For Taylor Hawkins, he felt as though this experience was the end of the Foo Fighters for sure. “We tried to make One by One and it really looked like the end,” he explained to Matt Wilkinson on Beats 1 (via Radio X). The band stopped touring as a result, and the recording sessions for the record “didn’t feel right” according to Grohl.
As a result, the band took a break for a spell. “It just made sense,” Grohl told Billboard (via Loudwire). “We’ve never taken a substantial break.” He went on to add that it made sense to take some time apart after spending “seven or eight” years together non-stop. “To step back and look at the big picture, especially when you’re lost in the process of making a new album that seems like it’s going nowhere.”
Grohl went off to play with Queens of the Stone Age during this time, which left the rest of the band feeling as though it was done for sure. But as Grohl told bassist Nate Mendel, “the Foo Fighters are like my family,” adding that “I mean, f***, I’ve got [our logo] tattooed on the back of my neck. I never want it to end.”
