On the latest episode of After School Radio, Mark Hoppus spoke with Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl about the band's rockin' return to the road for their 26th-anniversary tour, their incredible Dee Gees project, and a whole lot more.
One adorable road story that Dave told was about the time he traveled around the globe while on tour with the Foos to attend a daddy/daughter dance at home with his kids -- who honestly couldn't have been any less receptive to his fatherly diligence.
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"I had to fly back from Australia for one day to take my kids to the daddy-daughter dance. I told everybody, 'I'm sorry, we're going to have to cancel that Perth Stadium [show], because I have to do this thing.'" A plan was put into place where Dave would run off stage in Adelaide, "go straight to our car, go straight to this jet, fly straight to Sydney, have a three-hour layover, fly to LA, get off the plane, sleep for two hours, then go straight to this dance."
The continent-hopping went off without a hitch, until he was actually in the room for the dance, that is. "The kids didn't even care I was there," he says. "They were like, 'OK dad. Bye.'" Afterward, Grohl said he went "straight back to the plane," and made his way back to Australia for another show. "It was ridiculous. We get on the flight back to Australia and I'm like, 'I'm just going to drink a bottle of wine and pass out. I'm just going to sleep for 15 hours. This is going to be great.'"
But after a few hours in the air, luck had other plans. "I felt like someone was stabbing me in the stomach," Dave says. "We're having crazy turbulence, and I'm like, 'Oh my God.' I got the gnarliest food poisoning. Three hours into our flight to Sydney. It is the absolute worst-case scenario. I'm sitting, and we're in this crazy turbulence and I'm just watching the seatbelt light up like, 'Come on, come on, come on.' Seatbelt light goes off, spend the next eight hours in the bathroom."
The nightmare was far from over for Dave. "They come around with those customs cards before you land," he explained. "Well, around this time, Ebola was spreading all over the world. So there was an Ebola card. I'm looking at this card and it's like, 'Do you have any of these symptoms? It was like, 'nausea, diarrhea, fever, chills.' And I'm just like... 'they're going to think I have Ebola. They're going to put me in a room with people that have Ebola, then I'm going to get Ebola, and I'm going to die at the airport in Australia.'”
In the end, all worked out. Dave wasn't quarantined, never contracted Ebola, and played the show that night like a true champ. "I basically chugged a Guinness and I was like, 'Let's go!'"
Check out a full list of Foo Fighters' 26th-anniversary tour dates, with a 'crapload' more being added to the schedule as they roll.
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