Whose idea was it to give Dave Grohl the role of Satan?
JB: That was, I think, an executive at New Line thought that Dave Grohl would be a talented actor. No, we were friends with him and he did the drums for us on the first album. KG: It seemed a pretty easy idea, really. He’d done it before, played drums on the record. He’s a funny actor. JB: He came to us, really, when we were doing a show at the Viper Room about five, six years ago, and he’s like, ‘You guys are funny.’ And we were like, ‘Damn, you re the best.’ KG: Wow, Dave Grohl thinks we’re funny. What do we do now? JB: And then we played it cool. We didn’t want to smother him with psycho fan sauce, so we didn’t call him or do anything until it was time to do the record and then asked him if he would do it. With your initial success, did you do the whole sort of rock and roll excess thing? KG: I’m hoping this next tour. JB: The sex and drugs? How was it? The sex and drugs? We didn’t do a lot of drugs, did we? Did we ever, like, do any rock and roll cocaine? Did you ever do any cocain
