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Nothing promotes a new album like a reunion tour, and there's lots of evidence over the last 30 years that certain unscrupulous rockers have broken up their bands only to rake in even more cash a few years later for their comeback.
Dave Grohl admits that he once considered orchestrating a Foo Fighters breakup, complete with bickering in the press, tell-all memoirs and a big reunion tour — all to push a new album.
"I had a ridiculous idea a few years ago that before the release of one of our records we would each write a biography in which we would each talk s--t about the other members," Grohl told the Sun. "They'd all come out the same day and then we'd have a press conference saying that after reading each others' books we'd decided we all hated each other and [we] were breaking up."
The plan was that the band would run with the breakup angle for a few weeks and then announce their next tour.
"We didn't do it, but I thought it was a funny plan."
But the Foos aren't above putting one of Grohl's crazy ideas into action. The band's latest project, the horror comedy film Studio 666, only came to life by "accident," Grohl says.
The idea for the film came to Grohl while the Foos recorded their Medicine at Midnight album in a house many of the band members believed to be haunted. In the film version of events, Grohl gets possessed by a demon and coaxes a thrash metal album out of his bandmates, instead of a Foo Fighters LP.
In addition to the six Foo Fighters band members, the movie also stars Will Forte, Jeff Garlin, Whitney Cummings, Leslie Grossman and Jenna Ortega.
Lionel Richie and Slayer co-founder Kerry King also appear in the movie.
While Grohl likes to joke about the Foo Fighters breaking up (or killing each other in a black magick-fueled rampage), he says the band has "never come close to quitting."
Studio 666 opens today in theaters around the country. Go here to find a screening near you.