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The rocker/actress also gave updates on her new solo music.
If you played in a popular rock band over the past 25 years, there’s a fair chance you’ve got a good Dave Grohl story.
Studio legend/Garbage drummer Butch Vig told us some of his own recently. So do Italian Foo Fighters super-fans and so do the Muppets.
Rocker/actress Juliette Lewis is the latest to chime in with a glowing report on the great American rock and roll ambassador.
Lewis collaborated with Grohl on Juliette and the Licks’ 2006 album Four on the Floor.
Her biographical film Hard Lovin' Woman recently dropped at New York’s Tribeca Film festival,
and the frontwoman told Rolling Stone what it was like to record with Grohl on the drum kit.
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“To be next to that kind of powerhouse of a player, I always joke like it was being next to Zeus,” she said.
“He just dug into the songs, and he has such power and is so dynamic.”
So yeah, there’s really no denying Grohl took the songs on the Licks’ second (and to date, most recent) LP to another level. According to Lewis,
she met the Foos around 2004 or 2005; soon after, Grohl agreed to drum on the ’06 record.
The short-form, Michael Rapaport-directed film recounts Lewis’ metamorphosis from acting
(she was just 18 when her role in Martin Scorsese’s 1991 Cape Fear remake got her nominated for an Oscar) to rocking with the Licks in the following decade.
She hasn’t released new music with the Licks since Four on the Floor, though she recently dropped a new single called “Hello Hero” under her own name.
In the same interview, she also revealed she recently recorded new music with producer/ Florence + the Machine keyboardist Isabella Summers.
She has European tour dates scheduled from today (April 20) through May 7.