Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl has said he had the most "amazing" jam with Prince.

The Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer went to see Prince during his 21-date residence in 2011 at Los Angeles' Forum and was at the time too "hammered" to take up an invitation to play with the singer.

Because of this they rearranged for a different day and Prince's musicianship left Dave astonished.

Speaking to DJ Howard Stern he explained: "Prince just appears and says, 'Hey man, you wanna jam?' and I go, 'Yeah'.

"And I get up on the drums and I start playing. He picks up a bass and shreds the bass like I've never seen anyone play it [with his] full band on stage...We end that jam. He's throwing chords with hand signals to his band, then we start playing [Led Zeppelin's] 'Whole Lotta Love.'

"He picks up a guitar and we play about five or eight minutes...then we end it, and he's like, 'Yeah, that's great.' I'm like, 'That was amazing.'

"He goes, 'We should totally do that.' And he goes, 'What are you doing next week?'"

Sadly for Dave he hasn't come across Prince since, but he insists if the singer was "blowing him off", he doesn't mind.

"Then I never saw him again. He was probably blowing me off...

"It's Prince, dude. He could beat me up as much as he wants."

He also revealed that he tried to get David Bowie to work alongside him on a song for the movie soundtrack, but they became "e-mail buddies" despite never being able to make the collaboration happen.

"I'd worked with his producer, Tony Visconti, and I asked Tony, 'Hey, do you think David would be into doing something?'/

"So then we became [e-mail buddies].

"Sometimes you want to do something and there's no time."


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