Whereas chatting with his bandmates Dave Grohl and Pat Smear on a current episode of his podcast “Shred with Shifty,” Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett recalled a mistake he made shortly after becoming a member of the band in 1999.
Whereas discussing how a few of the Foos’ earlier songs had been written in tunings apart from normal, Shiflett mentioned he made what he calls a “huge blunder” throughout his second present with the band.
“I keep in mind that was my first huge Foo Fighters blunder. It was my second present, on the sound examine. I’d by no means had a guitar tuned to a low A on the E string, and I believe I tuned it to A# after which performed the entire music that means. I bear in mind on the finish of it, I noticed, and [Dave said], ‘Hey, come right here. Don’t try this once more.’ [laughter] ‘Possibly don’t try this ever once more,’” Shiflett mentioned.
Shiflett additionally added that, throughout his early days with the Foos, Grohl took him guitar buying as a result of he didn’t have all of the tools he wanted to be within the band.
“After I joined the band, you mentioned, ‘Oh, you’re gonna want a couple of guitar,’ and also you took me buying. This would possibly [be] day two of being within the Foo Fighters — speak about a dream come true…” Shiflett recalled, chatting with Grohl. “So, we drive over earlier than rehearsal to Voltage… these outlets that I had been going to since I used to be just a little child, being yelled at, ‘Don’t contact that!’ And now, I stroll in there, and I’ve acquired Dave Grohl with me, along with his American Specific, like, ‘We’re going buying, get no matter you need.’”
“I used to be so freaked out. I’ve actually been within the band for 48 hours or one thing, I couldn’t even suppose straight, like, ‘I’ll simply take that and that.’ And by chance, I acquired two wonderful guitars, however I chuckle about it now, it’d be a really completely different buying spree right this moment.”
