Broken leg be damned!
(Hint: They’ll stick around.)
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You sound like you’ve had better days.
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DAVE GROHL:I’m having Lemmy do all my interviews today, that’s what I’m doing.
It’s Lemmy from Motorhead.
You’re already back on the road with the Foo Fighters.
How’s that going?
It’s this whole new energy in the show.
When you broke your leg in Sweden last month, you still finished the show.
How bad was the pain?
When it happened, I didn’t feel a thing.
I tried to get up and walk and my ankle collapsed under my weight.
It’s gone."
The band didn’t know what was happening, so they kept playing.
But it still didn’t hurt.
One by one the guys in the band stopped playing peered over the edge of the stage.
I was just laughing.
I couldn’t believe it happened.
It was in the second song too, that’s what was such a drag.
Because it didn’t hurt.
It was pretty painful.
It was so fing painful.
I had never experienced anything like that in my life.
You celebrated the band’s 20th with a huge show in Washington, D.C., on July 4.
The lineup mirrored theSonic Highwaysseries.
It was a dream come true.
So, Foos on the Mall in 2016?
It’s somewhere you could go and have a beer, have a joint, watch good music.
How will you top the insanity of that show with the rest of your summer tour?
The spontaneity of this situation we’re in right now brings out a smile in everyone.
When it first rolls out on stage, people light up.
You told the D.C. crowd you were “high as a fing kite” when you designed it.
Let’s not fly it around yet."
With such a landmark year for the band, do you want to keep going?
The band is more than a musical group.
It’s a family and it’s become a way of life with us.
We love each other.
It’s how we fing roll.
As long as we can do whatever we want to do, we’ll do it until we die.
I love my job.
We’re not breaking up anytime soon, that would be like your grandparents getting a divorce.
Any plans to bring your HBO music-documentary showSonic Highwaysback for a second season?
We’ve been talking about doing it again.
I’m sure we will.
It was an incredible experience and the response was overwhelming.
Which Foo Fighters hit is most meaningful to you?
Oh, Godthat’s a lot of fing songs.
We have our staples, the ones that make the place go bananas.
Every night I sing it I still get choked up.
But I could say the same thing about “Times Like These,” you know?
When we sing those songs and they sing along it makes for an incredible experience.
A version of this story appeared inEntertainment Weekly issue #1373, on newsstands Friday, July 17.
