Chad
Slender Hobbit
I wouldn’t be surprised if Dave started something new and went back to the drums. Maybe with the rest of the band. Just get a new singer. But I wouldn’t be surprised if Pat was done completely.
RIP Taylor Hawkins
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I wouldn’t be surprised if Dave started something new and went back to the drums. Maybe with the rest of the band. Just get a new singer. But I wouldn’t be surprised if Pat was done completely.
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
Yeah, these massive touring apparatuses are difficult to shutter. I suspect Dave will do some sort of stint with something non-Foos after a suitable period (Nirvana and Friends festival dates with a guest singer?) and then find some reason to roll out the Foos again with a documentary + album + book or some such.
DdBob
Dogue in teh desert
That was great and I'm down with the Wolfster, seems like a down to earth cool guy as he could be the biggest douche going if he wanted. Here he is paying tribute to a guy who played a whole trivute to his dads band and who very well mighta started playing music because of VH....and so the circle goes.
I believe he did this one for his pop
sunvalleylaw
Yep.
The PJ machine is another example, I would guess.
sunvalleylaw
Yep.
Now you got me misty.
nuke_diver
Riding Solo
I'm reading The Storyteller right now. Given his reaction to unexcepted deaths in the past and his joy as a family man I wonder if he will just do "guest" gigs and devote the majority of his time to his family. Watching some concert videos he clearly loves entertaining and playing but this has got to have hit him pretty hard
I just finished that as well. My take away is that Grohl can't NOT write and perform. He'll take some time off, write a bunch, maybe record a solo album. But he'll be back in front of an audience eventually.
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
It’s all acts at arena size. It’s a major undertaking on the road crew and other tour support side. Which is one of the reasons why bands like The Who or the Stones or whatever keep rolling…there’s a lot of people relying on the gig to feed their families. And signing on to one gig means not taking another…so something like cancelling a Foo Fighters world tour has longer lasting implications.
Chad
Slender Hobbit
I know he started up again after Kurt's death, but he started over and didn't play Nirvana songs anymore. I don't know how he could get on stage and burst into something like My Hero and not look over his shoulder and see Taylor. Those 2 were so close.
And you're right on, he now has a family and his oldest has joined him on stage to sing. Maybe he hops into the producer's chair and channels his creativity into his daughter's projects, or gets more into directing/producing documentaries, or like you said, just does some 'guest' gigs or fill ins for people.
nuke_diver
Riding Solo
Yeah I was thinking the same thing on the producer thing. And like @GomezAddams said I do think he will play again and maybe even with the others in the FF but I don't think that they will call themselves that and they all will have a lot of trouble playing FF music in the near future because of the memory of Taylor. Maybe once they are in the old folks home they might
but not for a while
Chicken Man
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Y'all are crazy. The organization is likely already in dire straits after shutdown, and now they had to cancel more dates. There will be some publicist-orchestrated meet cute at a (spit balling here) an Eagles of Death Metal/Them Crooked Vultures mini-tour, and Dave will "rediscover the passion of his early garage days", a new slightly stripped-down album ("a triumphant return to form!"), and back on the road within a year. Might be a known quantity (Butch Vig or Matt Sorum type) or a road dog. Either way, he's getting the sideman pay rate in perpetuity and the organization overall comes out of this slightly more profitable.
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
Vig is a good call. I could also see getting someone like Tommy Lee out of mothballs for a ROCKTACULAR RETURN TO ROCK deal.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s an introspective songwriter attempt with Rick Rubin and then a Rocking Rock that Rocks the Rock tour to follow. Josh Homme is a toxic person at present and doesn’t test well with certain demographics so I’m guessing that Dave will maybe celebrate KC’s legacy instead and then find his way back to the Foos.
Is he gonna maybe make a record with various members of Naked Raygun and Steve Albini?
sunvalleylaw
Yep.
I like Vig. I kinda wanna go see Alanis and Pavement when they are out on tour. Nostalgic sounds.
This sounds more interesting. Perhaps also nostalgic sounds. But maybe not. More discordant, I would guess.
Chicken Man
Kick Henry Jackassowski
I just read Grohl's book, but I was too alternative for alternative in the 90s, so I can only name-check the A-list. But I've seen the pattern play out enough to recognize it. Between Pat, himself, and his access to present-day acts, there's three or four generations to draw from. With Mike Campbell and Niel Finn in the Mac, Don Felder in Styx, Aimee Mann and Ted Leo, a thousand other Rock Voltrons I'm not thinking of, not to mention all the mixtape tour packages out there, coupled with merch and touring being the only ways to generate income in the present day, they'll hit the road the day after the tour insurance money runs out.
Knox in Box
Rustbelt refugee.
I can't see him doing anything for about two years. He doesn't himself need the cash. If he soldiers on it would out of responsibility to the others. Taylor once said himself "If I'm playing a stadium, I know it's because Dave Grohl is out front."
Tommy Lee would be good, Matt Cameron I'm sure he'd love to work with.
Tommy Lee would be good, Matt Cameron I'm sure he'd love to work with.
nuke_diver
Riding Solo
I saw someplace that Grohl is worth something on the order of $200 million. He doesn't need to work again ever if he doesn't want. He will because he loves too not for the $$$ IMO
Chad
Slender Hobbit
Latest estimate I saw was $320 million. Either way, that's more than enough for his grandkids to live on.
DdBob
Dogue in teh desert
Yeah I saw 320 million and the rest of the band including Taylor were all worth about 50 million, one was was 40 million.
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
And we all know having “enough” money and quitting while you’re ahead is a major virtue under capitalism. I’ve seen where Team Foo is reported to be a 100+ person operation with revenues in the tens of millions (up to $40+ million during peak years) annually. It would be shocking that anyone would turn off the money hose in that sort of situation. Heck, depending on contractual obligations and the like, you might not be able to shut it down.
Dave will undoubtedly mourn and likely do some sort of non-Foos performative head-clearing music thing. But I cannot imagine that Foos, Inc. will leave the money on the table. Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey basically stepped over Entwistle’s corpse to continue a tour. The Stones paid their respects to Charlie Watts and soldiered on. The Fucking Beatles added bits to John Lennon’s Tascam demos to make new tracks. The business of show doesn’t have time for unpaid sentimentality.
Dave will undoubtedly mourn and likely do some sort of non-Foos performative head-clearing music thing. But I cannot imagine that Foos, Inc. will leave the money on the table. Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey basically stepped over Entwistle’s corpse to continue a tour. The Stones paid their respects to Charlie Watts and soldiered on. The Fucking Beatles added bits to John Lennon’s Tascam demos to make new tracks. The business of show doesn’t have time for unpaid sentimentality.