Foo Fighters Launch Medicine at Midnight Radio Series
Bassist Nate Mendel looks back on joining band in first episode for Apple Music
Ryan Reed, provided by
FacebookTwitterEmail
Foo Fighters partnered with Apple Music for their new
Medicine at Midnight Radio series. The six-part project, which celebrates the band’s recently issued 10th LP, launched Monday with a debut installment featuring bassist Nate Mendel.
In a statement about the show, frontman Dave Grohl noted, “We’re going to listen to some music. I’ll tell you some stories, play you some new songs, play you some songs that inspired me when I was young…kind of take you from the beginning all the way up to today.”
| Credit: Tony Woolliscroft
With the addition of two more members, the lineup was set.
CHRIS SHIFLETT (guitarist, 1999-now): I was playing in a band called No Use For A Name and then Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, which was sort of a collective side project. It was a strange time because we had just made a new No Use For A Name record, and I was out in New York visiting some friends when I got a phone call from Foo Fighters tour manager, Gus, about coming in to audition for the band.
This was summer of 99, so they sent out cassette tapes to everybody who was auditioning. I got those four songs and I sat there in my bedroom at home in San Francisco and played along with them and learned them as best I could, and then I went down to L.A. and I remember I got there a little early and I could hear them inside, so I knew that I was listening to somebody else s audition. So I sat
Music|Foo Fighters Wanted to Rule Rock. 25 Years Later, Theyâre Still Roaring.
Foo Fighters, from left: Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett, Taylor Hawkins, Dave Grohl, Rami Jaffee and Nate Mendel. The band’s new album, “Medicine at Midnight,” is a slight pivot.Credit.Magdalena Wosinska for The New York Times
Foo Fighters Wanted to Rule Rock. 25 Years Later, Theyâre Still Roaring.
Dave Grohl and his bandmates are called upon whenever rock music with joy and gravitas is required. Now theyâre releasing an album with a twist.
Foo Fighters, from left: Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett, Taylor Hawkins, Dave Grohl, Rami Jaffee and Nate Mendel. The band’s new album, “Medicine at Midnight,” is a slight pivot.Credit.Magdalena Wosinska for The New York Times