Foo Fighters are back on the road this month but they’ll be without guitarist Pat Smear for at least some of the dates, after the band revealed that he had been a victim of – no kidding – a “bizarre gardening accident”.
As you might recall, Spinal Tap’s first drummer – John ‘Stumpy’ Pepys, in case you’d forgotten – died in such an incident and the phrase has since become something of a music biz joke. So the Foos decided to break the news of Smear’s mishap by posting a fake National Enquirer-style cover to their Instagram account.
