Josh Freese, Foo Fighters drummer led to fill the vacancy left by the late Taylor Hawkins, revealed on Friday May 16, that he was released from the group. Freese spent about two years with the group, a large part of this on the road while the FOOS supported their 2023 album, But here we are.
The latest Freese’s own show with the Foo Fighters came at the very end of the “Everything or Nothing at Nothing at or Award” tour of the group, which finished on August 18 at the T-Mobile Park in Seattle. As usual, the setlist was filled with many successes in the Foo Fighters catalog, and there were a few moments when Freese was able to show his chops.
Its battery propelled the group through the ventilation of their Nothing remains to lose Track, “breakout”. But even bigger was the furious drum solo that he sparked at the end of the performance of the Foo Fighters of their 1997 classic, “Monkey Wrench”.
While Seattle’s concert was Reese’s last public concert with the Foo Fighters, he took the stage with them once again. Per Setlist.fm, the group played a private party for the businessman and the owner of the Anaheim Ducks, Henry Samueli, on September 6 at the Maison du Blues in Anaheim (the party was called “Henrypalooza”).
Unsurprisingly, there are not a ton of online videos of the concert, but a clip finds the Foo Fighters covering a little “Sandman entry” from Metallica, while another presents an extract from the interpretation of the group of “Best of You”.
Freese would have actually played another show with the Foo Fighters later this month at the Soundside Music Festival in Bridgeport, Connecticut, but the group ended up canceling their set at the head of the poster. This decision was made shortly after Dave Grohl revealed that he had a child outside his marriage.
By announcing his departure, Freese said that the Foo Fighters told him that they were going “in a different direction with their drummer”. The drummer said that “no reason has been given, adding:” Anyway, I appreciated the last two years with them, both on the stage and out of stage, and I support everything they deem best for the group. During my 40 years of drum professionally, I have never been released from a group, so even if I am not angry – just a little shocked and disappointed. »»
A representative of Foo Fighters refused to comment more.
