{"id":500,"date":"2026-06-05T14:29:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=500"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:29:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:29:03","slug":"im-so-excited-i-made-history-at-foo-fighters-but-now-i-have-to-leave-the-bass-guitarist-for-the-rock-band-foo-fighters-nate-mendel-announced-his-leaving-due-to-the-force-accusation-of-him-sleeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;M So Excited I Made History At Foo Fighters, But now i have to Leave: the bass guitarist for the rock band Foo Fighters Nate Mendel announced his leaving due to the force accusation of him sleeping with the daughter of&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e194fd6b4de42b4223d4d3c7945e8263\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inpage\">\r\n    <div class=\"hb-ad-inner\"> \r\n    <div class=\"hbagency_cls hbagency_space_107374\"><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Forming the group out of the ashes of Nirvana, Grohl had initially created the first Foo Fighters album as a one-man band affair, only drafting in the rest of the group when needing people to tour behind the album. While Pat Smear of Nirvana and the Germs signed on immediately, Grohl would find his rhythm section when seeing Mendel and William Goldsmith playing in the emo rock act Sunny Day Real Estate.<\/p>\n<p>Although the group would be slogging it out on the road and see the first major shows of their career off the success of tracks like \u2018I\u2019ll Stick Around\u2019, things weren\u2019t as smooth sailing going into the album\u00a0<em>The Colour and the Shape.\u00a0<\/em>Being dubbed \u2018the rhythmless section\u2019 by their producer, Mendel and Goldsmith would be lambasted for their abilities, leading to Grohl overdubbing all of Goldsmith\u2019s drum parts himself.<\/p>\n<p>While that in-studio betrayal led to Goldsmith quitting the band, the fallout of the album spelt the end of the original lineup, with Smear leaving at the start of the tour and being replaced by Franz Stahl, all while Taylor Hawkins became a fixture behind the drumkit. Once it became clear that the band\u2019s time with Stahl wouldn\u2019t work out, Mendel nearly walked out on the band when he got a call from an old friend.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mendel in the documentary Back and Forth, he had the opportunity to join his old band again, saying, \u201cSunny Day Real Estate had gotten back together, and I had sort of a high school crush feeling towards that project\u201d. After calling Grohl and telling him that he was going to leave the band, Grohl had finally had enough, hanging up the phone and forcing Mendel to call everyone to tell them he was leaving.<\/p>\n<p>Once Mendel started calling around to some friends, he realised that he would be making the biggest mistake of his life by leaving, eventually calling Grohl back to tell him he didn\u2019t really want to quit. 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