Foo Fighters interview: 'We're a different band without Taylor Hawkins'

Foo Fighters interview: 'We're a different band without Taylor Hawkins'6 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleMark SavageMusic correspondentBBC"I'm 57 years old," says Dave Grohl. "But there are still times where I feel like the little punk I was at 13."I can still connect with that side of myself where I can scream and we can thrash, and it feels good."As if to prove it, the rock frontman has gone back to his post-grunge, punk roots on Foo Fighters' 12th album, Your Favourite Toy.He has described the record as a "powder keg", as "burning diesel", and even a spicy "jambalaya" – and it's certainly harder and faster than anything the band have released over the past decade.Recorded in a period of personal upheaval, the record is full of slashing guitar lines and scorched-earth vocals. At times, Grohl sounds desperate. His lyrics bristle with turmoil and paranoia.On the opening track, Caught In The Echo, he's paralysed by the prospect of moving forward."Decide, decide, decide, decide / Do I? Do I? Do I? Do I?" he screams, his voice spinning around your headphones like intrusive thoughts.Of All People is more direct. A furious diatribe, it was written after Grohl bumped into a drug dealer he'd known in Seattle in the 1990s."I knew a lot of people whose lives suffered from buying those drugs," says the star, who has been largely drug-free since he turned 20 (although he was admitted to hospital in 2010 for overdosing on caffeine)."I was so conflicted. I was like, 'I feel so happy for this person survived'. But part of me was like, 'All that [stuff] that was going around, it didn't do anybody any good'."On the night of the encounter, he distilled his confusion and anger into a song, recording it the following morning in the small studio above his garage."That was kind of the intended process of this record,&quo...