It’s one of the band’s biggest hits, but almost caused them to break up.
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The Foo Fighters have been together for over 25 years, but in a new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe they revealed they almost didn’t make it to a decade as a band.
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“Times Like These” comes from the band’s 2003 album One by One and is one of their most successful songs having gone platinum with over one million copies sold. It also almost broke up the band.
“We were making that record, and it just wasn’t really happening for whatever reason,” Dave Grohl said. “The recordings weren’t what we wanted them to be, the enthusiasm wasn’t really there.”
Foo Fighters had already dealt with several lineup changes and other tense moments by that point in their career, but this moment marked the closest the band got to breaking up.
“I thought the band was going to break up and it’s funny you bring up that song because I remember, I think literally the first time we ever played it was at a rehearsal at [Nate Mendel’s], after the Queens Of The Stone Age tour,” guitarist Chris Shiflett said.
“And it was actually there that we all got in a huge argument and it was maybe the closest the band actually ever really did come to breaking up but then didn’t.”
Drummer Taylor Hawkins added, “we were just still trying to figure out kind of how to be a band still, and like Dave said earlier, the record that we made just sounded sort of phoned in and [we were] trying Pro Tools for the first time and Dave was really excited about the Queens stuff. And it was just a sh**y time for the band.”
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