According to The Pulse Of Radio, FOO FIGHTERS guitarist Chris Shiflett appeared on KROQ in Los Angeles on Monday morning (May 23), where he discussed the band’s current hiatus. Shiflett said the band is enjoying the time off, explaining, “It’s pretty great, man. We were working really hard for a long time. We were on the road for at least a year or so for the last [album], but then we were also traveling when we made the record, so that kind of felt like we were on the road, so it felt like a year and a half or so. Then before that there were shows we did for Dave‘s [Grohl, FOO FIGHTERS mainman] movie, then the album before that, so it seemed like it was just a long stretch of back-to-back stuff.”
Shiflett added: “This is, like, nothing on the calendar; you’re just kicking it for the summer. It’s very strange, and super unusual for us; we don’t tend to do that.” The guitarist also said he felt “weird” for the first couple of months, revealing that it’s often around January that he hears from Grohl about making the next record. Shiflett said: “Dave usually sends out an e-mail or a text or something: ‘Hey, I’ve got some songs. Let’s go.’ But usually we don’t have this amount of time off.”
Shiflett insisted that the band “shall return,” but admitted, “I just don’t know when, but it will happen.”
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