“I was like, ‘OK, so how many songs am I not going to play bass on?’” Nate Mendel on the time John Paul Jones arrived for his Foo Fighters cameo
If you’re familiar with the Foo Fighters’ big hits – Monkey Wrench, Learn To Fly, Times Like These, Breakout and so on – you’ll know that they specialise in Rock with a capital R, designed for stadiums and beloved of crowds worldwide.
It’s all a long way from bassist Nate Mendel’s youth as a punk kid from Richland, Washington. “I just wanted to be in a band,” he told Bass Player. “I was listening to the Ghost In The Machine album by the Police at the time, and I was hugely into Sting, so when my friend suggested I should play bass guitar I thought it sounded like an awesome idea.”
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