{"id":107956,"date":"2025-05-17T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T03:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/107956\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T03:08:09","slug":"foo-fighters-and-drummer-josh-freese-part-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/107956\/","title":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters and Drummer Josh Freese Part Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/1534-foo-fighters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foo Fighters<\/a> have parted ways with <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/11346-josh-freese\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Freese<\/a>, the drummer <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/joshfreese\/p\/DJuQb14u09w\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/joshfreese\/p\/DJuQb14u09w\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/joshfreese\/p\/DJuQb14u09w\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> on social media today. \u201cThe Foo Fighters called me Monday night to let me know they\u2019ve decided \u2018to go in a different direction with their drummer,\u2019\u201d Freese wrote. \u201cNo reason was given.\u201d He continued, \u201cI enjoyed the past two years with them, both on and off stage, and I support whatever they feel is best for the band.\u201d See his full statement below.<\/p>\n<p>Freese formally <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/foo-fighters-reveal-new-drummer-josh-freese-taylor-hawkins-successor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joined<\/a> Foo Fighters in 2023, succeeding the late <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/taylor-hawkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Hawkins<\/a>. His final show with the band was <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/foozies.foofightersnews\/p\/C_oEUEgSrW1\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/foozies.foofightersnews\/p\/C_oEUEgSrW1\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/foozies.foofightersnews\/p\/C_oEUEgSrW1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a private affair<\/a> at House of Blues Anaheim last September.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s currently unclear who will drum for Foo Fighters going forward. For now, their only scheduled performance is at <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DJnd19QJOio\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DJnd19QJOio\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DJnd19QJOio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Singapore Grand Prix<\/a> on October 4. When reached by Pitchfork, a representative for Foo Fighters had no comment.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Freese:<\/p>\n<p>The Foo Fighters called me Monday night to let me know they\u2019ve decided \u201cto go in a different direction with their drummer.\u201d No reason was given. : ( Regardless, I enjoyed the past two years with them, both on and off stage, and I support whatever they feel is best for the band. In my 40 years of drumming professionally, I\u2019ve never been let go from a band, so while I\u2019m not angry\u2014just a bit shocked and disappointed. But as most of you know I\u2019ve always worked freelance and bounced between bands so, I\u2019m fine. Stay tuned for my \u201cTop 10 possible reasons Josh got booted from the Foo Fighters\u201d list.<\/p>\n<p>Josh<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters have parted ways with Josh Freese, the drummer said on social media today. \u201cThe Foo Fighters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,49034,49035,269,12,22392,16,15,4715],"class_list":{"0":"post-107956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-foo-fighters","10":"tag-josh-freese","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-textaboveleftsmall","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-web"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114520975271239144","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}