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When a good friend calls, Dave Grohl solutions. And when that specific good friend is Josh Homme, calling to ask him to make an look on the Josh Homme & Friends profit live performance, the Foo Fighters frontman jumped straight into rehearsal mode. Grohl’s course of began with pulling up the lyrics to Doja Cat’s rebellious single “Paint the Town Red” and concluded with him penning a very new music particularly for Homme.
“I spent a couple of days trying to figure out like, ‘What the fuck am I gonna play?’” Grohl advised the viewers on the Los Angeles live performance on Wednesday night time. “My first idea that I had… I was like, ‘You know what? This shit’s funny – I’m gonna come out and I’m gonna do a fucking Doja Cat song.’”
Grohl spent days of his preparation time trying to memorize the favored document, however didn’t internalize way more than the hooky “Bitch, I said what I said” portion of the refrain. “There are so many lyrics to that song – like maybe more than ‘The Sound Of Silence’, which is a lot,” he added. “I woke up at like two o’clock in the morning — I was like, ‘I’m not gonna roll out ‘Everlong’ for the thousandth time’.”
For a second, he looked for a backup choice on Spotify, combing by an acoustic covers playlist. But then he seemingly remembered that he’s actually Dave Grohl and might simply write one thing himself. Problem solved.
“So I did something that’s maybe considered really, really uncool. But I wrote a song that’s really genuine and earnest about my friend Josh,” he advised the viewers, including: “I thought, ‘I’m gonna write a song about him and embarrass him in front of all of his friends’… by actually singing about how much I fucking love you, man. And I’ve never even sung it out loud.”
In the music, Grohl reminds Homme that he’ll all the time be there for him. “When I’m feeling I’ve had enough, I’ve had enough/ If you feel like riding, you know I’ll ride with you,” he sings within the opening verse. “If I’m free and you’ve got big plans, take it from me I’ll take that chance/ Tell me the reason, I understand/ Whatever you need I’ve got you, man.”
Homme embraced Grohl in a robust hug on the finish of his look. “We’re all here for this one big reason, but I don’t know if we’d all be here if it weren’t for that guy,” Grohl mentioned. “And when that guy fucking calls you and says, ‘Hey, I’m doing something’… he’ll kick your ass if you don’t, basically.”
The Josh Homme & Friends live performance — which additionally featured appearances from Beck, St. Vincent and The Kills — was hosted in help of the Sweet Stuff Foundation. The non-profit was based simply over a decade in the past to offer help and help to “career musicians, recording engineers and their families struggling with illness and disability,” in keeping with the organization’s official web site.
Last yr, Homme revealed that he had been identified with most cancers in 2022. In an interview with Revolver journal, he shared that the surgical procedure he underwent to take away it had been “successful.”
