Recording 'Times Like These' nearly caused the Foo Fighters to split up
Foo Fighters sat down virtually with Apple Music interviewer extraordinaire Zane Lowe on Tuesday to revisit stories behind some of their biggest bangers.
It turns out, "Times Like These" was almost the rock band's last song.
"We were making that record, and it just wasn't really happening—for whatever reason," frontman Dave Grohl said. "The recordings weren't what we wanted them to be. The enthusiasm wasn't really there."
Lead guitarist Chris Shiflett: "I thought the band was gonna break up, and it's funny you bring up that song because I think literally the first time we ever played it was at a rehearsal at Nate [Mendel’s] after the Queens Of The Stone Age tour. And it was actually there that we all got in a huge argument ,and it was maybe the closest the band actually ever really did come to breaking up but then didn’t."
"Times Like These" was the second single from Foo Fighters' Grammy-winning album One by One, and the Platinum-certified track itself was nominated.
The guys also looked back on "Shame Shame" (2020), "This Is A Call" (1995), "Everlong" (1997) and "The Pretender" (2007).
Foo Fighters, of course, did not break up but rather continued to dominate for another two decades—capped by a nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last month:
The Rock Hall's class of 2021 inductees will be announced in May.
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