They hide in the dressing room and they like to keep the mystique. A lot of those guys over there don’t do that. Out here, we mill around after soundcheck. We were chased down the street all the time! The Japanese, they kind of like to have this mystique about their artists. On the first tour, it was total Beatlemania. I don’t know how much you know about Japan, but the fans there are just fanatics. What was it like to go from being in the Foo Fighters to being so popular in Japan? It really had an effect on me and thank God my friends are still there. I’ve been to Sendai and I know people there. But personally, it was really hard for me. A little freaked out, but everybody made it through. The guy that does my tattoo work, he’s over there. The day of that earthquake I was freaking out. So for the next seven years I was touring in Japan.Īre you still in touch with your old Japanese bandmates? He decided to do his solo thing again and he wanted all the original players. Lucky for me, when I got out of Foo Fighters, J.’s band disbanded. So I went off and did the Foo Fighters and J. He comes from this band called Lunacy, which are just huge over there - he went and did his solo project. And what is little known is that I did my run with the Foo Fighters while this Japanese guy - his name is J. So during your first performance as a Foo Fighter, you only knew one Foo Fighters song?Ībsolutely. We went over one song a couple times and then the next day I was on top of Radio City Music Hall as their new guitar player. at the end of the tour, and then from there, flew straight to New York. I told him I had to finish my obligation there, which I did. Of course, you don’t have to twist my arm. I was in Tokyo when my brother called me and said, “Hey, Dave might be calling you because I think they might need a guitar player.” So that same day, Dave called me at my hotel and asked me if I wanted to be in the Foo Fighters. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time so I ended up doing a tour with this Japanese rock star, basically, all across Japan… So I was just hanging around and when it got to the end of the record, they needed a guitar player to go out on the road. It turns out the drummer who was doing the actually recording was Scott Garrett from Dag Nasty - an old D.C.
But what happened after you left the Foo Fighters?Īctually, right before I was in the Foo Fighters… I hooked up with a friend of mine who was producing this Japanese artist. You went straight from Scream to Wool to Foo Fighters. And on Friday, Scream returns to the Black Cat for a second much-anticipated homecoming gig.īut where was Franz Stahl during the decade between Foo Fighters and the reunited Scream? Turns out, he was running from fans in the streets of Japan, soundtracking surf films and touring West Virginia in a country band.Ĭlick Track spoke with Stahl on Saturday morning over the phone from a park in Hollywood where he was watching his son’s soccer game. Just recently - and with Grohl’s production help in the studio - the band recorded a new album scheduled for release on Side One Dummy Records later this summer. In 2009, the Stahl brothers reunited Scream, (in its original, sans-Grohl line-up), at Washington’s Black Cat. Franz Stahl at the 2009 Scream reunion at the Black Cat.
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