"There was that feeling of like, ‘Wait, are we breaking up?'" Why Dave Grohl walked out on Foo Fighters and joined Queens of the Stone Age in 2002

QOTSA in 2002 with Dave Grohl and Mark Lanegan in the line-up.

With the proverbial ‘I’m outta here!’, Dave Grohl left the sessions for the difficult and near-disastrous One By One record – Foo Fighters' fourth – and took a break.

With a working man like Dave, though, ‘break’ means ‘go and toil elsewhere’ and hooked up with Queens Of The Stone Age as anchor on their defining Songs For The Deaf album and subsequent under-the-radar club portion of their meteoric tour.