if something worries you about the new ways music is discovered and consumed? I still believe that the most important way to promote yourself as an artist is to play live, that's all because when someone sees when a human being sees another human being on stage smashing it, there's this kind of connection and it's inspiring because you're like, oh God.

My, human beings can do that, you know, I think we've been so conditioned that everything becomes mechanical in a moment.way you look at it and say oh yeah that's cool yeah look at the lights and look at the, but if you see someone sitting in front of you with just wooden cables smashing a guitar or someone with an amazing voice and no microphone or Like the preservation hall jazz band in New Orleans, you go sit in that little room and there's no microphones, there's nothing, it's just church pews and a jazz band and that moves your heart, that's the way do it, I'm convinced, so I remember years ago looking at a festival schedule and seeing that Alabama Shakes were in the middle of the bill on the side stage returning to the festival like a year or two later and seeing Alabama Shakes headlining the side stage, I thought, "Oh, damn," and then a couple of years later I came back and they were halfway up the main stage and I was like, "Oh, I came back a couple of years later and now they're . headlining the main stage and then going to the Grammys and we're in the same category as them and they take the Grammy, that's how you're supposed to do it, that's what I think you gotta go out there, hit the streets and play at live and be a tough guy if you're a tough guy that'll happen but you gotta work at it I'm going to throw up how about it's a little sweet and sticky mm-hmm and then that deep pepper hits but look at you Dave Crawl I mean it's hot ?

It's good, no, it's a good hot sauce and you're right, it's good barbecue, it's got a little sweet, yeah it's got a little sticky, you could put it on a little, so I read that Foo Fighters recorded an album on tape. so no one can mess with it later, in your opinion, producing or manipulating a song too much undermines what it means to make music in any way for the Foo Fighters, yeah, for other people, I don't know, I like imperfection, um, I like to listen. albums where you can hear a hand going up and down the strings and there's like finger slides and then at least the tempo goes like this and that's the human element of music, I love that, oh I don't have hair, but I felt which was like that mask

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filming commercials in the past.

What was he saying? I'll probably pontificate on the human element of music. Oh, no, I mean, you know, there are some things about music, like really rigid mechanical music. I love that, I really love it, I think we're better when it sounds like us and it's raw, I've heard about the bomb, the glasses are empty, get some, come on, come on, baby, let's do this, okay , Dave, greetings, greetings. The Bible, what is the most painful thing that has happened to you? Except you got dumped at prom. What is the most painful? It was you at the homecoming dance.

I read the book, David. I read the book. I read the book. Cheers, Cheers, here is the anguish. It was crazy that this was your job, well your job is crazy too, yeah I got a thing, I'm just trying to be as badass as Lord and Thunder, well you're Lord Esque, yeah, but she had all these culinary notes Like, yeah, man. like getting hiccups here, that's where you turn the corner, though yeah, it's hot, very different, yeah, it's a whole different vibe, yeah, and don't you want one of my beers, have some beer, I've got some, oh Yes, friend, you can do this. brother, oh I got you, yeah Dave, I'm on the ride with you right now, I just spit a little, spit a little, yeah, it's hot now, yeah, it is, yeah, it's like that between the sound tour around the city ​​and then be part of it. -time member of taylor hawkins' chevy metal cover band, you have a lot of experience exploring the work of other legendary musicians, yes, what do you learn from playing other people's music live?

So taylor's chevy metal band has this amazing list of covers of one of them. being um going japanese going japanese yeah, I think I'm going Japanese, I really do and you hear it on the radio and you're like 10. and then you play it on the guitar like, oh my god, this is so hard. I remember once trying to play a message in a bottle and pulling a muscle in my hand playing a police song. I thought: how do the police do this without getting hurt like some people, some musicians? You sit there and you talk and you say, yeah. yes, what happens, but then you put on instruments and start playing and you actually get to know the person without words better with instruments because everyone does it differently, it's quite red, by the way, sir, ask, come on, I'm not just saying that come on dom is coming in because he sees tears coming out of my eyes no, I'm fine and yeah, Dave, you're good, you're really good, yeah, this is it um, come on buddy, in the store, it's Okay, let's do the damn thing.

What is that whiskey? I mean, yeah, it's hot. It's okay, it's hot. I'll cool it down for you. Yes, since you are burning. Thanks, Dave Bernard. Okay, that will help you. Yes, you are right or wrong. You know what we are. Only on this journey will you make it my friend, promise well that gave me all the confidence I need. Greetings, joke, mommy, will you pass the pucker? This is what's hot, yes, but nothing Dave Grohl can't handle, drowning out the entire damn lineup. drowning out the entire damn lineup, so you've been a self-proclaimed UFO nerd for decades and I'm curious how that interest peaked.

I heard you reference the 1987 best-selling book, Above Top Secret, by Timothy Good, when I was a kid, I had a lot of UFO dreams and I really am still a crazy vivid dreamer to this day. I remember the music in my dream last night. Like every day I wake up, I remember my dreams and, um, when I was a kid. I would have these amazing UFO dreams where I would be lying in my front yard in Springfield, Virginia and I would be looking at the stars and I would say wow and then I would realize oh my gosh, it's not the stars, it's the underside of this ship. shaped like a glass mirror that took me into space, so I always thought UFOs were real and I convinced all my friends in my neighborhood that I was a UFO expert and they would tell me to come.

In my yard, I think I saw a UFO last night and I was walking over your yard and I was like, yeah, I see that like discolored grass right there that could be a crop circle or whatever, so from an early age I loved UFOs. , read. this book up top secret and in that I saw the term Foo Fighters and here we are, do you want to hit it right now, yeah, of course, come on, we're rocking, sure, yeah, did you see his face on the back? I have real, yes, I demand it. another drink, I insist on another drink if you say so, okay, last drink, last drink, that last ring, last drink, that's fine, cheers, Dave, damn, Sean, I mean, I gotta be honest, I'm not kidding, man, when I was a kid.

I learned to love music by watching Saturday Night Live and walked onto that set for the first time in 1992. Like holy shit, I'm here as a teenager. I watched the David Letterman show every night while he did bong after bong after bong after bonk. The parallels rose to that stage. I thought, oh my God, I'm here for years. I've seen this show and I finally walked onto this set and I saw those sauces and I saw your face. I thought so, bucket list, bam, the only thing I have left to do in my life is full of AC DC Dave, I can't stand it, I don't know how to process it, I'm just saying we're hitting the final touch, right?

What are we doing, are we going to play this last touch? Give it one last shot, let's put the dab on, let's put the dab on, I've got the dab on hold in a second, let's talk about love, okay, I was kidding, one more shot, one more shot, yeah, one more shot and one more wing, let's take a shot. We'll chase it with the wing ooh wing hunter wing hunter or shot hunter depending on how you want to line it up oh you know what I have to do tomorrow I have to go to narnia what I have to go to narnia what's in nadia nadia's business Come on, you know what I almost think it would be silly to ask a wing 10 question, let's eat this wing, let's eat this wing, Dave, okay, and what a ride it's been, yeah, man, did you put some in it?

Oh yeah, you hit it's true, I heard I hit that I have a confession in me I have a confession like that you just know I have this at home Sometimes I come home from rehearsal did that sound like Elvis Sometimes I come home from rehearsal I take a couple of beers and eat a teaspoon of this so you know how hot I have your ass taking the wings of death drowning your glove living to tell the story and still doing his essay tonight at 6 p.m. and now dave gold there's nothing left to do just roll out the red carpet for you this camera this camera or this camera let people know what you're going through in your life we ​​have a horror movie about to come out how about it That and then I'm in the band called Foo Fighters?

I'm going to play a bunch of shows and then you know I can't tell you what this means, don't get excited, take the box, no, maybe not, that guy at the bar, no, I care, I care, I care , come on. hug no, I care a lot and you're the man who's so good dude, you're drunk hey what's going on hot fans? This is Sean Evans, reaching out with a very exciting announcement. We have read the comments. We have seen the emails. And after six years, over 250 episodes, we can now bring you the full Hot Ones experience in one convenient package.

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