New Foo Fighters drummer Josh Freese recalled how Dave Grohl asked him to join the band.

During a recent interview with Rick Beato, Freese remembered the day Dave Grohl called him up with an offer to become a Foo Fighter.

“I was on a walk with my wife and some of our dogs, and I go, ‘Ah, Dave just tried calling me like 20 minutes ago’,” he said. “And she’s like, ‘I know why he’s calling you’. I was like, ‘Easy. I’m not thinking that’. I swear to God, that’s not why I thought [he was calling].”

Freese continued, “I go, ‘You know what? He might be having a New Year’s Eve party. He might be doing a project where he has all those drummer friends of ours that performed at [the tribute shows]’.”

When he called Grohl back, the two “small-talked about Christmas and [their] kids” before Grohl asked the big question.

“I said, ‘Hey, did you go record?’ He goes, ‘Yeah, we recorded a bunch of stuff. And I played drums, and I’m really happy with the way it sounds. [I’m] really excited about it’.

“‘And we had the drummer talk. And we want you to be the guy’.”

Freese said he “felt like someone kind of socked [him] in the stomach”. “I didn’t go, ‘Wow! Yippee! This is so cool!’ I didn’t get excited like that. It was almost like I got the wind knocked out of me. And I was like, ‘Oh my God’.”

Foo Fighters are currently on tour. No Canadian dates have been announced.