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“I had no idea how good of a guitar player he was when we started recording. Most of the guitar on the records is him”: Foo Fighters super-producer Nick Raskulinecz on the most surprising thing about Dave Grohl's guitar playing

Raskulinecz credits Grohl with jumpstarting his career after the Foo Fighters frontman gave him the opportunity to produce and engineer the band's fourth album

Guitar World

“I finally get the opportunity to say, ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome, the most badass mother, Ilan Rubin”: Dave Grohl introduces new drummer at Foos' secret gig

And there’s another one tonight in Santa Ana

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Josh Freese didn't 'resonate' with Foo Fighters music

Ex-Foo Fighters drummer Josh Freese has admitted that he didn't "resonate" with the music of the Dave Grohl-led rockers following his departure from the band earlier this year.

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“It wasn’t music that I really resonated with”: Josh Freese lifts the lid on his departure from the Foo Fighters

He felt he “had to be firing on all cylinders all the time.”

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“This is the original, hand-made at the Nashville Gibson Custom Shop”: Dave Grohl’s own Gibson DG-335 prototype has surfaced – and it’s up for sale on Reverb

The Gibson Custom Shop build featured on stage and in the studio with the Foo Fighters between 2005 and 2007

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Who is Ilan Rubin? Quick Facts on Foo Fighters' New Drummer After Firing Josh Freese from The Band

Ilan Rubin, renowned drummer and Rock Hall inductee, joins Foo Fighters, marking a new chapter amid band's recent changes.

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Foo Fighters reveal identity of new drummer

Ilan Rubin is best known for his work with Nine Inch Nails

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Foo Fighters release new single to mark 30th anniversary

Rock star Dave Grohl has reflected on the evolution of the Foo Fighters.

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Dave Grohl and wife Jordyn Blum attend Wimbledon in first appearance since infidelity scandal

The Foo Fighters frontman and his wife were among the stars in the Royal Box on Wednesday

The Independent UK

Sam Fender and Chappell Roan help bring £1.2bn tourism boost to North West

Sam Fender, Chappell Roan and the Foo Fighters brought music tourists to Manchester, while Taylor Swift’s tour brought overseas fans to the UK.

Evening Standard

‘Don’t tell them ... they’ll all come’: why are so many sea-changers moving to Geelong?

Coastal town, an hour from Melbourne, overtakes the Sunshine Coast in popularity. Cait Kelly asks locals what makes it such an appealing place to live

The Guardian - AU

Foo Fighters‘ tour rider for Jakarta includes special permission to swear, smoke and drink on stage

Foo Fighters‘ tour rider for Jakarta allows them permission to swear, smoke and drink on stage but they won’t touch on “sensitive topics”.

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Taylor Hawkins' son Shane is touring with his late dad's covers band Chevy Metal, not Foo Fighters

Shane Hawkins has dispelled rumours he's taking over from fired Foo Fighters drummer Josh Freese.

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"7) Metronome-like precision behind the kit deemed 'soulless'": Josh Freese just served up 10 reasons why he got sacked from The Foo Fighters

Big names from Stewart Copeland to Michael Buble have all waded in to offer Freese their support

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Drummer Josh Freese reveals hilarious list of 'reasons' he got fired from Foo Fighters

Former Foo Fighters drummer Josh Freese has released a tongue in cheek list of the "top 10 possible reasons" he got "booted" from the band.

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"Number 6. Demanded starting every rehearsal with a 20 minute cowbell sound bath." Ex-Foo Fighters drummer Josh Freese shares his 'Top 10 possible reasons Freese got booted from the Foos' list

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“No reason was given. I’m not angry, just a bit shocked and disappointed”: Foo Fighters have parted ways with Josh Freese – and will explore “a different direction” with their next drummer

The move ends Freese’s two-year tenure with the group, after he was drafted in to replace the late Taylor Hawkins

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"The lie is or would have been that I quit – I didn’t": Zak Starkey sacked from The Who - again

News comes on brutal weekend for drummers, as Josh Freese also ejected from Foo Fighters

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Louder

“I’m not angry – I’m shocked and disappointed”: Foo Fighters fire drummer Josh Freese two years after he joined the band

Josh Freese, who replaced the late Taylor Hawkins, is no longer the Foo Fighters’ drummer

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Stars share support for Josh Freese after Foo Fighters exit

Celebrities are sharing their support for Josh Freese after he was axed from Foo Fighters earlier this week.

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Josh Freese fired from Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters drummer Josh Freese claims he has been fired from the band, two years after he replaced the late Taylor Hawkins.

The Independent UK

Foo Fighters give Taylor Hawkins’ replacement Josh Freese the ‘boot’ after two years

The former Vandals and Devo drummer said ‘no reason was given’

The Conversation

John and Yoko, Cher, Lisa-Marie Presley: 3 memoirs illustrate the peculiar lives of celebrities

Throughout the 1990s, I was a music journalist in London. I profiled hundreds of rock bands at the start of their careers, including Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails and the Foo Fighters. I can’t imagine a better way to have spent my twenties. But I…

Guitar World

“Chris Shiflett has this great AC30 from the ’60s; that’s the main amp on the album. That and a Princeton Reverb – until I blew it up”: How one-man blues rock band Steve Hill cheated death – then found redemption at Foo Fighters’ Studio 606

Hill survived two road traffic accidents and a house fire, but through grief and cracked ribs he made it, got his new record in the can, and this is its story

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“When you start looking at Paul McCartney, you start playing the song wrong”: Chris Shiflett on what it's like to share the stage with Macca – and Brian May

After joining the Foo Fighters, Shiflett found himself rubbing shoulders with some of the best in the business

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