Dave Grohl covered the cost of rehabilitation treatment for Corrosion Of Conformity drummer Reed Mullin before his death.
Mullin died in January 2020 at the age of 53. Corrosion Of Conformity singer and guitarist Pepper Keenan has now explained that Grohl attempted to support the drummer while he was struggling with his health.
Asked if the band knew its 2018 record ‘No Cross No Crown’ would be Mullin’s final album, Keenan told Suicide Silence guitarist Chris Garza’s podcast: “Well, his health was not well. And we tried everything. [We] didn’t know. He just couldn’t get it together, man. And Dave Grohl offered help – Dave Grohl had helped him with rehab, paid for it out of his own pocket, which was very kind. [I’ll] never forget that. And, yeah, I didn’t know.”
He continued: “It’s a hard thing to get a grip on things like that if you’re not in it. It’s hard to say… I do think if he’d had gotten through all this stuff and could’ve cleaned everything up, and sometimes it takes that. And then if he was here right now, I think the band would be tearing shit up. I think he would come full circle and he would’ve been one of the people not scared to go backwards either, get back into it. But who knows? You can’t go there.”
Grohl and Mullin previously worked together in the 2014 supergroup Teenage Time Killers. The project also featured Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, former Queens Of The Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri, Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe and former Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra.
The group recorded its first album, ‘Teenage Time Killers: Greatest Hits Vol. 1’, at Grohl’s Studio 606. It arrived on July 28, 2015.
Remembering Mullin, Keenan said: “Now me and [C.O.C. guitarist] Woody [Weatherman] look back at things and we have nothing but wonderful stories about Reed. ‘Cause when he was at the top of his game, he was a fucking animal on the drums. You couldn’t touch him in terms of creativity and moving that type of music forward. He’s one of the OGs of the crossover shit back in the day, so he truly had helped invent something.”
In other news, Grohl recently named Pixies’ 1988 debut ‘Surfer Rosa’ as the “perfect record”.
During an NME interview backstage at Madrid’s Mad Cool festival, Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer David Lovering were told about Grohl’s praise before their main stage performance. When asked whether Grohl was correct, Santiago replied immediately: “I have to agree.”
Lovering laughed before offering the same opinion: “I agree. It’s my favourite one.”
Foo Fighters began their US tour alongside Queens Of The Stone Age at Rogers Stadium in Toronto last night, August 4.
NME attended the group’s opening UK concert in Liverpool and awarded it four stars. The review stated: “That laid-back rock club vibe is what makes this work. Foos don’t have the bells, whistles, pyro, or blockbuster special effects of other standard stadium acts, just tunes and banter.”
“Who’d have thought that ‘This Is A Call’, ‘For All the Cows’ and ‘Big Me’ – written for their 1995 debut and for sweaty little rooms – would land like Queen classics on this pitch?” the review continued.
